John Booth

John Booth, one of 99 convicts transported on the Hoogley, 31 October 1827

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	John Booth
Aliases:	none
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1809
Occupation:	Errand boy
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Male median life span was 56 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to Life

Crime:	Housebreaking
Convicted at:	Stafford Assizes
Sentence term:	Life
Ship:	Hooghley
Departure date:	31st October, 1827
Arrival date:	24th February, 1828
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 99 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 287 (145)
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

Lee Mervin on 2nd September, 2019 wrote:

In 1826 John Booth married Mary Sambach and in 1827 they had a son William

Lee Mervin on 3rd September, 2019 wrote:

On the 15th March 1827 he was convicted of housebreaking and larceny. He had posed as a Methodist Minister in order to scope out a house and had later broken in to it stealing clothing and shoes. He received a sentance of death which was later commuted to transportation for life.

D Wong on 3rd September, 2019 wrote:

John Booth was listed as 21 years old on arrival.

Native Place: Stafford.

John was literate, protestant, married (Indent states no children), 5’3½” tall, ruddy and fresh complexion, light brown hair, hazel eyes.

19/4/1836: TOL, Williams River.

C1836: Permission to marry Eliza Tye (Elizabeth 1836) she was 42 and on Bond - John was 31 and had a TOL.
No registration found.
(Eliza married Michael Kenny(Fergusson 1829) in 1840.)

5/11/1838: TOL, renewed.

Note on TOL: Transported to Norfolk Island by the Maitland QS 9/9/1839 - Forgery.

22/4/1839: Sydney Monitor, NSW:
CAUTION.
I HEREBY Cautions the Public not to take a Cheque drawn by John Booth in my favour, for Fifty-five Pounds, at six months after date, dated April 15th, 1839; the same having been fraudulently abstracted from my person at Robert Potts’ New Inn, Richmond.
WM. PRESTNEL.
Richmond, April 13th, l839.

15/7/1845: TOL, Port Macquarie.

9/8/1851: CP

Convict Changes History

Lee Mervin on 2nd September, 2019 made the following changes:

date of birth: 1809 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime

D Wong on 3rd September, 2019 made the following changes:

occupation, crime