Name: | John Evans |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1841 |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Date of Death: | 16th February, 1869 |
Age: | 28 years |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 8 years
Crime: | Firing a haystack |
Convicted at: | Oxford Assizes |
Sentence term: | 8 years |
Ship: | Merchantman |
Departure date: | 29th June, 1864 |
Arrival date: | 12th September, 1864 |
Place of arrival | Western Australia |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 260 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/19, Page Number 51 (28) |
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. |
D Wong on 8th November, 2014 wrote:
John Evans was 22 years old when transported. He was 5’7” tall, dark brown hair, light blue eyes, long face, fair complexion, middling stout, single.
1/12/1865: TOL
John worked as a general servant, butcher and labourer.
16/2/1869: John died at Champion Bay, WA. He was found dead in the bush in attempting to escape.
12/3/1869 Perth Gazette and West Australia Times:
LAST week we had to report no less
than three deaths arising from accident, and
this week we have four more to record. One,
that of a man named Dawson, whose body was
found in the river at the Vasse, and is supposed
to have been drowned while endeavoring to ob-
tain some ducks he had shot. The two others apparently met a more painful death from
thirst and exhaustion: Michael Barber, c.p.,
and John Evans, t.l., started from Champion
Bay to walk to Perth, and were found dead by
Mr. Walcott at a place named ” Nurabung,”
about 40 miles north of the Moore River. The
poor fellows had evidently given up from thirst
and exhaustion and laid themselves down to
die wrapped up in their rugs.
D Wong on 8th November, 2014 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1841 (prev. 0000), date of death: 16th February, 1869 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime
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