William Allman, I - Convict "Earl Cornwallis" 1801

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William Allman, I - Convict "Earl Cornwallis" 1801

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Monken Hadley (Barnet?) Middlesex Eng
Death: December 01, 1829 (50)
Sydney NSW Australia
Place of Burial: Sandhills/Central Cemetary
Immediate Family:

Son of Daniel Allman and Elizabeth Shanster
Husband of Elizabeth Wood - Allmon, Convict "Earl Cornwallis" 1801
Father of Elizabeth Brennan; William Allmon, II; Ann(e) ALLMON (ALLMAN; Ann ALLMAN; Daniel Allmon (Allman)almand and 1 other
Brother of Elizabeth Almond; Daniel Almond; James Almond; John Almond; Sarah Almond and 5 others

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About William Allman, I - Convict "Earl Cornwallis" 1801

Taken from '2000 years of Bates'..

Born in 1779 in the village of Monken Hadley MDX. William later moved with his family to Bloomsbury MDX. At the age of nineteen, William was indicted for 'breaking and entering the dwelling house of Stephen Wilson the elder, about the hour of seven in the night of the 26 of December 1799, with intent to steal, and stealing a pair of stays, value 18s'. His death sentence was later commuted to transportation for life. He spent time in the hulk Fortunee in Langstone harbour before his passage to Sydmey in Earl Cornwallis in 1801. His future wife, Elizabeth Wills, was on the same ship..

William was a turner by trade and was first employed in the government lumber yard. Heworked on the General Hospital for Mr Riley and there is a record in the accounts proving that he received 117pounds for work as a turner. He signed the receipt in his own hand. A petition for mitigation of sentence in 1817 states, inter alia, 'that it was by his own hands that all the pillars of the public buildings in Sydney were turned'. William married Elizabeth Wills in 1810 and they had six children. In the 1825 census he was woeking as a chair maker in George Street, Sydney. He died in Sydney on 1 December 1829 ans was buried with two infant grandchildren in the Sandhills burial grounds NSW (2483/001).

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William Allman, I - Convict "Earl Cornwallis" 1801's Timeline

1779
June 29, 1779
Monken Hadley (Barnet?) Middlesex Eng
July 25, 1779
Monken Hadley England
1807
January 22, 1807
Sydney, NSW, Australia
1812
July 31, 1812
Sydney NSW
1815
June 5, 1815
Sydney NSW
1817
May 4, 1817
Sydney NSW
1819
December 8, 1819
Sydney NSW
1821
1821
Sydney NSW
1829
December 1, 1829
Age 50
Sydney NSW Australia