Mary Ann Bugg and her "husband" Frederick Ward
(1861-1867)
Mary Ann Bugg was born in 1834, the daughter of James and Charlotte Bugg. For information about her early years, see:
James and Charlotte Bugg and their family
Mary Ann Bugg and her husband Edmund Baker (1848-1849)
Mary Ann Bugg and her "husband" John Burrows (1850-1855)
Mary Ann Bugg and her "husband" James McNally (1855-1860)
See also: Searching for Mary Ann Bugg's children
1861 Jan-Feb Mary Ann Ward, who was apparently residing at Cooyal at the time, fell pregnant with a child fathered by Frederick Ward[1]
1861 Oct 26 Birth of Marina Emily Ward at Menkrai near Dungog to Fredrick Wordsworth Ward, training groom, and Mary Ann Ward (nee Bugg); birth registered by Mary Ann on 21 Nov 1861; this child appears to be Minnie on Mary Ann’s death certificate and according to her obituary was alive in 1905 and married.
NB. An article about Thunderbolt reports: “One of the Wyndhams, the one who spoke the aboriginal dialect of New England, told me her mother [that is, Mary Ann’s mother] was a Kamilroi woman, who called the girl Moorinna, their name of the small star Merope, in the Pleiades.”[2] This suggests that Mary Ann’s mother called Mary Ann herself Moorinna, which would explain why Mary Ann gave her daughter the rare name Marina.
1862-63 Mary Ann was in domestic service in Dungog according to local Police Magistrate Thomas Nicholls, a claim supported by the local press at the time; she appears to have taken up with Fred Ward again late in 1863 after his escape from Cockatoo Island.[3] NB. Mary Ann did not help Thunderbolt escape from Cockatoo Island as many authors claim (see Did Mary Ann Bugg help Fred Ward escape from Cockatoo Island?)
1864 mid It is possible that Fred and Mary Ann had a child who was born and died at the Culgoa in mid-1864 as Mary Ann herself reported that two of her children had died prior to 1876; otherwise it would suggest that this fertile woman did not fall pregnant for at least a year after meeting up with Fred again. If Mary Ann did have a child who died, this would explain why Fred employed another women to assist her during her next confinement[4]
1865 Jun-Oct Child born to Fred and Mary Ann; described as around 9 months old in March 1866 which tallies with the female informer’s report that she’d been engaged ten months previously to assist Mary Ann during child-birth; the child was described as about 15 months of age in January 1867[5]
NB. This child was almost certainly the Eliza listed on Mary Ann's Death Certificate, who was almost certainly the Elizabeth Ann Ward who later claimed to be Thunderbolt's daughter (see Searching for Mary Ann Bugg's children)
1867 Nov Most Thunderbolt books claim that Mary Ann died at this time, but this was another woman entirely called Louisa Mason (see Did Mary Ann Bugg die in 1867?). Mary Ann fell pregnant again to Fred Ward around this time but their relationship appears to have ended shortly afterwards[6]
1868 Aug 20 Aug 1868: Frederick Wordsworth born at Carroll near Tamworth to Mary Ann Baker of Carroll, according to his birth certificate; birth registered on 16 Sep 1868 at Tamworth by Mary Ann Baker; baptised as Frederick Wordsworth, son of Frederick Wordsworth and Mary Ann Ward of Carroll, on 29 Aug 1868 in Wesleyan-Methodist ceremony (birth-date being recorded as 26 Aug 1868); never married according to death certificate; listed as a resident of Pine Ridge in the 1884/5 Mudgee Electoral Roll, of Dungaree in 1890/1, of Rylstone in 1891/2, and as a groom residing in Court Street, Mudgee from 1894-1900; died as Frederick Wordsworth Burrows on 21 Jun 1937 at Moree (parents listed as John Burrows, miner, and Mary Ann Boggs); informant brother Arthur Burrows, who recorded at the time of his own marriage that his mother was Mary Ann Buggs[7]
See: Mary Ann Bugg and her "husband" John Burrows (1869-1905)
Sources:
[1] Birth Certificate: Marina Emily Ward [RBDM 1861/7193]
[2] References: Birth Certificate: Marina Emily Ward [RBDM 1861/7193]; Death Certificate: Mary Ann Burrows [RBDM 1905/5831]; Obituary: Mary Ann Burrows in Mudgee Guardian 27 Apr 1905 p.13. Re “Marina”: “Bushrangers I have met” in The World’s News on 4 Nov 1922 [http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Other/QueenslandHistory/WreckoftheGothenburg.htm]
[3] CSIL: Magistrate Thomas Nicholls to Attorney General, 11 Apr 1866 [SRNSW 4/573 No.66/1844]; Maitland Mercury 21 Jan 1864 p.2 & 26 Jan p.2
[4] Birth Certificate: George Herbert Burrows [RBDM 1876/0015712] Re name Moorinna:
[http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Other/QueenslandHistory/WreckoftheGothenburg.htm]
[5] Maitland Mercury 29 Mar 1866 p.2; Sydney Morning Herald 4 Apr 1866 p.5
[6] Birth Certificate: Frederick Wordsworth Baker [RBDM 1868/0016881]
[7] Birth Certificate: Frederick Wordsworth Baker [RBDM 1868/0016881]; Baptism: Frederick Wordsworth Ward [SRNSW 5/4036 Part 51, p.13; Reel 4519]; Death Certificate: Frederick Wordsworth Burrows [RBDM 1937//0016011]; NSW Electoral Rolls – Mudgee 1884/5, 1890/1 – 1891/2, 1894-1900
James and Charlotte Bugg and their family
Mary Ann Bugg and her husband Edmund Baker (1848-1849)
Mary Ann Bugg and her "husband" John Burrows (1850-1855)
Mary Ann Bugg and her "husband" James McNally (1855-1860)
See also: Searching for Mary Ann Bugg's children
1861 Jan-Feb Mary Ann Ward, who was apparently residing at Cooyal at the time, fell pregnant with a child fathered by Frederick Ward[1]
1861 Oct 26 Birth of Marina Emily Ward at Menkrai near Dungog to Fredrick Wordsworth Ward, training groom, and Mary Ann Ward (nee Bugg); birth registered by Mary Ann on 21 Nov 1861; this child appears to be Minnie on Mary Ann’s death certificate and according to her obituary was alive in 1905 and married.
NB. An article about Thunderbolt reports: “One of the Wyndhams, the one who spoke the aboriginal dialect of New England, told me her mother [that is, Mary Ann’s mother] was a Kamilroi woman, who called the girl Moorinna, their name of the small star Merope, in the Pleiades.”[2] This suggests that Mary Ann’s mother called Mary Ann herself Moorinna, which would explain why Mary Ann gave her daughter the rare name Marina.
1862-63 Mary Ann was in domestic service in Dungog according to local Police Magistrate Thomas Nicholls, a claim supported by the local press at the time; she appears to have taken up with Fred Ward again late in 1863 after his escape from Cockatoo Island.[3] NB. Mary Ann did not help Thunderbolt escape from Cockatoo Island as many authors claim (see Did Mary Ann Bugg help Fred Ward escape from Cockatoo Island?)
1864 mid It is possible that Fred and Mary Ann had a child who was born and died at the Culgoa in mid-1864 as Mary Ann herself reported that two of her children had died prior to 1876; otherwise it would suggest that this fertile woman did not fall pregnant for at least a year after meeting up with Fred again. If Mary Ann did have a child who died, this would explain why Fred employed another women to assist her during her next confinement[4]
1865 Jun-Oct Child born to Fred and Mary Ann; described as around 9 months old in March 1866 which tallies with the female informer’s report that she’d been engaged ten months previously to assist Mary Ann during child-birth; the child was described as about 15 months of age in January 1867[5]
NB. This child was almost certainly the Eliza listed on Mary Ann's Death Certificate, who was almost certainly the Elizabeth Ann Ward who later claimed to be Thunderbolt's daughter (see Searching for Mary Ann Bugg's children)
1867 Nov Most Thunderbolt books claim that Mary Ann died at this time, but this was another woman entirely called Louisa Mason (see Did Mary Ann Bugg die in 1867?). Mary Ann fell pregnant again to Fred Ward around this time but their relationship appears to have ended shortly afterwards[6]
1868 Aug 20 Aug 1868: Frederick Wordsworth born at Carroll near Tamworth to Mary Ann Baker of Carroll, according to his birth certificate; birth registered on 16 Sep 1868 at Tamworth by Mary Ann Baker; baptised as Frederick Wordsworth, son of Frederick Wordsworth and Mary Ann Ward of Carroll, on 29 Aug 1868 in Wesleyan-Methodist ceremony (birth-date being recorded as 26 Aug 1868); never married according to death certificate; listed as a resident of Pine Ridge in the 1884/5 Mudgee Electoral Roll, of Dungaree in 1890/1, of Rylstone in 1891/2, and as a groom residing in Court Street, Mudgee from 1894-1900; died as Frederick Wordsworth Burrows on 21 Jun 1937 at Moree (parents listed as John Burrows, miner, and Mary Ann Boggs); informant brother Arthur Burrows, who recorded at the time of his own marriage that his mother was Mary Ann Buggs[7]
See: Mary Ann Bugg and her "husband" John Burrows (1869-1905)
Sources:
[1] Birth Certificate: Marina Emily Ward [RBDM 1861/7193]
[2] References: Birth Certificate: Marina Emily Ward [RBDM 1861/7193]; Death Certificate: Mary Ann Burrows [RBDM 1905/5831]; Obituary: Mary Ann Burrows in Mudgee Guardian 27 Apr 1905 p.13. Re “Marina”: “Bushrangers I have met” in The World’s News on 4 Nov 1922 [http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Other/QueenslandHistory/WreckoftheGothenburg.htm]
[3] CSIL: Magistrate Thomas Nicholls to Attorney General, 11 Apr 1866 [SRNSW 4/573 No.66/1844]; Maitland Mercury 21 Jan 1864 p.2 & 26 Jan p.2
[4] Birth Certificate: George Herbert Burrows [RBDM 1876/0015712] Re name Moorinna:
[http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Other/QueenslandHistory/WreckoftheGothenburg.htm]
[5] Maitland Mercury 29 Mar 1866 p.2; Sydney Morning Herald 4 Apr 1866 p.5
[6] Birth Certificate: Frederick Wordsworth Baker [RBDM 1868/0016881]
[7] Birth Certificate: Frederick Wordsworth Baker [RBDM 1868/0016881]; Baptism: Frederick Wordsworth Ward [SRNSW 5/4036 Part 51, p.13; Reel 4519]; Death Certificate: Frederick Wordsworth Burrows [RBDM 1937//0016011]; NSW Electoral Rolls – Mudgee 1884/5, 1890/1 – 1891/2, 1894-1900