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Charlotte (EDGAR) Badger was born in 1778 in LON, ENG, possibly Worcester CHTH.^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} She and Unknown were married. She and Thomas Humphries were married on 4 June 1811 in St Phillips Church, Sydney, NSW, AUS.⁷ She died.⁷

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Charlotte Badger, transported to New South Wales as a convict, was one of the first European women to visit New Zealand. Her sojourn was brief, but her passage to New Zealand on a ship taken by mutineers brought her a posthumous notoriety that is not substantiated by the surviving records.
Transportation
Charlotte Badger was probably the daughter of Thomas and Ann Badger whose baptism was registered in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, on 31 July 1778. By the age of 10 she was being supported by the Bromsgrove parish, and was apprenticed to discharge her from the parish?s responsibility. At 18 she stole four guineas and a Queen Anne half-crown from her employer, Benjamin Wright, who appears to have been a needlemaker. Charlotte was tried and convicted of housebreaking at the Worcester Assizes on 9 July 1796. The crime carried the death sentence, but instead she was sentenced to seven years? transportation.
Charlotte served much of her sentence in an English gaol. By the time she arrived in New South Wales on the Earl Cornwallis on 12 June 1801, she had just over two years left to serve. Like other convict women, she was most likely assigned to work as a domestic servant.
Mutiny
Charlotte completed her sentence on 9 July 1803. By April 1806 she had an infant child, and that month they boarded the colonial vessel Venus, which was taking much-needed food supplies from Sydney to Port Dalrymple in Van Diemen?s Land (now Tasmania). The only other woman on board was another former convict, Irishwoman Catharine Hagerty (variously spelled), who shared the bunk of the American first mate, Benjamin Kelly. The reason for Charlotte?s presence remains unknown, but she too may have accompanied one of the 14 crew or one of the male passengers on the vessel.
Unfavourable winds delayed the Venus for five weeks off the southern coast of New South Wales, and relations between captain Samuel Rodman Chace and some of his crew grew fractious. Chace accused Kelly of breaking into a cask of spirits and suspected others of theft. The Venus reached the mouth of the Tamar River, on the northern coast of Tasmania, on 16 June. When Captain Chace left the brig overnight to deliver some official despatches, Kelly and two others, the ship?s pilot and an army corporal. led an uprising and took over the ship.
New Zealand
The mutineers sailed the Venus across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand, reaching the Bay of Islands by the beginning of July. Charlotte, her child and Catherine Hegarty were landed on shore, where they were given refuge by local Maori, possibly Ngapuhi rangatira Te Pahi and his people in the Rangihoua Bay area. Kelly, a convict named John Lancashire and another child, probably the ship?s boy, were also said to have landed with the women.
Charlotte and Catherine Hegarty were kept apart from the men in their own quarters, and the local chiefs declared them tapu, so no one dared approach them. Catherine was said to have died shortly afterwards. The two men were later reported to have been captured within a few months by visiting whaling vessels, but there is evidence to suggest Kelly, at least, returned to the Venus.
By December 1806, Charlotte Badger and her child had been rescued by the "Indispensible" and were on board the vessel just north of New Zealand. The whaler delivered them to Norfolk Island some time in the next six months. Charlotte finally returned to Sydney as a passenger on HMS Porpoise on 13 July 1807. Her child did not accompany her and had probably died.
Marriage
On 4 June 1811, Charlotte Badger married a soldier, Private Thomas Humphries, at St Philips Church, in Sydney. She was described as a spinster in her early thirties. Humphries had arrived in New South Wales as an army private in 1808 on the Recovery. He was aged about 60 and serving in the Royal Veterans Corps.

Population musters track the couple?s movements in the following decades. In 1814 Charlotte was in Parramatta with Humphries and a child, living on the stores provided to army personnel and their families. They lived in Windsor between 1822 and 1824 and were back in Parramatta by 1825 when her child?s name was recorded for the first time as Maria, aged ten.

The only other record of Charlotte Humphries is an appearance in Windsor court on 5 July 1843 on a charge of stealing a blanket, which the judge dismissed. Humphries stood sureties for his wife, who by this time was in her mid-sixties. A pensioner named Thomas Humphries ? likely the same man ? died in Windsor on Christmas Day that year at the age of ninety-two. Nothing more is known of Charlotte or her daughter Maria.
Myth-making

Captain Chace?s report stated that Charlotte remained on the Venus after the mutiny but not that she had been involved, but the report nonetheless provided the origins for her subsequent reputation as a pirate. In a public notice in the Sydney Gazette on 20 July 1806, Charlotte was identified among the mutineers who ?by force and arms violently and piratically? took the Venus. In the notice, Charlotte was erroneously described as a convict, ?very corpulent, with full face, thick lips, and light hair, has an infant child?.1

This reputation was embellished by three successive writers in the Sydney press in 1895, 1937 and 1949, who created the myth that Charlotte had even led the mutiny. The myth also had her remaining in the Bay of Islands for eight years and becoming New Zealand?s first European female settler.

Instead, it can be said that Charlotte Badger and Catharine Hagerty were probably the first European females to have set foot in the Bay of Islands of New Zealand, and the probably the first to live in New Zealand under the protection of Maori, if just for some weeks or months, at the turn of the nineteenth century.

This replaces an earlier entry on Charlotte Badger by Mary Louise Ormsby, published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1990.


escaped convict. Convicted at the Worcester Assizes in 1796 for stealing a few coins and transported to Australia for 7 years.
Convicted and sentenced to be transported for 7 seven years. Went to Australia on the "Earl Cornwallis" (name Charlotte BADGER.) and arrived Sydney 12 jun 1801 CHTH
Was on ship Venus when it was taken by force by the convicts on board whislt in Port Dalrympkle, Tasmania, . Charlotte and daughter left ship at Bay of Islands.
Lived with Aupouri people (Ngapuhi?) for a while north of the Bay of Islands Accepted a passage on a ship going to America via Tonga in 1807.
Note more information filed in NZ Maritime Museum Auckland.
a convict from NSW arrived in NZ aboard Venus hijacked by convicts. lived BOI and refused passage back to Sydney 1807 by Captain BUNKER of the Elizabeth. RM1
Charlotte Badger
Charlotte Badger is credited with being one of the first two European women to settle in New Zealand. Sentenced to seven years penal servitude in New South Wales in 1796, she gave birth to a daughter at the Parramatta female factory.

In April 1806 Charlotte, her daughter and her friend Catherine Haggerty left Port Jackson for Hobart on the Venus with a group of male convicts. At Port Dalrymple, on the north coast of Tasmania, the convicts mutinied and took control of the ship. Accounts vary but Charlotte and Catherine appear to have been willing participants. One version of events had Badger dressed as a man and flogging the captain of the Venus. (can't be true as Captain wasn't on the ship but the first mate was)
The mutineers fled across the Tasman where the women, their partners and Charlotte's child were dropped off at Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands. Haggerty died around April 1807 and it seems that their male companions also left.(actually both John LANCASHIRE and KELLY were captured). Charlotte lived with a Nga Puhi chief and refused to be 'rescued' on at least two occasions, before disappearing from the record. One account claims that she went to America with a whaling captain. Other reports had her living in Tonga in later years.

As for the Venus mutineers, they carried on down the coast, kidnapping two Nga Puhi women who were sold to southern chiefs and subsequently eaten. The Venus would seem to have eventually made it to South America. Charlotte (EDGAR) Badger was baptized on 31 July 1778 in Bromsgrove, Worcestshire, ENG.⁷ She emigrated from to Norfolk Island on the whaler "Indispensible" then to Sydney on the HMS Porpoise about 1806.⁷ She immigrated to Sydney via Port Dalrymple on the Venus to Bay of Islands, NZ, in 1806.^7,1,9

Thomas (EDGAR) Badger was born about 1750 in ENG.¹

Edgar was born in 1806 in Parramatta Female Factory, NSW, AUS.^1,2 He died about 1807 in BOI or Norfolk Island?¹

Edgar immigrated to Venus to Bay of Islands, NZ, in 1806.¹

Benjamin (Barnet?) Kelly was born about 1780 in USA?^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}

A convict from NSW arrived in NZ aboard Venus hijacked by crew and convicts.
one story stated that he was re-captured 1806 and returned to England on the Britannia.
Other stories have him taking the Venus to South America and selling the ship there. CWV.

from Peter COOPER PC
The 45 ton colonial brig Venus was seized by pirates at Port Dalrymple on the night of 16 June 1806. When last seen by her master Samuel Rodman Chace at 7.00am on the 17 th she was headed out to sea. The Venus had embarked on an epic escape.
In control was Benjamin Barnet Kelly a bearded, pockmarked American who had come to Australia as first mate on the whaler Albion under Captain Eber Bunker. With him were second mate Richard Edwards, seaman Joseph Redmonds, boys Thomas Ford and William Evans, a Malay cook, soldier Richard Thompson and convicts Richard Thomas Evans, John William Lancashire, Catherine Hagerty and Charlotte Badger.
Nothing was heard of the vessel until 9 April 1807 when the ship Commerce commanded by Captain Bierney arrived in Sydney bringing 39,000 sealskins for the London market and some interesting news.
While visiting the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, Bierney had been given to understand that the Venus had been there and left two of the pirates, Kelly and Lancashire, behind. Lancashire had since been captured by the master of the Brothers and Kelly had been taken home a prisoner on the Britannia. The Venus had no navigator and was wandering about the coast. Bierney's tale was corroborated by Eber Bunker now captain of the whaler Elizabeth.
For more than 140 years it was believed that Kelly and Lancashire had been caught and the Venus taken by the Maori who had killed and eaten her crew and burnt her hull for its iron. But Bierney and Bunker had been deceived - or were part of a deception.
During the 1950s Professor Eugenio Pereira Salas of the University of Chile began investigating early relationships between Chile and Australia, including the 1803 disappearance of George Bass on another vessel named Venus. Salas made a startling discovery. On 4 January 1807 the Venus, a 45 ton fragata, was detained near Carampangue, southern Chile. In command was one Capitan Kelly!
Benjamin Barnet Kelly had escaped the hangman, Maori cannibals and the storms of the South Pacific. His trials however were far from over. He now found himself the subject of a Spanish inquisition.
In 1807 authorities in Chile were still smarting from the loss of the Estremina and the San Francisco and San Paulo. These two Spanish vessels had been captured before the official declaration of war against Spain by the over eager Captain William Campbell of the Harrington who took them to Australia as prizes. Kelly was marched off to Concepcion for interrogation.
In the course of questioning Kelly told his inquisitors an imaginative tale. He had entered the Pacific via Cape Horn as navigator aboard the Pelican. The Venus had been ?acquired? in Australia with the intention of returning to San Juan, South America to pick up seal hunters the Pelican had left behind. Six native women on board he described as female crew, replacements for men lost during a pirate attack. They were more likely to have been Maori women the Venus had kidnapped from the New Zealand coast. After an eventful voyage the storm battered Venus had reached the island of Juan Fernandez.
Kelly's animated narration attracted interest at the highest level when it was realized he knew something about the lost Spanish vessels. Governor Don Luis de Guzman himself instigated a further inquiry, during which Kelly revealed the ships were being held by Governor King at Port Jackson awaiting a claim by their rightful owners.
In the end, the Venus was seized by the Spanish authorities and sold at auction. Her crew were held as prisoners in barracks built for them by de Guzman in Concepcion. Kelly, the mastermind of one of colonial Australia's most intriguing escapes, was last seen sailing off to Lima in a merchant convoy. He has not been heard of since.
Also interesting is that John William Lancashire who was captured by the ship Brothers, never arrived in Sydney port. The ship arrived and there was no sign of Lancashire.
I have found this Mystery ship very interesting and have been conducting my own research in it its ending.
According to local Maori, the ship was run aground and burned for its iorn, which I find hard to believe as the Maori had no idea of iorn works or smelting.
Another report says the ship was seen trying to sail back to Australia but sunk on the way.
And now this information i sent you.
I have contacted the Chilean Government, Chile University and the Spanish Navy with any information they have on the ship, and Benjamin Barnet Kelly.
I hope you find this as interesting as i do
Peter Cooper. Benjamin (Barnet?) Kelly emigrated from to England on the Brittannia. about 1806 see notes.^8,1 He was a 1st Mate on the Venus in 1806.^1,5 He immigrated to from Port Dalrymple on the Venus to Bay of Islands, NZ, on 17 June 1806.^8,1

John William Lancashire was born about 1770.^1,2,3,4

John William Lancashire was a painter.² Was a convict who was on the Venus after the convicts took over the ship and sailed to Bay of Islands.
Re-captured by the master of the US whaler Brothers and taken to Sydney. 1805.
according to PC never arrived in Sydney. He emigrated from returned to Sydney on the Brothers about 1806.⁵ He immigrated to Venus to Bay of Islands, NZ, in 1806.⁵

George French Angas was born on 25 April 1822 in Newcastle on Tyne, ENG.^1,2,3 He died in 1886, at age ~64, in Australia.²

George French Angas was an artist, natural history illustrator.^1,2 He was Event in 1844 in sailed to NZ jul 1844 to december 1844.¹

George Fife Angas was born about 1790.

Richard (Dicky) Barrett was born in 1807 in Durham, ENG.^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23} He and Rawinia (Rangi) (Lavinia) Wakaiwa were married on 28 March 1828 in New Plymouth note a christian ceremony later took place in Ngamotu, New Plymouth, 28 march 1841 when Wesleyen missionary Charles CREED first visited Taranaki.^1,10 He died on 23 February 1847, at age ~40, in New Plymouth, NZ, died after whale swamped boat and health declined after that. JST.^1,2,10 He was buried in 1847 in Wahitapu Cemetery, Taranaki, NZ, died in whaling boat accident.^1,10

Took over John GUARD's shore based whaling station in Te Awaiti in Tory Channel around 1830.
shifted to New Plymouth 1828 to set up trading post
see EJW account. chapter 3.
1839 arrived Wellington on the Tory from Queen Charlotte Sound along with wife and 4 or 5 children.
to New Plymouth from Wellington on the Brougham feb 1841 CCD
visited Nelson 1836 in the Harriet and loaded coal JM
1840 on committee organizing Ball and Fete PP1840
from Docklands of Rotherhithe, London. DHRN
Barrett Street in New Plymouth named after Richard. PUAR
1832 Involved in defence of Ngamotu Pa which attacked by Waikato Maori. 11 Europeans involved DOWI. Richard (Dicky) Barrett immigrated to Adventure, trading schooner 60 tonnes, in 1828 Richard owned this schooner with Captain Jacky LOVE also called Tohora?⁹ He was a trader in 1828.²³ He resided in Queen Charlotte Sound, NZ, in 1830.^21,24 He was a Publican Barrett's Hotel, Wellington in October 1840.²⁵

Rawinia (Rangi) (Lavinia) Wakaiwa and Richard (Dicky) Barrett were married on 28 March 1828 in New Plymouth note a christian ceremony later took place in Ngamotu, New Plymouth, 28 march 1841 when Wesleyen missionary Charles CREED first visited Taranaki.^1,2 She died on 12 February 1849.^1,3,4 She was buried in February 1849 in Wahitapu Cemetery, New Plymouth.⁴

To New Plymouth from Wellington on the Brougham feb 1841 CCD
Headstone has Wakaiwa LAVINIA MI.

Mary Ann (Merana) Barrett was born in 1831 in New Plymouth, TAR, NZ.¹ She died on 2 August 1840, at age ~9, in New Plymouth, NZ.^2,3 She was buried in Wahitapu Cemetery, New Plymouth, NZ.⁴

Caroline (Kararaina) Barrett was born in February 1829 in New Plymouth, TAR, NZ.^1,2 She and John Honeyfield were married.

Sarah Barrett and William Henry Honeyfield were married.¹

Francis (Sir) Dillon Bell was born on 8 October 1822 in FRANCE?^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} He and Margaret Joachim Hort were married on 2 April 1849 in Wellington, NZ, MDL has 1850
a civil ceremony.^1,10 He died on 15 July 1898, at age 75, in Palmerston, NZ.⁹

Assistant Secretary to New Zealand Co. Travelling on to Nelson class: cabin
Had a son Sir F D BELL ?? JAM. Francis (Sir) Dillon Bell immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Ursula arriving NZ 12/9/1843 on 12 September 1843 MDL has "Deborah."¹ He was a Land Commissioner in 1859.¹¹

Margaret Joachim Hort was born about 1825 in ENG. She and Francis (Sir) Dillon Bell were married on 2 April 1849 in Wellington, NZ, MDL has 1850
a civil ceremony.^1,2 She died in 1892 in LON, ENG.³

Margaret Joachim Hort immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Princeof Wales arriving NZ 22/12/1842 on 9 February 1842.

Abraham Hort was born about 1815.^1,2 He and Northwood were married.

Short biography AHC
AUS to NZ on the Arachne arriving NZ 30/5/1841 same journey as NORTHWOOD
subscriber to a fete may 1840 Wellington PP 23 may 1840
left NZ abt 1853 ? DHRN. Abraham Hort immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Oriental arriving NZ 31/1/1840 about 1840.^3,1 He was a Te Aro, merchant in 1842.⁴

Francis Henry Dillon Bell was born on 31 March 1851 in Nelson, NZ.¹

6 sons one daughter MDL.

Bell was born on 22 February 1850 in Nelson, NZ.¹

Mary Jane Hebden was born in 1816.¹ She and George White Bennett were married on 20 November 1840 in St Pauls, Thorndon, Wellington, NZ.^2,3 She died on 6 July 1885, at age ~69, in Dacre Banks, ENG.²

Servant to Pierce class: steerage. Mary Jane Hebden was baptized on 11 December 1816 in Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, ENG.² She immigrated to From England on the Duke of Roxburgh arriving Wellington, NZ 8 feb 1840, on 5 October 1839.² She was a Lighthouse Keeper from 1859 to 1865.² She emigrated from returned to England with children in 1865.²