Researchers who have claimed this convict
There are currently 3 researchers who have claimed William Griggs
- Researcher (Paul Livermore)
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Biographies
The Griggs family were originally from Ickleton in Cambridgeshire England, and trace heir family tree back to 1446 in Suffolk. William Griggs (my Great Great Great Great Grandfather) was born in Ickleton in 1807, he married Mary Ann Burling in 1827, and they had 4 children, William Jr (1829), Samuel (1830), Charles (1832), and Hannah(1833).
In 1836 whilst employed as a shepherd, William was convicted of stealing a sheep along with his brother James Griggs. Both were sentenced to life and transported to NSW. They were transported from Portsmouth on the ship Mangles, arriving in Sydney in July 1837 after a horrendous 109 day voyage. William Griggs was assigned to a James Thompson in Farm Cove, and obtained his ticket of leave in 1844. His wife Ann eventually arrived in Sydney on the ship Maitland in 1856, some 19 years after William was transported as a convict! After his pardon, William worked in Newtown as the coachman for the famous ex-convict and businesswomen Mary Reibey, who's potrait appears on the Australian $20 note. William Griggs died in 1866, Ann Griggs died in 1879, both are buried in St Peters Church of England in Tempe.
It is not known how many of their children followed William and Ann to Australia, although one son Charles (1832-90) with wife Eliza (nee Wood, 1832-1908) migrated to Melbourne as assisted settlers in 1855 on the ship Constant. Charles worked as a coal and wool merchant, at some point moving to Newtown Sydney to be close to his ailing mother Ann Griggs. Charles and Eliza had 14 children, 6 dying young. I am descended through their oldest surviving son John Griggs (1857-1924), then through his son Charles George Griggs (1890-1949), then through his daughter Dorothy Griggs (1924-97), then through her daughter Noeline Griggs (my mother, 1943-).
Submitted by Researcher (Paul Livermore) on 3 March 2016
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/11, p.12
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