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Voyage
Transportation
William Caton was transported on the Surrey Or Surry, departing 2nd Oct 1822 and arriving 4th Mar 1823 with 161 passengers.
Built at Harwich in 1811 a square-rigged transport ship of 443 tons and copper lined she had two decks with a height between decks of 5 ft. 8 ins. In 1818, she had a major refit increasing the decks (and convict carrying capacity) to three. She was owned by the London firm of F. & C.F. Mangles.
Surrey Or Surry (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 223 (112) |
| 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
Native Place: Yarmouth. Moreton Bay: Three years - ordered to work in irons. William was described as: 16 years old, 5'1" tall, dark complexion, brown hair, grey eyes. Native Place: London. 17/7/1828: Returned to Sydney. 26/8/1828: COF - 21 years old, 5'3½" tall, sallow pockpitted complexion, dirty brown hair, hazel grey eyes, JW half moon 7 stars double hearts sun and EP on left arm - MC and anchor on right arm - hairy mole on left cheek. 7/1/1836: Married Eliza Byrne (Southworth 1832) at St. Mary's, Sydney.
New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851 Granted 7/1/1836. Eliza Byrne 24 Bond (7yrs) per ship Southworth to marry William Caton 28 free (7yrs) per ship Surry (4) Rev J McEnroe Sydney
JULY 6.— Thomas Neale, William Caton, and Daniel Baker, prisoners of the crown, and lads belonging to the Carters' Barracks, were brought up, charged with having stolen a handkerchief, containing 10 dollars, from the shop of a poor man, a retailer of fruit, in Pitt-street. The first named prisoner had been seen going in and coming out of the shop within a minute, and join the other two, who were in company with several others of the same description, who all ran off, and for the time escaped. On the Monday following, the fruit man went to the Barracks, and the first that he had exhibited to him was the prisoner Neale, and afterwards the other two, all three of whom he identified. It appeared that the poor man had been to his box to get change for a customer, and incautiously left his handkerchief, with all his wealth in it, on the bed and although absent from his shop scarcely 3 minutes, he found the dollars had disappeared in the interval. Remanded for further examination. Sydney Gazette, 14 July 1825. All three were sentenced to three years and were sent to Moreton Bay penal settlement.