Fady raidy biography of william

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM JOHN FADDY

Born:               1746
Married:          17 November 1784 to Martha Escott Johnson at St Paul’s Exeter
Died:               1 August 1798 on Admiral
Horatio Nelson’s ship Vanguard at the Battle of the Nile

William John Faddy was 2^nd Lieutenant of Marines with the 88^th Company serving on HMS Champion, Medway and Crescent then in 1783 on Leander. He transferred on 18 February 1784 to 54^th Co Plymouth, shortly after marrying Martha.  On 30 June 1787 he was officially instructed to join the Friendship in Phillip’s First Fleet for Botany Bay.  Doing a tour of duty on Norfolk Island, Faddy arrived back in 1791 to Port Jackson on the Queen, before sailing to England aboard the Gorgon.

On 18 May 1793 Faddy was