John Herbert, Convict “Charlotte” 1788

John HERBERT was born c1760

John was convicted of assault (with John SMALL) and sentenced to transportation. He arrived in Sydney Cove on 26/1/1788 on "Charlotte".

John married Deborah ELLAM on 2/4/1788 at Sydney and they had the following children

• Benjamin - July 1789
• William 1791
• Joseph 1795
• John 1797
• Charles 1800
• James 1803
• Susannah 1805
• James 1807

John married Ann DUDLEY on 21/10/1819 at Parramatta and they had the following children

• Herbert John 1820

John died 1/4/1832 Parramatta

• John HERBERT, convict "Scarborough" arrived 1788 married Hannah MOORE/BOLTON died 19/11/1849
• John HERBERT, convict "Royal Admiral"

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LINKS

• http://www.australian-english-genealogy.com/Charlotteconvicts%202.html
• http://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I28053&ged=purne...
• http://www.historyaustralia.org.au/twconvic/584
• http://www.historyaustralia.org.au/twconvic/466
• http://firstfleet.thruhere.net/convict.php?id=324
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_convicts_on_the_First_Fleet
• https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g1234132-d11895...
• https://hicksfamilynorthillawarra.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/john-her...
• https://firstfleetfellowship.org.au/first-fleetfirst-fleet-convict-...
• http://fffsouthernhighlands.org.au/?page_id=667
• http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/claimaconvict/convictDetails.php?convi...
• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVIC...
• https://illawarrasmallbradleyukfirstfleetfamilies.wordpress.com/4-h...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Herbert-1237

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First Fleet Convict: Charlotte - left England13.5.1787 arrived Port Jackson18.1.1788.

John Herbert, together with Stephen Davenport, Robert Ellwood and John Small, was charged on the l4 March 1785 at the Devon Lent Assizes held at Exeter Castle with "feloniously assaulting James Burt in the Kings Highway feloniously putting him in Corporal fear and danger of his life in the said highway and feloniously and violently stealing and taking from his Person and agt his will in the said highway one metal watch and Tortoise-shell case v 30s one pruning Knife val 6d and 5s his Goods". His initial sentence of death by hanging was later commuted to seven years transportation. He was 25 years old. After conviction, Herbert remained in Exeter High Jail until 30 January 1786 when he was transferred to the prison hulk Dunkirk in Plymouth before eventually sailing on the ship Charlotte. While on Dunkirk it is recorded that he was "troublesome at times."