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James Azire was born in 1792.¹ He and Susanna Solly were married. He died in 1837, at age ~45.¹

Susanna Solly was born.¹ She and James Azire were married.

Sarah Azire was born in 1783.¹

Phoebe Azire was born in 1785.¹

Maria Fulloon was born about 1806 in ENG.¹ She and John Hunter Cormack were married on 5 March 1832 in Sydney, NSW, AUS.¹

Matilda Ann Fulloon was born about 1811 in ENG.¹ She and Robert Ormiston were married on 11 April 1832 in NSW, AUS.¹

Fulloon was born in ENG. He died before 1823 in ENG.

Fulloon was born in ENG.¹ She died before 1823 in ENG.¹

Robert Raine and Elizabeth Azire were married on 13 November 1826 in NSW, AUS.¹ He died on 9 September 1828 in NSW, AUS, murdered.¹

Alice Lyford was born on 10 October 1853 in Nelson, NZ.¹ She and Thomas Gill were married on 11 July 1870 in Clarence, NZ.¹ She died on 14 May 1928, at age 74, in Kaikoura, NZ.¹

Alice married when she was 16 and Thomas was 23.
When her mother died Alice left the Clarence, on horseback, for Kaikoura taking her baby sister Laura with her in the saddle in front.
She became a midwife to the families in the Kaikoura district PECK
8 children.

William John Speed and Elizabeth Azire were married on 12 March 1832 in Sydney, NSW, AUS.¹

" Speed was a colourful character and recent work by other researchers have unearthed many interesting facts about him. He was apparently well-educated and purchased a commission in the marines, being a 2nd Lieutenant in 1778 and a 1st Lieutenant by 1781. In 1785 he married Sarah Nelson at Westminster, both stating they were over 21. Articles of separation were executed between them in 1792, he claiming her behaviour was inconsistent to him and the six children born to them during those seven years, only 3 of which survived. The deed of separation was drawn up by her uncle, and two years later Speed tried to reunite with his family and restore his conjugal rights but she refused - he then tried to obtain a divorce without success.

" In 1795 he went with his regiment to the West Indies and when he returned he lodged at the house of a Mr Thorn, a market gardner of Putney, becoming involved with the daughter Anne and married her. They lived together before he left for Halifax Nova Scotia with his regiment, leaving her five months pregnant.

" He declared later that he thought the signed Articles of separation sufficient to allow him to remarry; his first wife found out about the second marriage and with her connections (she was the granddaughter of a former Lord Mayor of London) she pressed charges against him for bigamy. He was imprisoned for seven months before his trial, lost his commission and was convicted of bigamy at Kingston Assizes in March 1809 and sentenced to seven years transportation.

" He arrived in NSW on the Ann in February 1810, and among the passengers were a Mrs Speed and children. This wife was neither Sarah or Ann, but Eliza Russell. He tried to leave the colony in 1812 but could only get a conditional pardon, eventually he was freed in 1816 and he left for England in 1818. He returned to Sydney in 1821 with a daughter from his first marriage and considerable property and the family went to Hobart where he ran a school.

" In 1826 he was appointed Keeper of Richmond Gaol but was sacked in 1830 for 'misappropriating the vegetables'. He was criticized for the treatment of his wife who was apparently deranged, and he denied he was married to her, saying he met her in a brothel in America when she was 16' She was described by Speed as being 'beastly drunk with all the clothes torn off her back, rolling in the streets of Hobart'. Rev. Bedford, Principal Chaplain of Van Diemen's Land at the time, stated, 'Mr Speed's conduct towards his wife is inhumane and disgraceful - he boasts of his immorality and depravity'. He drove her out of the house on numerous occasions and she was given refuge in the Government Hospital in Hobart.

" He returned to Sydney in 1832 where he married his fourth wife, Elizabeth Raine in March of that year.

" On 1 September 1832 he wrote in a letter to Captain Piper that he if he had been aware of her debts he would never have married her. He was 72 (and said he had a darling 9 year old son) he said he 'very soon discovered she was a very different woman from that which she was prior to our marriage and that so far as having gained a friend and protector for my child I had created an enemy - I also found there were heavy debts which it was not in my power to pay'.

John Hunter Cormack and Maria Fulloon were married on 5 March 1832 in Sydney, NSW, AUS.¹

Robert Ormiston and Matilda Ann Fulloon were married on 11 April 1832 in NSW, AUS.¹

Samuel (Captain) Swain was born on 15 October 1799 in Nantucket, USA.^1,2 He died on 9 July 1842, at age 42, in Sydney, NSW, AUS, tubercolosis.^1,2

Wrote excellent Log.
Samuel SWAIN (1799?1842)
Samuel Swain, was born on 5th October 1799, the fourth child and third son of the five children of James and Rebecca Swain of Nantucket. Samuel's father was engaged in whaling out of Nantucket and fought in the 1812 war against the British. The family seem to have been Quakers up to this time as it is recorded that James was one of many who were disowned by the Society for going to sea in an armed vessel.

Samuel followed his father into whaling on a Nantucket vessel, a Seaman's Protection Certificate being granted to him at Nantucket on 2nd August 1815. Sometime between 1815 and the early 1820s Samuel left Nantucket for England in company with an older cousin, William Swain. In London, Samuel shipped out on the whale ship Indian, commanded by his cousin. Samuel also served as mate under a Captain Garbutt but the dates and name of the vessel are unknown.

Swain went on to command the Enderby whaleship the Indian and made two voyages to the Pacific ? 1826-1828 and 1828-1831. In the short break between the Indian's arrival in January 1831 and his departure as master of the Vigilant in October 1831, Samuel Swain began a family. On 20th April 1831, he married Louise Flowers Fulcher of Deptford, at St. Pauls Church, Deptford. They had five children; Louisa Baker born in 1832 and not seen by her father until 1835; Samuel Fulcher born 1836; James born 1838; Thomas born 1840 and Edward Plant born in 1841 just one month before his father's last departure for the Southern Whale Fisheries as commander of the Bermondsey.

Swain?s next command after his marriage as the Green, Wigrams & Green whaleship Vigilant (1831-35). The Vigilant made a double voyage transhipping its cargo of oil at Sydney in 1833. A log and journal of the voyage survive as well as a miniature of Samuel Swain.

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5 children. Samuel (Captain) Swain was a Captain Vigilant whaler in 1833.¹

William (Captain) Swain was born in 1795 in Nantucket, USA.^1,2 He and Unknown were married. He died on 19 May 1844, at age ~49, drowned while mate on American Whaler Christopher Mitchell BSWF.²

Abt 1840 purchased land BOI
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WILLIAM SWAIN (1795-1844)
The second William Swain was born in 1795 - his age is recorded on the Matilda crew list when he sailed in command in 1836 as 40 years. His previous command is recorded as the Sarah & Elizabeth. Swain moved from Nantucket to England soon after the end of the War of 1812 in company with his cousin Samuel Swain in order to take up employment with Enderby and Sons. It appears that he started his career as mate on the Indian on its 1817-1819 voyage as records indicate that the Master named Sullivan died during the voyage and that William Swain took command. He was certainly in command when the vessel was at Sydney in August and September 1818.

Swain?s next commands, if any remain unknown, but by 1830 he was in command of the Enderby whaleship the Sarah and Elizabeth. The later part of this voyage is described by Thomas Beale in his whaling classic, The Natural History of the Sperm Whale. Beale transferred to Swain's ship, the Sarah & Elizabeth, from the whaler Kent, at the Bonin Islands on 1 June 1832, having become sickened by the master of the Kent's treatment of his crew. In the book Beale warmly praises the abilities of Swain both as a captain and whaler. William Swain's last English command was the Green, Wigrams & Green whaleship Matilda. When the vessel called at the Bay of Islands in February 1840 William Swain and his wife removed from the ship and left the first mate in command [the crew list for the Matilda records the master as having deserted].

Perhaps Swain intended to settle in New Zealand at the Bay of Islands because he and his English wife purchased land there. They remained there until early late April 1844 when he shipped as mate on the American whaleship Christopher Mitchell. Less than four weeks later, on 19 May 1844, he was taken out of his boat and drowned. Swain?s wife stayed at the Bay of Islands with their children until an uprising saw all her property destroyed. Mrs Swain then sailed for Nantucket aboard the Monticello, arriving in mid-July 1845, ?a stranger among strangers, and far from the scenes of her birth-place and home?. [DC / TT]. William (Captain) Swain was a Captain of English whaling ship Indian in 1818.² He was a Captain of English whaling ship Sarah and Elizabeth in 1830.² He was a Captain of English whaling ship Matilda in 1836.^1,2 He immigrated to arrived BOI feb 1840 in 1840 with wife left the Matilda BOI ( deserted.)²

William Bryan was born about 1800 in Peterhead?, ABD, SCT.¹ He died on 19 June 1836, at age ~36, in BOI?, NZ, drowned.¹

William Bryan was a seaman on whaling ship, Narwhal. in 1836.¹