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From: "Ron & Nyrelle Raines" <>
Subject: [PJ] P- Piggins
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 10:10:02 +1000

William Piggins

Born: 1800 Spalding Lincolnshire

Ship: "John"

Year: 1827

Convict Indents

Age - 27 yrs, Education - R&W, Religion - Protestant, s? - S, Family

--, Native Place - Lincolnshire, Trade or calling - Fellmonger, Offence -

Sheep Stealing, Where tried - Nottingham, When tried - 27th March 1827, Sentence - Life, Former Convictions - None, height 5ft 6 ins, Complexion -

Ruddy fresh, hair - brown, Eyes - drk brown, How disposed of - Jessie Upton, Cornwallis, Remarks - none.

1828 Census

A John PIGGINS is listed as a passenger on the vessel "John". It is believed that this John" is really "William" and an error has been made, confused by the name of the ship "John'. No William Piggins is listed. In subsequent Indexes no John PIGGINS is listed only a William.

Woolsorter to Wm Cox - Clarendon, Windsor


Permission to marry

On 3 Oct 1836 at The Manse, Pitt Town, William PIGGINS married Mary Ann DAVIS. The ceremony performed by John Cleland, in the presence of M.D. Meares and Grace Cleland both of Pitt Town. On the Permission to Marry(?)- I was given this information -is the remark " no such person as Mary Ann Davis was a passenger on the "Palambam" in 1836." The "Palambam" only made one voyage - in 1831.So as Mary Ann Davis is such a common name we don't know a lot about her.

Children

Anne E

In 1837 William Piggins Age 36 Ship "John" Year 1827 District Windsor TOL

Moved to Gulgong and Wellington areas possibly to Cox farms as a farm overseer.

Children

William Wellington b 1838

Mary Elizabeth b 1840 m 1 Robert Fisher 1858

2 Hobart Benjamin Johnson 1870

William Piggins died Wellington 1849

There is an interesting reference to a Piggins family in"History of Wellington" - 1909 which states:" It was in 1837 or 1838 that two notorious outlaws, Jacky-Jacky and Redcap, escapees from Bathurst gaol, were in the Wellington district. They had ... gone on to Murrumbidgerie to shoot a storekeeper there named Piggins. The day they got there, Mrs Piggins was in bed, just having been confined of an infant girl. Piggins either saw the outlaws coming or got some hint about it, and to hide himself went and lay down in the centre of a mob of cattle then in the yard. The outlaws went into the house and saw Mrs Piggins in bed with the child. One of them must have had some kindness at the bottom of his heart, for he said,"let her be, we won't touch her". After helping themselves to everything they wanted, the outlaws left. Mrs Piggins had two hundred pounds under her pillow.The little infant is still living and I am told is residing at Maryvale."I believe this infant to be my gt gt!
grandmother.

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