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There are currently 2 researchers who have claimed William Wybrow
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Biographies
William Wybrow was born about 1773 in Richmond, Surrey, England and was baptized there at St Mary Magdalene Anglican Church on 20 June 1774 with his twin brother, Thomas. Their parents, Thomas Wybrow and Grace Cox, who were married at St Mary Magdalene on 26 February 1770, also had a daughter, Susannah (born 1770).
In 1793, while working as a labourer in nearby London, he was tried at the Old Bailey for theft and found not guilty. A year later, working as a wire drawer, he was back before the bench at the Old Bailey, charged with burglary and again found not guilty.
On 25 May 1795, he was again tried at the Old Bailey for burglary, his sister Susannah was charged as an accomplice. She was found not guilty, but William was found guilty and sentenced to death. In July that sentence was respited to transportation for life and on 10 December 1796 he sailed from Portsmouth aboard the convict ship ‘Ganges’, arriving in Sydney on 2 June 1797.
On 20 March 1809, William married Elizabeth "Betsy" Clarke (born about December 1787) in St Phillip's Anglican Church, York St, Sydney. He was 36 and she was 21 years old at the time and though her name is shown as Crookshank on the registry, all other references to her are as Clarke. They had 6 children: Susannah (born 26 April 1812), James (born 5 June 1814), Mary (born 6 December 1815 who went on to marry her step-brother John Richard Tindale), Elizabeth (born about 1817), David (born 24 November 1817), and Jane Wybrow (born about 1818). William Jnr, born 7 August 1819, while christened William Wybrow, is generally known as William Tindale and believed to be the son of the convict John Poad Tindale, with whom Elizabeth was living by 1820 (interesting that he appears to have been named for his ‘father’ William Wybrow).
William remarried on 24 April 1820 at St John's Anglican Church, Parramatta; his second wife was a 17 year old convict named Mary Poole. Mary had been transported for 7 years for theft, arriving in Sydney aboard the ‘Lord Wellington’ in January 1820. It seems her light-fingered ways continued, as she was in trouble several times for stealing, eventually being the first female transported to Moreton Bay, where she served 7 years from 1828 to 1835.
Meanwhile, William worked in Sydney variously as a police constable, stone cutter and plaisterer (plasterer). Mary was granted her certificate of freedom in 1835 and returned to Sydney where she died in 1846.
William died on 2 November 1852 and is buried at the historic Camperdown Cemetery in Newtown, the only remaining cemetery of the three early Sydney burial grounds.
Submitted by Researcher (Roberta Muir) on 10 June 2019
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/1, p.212
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