EDWARD MOYLE - FIRST FLEET - One of 208 Convicts Transported on “Scarborough” 1788 Sentenced to 7 years at Cornwall Assizes Transported to New South Wales
NAME: EDWARD MOYLE ALIAS: Edward Miles KNOWN AS: Edward was tried as MOYLE but used the name MILES from the time of his arrival at Port Jackson
AGE: 24 BORN: 1761; (or, about 1757 at Launceston-Cornwall (Convict Stockade) BAPTISED: 6 April 1761, Wendron-Cornwall * DIED: 19 August 1838, Windsor-NSW BURIED: August 1838, St Matthews, Windsor-NSW
* The IGI shows this family as Edward Moyle and Elizabeth Uren, with eight children including Edward Moyle, baptised 5 April 1761 at Wendron, and buried 20 November 1785 – possibly the wrong family or just the wrong burial, as there is more than one Edward Moyle in Wendron - http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-CONVICTS/2004-02/1076207727
TRIED: 19 March 1785, Launceston-Cornwall SENTENCE: Death Sentence recorded. Reprieved. Transportation for 7 years CRIME: Stealing two cloth waistcoats and other items TRIED WITH: John Rowe
BODMIN GAOL: 19 March 1785, Edward Moyle for stealing 2 cloth waistcoats and other items, Death commuted to 7 years transportation
SHIP: Taken aboard the “Charlotte” before being transferred to “Scarborough” - Departed Portsmouth on 13 May 1787, carrying 208 male convicts (no deaths) and arrived in New South Wales on 26 January 1788. Master John Marshall, Surgeon Denis Considen
THE FIRST FLEET - Six transport ships, two naval escorts, and three supply ships – began the European colonisation of the Australian continent. New South Wales was proclaimed upon their arrival at Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788. The transports carried mainly convicts with some members of the Marine detachment sent as guards. In total, the First Fleet carried 569 male convicts, 191 female eonvicts, and a detachment of Marines with their wives and children, plus Government officials, numbering more than 1,300 people in the Fleet.
FAMILY – Parents: Edward Moyle and Elizabeth Uren
NEW SOUTH WALES –
Settlement: May 1795 - Received a land grant of 30 acres at Prospect
Marriage: 1803 - Married Susannah SMITH on 31 Oct 1803 at St John’s Parramatta and had three children
Edward married another convict, Susannah Smith in 1803 at St. John's Church of England Parramatta. Susannah had arrived in the colony only about 8 months prior to her marriage on board the Glatton. She had also been sentenced to 7 years. It is believed that they had 4 daughters, Susannah, Martha (who married another convict named William Bridle, arr 1817 on “Larkin”) and Elizabeth - the fourth daughter may not have been born as so little is known about her if she existed at all. Edward and Susannah Miles were farmers in the western area of Sydney and both are buried in St Matthews Church yard at Windsor. Both died in 1838. A note of interest is that one of his descendants was Miles Franklin – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Franklin
REFERENCES – http://www.jackiefreemanphotography.com/bodmin_executions.htm
Last Updated: 6 January 2011
Compiled by Trish Symonds