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	Earliest Combs &c. Families of Australia

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New South Wales, Births and Deaths, Thanks to Linda Combe

20 Oct 1785 - 30 Mar 1786 "Ann COOMBES. Transport: ship Charlotte. Crime and Sentence: "Ann COOMBES, wife of Samuel COOMBES. For feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Ann FRY at the parish of Puxton [Somersetshire] about 11 in the forenoon of the 20th day of October last no person being therin and stealing therout three petticoats and other goods val. 6 pounds 2 shilling and 6pence her property." (1) Found guilty of stealing but not of breaking and entering. Sentenced to be transported for 7 years." Appears in: Transportation Order, Lent Assizes, aunton, 30 March 1786 (2); Order in Council No. 4, p.24; Ross's Returns (Coombs), p. 247; Richards Returns (wife of Samuel), p. 280 References: (1) P.R.O. Assizes 23/8; (2) P.R.O. Assizes 24/26

(Extracted by Combs Researcher Maureen Reynolds from 'Crimes of the First Fleet Convicts' by John Cobley)

1790 From the "SYDNEY COVE CHRONICLE" (Australia), 30th June, 1790: "At last the transports are here DIABOLICAL CONDITION OF THE CONVICTS THEREON 278 died on the fearsome journey to Sydney Cove -----" The landing of those who remained alive despite their misuse upon the recent voyage, could not fail to horrify those who watched. As they came on shore, these wretched people were hardly able to move hand or foot. Such as could not carry themselves upon their legs, crawled upon all fours. Those, who, through their afflictions, were not able to move, were thrown over the side of the ships; as sacks of flour would be thrown, into the small boats. Some expired in the boats; others as they reached the shore. Some fainted and were carried by those who fared better. More had not the opportunity even to leave their ocean prisons for as they came upon the decks, the fresh air only hastened their demise. A sight most outrageous to our eyes were the marks of leg irons upon the convicts, some so deep that one could nigh on see the bones.---- ----- We learn that several children have been borne to women upon the Lady Juliana, the cause for which were the crews aboard African slave ships which met up with the transport at Santa Cruz.---"
------" So the Guardian is lost and with it our provisions.
What, in the name of Heaven, is to become of us ? ----- "
A LIST OF THE CONVICTS WHO SET SAIL FROM OLD ENGLAND'S SHORES
Hereunder our Readers will find the names of convicts who were to have sailed, or did sail, in the transports Neptune, Surprize, Scarborough and Lady Juliana.
The information was compiled by our Correspondent in London and is complete in so far as it lists all the convicts who were recently landed upon our shores. It also, howso ever, gives the names of convicts who, for various reasons of death &c., did not travel with the Fleet to New South Wales. Unhappily, we find ourselves at this time unable to indicate who sailed and who did not.
NAME, Where Sentenced Term
COOMBES, William, Middlesex - - - - - - Life

(Extracted by Archdale- Combs Researcher Peter Archdale from Passenger lists for the first second and third fleets to arrive in Australia)

Selected Later Records (actively researched by Combs Research)

29 Mar 1853 Sydney, NSW, Australia. Married: Joseph COOMBE & Ellen BUCHANAN (Combs Researcher Maureen Reynolds)

MR Notes: Joseph & Ellen left immediately after for Auckland, New Zealand, had 12 children, Joseph became first Chief Executive of the Auckland Savings Bank; died in Auckland 01 Dec 1872. Ellen came back to Australia with the younger children. The 3rd daughter Fanny, who had married William HUMPHREYS, also came to AUS. Joseph's ancestry remains a mystery, but descendants in NZ believe he was the same who was b 26/29 Jan 1831, Kings Square, St. Lukes, London, ENG; that he was baptised at St. James, Clerkenwell, London and that his parents were Joseph and Mary Ann.

19 Aug 1858 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Married: Joseph COMB and Annie Maria ROSEMAN, formerly WESTWOOD. (Combs Researcher Maureen Reynolds)

MR Notes: Joseph COMB, b ca 1819, Guildford, Surrey, England, s/o the Rev. George COMB and his wife, Susan SATCHWELL.

1880 Rockhampton, Australia. Joshua and Isabella COOMBS Stevens (m 30 Aug 1875, East Wickham, Kent, EN) migrated from Kent (2 children born in Kent, 2 more in Australia, who both died). Isabella d 29 Jan 1886, aged 30, of heat apoplexy (exhaustion).

(Combs Researcher Jan Drabwell)