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Two orphans in Glasgow, Transported to The Rocks in Sydney, and enough Scotch to swim in... What could possibly go wrong?
Scotch at The Rocks
Glasgow, Scotland, early 1800s to The Rocks, Sydney 1830s
Orphaned children Brodie Stewart and Heather Anderson live on Glasgow’s streets. Although hungry, somehow they survive and keep out of trouble. Heather finds a job and looks to be settled; things go pear-shaped for them both. Eventually, they marry by declaration, yet even that gets messed up, and they are both arrested soon after they make their vow. In 1838, they were transported to Sydney as convicts. Heather arrives within weeks of Brodie, and they are assigned close to each other. They are now living on the docklands in Sydney, called The Rocks. They now have to forge a new life halfway across the world from their homeland.
Adventures abound, and Brodie gets press-ganged. While he’s away, Heather’s life changes and soon, she’s officially selling Scotch Whisky at a shop in The Rocks.
You can take a Scot out of Scotland, but where did the Scotch come from?
Clean Historical Fiction set in Colonial Sydney.
A sister volume continuing the family saga in The Vine Weaver.
Family lost - Family found.
Happily ever after.
Inspired by John Turner, convict on the Lord Lyndoch in 1838. One of the last Scottish convicts. He was arrested for passing a 'dud' cheque in Glasgow while trying to purchase whisky. This ship was one full of sickness. 19 died. Over 100 convicts were admitted to the hospital on arrival. Smallpox and Scurvy broke out on the voyage.
John was sentenced to 99 years. Sadly, he died by falling off a horse, while drunk, while riding to Bathurst. He was known as Scotch Jack.
1 James Miln Turner
b ca 1793 Glasgow Scotland
bp 30 May 1794 Gorbals Lanark
m 9 March 1818 Margaret Stewart nee McKenzie, Lanark, Glasgow Scotland
b 19 Oct 1792 Glasgow (m1 Alexander Stewart 22 March 1813)
Children 2
1 John Oswald Turner (“Scotch Jack”)
b 3 Feb 1819 Glasgow Scotland to James Turner & Margaret Stewart née McKenzie)
arrived “Lord Lyndoch” 1838 Convict. Ticket of Leave by 1841, Life (99 years)
d 1879 in Mudgee drunk after horse fall. 1st burial in cem’y at Tallawang, nr Gulgong.
John was a spirit dealer in High Street, Glasgow. On 26 Sept John went to court for passing a forged cheque. Trial papers say...” Using & uttering a forged writing at High Street Glasgow and the Commercial Bank of Scotland, Virginia St Glasgow. “ He was tried a High Court Glasgow. Verdict :- Guilty, Verdict comments :- Guilty in terms of his own confession. Sentence:- Transportation - Life. (Records from National Archives of Scotland).
NSW Ship indent archives:- Physical Description ;- Fair, ruddy with freckles, with eyebrows partially meeting. Light hair and grey eyes, height 5’5.3/4” tall.
m 6 Jan 1862 in Martha Ann Wright née Riley BC Reg ##2923/1862 at Richmond (Martha's father, John Riley, was born to Susannah Nairn/Riley, in or near Rio de Janeiro on the "Kitty" in 1792. He became one of the first policemen.
(Her second marriage)
m at District Registrars Office in Richmond
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