Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
John Barton was transported on the Emily, departing 25th Jun 1842 and arriving 24th Nov 1842 with 240 passengers.
Emily 2 departed Dublin 13/7/1844.
Emily (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/13, Page Number 124 |
| 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 Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Tasmanian Record. Convict Conduct Record: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON33-1-31/CON33-1-31P14 See record for details.
Essex Adjourned Sessions. John Barton, 23, labourer, charged with having broken and entered the dwelling-house of Elizabeth Chaplin, at Lawford, and stealing 12 sovereigns, 2 half-sovereigns, and other money.— Prosecutrix, an elderly woman, on the 10th of April locked up her house a little before 10 o'clock in the morning, and went to chapel. She left about in her box. in a purse. She returned about half- past 12 ; she found the door taken off its hinges ; she went up stairs, and found her money and purse gone. She informed her neighbours of it, and also the police. — Richard Steer, a policeman, having information from prosecutrix that she had seen prisoner about the house a week before the robbery, he went in search of him, and took him in a field near the house. He found nothing on him ; he said, I have not a farthing in the world, as I hnve been out of work some time. He had on four waistcoats. For want of sufficient evidence the magistrate discharged him. On the 17th prisoner was again apprehended by him, and the magistrates remanded him till the th of May. when he was committed.— Mary Salmon saw prisoner on the 7th of April, as if opening a gate to go into the yard of prosecutrix's house. Seeing her he went away.— Henry Manning, as be was going to chapel, on Sunday, the 10th of April, met prisoner going towards prosecutrix's house, about a quarter of a mile off.— A little boy deposed that he saw prisoner on the Sunday morning get over the gate into the yard, about half past 11 o'clock.— A labouring man, on the 14th of April, was in the tap at the Cock. Prisoner was there, and he bought a watch for 18 …. ... Essex Standard, 13 May 1842.
Tasmanian Records. Indent: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON14-1-17/CON14-1-17P72 and https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON14-1-17/CON14-1-17P73 No 7305. John Barton, tried Essex Chelmsford QS, 10 May 1842, 5ft 4 in; age 25, 15 years, protestant, can read only. Single. Offence- Housebreaking, pr. Mr Nairn of Lawford, Essex, & stg £15 a watch & 13/-; once for a scythe, 3 weeks. Well behaved. Trade: Ploughman, Fm laborer, Native place, Lawford, Essex. Relations: F M at Mannington. M, Sarah, B Joseph, Benj. Amos, James, Robert. S, Sarah, Mary, Lucy, Ann, Harriet, Hannah.
Married Eliza/ Elizabeth Campbell 6 Jun 1854 in Morven, Tasmania
Baptised in Lawford, Essex, 2 Aug 1818. Parents William and Sarah Barton