John Cuthbert

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Summary

Born
Unknown
Conviction
Stealing wool
Departure
Mar 1848
Arrival
Aug 1848
Death
Unknown
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Personal Information

Name: John Cuthbert
Gender: Male
Born: Unknown
Death: Unknown
Age at death: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown

Crime

Convicted at: Lincoln. Spilsby Quarter Sessions
Sentence term: 7 years

Voyage

Departed: 6th Mar 1848
Arrival: 7th Aug 1848
Place of Arrival: Van Diemen's Land or Port Phillip

Transportation

John Cuthbert was transported on the Anna Maria, departing 6th Mar 1848 and arriving 7th Aug 1848 with 190 passengers.

Built 1836 in Calcutta. Wood barque of 421 Tons. Master Edward Smith. Sailed from England 1848 with 190 men from Pentonville prison under the care of surgeon Dr Robert Stevenson, . Twenty seven prisoners deemed to fall into "second class" were disembarked in Hobart and granted tickets of leave on landing and the remainder were disembarked at Geelong with conditional pardons. Sailed from Woolwich on 6 October 1851 under surgeon W. McCrae with 196 female convicts, landing on 26 January 1852.

Anna MariaAnna Maria (generic)

References

Primary SourceAustralian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/15, Page Number 270
Source DescriptionThis 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 SourceGreat Britain. Home Office
Compiled ByState Library of Queensland
Database SourceBritish convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database

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Convict Notes

Maureen Withey avatar
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on 16th November 2025

Before the Mayor: John Cuthbert, William Binch alias George Smith, of this borough, and Edwin Bobbins, of Leghom tie, labourers, long known notorious and daring poachers . and terror to the neighbourhood, were charged with stealing fleeces of new unwound wool, the property of some person  or persons unknown ; and Robert Buckley, wool-comber, of James-street, with receiving the said wool, well knowing it to have been stolen. Remanded to Thursday  next. Before the Mayor, Thursday, July : Cuthbert, Binch, Hobbins, and Buckley were again brought up, and evidence having been obtained that the wool had been stolen from the premises of Mr. John Hodgson, farmer  of North Cockerington, the case was sent before J. Fytche, Esq, one of the county magistrates,.. Lincolnshire Chronicle, 10 July 1846. Lindsey Sessions. John Cuthbert and William Binch alias George Smith, charged with stealing at North Cockerington, on the 18th of June last, three fleeces of wool, the property of John Hodgson. It appeared from the evidence of Edward Hobbins, an accomplice, that the month of June last he was in company with the two prisoners, and they had a conversation respecting Mr. Hodgson's wool. On the 18th of June, witness went at night with the prisoners to Cockerington ; they went to the prosecutor's barn, and took a fleece of wool a-piece;  they hid them in wheat-field, and afterwards took them to the woolman, meaning the person to whom they used to sell wool when they got any; that person was Buckley, charged with receiving it. they were going to Buckley, they were met witness's uncle, who asked what they had got; witness made no answer, on which his uncle said he would be hanged or transported.—Samuel Hobbins, uncle the last witness, deposed to having met the prisoners as before stated.— Smith, in defence, said the last witness did not meet them, for he overtook them.—Guilty. 7 years' transportation. Robert Buckley, charged with receiving the same, pleaded guilty There were several other indictments against the prisoners for stealing at other times further quantities of Mr. Hodgson's wool, amounting altogether to sixty-eight fleeces, to all of which they pleaded guilty. Two years' imprisonment to hard labour at Spilsby.   Lincolnshire Chronicle, 10 July 1846.