Broxbornebury
- Convict transport & passengers 1814; England to Australia:
The large Thames-built Broxbornebury departed London on
22 February 1814 in the company of the Surrey, which was
to attract great public and official attention. The Broxbornebury
embarked 120 female convicts (of whom two died in transit) plus
passengers and merchandise; her master was Thomas Pitcher Jr.
and her surgeon Colin McLachlan. The Surrey, which had
sailed with 200 male prisoners, separated from the Broxbornebury
early in the voyage, calling at Rio on 12 April with typhus aboard.
Departing Rio on 21 April with the typhus becoming more virulent,
the Surrey was off Shoalhaven in late July when the Broxbornebury
rejoined her. The Broxbornebury sent a volunteer to navigate
the Surrey into Port Jackson, the latter's crew having
been decimated by the disease. Arriving in Sydney on 27 July 1814,
after a voyage of 156 days, the Broxbornebury's passengers
were disembarked on the 28th, and proceedings completed by 1 August
.
Aboard the Broxbornebury as free settlers came Jane Cross and her children William, Ralph and Jane Cross; her husband Robert Cross was a convict aboard the Surrey. Also aboard the Broxbornebury was John Horsley, with whom Jane Cross (Robert's wife) started a life-long dalliance which produced eight children; she is buried next to whom at Liverpool as Jane Horsley. Horsley, who came to NSW to be Coroner at Liverpool, had left his wife in England: she later remarried. The Broxbornebury sailed for Batavia on 16 November with 300 tons of coal.
The Broxbornebury was sailing (for Quebec) under the East India Company's red and white striped ensign in 1832 and 1833 when the Company lost its privileged position in Canton .