Charlotte Badger

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Charlotte Badger (* 1778 ; † after 1815) is often referred to as the first Australian pirate , although she originally came from Bromsgrove , Worcestershire , England . At the same time she was one of the first two known settlers in New Zealand .

Life

Charlotte Badger was born in 1778 as the daughter of Thomas and Ann Badger in poor circumstances and was baptized on July 31, 1778 . On an unknown day in 1796, she was arrested in the act of stealing several guineas and a silk handbag in support of her family . For the act, she was sentenced to seven years of deportation to New South Wales , Australia. She served her sentence in the "Female Factory" - a name used at the time for the penal institutions for women in Australia - in Parramatta . During this time she became the mother of a daughter. The list of prisoners from 1825 includes a Charlotte Badger along with her 10-year-old daughter Mary, who was brought to Australia with the Earl Cornwallis in 1801. Although the year of birth is listed there as 1785, it is highly unlikely that it was someone else with the same name. In 1806, three years after serving her sentence, she and her daughter traveled on the ship The Venus to look for a job as a maid . The ship's captain , a Samuel Chase, had women on board regularly flogged for amusement . This alleged pleasure was apparently not shared by the rest of the ship's crew . Badger, as well as another former prisoner, Catherine Hagerty , were able to convince the men on board to take over the ship during a stay in Port Dalrymple in northern Tasmania . The mutiny was bloodless because Chase was ashore at the time. After the ship had settled, Badger and Hagerty left it with their lovers John Lancashire and Benjamin Kelly and went to the Bay of Islands in northern New Zealand. There they settled in the Pā near Rangihoua - see also the list of architectural monuments in the Northland region - where they lived a hard life.

A different version assumes that Badger was able to escape from the ship alone and found refuge with Aborigines near Norroundboo near Port Sorrell .

There are different theories about the whereabouts of the mutineers. Some believe that everyone else fled but was ultimately caught and hanged , while others report that the remaining crew, although no navigator among them , pirated the ship after Badger, Hagerty, Lancashire and Kelly took the ship had left. Here Māori were able to board The Venus and set the ship on fire in order to recover scrap iron from the wreck . In this act, the entire team was burned. In the meantime, Lancashire and Kelly are said to have also been seized, Hagerty died of a fever . The further fate of Charlotte Badger is unknown; there are, however, two assumptions about their whereabouts. One variant assumes that she lived with a sub-chief on the "Bay of Islands", the second that Badger was taken in by a passing American whaler from Vavaʻu in the Tonga archipelago .

Bibliography

  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary entry of Charlotte Badger. Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed June 16, 2008 .
  2. ^ A b History of Immigration to New Zealand. www.teara.govt.nz, accessed June 16, 2008 .
  3. ^ Story: Badger, Charlotte Page 1
  4. ^ Journal of Lesbian Studies . Haworth Press, 1997 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 16, 2008]).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Frontier of Dreams trivia site. tvnz.co.nz, accessed June 16, 2008 .
  6. ^ New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters , 1806-1849
  7. ↑ a b c Swashbuckle - Real women pirates. Kelly Gardiner, 2006, archived from the original on March 27, 2009 ; Retrieved June 16, 2008 .

literature

  • Charlotte Badger - Buccaneer by Angela Badger; Published 2002, isbsbooks. ISBN 0-9578735-2-2
personal data
SURNAME Badger, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian pirate
DATE OF BIRTH 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromsgrove (Worcester)
DATE OF DEATH after 1815