John Deaves, Convict "Somersetshire" 1814

John Deaves was born at Assington in Suffolk, England in 1787. He was baptised on 28 January 1787, his parents given as Vincent Deaves and Sarah Webb. John married at Nayland in Suffolk to Susan Raynor. Joseph Gladding, Jonathan Garrard, John Deaves, and James Hayward, were indicted for breaking open the hatchway of the ship Dolphin, and stealing from thence a quantity of beef, the property of Simon Allen, master of the said vessel; Gladding, Garrard, and Deaves were found guilty and sentenced to 7 years transportation; Hayward was acquitted. On 19 December 1812 John was transferred from Suffolk borough goal to a hulk in Langdon Harbour, Portsmouth. He sailed on board the Somersetshire from Suffolk on 10 May 1814. The convict ship arrived at Port Jackson on 27 July 1814. Due to a Typhus epidemic on board the ship, John had to stay in quarantine for 7 weeks. In 1821 his letter for freedom was lost at the Colonial Secretary’s office. John had to apply for another Certificate of Freedom, becoming a free man in 1821. No record of a divorce from his wife, Susan Raynor, has been found, however he married Harriet Pugh. His occupation at that time a Sawyer. John died in 1850 in Kincumber at Gosford, New South Wales, Australia. See: https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/deaves/john/114993

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