Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife

The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger

Jennifer Ashton

• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781869409579
• eBook ISBN: 9781776710829
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Australian & Oceanian History
• Index: History

Charlotte Badger is a woman around whom many stories have been woven: the thief sentenced to death in England and then transported to New South Wales; the pirate who joined a mutiny to take a ship to the Bay of Islands; the first white woman resident in Aotearoa; the wife of a rangatira, and many more.In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Jennifer Ashton shows what we know about Charlotte Badger, and how the stories about her have shifted over time. From a Worcester courtroom to the outskirts of Sydney, from the English countryside to Wairoa Bay, Ashton brings to life the maritime and wider imperial world of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries – and the convicts and runaways, sailors and soldiers, governors and missionaries who filled that world. The author shows how history and historical figures like Charlotte Badger are made and remade over time by journalists and historians, painters and playwrights.Charlotte Badger's was a life that is at once more remarkable, more curious and more mundane than has previously been written. Jennifer Ashton tells the fascinating story of a remarkable, curious, ordinary woman and her place in history.

Notes

Introduction

1Ormsby, ‘Badger, Charlotte’, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1b1/badger-charlotte

2This restaurant is Charlotte’s Kitchen in Paihia.

3Gloria, ‘Charlotte Badger’, www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuGlWBAMBZ0; Jack Hayter, ‘Charlotte Badger’, www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5pr_KfuDM. See also ‘Ballad of Charlotte Badger’, cited in Duffield, ‘“Haul Away the Anchor Girls”’, pp. 35–36.

4‘Charlotte Badger’, https://lesterhall.com/kiwiana/charlotte-badger.htm

5Parry, Vagabonds.

6Reihana, ‘Nomads of the Sea’, 2019, www.lisareihana.com/nomads-of-the-sea.

7Badger, Charlotte Badger: Buccaneer.

8Mantel, ‘The Iron Maiden’, http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2017/reith_2017_hilary_mantel_lecture2.pdf

9Mantel, ‘The Day is for the Living’, http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2017/reith_2017_hilary_mantel_lecture1.pdf

10Mantel, ‘The Day is for the Living’, http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2017/reith_2017_hilary_mantel_lecture1.pdf

11Junod, ‘The Falling Man’.

The Accused

1Gwilliam, Old Worcester, p. 15.

2See, for example, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 October 1937, p. 21; Vennell, The Brown Frontier, p. 19.

3Laird, Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Worcester, www.parishmouse.co.uk/worcestershire/bromsgrove-worcestershire-family-history-guide

4‘Nail Making in Bromsgrove’, http://bromsgrovenailmaking.wixsite.com/nail-making/untitled-c139r

5Griffin, Liberty’s Dawn, p. 55.

6Griffin, p. 83.

7Kirkby, Child Labour in Britain, p. 28.

8Bromsgrove Rousler, no. 17, 2002, p. 7.

9Duffield, ‘“Haul Away the Anchor Girls”’, p. 39.

10Index of Apprentices Indentures.

11Wright, Worcestershire Original Wills Part 2 1694–1857.

12Housebreaking can be defined as ‘[b]reaking into a dwelling house in the day time with intent to commit a felony (normally theft), or actually doing so, thereby putting the inhabitants of the house in fear’. See Old Bailey Proceedings Online, www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Crimes.jsp#housebreaking

13Emsley, Crime and Society in England, p. 164.

14King, Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England, ch. 2.

15See King, Crime and Law in England, ch. 5; King, Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England, pp. 196–207, 278–88.

16Grand larceny, which was punishable by death, was defined as the theft of goods to the value of 1 shilling or more. Badger stole an amount significantly higher than this, and with the aggravating circumstances of housebreaking, which was charged as a separate crime. See, for example, www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Crimes.jsp#grandlarceny

17Badger, Charlotte Badger: Buccaneer, p. 38.

18County of Worcester Quarter Sessions Order Books.

19Stern, ‘The Bread Crisis in Britain’, pp. 171–72; Davis, ‘Bread Riots, Britain, 1795’.

20Emsley, p. 33.

21Honeyman, Child Workers in England, pp. 15–16.

22King, Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England, p. 150.

23See also Cox, Crime in England 1688–1815, p. 44;...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Accused
• The Convict
• The Pirate
• The Beach Crosser
• The Army Wife
• The Histories of Charlotte Badger
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author