Biby and George PHELPS (General)

by SCATTERBRAIN , Saturday, September 17, 2011, 18:08 (4819 days ago) @ gillianevans4

Hi Gillian ……thank you for your input ……..its bit of a mystery regarding the father of Biby Phelps …..on his baptism no father named and it states mother Hannah is a single woman….. on Biby’s marriage in 1871 father is named as George Phelps (deceased) ???????
From census records its quite clear Hannah marries a 2nd time to John Dorrington…..but as yet I have not found a death for George Phelps between 1842 and 1858…thus my reasons for thinking could George Phelps her husband be the convict.

Now yet another twist

While researching I find links on Ancestry.co.uk that suggest after his release George Phelps (convict) marries in NSW to Mary Vincent Hawker nee Nevall (widow) and that Mary Vincent Nevall had previously married in NSW in 1841 to William Hawker and that 3 children born to this marriage

Elizabeth 1841
John Vincent b 1843
Mary Dinah b April 1845 ( all family names in the Hawker line )

William Hawker died in October 1844
They also suggest William Hawker was a convict

Hannah Jackson/Phelps/Dorrington / her mother was Elizabeth Hawker who married Daniel Jackson so I feel they must be connected in some way

Could this be William Hawker ????

William Hawker, one of 300 convicts transported on the Aurora, 03 July 1833
Known aliases:
none

Convicted at Salop Assizes for a term of life on 16 March 1833.
Sentence term:
Life
Ship name:
Aurora
Departure date:
3rd July, 1833
Place of arrival:
New South Wales