After Alexander Duncan's death in 1857 Caroline probably sailed back from New York to Hobson's Bay, Victoria in July 1857 on board a ship called 'Continent', and arrived on 20 Oct 1857, with her probably 8 children. A newspaper article says 'Mrs Duncan and family' were cabin passengers there. Nothing more is definitely known until Caroline re-married in 1864. As reported above, her second husband was David Fermaner (1816-1893), harbour master at Port Albert, New South Wales. She died 4th June 1887 at Croydon, Victoria, and is buried under the surname Duncan."

Caroline Franklyn and Alexander Duncan were married at St James' Church, King Street, Sydney in November 1836. It was an Anglican church, and had been consecrated 12 years previously (1824); it is now the oldest church in Sydney still in existence. Also this information and all the information below was found by

John Humphreys.

St James parish lies to the east of St Philip; it includes Sydney Opera House; Royal Botanic

Gardens, The Domain, the part of Hyde Park north of Park street [all open parkland]; Circular Quay, and Martin Place. The parish is bounded by the area which was originally the Tank Stream (now Pitt Street near Circular Quay), and George Street in the west. It is bounded by Park Street and part of William Street in the south, and Young Crescent and Woolloomooloo Bay in the east.

According to The Times, insufficient care was taken to select suitable women. Some were said to be from prisons, some were immoral and too many came from towns; the unmet requirement was for sturdy countrywomen who had some idea how a farm worked, not seamstresses for the towns like Sydney.
 
However the paper's real venom was reserved for the superintendent, who supplied insufficient food and clothing and was unsympathetic to the womens needs. The ships master and paying passengers helped in some instances, but women died on the voyage. Two babies were born on the voyage and half a dozen women were pregnant when the ship arrived."

But what was a girl of this age doing on board? Parents were not listed. The vessel carried 301 people, 10 of them called "Mary Anne" with no surname and something like 30 just "Mary", overwhelmingly female and typically born 1805-1817.
 
It turns out that there was a government initiative to find women of marriageable age and ship them out to colonise Australia:

Background of Caroline Franklyn

 
The marriage registration says nothing about parents or origins. However increasing amounts of data about immigration to Australia have become available through the World Wide Web. New South Wales, Australia, Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1826-1922.

Average age was said to be 20, and diligent efforts made to ensure they were of good character; any of them under 30 had an assisted passage of sorts. This makes me wonder again about the status of Caroline.
 
The presence of some 40 women who managed to travel without giving surnames also makes me wonder about the supposed guarantee of good character.
 
It seems that Caroline and her fellow emigrants were wretched, ill-fed and poorly treated by their tyrannical superintendent (The Times ran sizeable articles about this in the summer of 1834, and spoke harshly of the Emigration Committee). The Committee had to take due note:

Refs:
# New South Wales Government. Inward passenger lists. Series 13278, Reels 399-560, 2001-2122, 2751. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.
# New South Wales Government. Reports of vessels arrived (or Shipping reports). Series 1291, Reels 1263-1285, 2851. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.
 
Unassisted immigrants are individuals whose passages were NOT subsidized or paid for by another person or through another agency. This collection is composed of two different series of records. They are:    (1) Inward Passenger Lists, (2) Reports of vessels arrived (or Shipping reports); however (1) did not start until 1854.  Port Jackson contains Sydney Harbour.

She

marrried

on 21 October

1836

in Sydney, Australia; they had (at least) 8 children, among them

,

's mother.

Birth

:  As John Humphreys found out, a baptism record at St Mary's Church,

Newington

(then in

Surrey

, now very much London) shows Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund and Caroline Franklyn,

baptised September 15th 1816

but

born "Jany 30th"

; abode of the family was given as Locksfield and the father's "quality, trade or profeffion" was "mefsenger". Caroline's parents

Edmund Franklyn

and

Caroline Perry

were married at the Church of St George the Martyr in Southwark on 24th April 1815 "by consent of Wm Perry her father".