Alexander Hewitt [Convict "Glatton" 1803]

Alexander HEWITT married Jane STARKEY 1/7/1797 Manchester, UK.

He was convicted and sentenced to 7 years transportation and arrived in Sydney Cove on 11/3/1803 on Glatton. His wife did not accompany him to Australia however in 1805 she arrived as a convict on “William Pitt”

Alexander and Jane had the following children

• Jane 1807

Alexander received his certificate of freedom in 1811

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Tried and convicted at the Chester Quarter Sessions on 13th January 1801 for petty larceny, sentenced to transportation for 7 years, he was sent to the Prison Hulk ‘Captivity’ moored at Gosport Hampshire. Left England on 23rd Septmber 1802. Ship:- the ‘Glatton’ sailed with 271 male and 130 females convicts on board of which 9 males and 5 females died during the voyage. Arrived on 11th March 1803.

Alexander married Jane Starkey on 1st July 1797 at Manchester. Citation details: 1797-1798 Alexander Hewitt of this parish a brazier and Jane Starkey of Manchester a spinster were married in this church by banns published 12th and 20th day of November 1796, this first day of July 1797 by me Jas. Brookes. Alexander and Jane both made their X marks in the register in the presence of Henry Aspinall.

After Alexander had been transported, Jane was also tried and convicted at the Chester Quarter Sessions on 15th April 1803, she was sentenced to transportation for 14 years, it is possible that she may have deliberately broken the law in order to join her husband in Australia, following his transportation in March of that year, Jane arrived on 11th April 1806, they had 1 child in NSW, Jane born in 1807.

He received his Certificate of Freedom on 1st March 1811.

On 16th January 1810, Alexander, Jane, John Brown, John day and Nicholas McCarthy were charged with stealing a copper, the property of the Crown. The court awarded that Alexander Hewitt and John Day should be committed to gaol to take their trial before a court of criminal jurisdiction. John Brown, Nicholas McCarthy and Jane Hewitt were discharged. Alexander and Jane initially worked for Peter Hobbs at Richmond, but after their separation (it is unclear when) Alexander moved to Sydney and is listed as a tin man, and then lived with a Sarah Smith. In 1812, he appeared in a court of civil jurisdiction relating to a promisory note of Thirty two pounds, 6 shillings and 3 pence.