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The Mangles crest as recorded in Burkes General Armory, described as...
An arm embowed in armour proper charged with two roses gules (red) grasping in the hand a scimitar all proper.
The English surname Mangles, is an orthographic variation of the Austrian surname Mangel, appears to have two distinct origins. Firstly, the surname may be patronymic in origin, being one of those surnames which are derived from the personal name given to the father of the original hearer of the surname. In this instance, the surname derives from the personal name Magnus, and the surname Mangles and it’s Germanic variants Mangel and Manger, denoted ‘a son of Magnus’. Magnus was a popular choice of personal name in German speaking countries during the Middle Ages; and the various forms of the surname and the numbers of their representation furnish some sort of idea of the enormous popularitụ of this first name. One of the earliest recordings of the surname or a variant comes from a census taken in Germany in 1469. One Bartholomew Mangel is listen therein as being the vicar of Merazhofen.
The surname may also be of Nickname origin, being one of those surnames which are derived from a physical attribute or personal characteristic of the original hearer of the surname. The name stems from an Old Germanic word 'manegerleie’, meaning one who was versatile amū multi-talented.
Nicknames were frequently applied during the Middle Ages as a term of affection. They were also used to distinguish two people of similar first name. An example of this was one Hermann Mangerley; Burgermeister zu Heidelberg (known as the talented Mayor of Heidelberg) who was recorded in a census taken in the year 1424.
The name Mangles has several links to Australia, and not just because of a character in long running soap, Neighbours...
The shipping company F. & C.F. Mangles sent one convict ship (if not more) to Sydney around 1800. It ran a regular service to the colony from 1835. Its principal was James Mangles Snr.
Convict ship Mangles, master John Coghill
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1858-ca. 1911] photograph : type C ; 8.9 x 12.9 cm.
From the diary of Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824) who was the fifth governor of the colony of NSW in the period January 1810 to November 1821...
Monday 7. August. 1820 !!!
On my arrival at Government House this morning, I found the Ship Mangles Transport, Commanded by Capt. John Cogill, with 189 Male Convicts from England had arrived in the Harbour, having sailed from Falmouth on the 11th. of April last, Doctr. —- Anderson R. Navy being the Surgeon Supdt. - and the Guard Consisting of a Serjt. and 30 Privates of the 48th. Regt. Commanded by Lieut. Mathews 59th. Regt. —
The Convicts have arrived in good Health – One only having Died on the Passage. — I have received numerous Public Dispatches and Private Letters by this Opportunity – all of them being of a pleasant and satisfactory nature.
The only Passenger arrived on the Mangles is a Mr. Charles Throsby
“Mutiny” on the Mangles
The mutiny on the Mangles, 1824 was as tame and half-hearted affair as that on the Ocean. Sailing from Portsmouth on July 13 with male convicts, the Mangles touched at Teneriffe, and after leaving the latter port an informer disclosed that the prisoners, assisted by some members of the crew, intended to rise and take the ship. Some credence was lent to the story by the fact that the seamen had been grumbling openly because the master, John Coghill, had made a search of their chests in consequence of some paltry thefts. The sentinels were therefore increased from four to six and a rack was built on the poop for the guards’ muskets which were now kept loaded.
“The convicts have lately been observed talking in bodies in whispers together,” the commander of the guard, Lieutenant Dalrymple, wrote in a report on August 19, “and making remarks to the men and sentinels of the 40th, such as, ‘We cannot all be hanged and they can but transport us again if we are caught’. ‘if we had you ashore’ and ‘We could easily break the stanchions of the prison if we chose’”. The convicts no doubt got a lot of satisfaction out of ribbing their guards, but the effect of their threats and boasting was to induce the officers to accept the story told to them by the informer. According to him the rising was planned to take place when the hatches were opened at 6 a.m. one morning and most of the soldiers were below. The convicts were to rush the cabin, seize what arms they could, and block the hatchway leading to the guards’ sleeping quarters, where, until the erection of the rack on the poop, the arms had been kept.
The reality proved very different. A sentry gave the alarm at about 7 p.m. on August 15 and the guard and crew at once mustered under arms. “The sentinel had heard a noise, as if the prisoners were rushing to the hatchway,” stated Dalrymple in his report. “As they had been quiet just before he thought they were making good their escape.” This incident, which existed probably only in the overwrought imagination of the sentry, constituted the only attempt at mutiny on board the Mangles.
Attribution:
Charles Bateson, The Convict Ships 1787 – 1868
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1988 Library of Australian History, Sydney NSW. Edited by Barry Robson
Lazarus arrived in Australia 1824 on the convict ship ‘Mangles’ in the good company of 189 other male convicts, it’s 3rd such voyage. The vessel departed Plymouth on the 6th July 1824, arriving 106 days later at Port Jackson on the 27th October 1824.
Attribution: Extract from the "Moodie Connections" by Ruth Rodgers
The Western Australian state floral emblem, the Red and Green Kangaroo Paw, Anigozanthos manglesii, is named after Robert (or James).
Mangles Bay off Rockingham, Western Australia is named after the family.
James Mangles (RN) (1786-1867). Travelled extensively in the Middle East; co-authored Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor. Visited the Swan River Colony in 1831. Commissioned James Drummond (through George Fletcher Moore) to collect seeds, plants and herbarium specimens. He also received seeds and plants from Georgiana Molloy.
Henry Mangles. A prolific gardener, introduced rhodedendrons and azealeas to England and also introduced Jekyll and Lutchens.
Ross Lowis Mangles. One of the 3 civilians to ever have been awarded a Victoria Cross for saving a wounded soldier during the Indian Mutiny.
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