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- Dau. of William Broughton & Ann
Glassop
Elizabeth Isabella Broughton was the daughter of William Broughton, who arrived on the First Fleet as a servant of Surgeon White. In 1809 Betsey and her mother sailed from Norfolk Island for England on the General Boyd. At their first stop, Whangaroa in New Zealand, the ship was attacked by Maori, plundered and burnt to the water line. Elizabeth wasone of only four survivors. Three weeks later, ship owner Alexander Berryheard of the massacre and came to investigate and rescue any prisoners.Betsey was taken to South America on board Berry's ship, as his cargo was destined for Lima. Nearly a year later a ship bound for New South Wales arrived and Betsey returned to her father in Sydney. This portrait was painted on her return as a gift for the family who had cared for her in Lima.
http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/nk/sec4b.htm
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The Massacre of the Boyd
by Anthony G. Flude ?2001.
The ill-fated ship, the brigantine BOYD, left Port Jackson [Sydney Cove]Australia in October 1809, bound for Whangaroa, which is New Zealand's northern-most harbour. On its outward passage from London Docks, the convict ship had safely delivered its human cargo secured below decks in irons. Each prisoner had received a sentence from the Court ordering their transportation to Port Jackson, in the British colony of Australia.
Cleansed and re-provisioned for her return passage to England, the 395ton vessel, with a length of 106ft by 30ft beam, had a total of seventy persons on board, including some New Zealander's, who were returning to their own country from Australia, among these was the son of of one of the maori Chiefs of the Kaeo tribe, Whangaroa, who was named Te Ara, or George.
Other paying passengers aboard who were bound for England, were listed as Catherine Bourke, Anne Glossop and her two year old child Betsy Broughton, Mordica Marks, Captain Burnsides, Ann Morley and her baby,James Moore, R.Wrather, John Budden, R & J Thomas, Thomas Martin, William Allen, William Mahoney, Dennis Desmond and John Petty.
Captain John Thompson had never been to this harbour before and it was believed that only two other ships had entered the region. This was his first visit to the Southern Ocean and his first encounter with the native Maori of New Zealand whom he regarded as savages with a basic smattering of English manners and customs.
It was his intention to load the cargo hold with ships spars from the extensive stands of kauri timber which had been noted by Captain Cook during his explorations of the coast of New Zealand some thirty-two years earlier.
Three days later Captain Thompson was invited to follow some Maori canoes from the pa or village up the harbour and into the forest to search for some suitable kauri trees to fell. They needed to be poles which were perfectly straight, some 80ft long by 20 inches wide. Due to their size and weight, they would need to be close to the water so they could be floated down to the ship and hauled aboard with the windlass. With his chief officer and three men, Captain Thompson set off down the harbour,closely following the Maori canoes to the entrance of the Kaeo River,while just a few crew members stayed aboard the ship with the passengers,making the ship ready for the long journey ahead to England.
The Maori's retaliation plan, led by Tipahee, began almost as soon as the canoes and longboats had lost sight of the ship lying at anchor in the distance.
Once ashore on the banks of the river, the natives suddenly drew out their weapons from beneath their cloaks and attacked the Captain and hi screw members, cutting them down savagely with their clubs and axes until not one remained alive.
Their clothes were stripped off from their still-warm bodies, the Maori attackers putting on jackets, trousers, shoes and frock coats. While one group carried the bodies back to the village for a tribal feast where they were to be devoured, the others, in their various disguises, waited till dusk before they manned the longboat.
News of the massacre reached the Bay of Islands where the ship The City of Edinburgh was loading cargo for her Australian owners under the direction of Alexander Berry, supercargo.
Gathering together arms and men, the vessel made haste for Whangaroa,entering the harbour three weeks later. Loaded with men and muskets,three heavily armed longboats were launched for the journey to the pa. Asthey approached the village, Berry handed over command of the rescue expedition to a trusted maori chief named Metenangha from the Bay of Islands tribes, who had agreed to accompany him on the expedition.
Ann Morley and her baby, who was found hiding in a cabin was spared by TeAra and taken ashore. Thomas Davis, the ship's cabin boy, who had a deformed foot, who had run and hidden in the hold during the attack, was also spared. The second mate managed to buy his life for two weeks by making fish hooks from barrel hoops but was then thought to be of no further use and was killed and eaten. Betsy Broughton, the young two year old child of Anne who was killed during the attack, was taken by a local chief, who put a feather in the frightened girl's hair and kept her for three weeks before rescue came.
Berry's journal continued to relate that a great crowd had gathered at the village. Several women were walking around dressed in European dress,taken from the ill-fated passengers aboard the ship. The remains of the burnt out hull were examined, while nearby at the landing place lay the mangled remains of flesh and human bones, with the teeth marks still upon them.
Next morning the natives brought up a young woman and her young baby,accompanied by a boy about 15 years old. This was Ann Morley, her baby girl and Thomas Davis, the cabin boy. A maori woman spoke of the second mate, saying she had not seen him for about a week, unaware of his slaughter. She also told of a small infant she had seen, no more than 2or 3 years old. Alexander Berry knew this must be the infant named Betsy.
Berry and Metenangha demanded that she be brought to them immediately but were told that the child was being held by another chief who lived nearer the entrance to the harbour. They lost no time in putting the survivors aboard and with the Whangaroa chiefs held as hostages in the leading boat, set off down the long stretch of the harbour.
Holding short of the sandy beach, Berry directed the chiefs to send a man ashore with orders to deliver the child directly to them. After a short delay, she was finally brought to the boat, crying in a feeble voice for her Mamma. Her hair was combed and ornamented with a white feather in the maori fashion; she was reasonably clean and clad only in a white shirt which had once belonged to Captain Thompson of the Boyd.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tonyf/loot/boyd.html
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The "Boyd" had been chartered by Simeon Lord in 1809
to visit the North Island of New Zealand for a cargo of spars. She also
carried a cargo of salted fur skins to be delivered to the Port of London.
Following the wrecking of his ship on the coast of Agentina he went onto
many adventures. In Buenos Aires he signed on as a seaman on a ship bound
for Spain but he contacted yellow fever in Cadiz and nearly died.
Recovering, he went to Lisbon, Portugal where he met an Englishman,Edward
Wollstonecraft. Becoming firm friends they chartered a ship, loaded it with
cargo and arrived in Port Jackson in 1819. Armed with a letter from the
Home Office they were granted land by Governor Macquarie - Edward received
500 acres on the heights of the North Shore and here he built his home
called "Crows Nest". The two partners were granted 10,000 acres on the
rich Shoalhaven River flats.
The "City of Edinburgh" sailed from New Zealand in January 1810 with the
cargo of spars and the survivors of the massacre. However, the ship lost
its rudder in a gale. "We drifted at the mercy of the elements amongst the
ice of the Southern Ocean, later drifted into a bay on the west coast of
Terra del Fuego, 40 miles south of Magellan Straits, where we lost our
anchors and cables, saving the ship by keeping her fast among the rocks."
More troubles lay ahead, the ship finally arriving in Lima in August where
they stayed 10 months. Here poor Mrs. Morley died, her baby survived,and
the boy sailed to England on the "Archduke Charles". Leaving Lima the"City
of Edinburgh" sailed with the two remaining children around Cape Horn to Rio
de Janeiro. "In the harbour of Rio we found a small sailing vessel, the
"Atlanta" about to sail for Port Jackson, the captain of which offered to
take charge of the two children. I know that the two children reached Port
Jackson in safety."
Betsy Broughton
In 1824 Charles Jnr married Elizabeth (Betsy) Broughton, the daughter of Assistant Commissary General Broughton of Appin, at St Luke's Church in1824. As a child Elizabeth had been returning to England with her mot heron the General Boyd. The ship landed at Whangerei, New Zealand for Kauripine and fresh water, where passengers and crew were massacred by a band of Maoris, believed to be seeking vengeance for some earlier ill treatment of Maori people by a ship's crew. There were only four survivors, Betsy and three others. A young Scotsman, Alexander Berryheard of this atrocity and set out with an armed crew to find out what had happened. He captured two Maoris and demanded the return of the little girl Betsy. He took her with him to Lima where she was cared for until his ship was repaired. The ship continued on to Rio de Janierowhere Betsy was put on board a British ship, the Atlanta and returned in1812 to her father. A portrait of Betsy was sent to Lima as a 'Thank you'for their care but apparently it never reached its destination as it was found in a secondhand shop in England in the 1950s. Elizabeth was sixteen when she married Charles Throsby Jnr at Glenfield and they had seventeen children, moving later from Glenfield to Throsby Park which was large enough for such a large family.
http://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/info/cthrosby.html
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1807 - 1891 (84 years)