Agnes Bonnar
Birth
Death Marriage Spouse Marriage Spouse Father Mother Sibling/s Children |
abt 1820
22 July 1845 Randulph Glynne Crewe 8 January 1848 James Davis Mary J Crewe (father; Randulph Glynne Crewe) John James Davis (father; James Davis) William Joseph Davis (father; James Davis) George Davis (father; James Davis) Frederick Davis (father; James Davis) |
Location
Location Location Location |
Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia Mangrove, New South Wales, Australia |
Agnes Bonnar (sometimes spelled Bonner) was born about 1820 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.
On the 19th of April 1838, she was tried at the Aberdeen Court of Justiciary with the crime of receiving stolen goods.
On the 30th of September 1838, aged 17, Agnes was put on the sick list with cynanche (a disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe). She was discharged on the 15th October 1838.
On the 29th of October 1838, Agnes departed on the convict ship “Planter” bound for Sydney, Australia. She was sentenced to 7 years and 5 months. She had been working back in Perth, Scotland as a country servant. She lived at Bow Bridge in Aberdeen.
On the 19th of April 1838, she was tried at the Aberdeen Court of Justiciary with the crime of receiving stolen goods.
On the 30th of September 1838, aged 17, Agnes was put on the sick list with cynanche (a disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe). She was discharged on the 15th October 1838.
On the 29th of October 1838, Agnes departed on the convict ship “Planter” bound for Sydney, Australia. She was sentenced to 7 years and 5 months. She had been working back in Perth, Scotland as a country servant. She lived at Bow Bridge in Aberdeen.
The prisoners who embarked on the "Planter" at Woolwich in October 1838 were from different counties in England and Scotland. Most had been employed as housemaids, kitchen maids, cooks, dairymaids, children's maids, laundresses, dressmakers and needlewomen and their crimes were nearly all various forms of stealing.
The women were in good health when they embarked however the surgeon remarked that when they neared the Cape of Good Hope, the aged females showed symptoms of debility and there was a general despondency running through the ship arising from the long passage. They put into Simon's Bay in South Africa for refreshment and a change of scene.
The surgeon treated an average of about five women per day for various complaints including pneumonia, catarrh and diarrhoea. Most of the cases of pneumonia and catarrh were in England or between the Cape and Sydney when the weather was cold and wet. Throughout the voyage the prisoners were kept on deck when the weather permitted from 7 o'clock in the morning until sunset. Schools were strictly attended. According to the surgeon a great many learned to read and write that could not previously to coming on board. Needlework and dancing generally occupied most of the day. Only one birth occurred on the “Planter” during the passage and there were no deaths.
The “Planter” was one of five convict ships bringing female prisoners to New South Wales in 1839, the others being the “Margaret”, “Whitby”, “Mary Ann” and the “Minerva”. A total of 727 female prisoners arrived in the colony in 1839.
On the 13th of March 1839, after a voyage of 119 days, Agnes arrived in Sydney, Australia.
She married Randulph Glynne Crewe on the 22nd of July 1846 at St Paul’s Anglican Church in Cobbitty, New South Wales. In 1846 they had a daughter; Mary J Crewe. Randulph died in Lithgow in 1887.
The women were in good health when they embarked however the surgeon remarked that when they neared the Cape of Good Hope, the aged females showed symptoms of debility and there was a general despondency running through the ship arising from the long passage. They put into Simon's Bay in South Africa for refreshment and a change of scene.
The surgeon treated an average of about five women per day for various complaints including pneumonia, catarrh and diarrhoea. Most of the cases of pneumonia and catarrh were in England or between the Cape and Sydney when the weather was cold and wet. Throughout the voyage the prisoners were kept on deck when the weather permitted from 7 o'clock in the morning until sunset. Schools were strictly attended. According to the surgeon a great many learned to read and write that could not previously to coming on board. Needlework and dancing generally occupied most of the day. Only one birth occurred on the “Planter” during the passage and there were no deaths.
The “Planter” was one of five convict ships bringing female prisoners to New South Wales in 1839, the others being the “Margaret”, “Whitby”, “Mary Ann” and the “Minerva”. A total of 727 female prisoners arrived in the colony in 1839.
On the 13th of March 1839, after a voyage of 119 days, Agnes arrived in Sydney, Australia.
She married Randulph Glynne Crewe on the 22nd of July 1846 at St Paul’s Anglican Church in Cobbitty, New South Wales. In 1846 they had a daughter; Mary J Crewe. Randulph died in Lithgow in 1887.
On the 8th of January 1848, just 2 years after her marriage to Randulph, Agnes married James Davis in Mangrove, New South Wales.
They had 4 children; John James Davis, born in 1847 in Mangrove, William Joseph Davis, born in 1849 in Gosford, George Davis, born in 1857 in Picton, and Frederick Davis, born in 1859 in Camden.
They had 4 children; John James Davis, born in 1847 in Mangrove, William Joseph Davis, born in 1849 in Gosford, George Davis, born in 1857 in Picton, and Frederick Davis, born in 1859 in Camden.