Marine Private Richard Knight ( c 1750....1826)

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Born : Circa 1750

Where Born :

Occupation : Tolerable Sawyer / Soldier

Date Arrived : 26 January 788

Ship Arrived on : " Scarborough "

Rank attained : Marine Private

Date of Enlistment :

Where Enlisted :

Date of Discharge : 26. October 1791

Where Discharged : Sydney

Enlistment R.N.S.W. Reg : November 1793

Date of Discharge : October 1799

Died : 23. March 1826

Where Died / Buried : ST Phillip's Church Sydney

Parents Names :

Spouse's Name : Mary Williams

Born : Circa 1765

Where Born

Occupation :Convict

Date Arrived : 1789

Ship Arrived on : " Lady Juliana "

Date Married :

Where Married :

Died : 2. Sept. 1832

Where Died / Buried : Liverpool

Spouse's Parents :

Descendants

Area Settled :
Liverpool
Children :

History & Achievements :

Richard Knight enlisted as a member of the 35th Portsmouth Company. He was stationed on board the ship " Scarborough" and it was on this ship he left England for Australia. Upon his arrival in Sydney he served as a member of Watkin Tench's company, working as a Tolerable Sawyer to supplement his pay.. He recieved 200 lashes for the robbery of a garden in March of 1790 .
The land comprising Birchgrove Park comprises a portion of a 1796 grant to Private WHITFIELD (Whitefield) George
of the NSW Corps and an area of reclaimed land from as Snails Bay. Whitfield received a grant of land measuring thirty acres from Governor Hunter on 15th September 1796
The original grant document states that the area was to be known as “Whitfield’s Farm”, although it
is uncertain how much of a farm was actually established during Whitfield’s relatively short
ownership. One source states that early manuscripts (not cited) refer to Whitfield’s Farm as one
“upon which dairying and fruit growing were profitably pursued”.
In 1800 Whitfield’s original grant was purchased by a Richard or William Knight who sold it
to Captain ABBOTT Edward of the NSW Corps in 1806. In 1810,BIRCH Lieutenant John , paymaster
of the 73rd Regiment, purchased the property

Leaving for Norfolk Island via the ship" Atlantic" he was granted 60 acres at Cascade Stream . Eventually he left the Island for Sydney via the "Daedalus" in November of 1794 . Enlisted in the Royal New South Wales Regiment.
He has been recorded as being an inmate of the Benevolent Asylum prior to his death

References
Military records ,Pay rolls, Pay Musters, Cemetery Records, Church Records & General Muster Records, Mitchell Library ,Sydney Australia

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