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Husband: Daniel Stanfield
Born: ABT 1765 at: England Arr: by: ... as private marine,55th (Portsmouth) Coy. Married: 15 OCT 1791 at: Port Jackson, NSW Died: 4 FEB 1826 at: Green Point, Tasmania Bur: 7 FEB 1826 at: St. Davids, Hobart, Tasmania. Father: Mother: Other Spouses:
With his new wife and the three children Stanfield then went back to Norfolk Island as a settler. This infers that he had taken the option of staying in the colony instead of returning to England. By the end of November 1791 he was in possession of a 60 acre lease at Cascade Stream, Phillipsburgh, and in September 1793 he is recorded as constable for the same area. In October of that same month he was elected as a member of the Norfolk Islands Settlers Society and had cultivated 14 of the 59 ploughable acres on his farm. By 1794 he was selling grain to stores and was hiring one Thomas Petrie for 6 months in May of that same year, by which date the family had increased by another child. It is presumed that his position as constable made him attractive to those establishing the NSW Corps, for in November 1794 he left Norfolk Island by 'Daedalus' and joined the Corp. It is presumed his entire family went back to Port Jackson with him at that time. Less than a year later, in October 1795, he and his wife plus four children returned to Norfolk Island on the 'HMS Supply' (the second ship of that name), presumably as a member of the Corps, for in December 1799, some 5 years later, he was discharged from the NSW Corps. He returned to farming, if indeed he ever really left it, and by 1805 is recorded with a 5th child, and has 25 acres cultivated and another 85 acres described as 'waste', owned 240 sheep, 6 goats and 60 hogs, and was rated a first class settler. When on 3 September 1808 he and his family left for Hobart Town on the 'City of Edinburgh', he was recorded as having 74 of his now 230 acres cleared, with a 2 storey house shingled and boarded, plus many ancillary farm buildings. When the family left it was with only 4 of the 7 children, the 2 stepchildren opting to stay, and one of his own children leaving separately. In fact, the two stepchildren John and Ann (Harmsworth) were at that time about 20 yrs old and well able to take care of themselves, with Ann already married to a marine called Samuel Marsden and having children of her own, and John having his own family with Sarah Wheeler. John left for VDL 2 years later with his family. At Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) Stanfield immediately established himself as a landholder with 60 acres at Clarence Plains and another 310 acres at Melville. His oldest son also received 160 acres at Clarence Plains. Stanfield died at Green Point, VDL and was buried at St. Davids, Hobart on 7 Feb 1826, his age being given as 61. His wife survived him to October 1830. |