THE FOLLOWING TAKEN FROM :-
'THE SECOND FLEET'
by Michael Flynn
Samuel enlisted as a private in the NSW Corps on 25/6/1789 andembarked on the Surprize transport on 13/11/1789. In February 1793 hewas sent to Norfolk Island on the Kitty where he lived with the FirstFleet convict Rachel Earley, or possibly Harley, (b.c.1762,Died VDL1842). Rachel came out on the 'Friendship' in 1788. She had been convicted at trial on 24th July 1786 at Readingin Berks. (Details from 'The women of Botany Bay' by Professor Portia Robinson.) Their Child Elizabethwas born in January 1794. In March the couple sailed for Sydney, where Rachel and the child remained whenSamuel returned to Norfolk with the Corps in July. Whether their relationship broke down at this pointis not clear. Samuel again returned to Sydney in Nov 1795, but was back on the island by around 1797-1798. Rachel and child had returned to Norfolk in Feb 1796, but the liason was definitely over by 1798 when Samuel was living on the island with Ann (H) Armsworth, the teenage daughter of a marine who had arrivedwith the First Fleet.
Their children included Joseph born Feb 1799, Sarah 1803, Thomas 1805 Ann 1807, 1811 and Samuel 1810. They were married on 19th Jan 1800.
He and his family remained on Norfolk until the recall of the NSW Corps in 1810, when he returned to Sydney and transferred to theVeterans Company in order to remain in the colony. The family wereliving in Sydney in 1814,but by 1822 had moved to the Liverpooldistrict. Soon afterwoods he was pensioned from the army and worked as a shoemaker at Liverpool until his deathin Feb 1830. He was buried on the 25th. His wife's death on 30th July 1828 has been registered at St Phillips, Sydney.

NOTES:- Rachel is believed to have had 2 other daughters born in the 1790's; Catherine and Ann, but they have not been traced invictualling records and their identity has not been confirmed; some details contributed by M Allender; E Marsden; J S Marsden; J O'Keefe; P Paul;J Robinson