given birth to a daughter Helena, although this cannot be stated with certainty. Their relationship ended within a year or two of their marriage. Bugg moved to the Bathurst district with her second partner, John Burrows, where they were living when gold was discovered at the Turon River in July 1851. A son James was born in 1851 and another son John in 1853; by the time her second son was baptised the couple had settled in the Mudgee district. By mid-1855, Bugg had left Burrows and was living with ex-soldier James McNally, to whom she bore another three children: Mary Jane (1856), Patrick Christopher (1857) and Ellen (1860). McNally was a farmer at Cooyal north of Mudgee, and it was there in 1860 that Bugg met ticket-of-leave convict Frederick Ward (later to become bushranger Captain Thunderbolt). Relationship with Fred Ward Bugg fell pregnant soon after meeting Frederick Ward (Captain Thunderbolt). Ward took Bugg back to her father's farm at Monkerai, near Dungog, for the baby's delivery, and their daughter Marina Emily was born late in 1861. In taking Mary Ann to Monkerai, however, Ward was in breach of the ticket-of-leave regulations which required him to remain in the Mudgee district and to attend three-monthly musters. As it turned out, he was late returning for the muster, and he compounded the problem by riding into town on a horse claimed by the owner to have been "stolen" (although the owner admitted during Ward's trial that the horse had simply gone missing and that he had heard that it had been seen near Cooyal but had not tried to retrieve it). Ward's ticket-of-leave was revoked, and he was returned to Cockatoo Island to serve the remaining six years of his previous ten-year sentence, along with an additional three years for being found in possession of a stolen horse. Most Thunderbolt books claim that Bugg helped Ward escape from Cockatoo Island, one of the few successful escapes during the island's history as a penal settlement, however this may not be correct. There is a claim that Mary Ann remained in the Dungog district where she was working to support herself and her two youngest children while others claims she found domestic work harbour side in Sydney. She swam the shark infested harbour delivering a file for Ward to remove his leg irons and then used a lamp to guide him to a