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• https://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/w/F58c_wa-19.htm

GEDCOM Note

<p>Possible John Watson convicts</p><p><p>John Watson, Convicted: Gaol Delivery 23 May 1787 Old Bailey, Middlesex [MDX ENG] 7 years; Transported per Neptune, Arrived 28 Jun 1790 Sydney [NSW AUS]; Additional Information: [Destination] Beyond Seas</p><p><p>List all persons</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Convict Indents &c. SRNSW ref: SZ115 pp67-84; TNA ref: HO 11/1 pp25-70, Reel 87; SRNSW ref: 4/4003A; Neptune 1790 Entry No. 11622</p><p><p>About</p></p><p><p>1801 Jul</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>John Wattson; Arrived per Neptune, Status: Expired; Occupation/Residence &c, Sydney [NSW AUS]; Victualling:Off Stores; List No: 243 R</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>John Watson, Convicted: Gaol Delivery 08 Dec 1790 Justice Hall, Old Bailey, Middlesex [MDX ENG] 7 years; Transported per Albemarle, Arrived 13 Oct 1791 Sydney [NSW AUS]; Additional Information: [Destination] Beyond Seas</p><p><p>List all persons</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Convict Indents &c. SRNSW ref: SZ115 pp117-124; SRNSW ref: SZ115 pp147-202; TNA ref: HO 11/1 pp71-151, Reel 87; SRNSW ref: 4/4003A; Albemarle 1791 Entry No. 13657</p><p><p>About</p></p><p><p>1806 Aug</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>John Watson; Arrived per Coromandel (2), Arrival status: CF (Came Free); Occupation/Residence &c: Sailmaker Self [Employed]</p><p><p>List all persons</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Census &c: NSW General Muster 1806</p></p><p><p>About</p></p><p><p>1811 Feb</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>John Watson; Convicted: Dec 1790 Old Bailey, London [MDX ENG] 7 years; Arrived per Albemarle, Status: Convict; Occupation/Residence &c, NSW [NSW AUS]</p><p><p>List all persons</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Census &c: NSW General Muster 1811 (SRNSW copy)</p></p><p><p>About</p></p><p><p>1811 Feb</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>John Watson; Convicted: Dec 1790 Old Bailey, London [MDX ENG] 7 years; Arrived per Albemarle, Status: Convict; Occupation/Residence &c, NSW [NSW AUS]</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>John Watson ([variant] John Watsan); Crime: Grand Larceny, Convicted: 13 Mar 1786 Maidstone, Kent [KEN ENG] 7 years; Transported per Alexander, Arrived 26 Jan 1788 Sydney [NSW AUS]; Left the colony per William ([Capt] Folger) 1794; Additional Information: [Destination] Beyond Seas; Editor's Remarks: Alternative name from [4/4003a]</p><p><p>1822 Sep</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>John Watson; 7 years, Status: C (Convict); Occupation/Residence &c: Govt Servant, Sydney [NSW AUS],[to] R Howe</p><p><p>List all persons</p></p><p><p>D. Collins, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its First Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, London, 1802, vol. II.</p><p><p>September 1790 - In the night of the 26th a desertion of an extraordinary nature took place. Five male convicts conveyed themselves, in a small boat called a punt, from Rose Hill undiscovered. They there exchanged the punt, which would have been unfit for their purpose, for a boat, though very small and weak, with a mast and sail, with which they got out of the harbour. On sending to Rose Hill, people were found who could give an account of their intentions and proceedings, and who knewthat they purposed steering for Otaheite. They had each taken provisions for one week; their cloaths and bedding; three iron pots, and some other utensils of that nature. They all came out in the last fleet, and took this method of speedily accomplishing their sentences of transportation, which were for the term of their natural lives. Their names were, John Tarwood, a daring, desperate character, and the principal in the scheme; Joseph Sutton, who was found secreted on board the Neptune and punished; George Lee; George Connoway, and John Watson. A boat with an officer was sent to search for them in the north-west branch of this harbour, but returned, after several hours search, without discovering the least trace of them. They no doubt pushed directly out upon that ocean which, from the wretched state of the boat wherein they trusted themselves, must have proved their grave.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Census &c: NSW General Muster 1822</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>DEFINITE BELOW</p></p><p><p>John Watson</p></p><p><p>Death Date: 28 Nov 1852</p></p><p><p>Death Place: Tasmania</p></p><p><p>Age: 97</p></p><p><p>Registration Year: 1852</p></p><p><p>Registration Place: Longford, Tasmania</p></p><p><p>Registration number: 306</p></p><p><p>Estimated Birth Year: abt 1755</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>1798 Mar</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>John Watson, Signed X; & Esther Hacker, Signed X; married 06 Mar 1798, registered St Philips Church of England Sydney [NSW AUS] by Banns by Richard Johnson; Witness: Richard Haynes, Signed X; Witness: George Wilson, Signed X</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Sacred</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>TO THE MEMORY OF</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>JOHN WATSON</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>DIED NOVEMBER 28 1852</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>AGED 87 YEARS</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>ALSO</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>JOHN FLOOD</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>SON IN LAW TO THE ABOVE</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>DIED APRIL 4 1854 IN HIS 57th YEAR</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Also MARGARET</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>DIED September 15 1869</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>AGED 70 YEARS</p></p><p></p>