Born in Farsley, near Pudsey, Yorkshire in England as the son of a Wesleyan blacksmith turned farmer, Marsden attended the village school and spent some years assisting his father on the farm. I am a constable. The first known Christian sermon on New Zealand was preached by Marsden at Oihi Bay (a small cove in the north-east of Rangihoua Bay) on Christmas Day, 1814.
In 1822, Marsden was dismissed from his civil post as a Parramatta magistrate (along with several other officials) on charges of exceeding his jurisdiction. In his early twenties his reputation as a lay preacher drew the attention of the evangelical Elland Society, which sought to train poor men for the ministry of the Church of England. Taken ill on 21 June 1825, sent to Colonial hospital when the ship arrived at Hobart Town.
At the end of the year Kendall, Hall and King returned to start a mission to the Ngāpuhi under Ruatara's (and, later, Hongi Hika's) protection in the Bay of Islands. Marsden was held to be involved in this secret action by the authorities. Marsden travelled by convict ship, William to Australia, his first child Anne being born en route. [11] Many women could only pay for this cost by offering sexual services.
Chaplain to Convicts. and at Corran School for Girls are also named after him. Maureen Withey on 10th September, 2020 wrote: National Archives. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime. [16] At a meeting in the Colony of New South Wales, held at Sydney, on 20 December 1813, Marsden formed the New South Wales Society for affording Protection to the Natives of the South Sea Islands, and promoting their Civilization, for the protection of South Sea Islanders who may be brought to Port Jackson, and to defend their claims on the masters and owners of the vessels who mistreat those islanders. Despite the belief that convict women during the transportation period were all prostitutes, no women were transported for that offence. This new design had the inmates divided into three categories: the "general", "merit" and "crime" class. They would be employed in ‘factories’ (equivalent of the English workhouse) but often had to find their own accommodation, and would be under great pressure to pay for it with sexual services. If extra work was done, the convict's sentence might be shortened. In this way, all the women convicts tended to be regarded as prostitutes. These girls were eligible to marry and eligible for assignment.
[11] They arrived in Sydney on 17 or 27 February 1810. These items included knives, forks, aprons and sewing materials. If Samuel Marsden was the person you were looking for, you may be able to discover more about them by looking at our resources page. I was surrounded and ill-used in taking him - it was in a house in Spital-fields, kept by one Levy, where a number of these boys live. Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p.308. They were called factories because the women were expected to work and because they also employed free working women. I was passing by Mr. Richards’s between eleven and twelve o’clock, and saw the prisoner and two other boys looking at this dress - the biggest boy jumped up and pulled it down, and gave it to the prisoner, who ran down the street with it under his arm. Marsden's role as magistrate at Parramatta, attracted criticism in his lifetime. There he befriended the Maori chief Ruatara who had gone to Britain in the whaling ship Santa Anna and been stranded there. If the male convict saw a woman that he liked, he made a motion at her to signal that he wanted to choose her. Ruatara eventually reached New Zealand where he did more to facilitate Marsden's mission to the Maori than any other native.[10].
I am in the silk business, and live in Spital-square. With them were the first horses in New Zealand, a stallion and two mares, brought from Australia by Marsden. [10] Punishments for misconduct in the factories were often humiliating, a common one was to shave the woman's head. [12], Marsden described himself as first and foremost a preacher. He concentrated on the development of strong heavy-framed sheep such as the Suffolk sheep breed, which had a more immediate value in the colony than the fine-fleeced Spanish merinos imported by John Macarthur. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 268 (prev.
The Governor confirmed he was free.
[36], Marsden is buried in the cemetery near his old church at Parramatta, St John's. During his time at Parramatta, Marsden befriended many Māori visitors and sailors from New Zealand.