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John Gregson was transported on the Manlius, departing 16th Jul 1828 and arriving 9th Nov 1828 with 176 passengers.
Manlius (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 451 (227) |
| 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
Death of John Gregson: 1846, 23 October: Thomas Richards, 35, William Keep, 40, and John Gregson, 36, were suffocated in a well at Spring Bank, near Longford, south of Launceston. The Coroner, Charles Arthur, found their deaths were accidental. [Note: The men's ages here are as per the Inquest document.] The story was reported in the Cornwall Chronicle the following day. “Dreadful occurrence and melancholy loss of life.— On Friday morning, some men employed in sinking a well for Mr. David Heath, at Spring Bank, near Longford, went to their work between five and six o’clock, when one of them having descended, he was called to by one of the others, who not receiving an answer, also descended: a short time elapsed when a third was let down; those who were at the top of the well not hearing any thing moving below, became alarmed, and immediately made the matter known to Doctor Wilmore, who lives in the neighbourhood; upon his arrival, a messenger was dispatched to Longford for a well-sinker named Richardson, who also descended with a rope attached to his body, and found the three men lying dead at the bottom of the well. Richardson as promptly as possible fastened the rope to two of them and was with them immediately drawn up. On reaching the top he became insensible, in which state he remained for a considerable time, but on recovering, he again descended and brought up the third man. It is supposed they were suffocated with foul air; the depth of the well is about thirty feet, and the bottom is of a yellow clay without water. A Coroner’s jury had been summoned to attend an inquest on (this day) Saturday. The names of the men whose lives have been thus suddenly lost are Thomas Richards, William Keep, and a man known as “Jack the sawyer”, but whose real name is not yet ascertained.” [Jack was John Gregson/Grigson.] Source: The Cornwall Chronicle, Sat 24 Oct 1846, p820.
OCCUPATION: Farm labourer and miller. 1828, 22 March: Tried at the Lent Assizes at York, convicted and sentenced to death along with his brothers Robert and William Gregson for [highway] robbery. All three had their sentences commuted to transportation for life (see England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892). 1828, 1 June: John (23) and William Gregson (21) were admitted to the Retribution hulk at Woolwich, and were sent from there on 10 July for transportation (see UK, Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849). Robert (32) had been sent to the Leviathan hulk at Portsmouth on 24 May and was sent in 1828 to NSW on the Lord Melville. 1828: On arrival in VDL, John Gregson was 24 years old, and from Upholland near Wigan (see http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=I&id=CON18/1/15). 1842, 6 April: He was granted a Conditional Pardon No.309 (see https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-15$init=CON31-1-15p152).
ADM 101/48/2 Medical journal of the Manlius, convict ship from 6 June to 17 November 1828 by P M Ternan, surgeon and superintendent, during which time the ship was employed in a voyage to Van Diemen's Land. Folios 8-9, 28: John Gregson, aged 23, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, erysipelas, inflammation occupying the back part of the right leg no disorder of the system but great mental depression; put on sick list 31 August 1828, discharged 27 October 1828 cured, [see also surgeon's general remark, folio 28].