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Joseph Carter was transported on the Ocean, departing 31st Jul 1815 and arriving 30th Jan 1816 with 221 passengers.
The 'Ocean' was an English merchant ship and whaler built in 1794 at South Shields, England. In 1803 she accompanied the ship 'Calcutta' to Australia, acting as a transport supply ship. When the settlers abondoned Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria the ship transferred convicts, settlers and marines to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). In 1815, 1817 & 1823 the 'Ocean' transported convicts to New South Wales.
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| Primary Source | Ancestry.com.au - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Death Register, 1826-1879 for Joseph Carter, page 45, entry line 19. Also, BDM NSW Registration # 1554/1841 V18411554 25B Joseph Carter |
| 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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Family connections for Joseph (Carter) are: CARTER Joseph (Carter) was born about 1786/96. While living at East Brent Somerset he was tried for breaking & entering & stealing cloth etc, on 26 9 1814, of Richard (Colson) at Somerset Assizes on 5 4 1815, sentenced to be hanged reprieved to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 5 2 1816 after a voyage of 5months on OCEAN; he was 5'4.5" ruddy complexion brown hair hazel eyes; he was sent to Windsor for distribution. He was issued his Ticket of Leave 4/4067 for Bathurst in June 1824. He later worked also for James (Duff) at Jerrys Plains. He was considered for a Conditional Pardon on 27 4 1837. He died in 1841 age about45/55. [Some details taken from this Website] Frances (Ham) was born on 5 2 1816 & baptised on 2 4 1820 age4 at St Peters CofE Richmond. In 1828 she is recorded as working as a shepherd for James (Duff) at Jerrys Plains. She married firstly at age13 Joseph (Carter his first marriage) with permission on 6 5 1829 by CofE minister Newcastle. She had a second relationship with James (Edwards her stepfather-see in entry for James (Edwards FLORENTIA 1829) on this Website) about 1844 & produced 5children. She died on 13 4 1900 age84 mother of 10children. Details of Frances (Ham)s family are given in entry for George (Ham ROYAL ADMIRAL 1800) on this Website. Joseph (Carter) & Francees (Ham) produced 5children: 1.Ann (Carter) was born about 1831 in the colony. She married firstly William (Smith) on 27 11 1850.>>> ..William (Smith) was born in 1816. He arrived in Australia as a convict. He died on 39 7 1856 age about40. ..There are many William (Smith)s on this Website. ..Ann (Carter) & William (Smith) produced 3children: ..1.-3.??? (Smith) .. >>>Ann (Carter) married secondly James (Pittman) & produced 7children. She produced 10children in her lifetime. ..James (Pittman), son of John Matthew (Pittman convict from SOMERSET) & Mary Rebecca (Sunderland born Sydney), was born at Kurrajong in 1835. ..Details of James (Pittman)s family are given in entry for John Matthew (Pitman SURREY 1814) on this Website. .. 2.-5.??? (Carter) 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.
To be clear, the "Joseph Carter" who died on 31 January 1941 and arrived in NSW in 1837 on the ship Prince George, was born in Suffolk about 1783, and is not the same Joseph Carter listed here born about 1796, who arrived in NSW on the ship "Ocean" in 1816 from Somerset. The death details for the latter Joseph Carter are not known at this time.
There is limited information on the death certificate, however, it does confirm the death details and confirm his convict status as BOND, PR. PRINCE GEORGE
New South Wales, Australia, Tickets of Leave, 1810-1869 Birth Year; 1799 Native Place; Somerset Calling; Labour Date of Trial: 1st April 1815 Sentence; Life Height; 5 ft. 4 1/2 inch Complexion; Ruddy Hair; Brown Eyes; Hazel
Ticket of Leave granted whilst at Bathurst during the previous week as notified in the Government Gazette on 23 June 1824 by F Goulburn, Colonial Secretary.
THE TRIAL OF JOSEPH CARTER. Somerset Assize Wednesday 5th. April 1815. Joseph Carter late of the Parish of East Brent in the County of Somerset, labourer. On 26th. day of September in the 54th. year of George the Third at one in the night did break and enter with intent the dwelling of Richard Colson to take and carry away nine handkerchiefs of the value of four shillings each, twenty yards of cotton of the value of twenty shillings, sixteen yards of linen cloth of the value of forty shillings, sixty yards of ribbon of the value of thirty shillings and six yards of corderoy of the value of thirty shillings - the goods and chattels of the said Richard Colson. Witnesses - Richard Colson, Fanny Bishop, Mary Voroles,Bery Millais, Hannah Banwell, Arthur Phillips, James Braddior, George Burnell, William Tucker, Diana Colson, Diana Tucker. Jury - Richard Maynard, Joseph Hull, John Hooper, John Rich, Robert Blackman, John Burnett, John Stone, William Palmer, Joseph Palmer, Richard Staple, William Westcombe. Joseph Carter pro se Guilty. No Goods. To be hanged. Reprieved - Transportation for life pursuant to Secretary of State's letter above. Burglary of Richard Colson about 1 in the night of the 26th. September at East Brent with intent to steal and stealing goods to the value of £7.16s; 30 January 1816 - Ocean arrived at Port Jackson; 5 February 1816 - forwarded to Windsor for distribution; Late in 1823, James Duff left the Hawkesbury, with his sister, Ann, and her husband, Samuel Clift, and their small son, to take up his father's new land grant at Jerry's Plains. With them went Ann Epton with James and Frances. Ann became James Duff's housekeeper and the two children were employed as shepherds, according to the 1828 Census. James Duff employed two convicts, assigned to him in the 1820s, Joseph Carter and James Edwards, born about 1807 in Derbyshire, who arrived on the "Florentia" in early 1828 6 May 1829 - permission for Joseph Carter to marry Frances Ham (14 year old born in colony)- married by Rev F Wilkinson from Newcastle Church of England; Ticket of Leave was granted [4/4067; Reel 910]; 27 April 1837 - Recommended Conditional Pardon; ANN CARTER was the first child of Frances and Joseph carter and married twice. She married a convict, WILLIAM SMITH, on 27-11-1850. After having three children, he died on 30-7-1856 and is buried at Warkworth. His headstone still stands in the paddock just outside the cemetery there. Smith was born about 1816 supposedly a native of Eton but no birth details have come to light. Ann's second marriage was to JAMES PITTMAN, born at Kurrajong in 1835, son of JOHN MATTHEW PITTMAN, a convict from Somerset, and MARY REBECCA SUNDERLAND, a native of Sydney. Ann and James had seven more children; Joseph Carter died in the first half of the 1840s. No record survives to give us a date. Within a couple of years, Frances took off with her stepfather, James Edwards, and had five more children, after having five to her legal husband. She never married Edwards but it is believed he married another lady, at Broke, much later but it did not work out. We only assume it to be the same man at this stage. Edwards, apparently, was a real charmer where women were concerned, and we don't know what happened to him in the finish. If he is the same James Edwards who married a widow, Sarah Butler, she was brought back to Broke when she died and is buried with her first husband.