John Adams

John Adams, one of 140 convicts transported on the Dick, 02 October 1820

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	John Adams
Aliases:	none
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1798
Occupation:	Farm labourer
Date of Death:	1859
Age:	61 years

Life Span

Male median life span was 51 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to Life

Crime:	Sheep-stealing
Convicted at:	Derby Assizes
Sentence term:	Life
Ship:	Dick
Departure date:	2nd October, 1820
Arrival date:	12th March, 1821
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 140 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 403 (203)
Source description:	This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project.

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Community Contributions

Denis Pember on 26th February, 2017 wrote:

Sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales:
Page 30….
[Ref A0088] Adams, John, 30 , GS, Dick, 1821, Life, Ploughman to George Cox, Evan.

Denis Pember on 26th February, 2017 wrote:

In 1830 John married Sarah Prudence Bankin. Sarah was the daughter of Richard Bankin (Convict, 1815, “Marquis of Wellington”) and his wife Prudence nèe Perkins.
Sarah had arrived , with her sister, in the colony as a passenger on “Borneo’ 28th December 1828, their mother had died on the voyage.

Sarah and John had 9 children born between 1831 and 1851.

Convict Changes History

Denis Pember on 14th February, 2017 made the following changes:

date of birth: 1798 (prev. 0000), date of death: 1859 (prev. 0000), gender: m

Denis Pember on 14th February, 2017 made the following changes:

crime

Denis Pember on 26th February, 2017 made the following changes:

occupation