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112:(SG&NSWA) of Sunday 25 March 1804 said "Hen. Wright was shortly since convicted of a violent assault upon an infant, and it being his third heinous offence received a severe corporal punishment, and a sentence of three years hard labour for the Crown, during the whole term to be exposed in the stocks for the space of two hours upon every Saturday. Such is the nature of the crime, that the miscreant is precluded from every hope of commiseration, and lives the object of reproach and scorn." 151:, and probably as a consequence of the loss of the ship, John was heading for financial strife; he owed money. He was included in a list of people on the Hawkesbury from whom the provost marshal, George Blaxcell, intended to seize and sell their assets unless the claims had been met before Monday, 28 January 1805. 302:
and ferns. Convinced the sealers were escaped convicts and despite their protests he took them back to Sydney to the chains. He later learnt of their innocence and was overcome with remorse, giving two of the men, Alexander Books and Robert Mckenzie, employment. The two men would go on to become
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In July 1805, his intended departure 'for the Southward', as John Grono (master), with John Robinson, John Brown, George Lisk, John Connor, Nicholas Dukes, Charles Fever, William Carswell, Thomas McCabe, John Wade, Edward Dunn, Evan Evans, Abraham Moseley and Samuel Symmonds, was reported. The ship
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in 1809. Grono was able to save the ship and safely made it back to Sydney with a cargo of over 10,000 seal skins, along with one of the earliest descriptions of Foveaux Strait, recording the name in print for the first time ever. At the same time he also named Windsor Point after the town where
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In subsequent years, John was to build several ships on the Hawkesbury. His involvement in ship-owning, -building and sailing over the years saw him become one of the earliest European visitors to the south-west coast and Canterbury region of New Zealand. Of this area Sir Joseph Banks had earlier
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On Sunday 16 April 1809, the following notice was printed on page 2 in the SG&NSWA: 'John Grono cautions the Public against receiving in payment a Promissory Note of Hand drawn by me the said John Grono in behalf of Daniel Fane, about 5 or 6 years since, for £20 10s. the same having been duly
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In November 1803, an ugly incident occurred. "On Tuesday last John Wilkinson and Wm. Pendle were examined before Richard Atkins, Esq. Judge Advocate, on a charge of violently assaulting an infant daughter of John Grono ; but the most material witnesses being resident at Hawkesbury, where the
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John acquired a crew of fourteen men, being John Stuart, Evan Evans, Henry Branch, James McNathy, W. Needham, Thomas Hambleton, Gilbert Grant, Thomas Arnett, Charles Chambers, Robert Jones, James Hutton, James Mooney, Michael Murphy and John Thorn. They announced their intended departure on the
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He acquired a hotel known as the "Kings Arms" situated at the corner at No.1 Bligh Street, Sydney, which he sold to William Roberts on 3 January 1818 for 2,000 pounds. This money no doubt launched the captain on his ship building programme the same year with the construction of the "Elizabeth".
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written: "The southern part of New Zealand seals of all kinds in quantities at present almost innumerable". The seal rush was on and Captain Grono, ever the capitalist, sought to profit from the immense seal and whale populations in these southern waters.
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as its captain by early 1811. He was on a voyage in that ship to Port Dalrymple which returned to Sydney on 24 April of that year, and sailed from Sydney on or about 3 May 1811 "for the Islands of Campbell and Macquarie" on another seal fur trip.
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as an AB and later that year was again promoted to boatswain's mate. On this ship, John, his wife Elisabeth and his three children travelled to Australia, arriving in New South Wales on 4 May 1799. That year he was transferred from HMS
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Shipbuilding went on to become the passion of Grono's eldest son, William. William's meticulously kept journal provides an insight to the methods of ship building in that period and area. William Grono went on to build the vessel the
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arrived in Sydney in 1824, it was Grono that supplied his cartographer with detailed information for the first coastal descriptions of the Fiordland coast, as well as direct sailing directions for Milford Sound.
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Perhaps as a means of rescuing his financial position, and calling on the skills of his past, he commenced undertaking seafaring voyages, hunting seal furs in the waters off the southern end of New Zealand.
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John Grono died on 4 May 1847. He was approximately 80. His wife Elisabeth died fourteen months later at age 77. They were survived by nine children. The couple are buried at the entrance to
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Grono claimed to have built seven ships in his lifetime, some of which were the biggest the colony had seen. Four of the ships that can be traced directly to Grono's Hawkesbury shipyard are
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when he investigated the area in a longboat. Grono solved this confusion and proved it to be a northern outlet from the sound to the sea. Grono set up a base in a cove on the south coast of
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A second sealing voyage across the Tasman took place in April of the same year, returning to Sydney nine months later with another 10,000 skins. On this voyage, Grono and his crew entered
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The huge sum of money involved may relate to wages paid to a crew member or a business dealing, which dated back to the 1803 to 1804 period. This coincides with the voyages of the
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discharged, but said to be mislaid at the time ; when a Receipt was taken for the amount, which is in the hands of my Wife at Hawkesbury. Signed by me-John Grono.'
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Andrew Thompson was the master and/or owner of several ships in NSW in the years 1802–1807. Some of his ships (and the years in which they were registered) were the
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1763–4 May 1847) was a settler, sailor, ship builder, ship captain, sealer, whaler and farmer who migrated to Australia in 1799 from Wales. Captaining the ship
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returned to Sydney for provisions, a re-fit and to unload her cargo of "about 6000 fur seal skins", under Captain Cooper, rather than John Grono.
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After some time away from the ocean working on his farm, Grono made at least two more trips to Fiordland in his newly launched vessel the
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After retiring from his New Zealand maritime adventures, Grono set to expanding his ship building and farming enterprises. He and son
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after his neighbour in Australia, the former governor of New South Wales, from whom his ship also took her name. Grono also named
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was first published in 'The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser' (SG&NSWA) of Sunday, 12 March 1809, page 1.
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Murihiku: A History of the South Island of New Zealand and the Islands Adjacent and Lying to the South, from 1642 to 1835
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Grono remained an authority on the Canterbury region of New Zealand and its many islands, bays and sounds. When Captain
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In 1813, Grono again returned with a cargo of 14,000 seal pelts as well as ten stranded sealers who he rescued from
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have also been traced back to the Welsh Captain who had become the first to explore this area to this extent.
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offence was committed, the business was necessarily referred to the Magistrate of that Settlement."
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By mid-1801 he had left the colonial vessels and gone into a farming partnership with James Ryan.
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Grono's sons-in-law. The tale of the stranded sealers is recounted in the New Zealand folk song
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John Grono and his wife Elisabeth Bristowe along with their young family took up land on the
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Very little is known of Grono's life prior to his migration to Australia. He was born in
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which spent her life sailing the east coast of Australia as a cargo ship.
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NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, reference V18102567 2A/1810
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On Saturday, 10 March 1810, John was the master of the Colonial Schooner
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Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, 1788–1825, Vol. 1, 2nd edition
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Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, 1788–1825, Vol. 1, 2nd edition
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As it transpired, neither Wilkinson nor Pendle were the offenders.
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in the SG&NSWA of Saturday 24 March 1810, page 2.
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Cambridge University Press. p. 141. 344:built and launched numerous vessels on the 324:in 1825 with 3,000 seal skins on board. 101:north of Sydney, where they grew wheat. 435: 223:region of New Zealand began when the 7: 238:was built on the Hawkesbury River. 45:Early life and arrival in Australia 147:Within a month of the sale of the 14: 480:. Canberra: Roebuck. p. 68. 425:– mountain named for John Grono 159:was not named in that notice. 115:In October 1804, his schooner 1: 20: 800:Australian people in whaling 162:John's association with the 851: 790:People from Pembrokeshire 835:Explorers of New Zealand 745:Grono Family Association 673:Cumpston, J. S. (1977). 523:Cumpston, J. S. (1977). 476:Cumpston, J. S. 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Index

Governor Bligh
Milford Sound
Bligh Sound
Elizabeth Island
Newport, Pembrokeshire
HMS Royal William
able seaman
boatswain's mate
Buffalo
Colonial Vessel Francis
Hawkesbury River
Fiordland
Governor Bligh
Foveaux Strait
Doubtful Sound
Dusky Bay
Secretary Island
Mount Grono
Elizabeth Island
Bligh Sound
Milford Sound
Milford Haven
Nancy Sound
Caswell Sound
Cleddau River
Open Bay Islands
The Active
seal meat
Davy Lowston
Dusky Bay

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