John Boxley

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iain Frazier on 24th April 2024

Family connections for John (Boxley) are: Some amendments added Jun 2025. BOXLEY John (Boxley) was born on 16/30 9 1759 & became a basketmaker. He was tried on his own for highway robbery w/3others, on 12 9 1786, of basket of clothes from Elizabeth (Monk)at Old Bailey in October 1786, sentenced to death reprieved to Life, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & Newgate Gaol & arrived in NSW as a cobvict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 7months on Fleet ship SCARBOROUGH; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate; he was short thickset long nose smallpox pitted skin. He married (perhaps firstly) Ann (Baker) on 24 4 1792 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. His Conditional Pardon was issued by 1800 & he purchased 30acres near Sydney on which he prodruced grains. He was living at Brickfields with his family in 1804. By 1806 he had sold his farm & was working as basketmaker. He is recorded in 1814 as basketmaker at Sydney with his daughter.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] Ann (Baker) was born about 1775. She was living at Cosford House of Industry Suffolk when she ran away at age about8 & embezzled goods of the Directors; she was sentenced to 3years at Cosford. She ran away again & was tried at age10 at Bury St Edmonds General Quarter Sessions Suffolk on 10 10 1785, sentenced to 7years, held at Lavenham Bridewell & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 7months on Fleet ship NEPTUNE; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate. She died on 23/24 10 1804 age29 at Brickfields after severe stomach pain & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney. [Some details taken from this Website] John (Boxley) & Ann (Baker) produced 3children: 1.Francis (Boxley) was born on 6 11 1795 & baptised on 6 12 1795 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He was living at Brickfields with his parents in 1804. He is recorded in 1814 as apprenticed at the dockyard. In 1816 he was working for Mr (Grono) at Windsor. He died in 1876 age about59. 2.Mary Ann (Boxley) was born on 29 6 1799 & was baptised on 4 8 1799 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. She was living at Brickfields with her parents in 1804. She is recorded with her father in 1814 at Sydney. She married William (Fuller) on 13 10 1817 at St Peters CofE Richmond & produced perhaps 6children. She died on 14 4 1856 age56. ..William (Fuller) was born about 1774. He was tried at Surrey Assizes, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship ADMIRAL BARRINGTON. ..[Some details taken from this Website] .. 3.John (Boxley) was born in 1802 & died on 1 6 1802 age<5m & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney. .. >>>John (Boxley) seems to have had a second relationship with Catherine (Turner her second relationship). He died on 20 11 1816 age57 father of perhaps 5children. Catherine (Turner) was born on 29 8 1798 & baptised on 23 12 1798 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She married firstly at age12 Edward (Lindsey his second marriage) basket maker on 20 9 1810 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. She was recorded in 1814 off stores with her family. She produced perhaps 6children in her lifetime. Details of Catherine (Turner)s family are given in entry for John (Turner WILLIAM AND ANN 1791) on this Website. Catherine (Turner) & John (Boxley) produced 2children: 1.Sarah Ann (Boxley) was born on 7 2 1819 & baptised on 12 12 1819 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. 2.James (Boxley) was born on 1 12 1821 & baptised on 23 12 1821 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. Reference: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony.

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Maureen Withey on 9th May 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 09 May 2020), October 1786, trial of JOHN BOXLEY (t17861025-3). JOHN BOXLEY, Violent Theft > highway robbery, 25th October 1786. 763. JOHN BOXLEY was indicted for feloniously assaulting Elizabeth Monk , in a certain open place, near the king's highway, on the 12th day of September last, and putting her in fear, and feloniously taking from her person, and against her will, two linen shirts, value 4 s. two shifts, value 4 s. a cotton gown, value 5 s. and a cotton skirt, value 4 s. her property . ELIZABETH MONK sworn. I am servant to my uncle; he is clerk to Mr. Scott's lime wharf; on the 12th of September, on a Tuesday at four o'clock in the afternoon, I had been to Knightsbridge for my linen; and coming to Chelsea , I saw three men sit at a public house door at Bloody-bridge ; I got a little distance from this public house, and I saw three men behind me; and John Boxley , the prisoner at the bar, who was one of the three, came up to me, and bad me throw down my bundle which I had under my arm; and I said, for God's sake do not take my bundle from me; I never saw him before; he directly said he would be damned if he did not lay his stick about me; this alarmed me, as he had his stick in his hand at the time; the other two men were close to him; there was no conversation between them, they were all three together; then I threw down my bundle, and one of the others picked it up; after they had got a distance from me, I turned round to see which way they went; and the prisoner called out, damn you, madam, make the best of your way home, or else I will be after you; I made the best of my way to Chelsea; the bundle contained the things in the indictment; I did not see the things put in, but I had a bill of them; I put two shifts in the bundle, but not the shirts; the gown was rolled up in the bundle; I did not see the skirt, but I am sure I saw the shifts; they were wrapped up in the gown; the things belonged to Mr. Jacobson; I went after them, because my aunt takes in washing. Court. Have you any interest in the washing of these things? - No, Sir, I am only a servant. If you had lost them, should you have thought yourself liable to have paid for them? - Yes. How long might this robbery take up? - A few minutes; I am sure of the man; he was pitted very much with the small pox, and he had a long nose, a short thick set man; he stood facing me when he spoke to me. Look at the prisoner? - I am sure the prisoner is the man; the property has never been found. Prisoner. My Lord, my friends are not come. How was the prisoner taken? - My uncle gave information; I saw the prisoner in the Borough at the Justice's in Union-street. How long was that after you was robbed? - About a fortnight after. Was any body else in the room? - Yes, there were plenty of people. You went there in expectation of seeing the prisoner? - I did. Did the magistrate, or any body there say that is the man? - Yes, they did. GUILTY , Death . He was humbly recommended to mercy by the Jury, there being only one witness, and no collateral circumstance in confirmation of her evidence. Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE. -------------------------------------------------- National Archives. HO 47/9/21 1789 July 21 Letter from James Adair enclosing a list of capital respites, in Newgate on 24 June, to whom no pardon has yet been granted, and on which his recommendations are noted against each name. Adair mentions that he is at a loss as to what to suggest for James Carse, convicted of murder, but periodically insane. List of capital convicts in Newgate, 24 June 1789. October Sessions, 1786 1. John Boxley, for robbery in a field near the highway, on Elizabeth Monk, spinster. Recommendation: transportation for life. --------------------------------------------------

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Megan Tilley on 16th June 2017

Baptismal records for John BOXLEY St Michael Queenhithe 30 Sep 1759.

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Ossie Daniel Osborne on 29th January 2013

I have pedigree charts that state birthday as 30/09/1759

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Wendy Andrews on 2nd January 2012

John Boxley arrived on board the Scarborough. He had been sentenced to death at the Old Bailey in October 1786 for highway robbery. On 12th September, a woman carrying a bundle of washing from Knightsbridge to Chelsea had been threatened by 3 men, one of them brandishing a stick. They had forced her to give up the clothing and, 2 weeks later when Boxley was arrested, the woman identified him as one of her assailants. She described him as short and thickset with a long nose and smallpox pitted skin. The death sentence was pronounced although the jury recommended him to mercy because the woman's evidence was uncorroborated and the clothing had not been recovered. He was held in Newgate Gaol until 10th November when he embarked on the transport Scarborough. On 24th April 1792 Boxley married Ann Baker (Barker) at St. Phillip's Church of England, Sydney. Ann had been listed as a member of the Second Fleet arriving on the Neptune. She had been tried at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, on 10th October 1788 and sentenced to 7 years. There were 3 children from the marriage Francis b. 6th November 1795, Mary Ann b. 29th June 1799 and John b. and d. 1802. Around 1800, Boxley received a conditional pardon and purchased a 30 acre farm near Sydney from William Roberts, the original grantee. According to the 1802 census, Boxley (settler Port Jackson) had purchased 30 acres in Sydney, 18 of which were cleared. He had 2 acres in wheat, 10 in maize, 2 male and 2 female hogs, 4 bushels of wheat and 13 of Maize in hand, and he had himself, 1 woman and 2 children and 1 government servant (David Braithwaite) off stores (self sufficient). Ann's death was registered at St. Phillip's Church of England on 23rd October 1804, leaving Boxley to care for Francis (8) and Mary Ann (5). By 1806, Boxley had sold the farm to a Mr. Laycock and was working as a basket maker. In 1814 he was still following the trade in Sydney, supporting his daughter. His son Francis was apprenticed at the dockyard and at age 21 was listed as being employed by Mr, Grono at Windsor. John Boxley died on 20th November 1816. The burial register at St. Phillip's described him as Free, aged sixty.