CHARLOTTE QUIGGAN was a free migrant who arrived per Formosa (1839) on 20 May 1839 with her husband, also a free migrant, LANCASTER QUIGGAN, a painter, glazier and master mariner, both from Cumberland, England. Both could read and write. The couple’s child JOHN QUIGGAN must have been born in the lying-in hospital at the Parramatta Female Factory.
Names
- Alternate: ELIZABETH QUIGGAN (seems to have been incorrectly recorded as ELIZABETH on her son’s baptism record)
Timeline
- Born: 1805, Cumberland, England
- Arrived in the colony of New South Wales per Formosa: 20 May 1839, Port Jackson, New South Wales
- Son JOHN QUIGGAN born: 8 December 1839, lying-in hospital, Parramatta Female Factory
- Son JOHN QUIGGAN baptised: 11 December 1839, St. John’s Church, Parramatta
- Died: 13 December 1839, Parramatta Female Factory
- Buried: 14 December 1839, St. John’s Parish, Parramatta
- Son JOHN QUIGGAN died: 20 December 1839, Parramatta Female Factory
- Son JOHN QUIGGAN buried: 20 December 1839, St. John’s Parish, Parramatta
Relationships
- Daughter of JOHN ALLEN (surname not legible c.f. bounty ship record)
- Daughter of CHARLOTTE MORRISON, of Guildford, Surrey, England
- Wife of LANCASTER QUIGGAN, of Cumberland, England. Painter, glazier, master mariner
- Mother of JOHN QUIGGAN
Multimedia
The lying-in hospital, Parramatta Female Factory, viewed from where the original main barrack building of the factory once stood. Photo: Michaela Ann Cameron (2014)
The small building to the left of the big blue doors was the “dead house” at the Parramatta Female Factory. Photo: Michaela Ann Cameron (2014)
Sources
- New South Wales Government, Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships, Series: 5314, Reel: 1301, (State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia).
- Parish Baptism Registers, Textual Records, St. John’s Anglican Church Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.
- Parish Burial Registers, Textual Records, St. John’s Anglican Church Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.
Lists
# Came Free
# English
# Ship: Formosa (1839)
# Parramatta Female Factory
# Death Place: Parramatta Female Factory
# Burial Year: 1839
