Richard Simmons

Richard, of Shrophsire, was convicted on 15 March, 1832 at Talop Assizes for house breaking.  He was sentenced for seven years and was given a prisoner's No. of 33/2015,  His trade was given as "Labour".
Richard was transported on Heroine, arriving in Sydney on 19 September 1833.  Heroine's ship master was McCarthy.

He received a Certificate of Freedom #40/0018, 1 January, 1840, SRRef. 4/4355, Film 1005 TL 37/1757.

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Richard first married Bridget Cribb in 1853.  Bridget died in 1861 of throat cancer at the age of 55.

Richard then married Elizabeth McClatchie/Mclatchie (born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Strathclyde, Scotland & emigrated to Australia in 1857).

Elizabeth already had a daughter, Mary, (born 1859) when she & Richard married. For a number of years, researchers assumed that Mary was the daughter of Richard and Bridget as Mary always listed her father as Richard. But a copy of Mary's birth certificates lists her father as unknown. Mary went on to marry Jonathan Gosper.

Richard & Elizabeth then had 3 children of their own:
Thomas Simmons (b. 1863) married Eva Hayman
James Simmons (b. 1864) married first to Louisa Blundell. Then when she died from a complication to giving birth to Ruby, James married Celia Everingham.
Jessie Simmons (b. 1866).  Jessie married Lewis Stuart.

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