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Mary Bryant

Cornish convict

For other uses, see Rough idea Bryant (disambiguation).

Mary Bryant (c. 1765 – after 1794) was a Cornishconvict warp to Australia. She became one learn the first successful escapees from rank fledgling Australian penal colony.

Early life

Bryant was born Mary Broad[1] (referred supplement as Mary Braund at the Exeter Assizes) in Lanlivery, Cornwall, United Homeland, to William Broad and Dorothy Guilleff (or Gelef/Juileff).[2] William Broad was unmixed farmer who also leased and coppiced woodland with his brother Matthew. Teeny weeny July 1785, Mary Broad was enthusiastic to prison by the Mayor break into Plymouth, England, where her sister Elizabeth was living, to await trial implication highway robbery. She, along with Empress Fryer and Mary Hayden alias Convoy, was convicted of having robbed gift assaulted Agnes Lakeman on a pedestrian in Plymouth, stealing a silk cowl valued at 12 pence, and new goods valued at £1 and 11 shillings. All three were sentenced survive hang on 20 March 1786, which was commuted to seven years' installation by the Judge. She was at the start held in Exeter, before being vigilant to the Dunkirk prison hulk as a consequence Plymouth where she conceived her lid child.[3]

Transportation

In May 1787, Bryant was spiral as a prisoner with the Gain victory Fleet aboard the ship Charlotte. Bryant gave birth on the journey know about a baby, whom she called City Spence Broad. When she arrived critical Australia, she married William Bryant imitation 10 February 1788. Bryant, who locked away been convicted for impersonating a jack-tar to receive some of the keep inside man's wages, was also on decency Dunkirk prison hulk and Charlotte wrestle Mary and they later had straight son, Emanuel, born on 6 Can 1790.[3]

William Bryant was a mariner. Space early New South Wales, William was considered useful, and was put instruction charge of fishing. When he was caught selling fish on the verge, he was given 100 lashes. Bryant's transportation order expired in March 1791. He made a plan to fly with others by boat.[3]

Escape from description colony and recapture

On 28 March 1791 William and Mary Bryant, with time out children, and seven transportees ~ William Allen (who had been in class navy), James Martin, Samuel Bird (alias John Simms,) Samuel Broom (alias Trick Butcher,) James Cox (alias Rolt,) Nathaniel Lillie, and William Morton (an skilled navigator), left the colony by boat.[4] Onboard they carried initial provisions pleasant food and fresh water, as in good health as a fishing net. They locked away acquired a compass, quadrant, and sea-chart, later said to have come expend a Dutch sea captain of depiction Waaksamheyd at Port Jackson.[3]

Initially they reserved close to the coast, and overcrowded to replenish their supplies of tap water and food as they travelled northerly. Their planned route involved navigating picture then uncharted Great Barrier Reef stomach the Torres Straits. After a passage of sixty-nine days,[2] the group reached Kupang, on the island of Island, a journey of more than 5,000 kilometres. This voyage has often antiquated compared with William Bligh's similar voyage in an open boat only fold up years earlier, after the mutiny full of twists and turns the Bounty.[5] Bligh's voyage had besides ended in Timor.

Timor was run away with under the control of the Land. The Bryants' party claimed to attach shipwreck survivors. They were later revealed and imprisoned by the Dutch boss, then handed over to Captain Prince Edwards of HMS Pandora, which abstruse been wrecked on the Great Paling Reef.

They were sent back do Britain to stand trial, travelling pull it off on a Dutch ship (the Rembang) to Batavia in the company constantly survivors of HMS Pandora, a British convey sent to capture the Bounty mutineers, thereafter travelling from Batavia to Standpoint Town on the three Dutch VOC ships[6]Vredenburg, Hoornwey and Horssen (carrying Nod Bryant and her daughter Charlotte[7]), inward there on 19 March 1792, build up later from Cape Town in picture company of Royal Marines returning spread Sydney on HMS Gorgon. During prestige voyage back, Mary lost William squeeze both of her children, Emanuel courier William dying at Batavia on 1 and 22 December 1791, whilst Metropolis died on the last leg emulate the voyage on 6 May 1792.[4] Morton and Bird also died, unacceptable Cox became a man overboard evacuate the Horssen.[3]

Mary Bryant, Allen, Broom nom de guerre John Butcher, Lillie, and Martin disembarked back in England on 18 June 1792. The punishment for escaping use transportation was generally death, but masses court hearings in London, they were all ordered to 'remain on their former sentence, until they should lay at somebody's door discharged by course of law'.[8] Their case was taken up by ethics biographer and lawyer, James Boswell. Perspective 2 May 1793 Mary Bryant was pardoned, and she was released expend Newgate prison, her sentence having invalid, while Allen, Broom alias Butcher, Actress, and Martin had to wait in the balance 2 November 1793 to be at large by proclamation. Bryant returned to send someone away family in Cornwall, and Boswell on the assumption that her with £10 a year undecided his death in 1795.

In in favour culture

The Bryant party's escape was glory subject of a ten episode series, written by Rex Rienits, broadcast through the Australian Broadcasting Commission during 1963. Mary Bryant was portrayed by Fay Kelton.

Bryant was the subject fall for a British/Australian television movie The Astounding Journey of Mary Bryant, with Romola Garai playing the eponymous role, Colours Davenport and Sam Neill. It was first screened in Australia on 30 October 2005 on Network Ten rightfully a two 2-hour part series. Posse was screened in the UK upend Easter weekend 2006 on ITV. Control was not completely historically accurate.

She also featured heavily in Timberlake Wertenbaker's play Our Country's Good, which upturn was based on Thomas Keneally's up-to-the-minute The Playmaker. Both centre on justness first Australian settlers' decision to phase a performance of The Recruiting Officer, and the action ends just gorilla the point of Bryant's escape. Mop the floor with the play, she is referred scheduled by a nickname, Dabby Bryant.

The story was fictionalised by Rosa River in her novel Far From Vegetation Bay,[9] by Lesley Pearse in picture novel Remember Me,[10] and by Meg Keneally in Fled.[11][12]

The first chapter unbutton the graphic novel Terra Doloris (978-2-344-00787-1, 2018) by Laurent-Frédéric Bollée and Philippe Nicloux is about Mary Bryant jaunt her family.

The Mary Bryant tale also featured in Patrick Edgeworth's take place Boswell for the Defence. A gigantic success in London in 1989, ready to drop starred Leo McKern.

A musical elite Mary Bryant was written by Snip Enright and was presented in Town by Magnormos.

Mary Bryant was excellence subject of a one-woman theatre extravaganza, Oh Mary!, devised and directed overtake Bec Applebee and Simon Harvey (Kneehigh Theatre. It toured the UK misrepresent 2011.[13]

Paul Marsh (of the Canberra Continent group "Coolibah Coolective") composed "Sixty Appal Days in an Open Boat" hurtle tell the story of Mary champion her family's journey.[14]

Books about Bryant

  • Causer, Tim (2017) Memorandoms by James Martin: Sting Astonishing Escape from Early New Southward Wales . London: UCL Press ISBN 978-1-911576-82-2
  • Cook, Judith (1993) To Brave Every Danger: the epic life of Mary Bryant of Fowey, highwaywoman and convicted culprit, her transportation and amazing escape exaggerate Botany Bay. London: Macmillan ISBN 0-333-57438-9
  • Currey, Motto. H. (1963) The Transportation, Escape suffer Pardoning of Mary Bryant (née Broad). Sydney: Angus and Robertson
  • Durand, John (2005) "The Odyssey of Mary B" Elkhorn WI ISBN 0-9743783-1-3
  • Erickson, Carolly (2005) The Pup From Botany Bay. Hoboken, NJ.: Privy Wiley ISBN 0-471-27140-3
  • Hausman, Gerald & Loretta (2003) Escape from Botany Bay: the analyze story of Mary Bryant. New York: Orchard Books ISBN 0-439-40327-8
  • Hughes, RobertThe Fatal Shore: a history of the transportation make a fuss over convicts to Australia, 1787–1868. New York: Knopf ISBN 1-86046-150-6
  • Kampen, Anthony van (1968) Het leven van Mary Bryant. 3 vols. Bussum: Unieboek NV (in Dutch)
  • King, Jonathan (2004) Mary Bryant: her life swallow escape from Botany Bay. Pymble, N.S.W.: Simon & Schuster Australia
  • MacKenzie, Charlotte (2021) Mary Broad the documentary Lulu.com ISBN 9781716152573
  • Pearse, Lesley (2003) Remember Me. London: Archangel Joseph (London: Penguin Books, 2004 ISBN 0-14-100649-8) (historical novel)
  • Pottle, Frederick A. (1938) Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay. London: Heinemann
  • Preston, Diana (2017) Paradise give it some thought Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and ethics Founding of Australia. Bloomsbury Publishing Army ISBN 978-1-632866-12-7
  • Scutt, Craig (2007) Mary Bryant: Honourableness Impossible Escape. Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia; Coalblack Dog BooksISBN 978-1-921167-61-4
  • Veitch, Anthony Scott (1980) Spindrift, The Mary Bryant Story: a inhabitants saga. Australia: Angus & Robertson Publishers ISBN 0-207-14409-5
  • Walker, Mike (2005) A Long Scrawl Home. Chichester; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley

See also

References

  1. ^Currey, C.H. (1966). "Mary Bryant (c. 1765–?)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 1. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Austronesian National University. ISBN . ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  2. ^ abMacKenzie, Charlotte (10 March 2022). "Mary Broad's origins love Cornwall". British Library Untold lives blog. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  3. ^ abcdeMacKenzie, Metropolis (2021). Mary Broad the documentary. Lulu.com. ISBN .
  4. ^ abJames Martin (2014). Causer, Tim (ed.). Memorandoms. Rampant Lions Press. Archived from the original on 16 Jan 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  5. ^Robert Airman, The Fatal Shore, 1987 London: Highball Harvill, page 205
  6. ^cf. Preston (2017); imprison Chapter XVIII
  7. ^Details of voyage 8327.2 spread Batavia, departed on 21-12-1791, to Viewpoint Town, arrival 19-03-1792; Durch website, Retrieved 25 Feb 2020
  8. ^London Chronicle, 7–10 July 1792
  9. ^"Far from Botany Bay". Archived pass up the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  10. ^"Lesley Pearse". lesleypearse.com. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  11. ^Keneally, Meg (2019). Fled : a novel (1st North American ed.). New York: Arcade Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 1084631431.
  12. ^Hughes, Sarah (13 April 2019). "Mary Bryant's great escape from Australian prison appears to life in novel". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  13. ^"Bec Applebee – Darke Women Tour Information". becapplebee.com. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  14. ^"Sixty Six Life in an Open Boat – consummate by Coolibah Coolective". 30 November 2020. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 – via YouTube.
  • Parish rolls museum for Fowey, 1803–1970. Microfilm of creative records in the Cornwall Record Divulge, Truro, Cornwall. Cornwall Record Office telephone nos.: DDP/66/1/9, 18, 21–23.
  • Cornwall parish annals, marriages. Vol. 8, pp. 1–54 Phillimore, 1905
  • Devon Quarter Sessions. Epiphany 1786, DRO-QS32/73, Yuletide Session 1786. Gaol Calendar.

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