Sarah Goodwin

Notes:

Sarah's first husband, Benjamin Briscoe, arrived in Australia aboard the ship 'Calcutta'. He drowned on 30 Sep 1819. Her second husband, Mark Bunker, came to Australia aboard the 'Lady Catlereagh'.

Ref: "The Munro Australian News" - Dec 1995

Sarah married Benjamin Briscoe on 24 Oct 1808 in Hobart, Australia. Benjamin was born about 1789; died on 30 Sep 1819. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Ann Briscoe was born about 1814; died in in Prob., Hobart, Australia.

Sarah married Mark Bunker on 30 May 1820. Mark was born about 1798; died on 25 Dec 1898 in Tasmania; was buried in St. James, Colebrook. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Bunker was born about 1821; and died.

Notes:

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Andrew married Lydia Munro on 2 Mar 1790 in St. Phillips, Sydney Town, Australia. Lydia was born about 1771 in Of, England; died on 29 Jun 1856 in Prob., Tasmania; was buried in St. Davids, Hobart, Tasmania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lydia (or Letitia) was one of the first Munros to go to Australia. She was tried at Kingston upon Thames Courthouse in Surrey, England, with a companion Ann Forbes, for the theft of ten yards of printed cloth valued at twenty shillings, from the home of John Rollinson, in Southwark's parish of St. Olave. She was found guilty and sentenced to death but reprieved to seven years transportation to Australia - but no return ticket.

She was moved to Newgate prison to join the other women convicts being sent to Portsmouth for embarkation on the 279 ton sailing ship 'Prince of Wales'. The ship sailed on 3 May 1787 with 49 female convicts. This ship was one of 11 sailing ships under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip - later known as 'The First Fleet' - which sailed on 13 May 1787, to found a new colony in that southern continent known as New Holland. This epic voyage took eight months.

Life in this desolate primitive settlement would have been precarious, especially for the women, as the following report from "Sydney Cove 1788" by John Cobley would indicate.

"September 12, 1788 Lydia Munro and Elizabeth Cole decided to have a bathe after finishing their work. They went over the hill on the west side, and met William Boggis and John Owen, who followed them.

Lydia Munro told them to go home, but Boggis told Owen that he would have connection with her before he went. Hearing this, Munro turned to go home herself, but Boggis threw her down among the bushes. She told him to go away, but he persisted in his sttempt, and she started screaming.

Daniel Gordon came to her assistance and found her, with her petticoats half up and Boggis lying on her. He struck Boggis with a stick."

Lydia's future husband, Andrew Goodwin, traveled to Australia in the same fleet as Lydia but aboard the ship 'Scarborough', which carried 208 male convicts. Andrew had been tried at the Old Bailey for an unknown offence, but was also reprieved to transportation because healthy men and women were needed to develop the new colony.

After their marriage, they lived for some years on Norfolk Island, where most of their family was born. On 26 Dec 1807, they sailed to Tasmania, then known as Van Diemens Land, where Andrew became a farmer. They spent the rest of their lives there.

Ref: "The Munro Australian News" - Dec 1995