Please help me
i didn't get to see the second instalment, only the last ten minutes. How did Will and the Children die? I had to work and I really wanted to watch it. thanks
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Will got shot a bunch of times. He led the soldiers and clarke away from mary and the kids and he was surrounded. He went to fight back and they shot the crap outta him.....very sad. What a hero, I adored his character.
Mary and the children were captured anyway, regardless of Will misdirecting the soldiers...and the kids died of starvation or illness (im not to certain) on a ship on the way back to england. They were buried at sea.
I hope this helps.
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I read on a website that in reality; "Mary and her family were transferred to Batavia - Mary's husband and son died here. Mary was sent back to England for trial, but on the voyage her daughter died."
I think in the show though, her children died of a tropical disease, as her voice-over said, coupled with the fact that their voyage back to England was far worse than on the first fleet.
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I also searched around on different websites. In reality Lt Clarke born 1755 and died 1794, disliked women and thought they were sins on the earth or something, however he lived with a convict Mary Brenham, had a daughter with her and named his daughter Alison after his wife. I don't know if this convict is Mary Bryant as her maiden name in the movie is Mary Broad. In the movie Clarke finds them but in reality Will who was often drunk revealed their identities to the dutch. And it was another capatain that captured Mary and others, not Clarke. And yes, Will and the kids died of a disease on the way to England.
shareWow, well they completely hollywoodified that story.
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Thanks for the re-fill
whoa, if thats what the true story is then thats very strange .. if the real clarke disliked women how the heck did he come to like mary bryant? its very confusing though .. and to think he had a child with her!? that is very different from the mini series.
shareWell, the real Clarke left a diary behind in which he idolised his wife, Alicia, and often put her on a pedestal compared to the convict women he had to look after ... then he ended up co-habiting with one of those convict women - about which he seems to have felt half-glad/half-guilty but not surprisingly she doesn't figure too heavily in his diary. To that extent the mini-series is pretty true to character: but the convict woman in question wasn't Mary Bryant. Clarke did know Mary though, as did the other lower-ranking diarist of the First Fleet, Watkin Tench. In fact it was Watkin Tench who was on the Charlotte on the way out, and also on the ship that ended up taking Mary back to England. In some ways the Clarke character is a bit of an amalgam like that.
The biggest liberty the mini-series took was with Clarke chasing Mary Bryant to Timor, which he never did. No-one from Port Jackson chased them to Timor. They were found in Timor by the Captain of a British ship that had been sent out to collect the Bounty mutineers. It's not entirely clear whether Will gave them away in a drunken moment before that or not. The only real record we have is James Martin's account of their travels that he dictated when he was in Newgate prison and is now in the Bodleian Library. Will also wrote an account of their voyage after being recaptured in Timor, but it is lost, and we only know snatches of it because Captn Bligh read it in Timor and quotes from some of it in his own journals. Again, Will nearly giving it away in a drunken moment and then the convicts finding themselves rumbled by a British officer at about the same time is pretty close to the spirit of what happened. The mini-series did have to work as a contained narrative, afterall, I think, and the basic stepping stones of the truth - Mary's character, her family, the early years of the colony, the amazing (and it was amazing) voyage, the brief time in 'paradise', then being sprung, losing her husband and her children, being taken back to England where she was - surprisingly - pardoned, are all there and true. James Martin does say in his account that all the men in the cutter would have given up many times if it wasn't for Mary, who clearly had tremendous determination and a huge influence over all the men in her life - from Will Bryant to James Boswell.