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John Justice was transported on the Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann, departing 31st Dec 1790 and arriving 9th Jul 1791 with 1265 passengers.
The Third Fleet consisted of 11 Vessels. Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Gorgon, Mary Ann, Matilda, Queen (from Ireland) Salamander and William and Ann. These vessels were provided by a private company; Camden, Calvert and King to ship convicts to the colony.
Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 149 (76) |
| 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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John Justice sailed on the Admiral Barrington The Admiral Barrington departed Portsmouth with 300 male prisoners on 27 March 1791. She arrived in Port Jackson on 16 October 1791. Thirty-six prisoners died on the voyage out.
Yorkshire, England, Quarter Session Records, 1637-1914 for Charles Wright Wakefield Indictment 1787 – 1791 And that Charles Wright late of the Castle of York in the West Riding of the county of York, labourer and John Justice late of the same place labourer, the eighteenth day of June in the twenty ninth year of the reign of our Lord the now King George the third with force and arms at Bradford in the said Riding one Bill of Exchange of the value of ten pence of the property of Andrew Hoster then and there found did then and there feloniously steal, take and carry away against the peace of the said Lord the now King, his crown and dignity and also against the storm of the statute in that case made and provided. Yorkshire, England, Quarter Session Records, 1637-1914 for Charles Wright Wakefield Order 1786 – 1790 Whereas Charles Wright late of the Castle of York in the West Riding of the county of York labourer and John Justice late of the same place, labourer have been indicted at the sessions of the peace holden by adjournment at Bradford as abovesaid, for a felony by them severally committed within the said Riding whereof they have been found guilty by verdict of their country and thereupon have been sentenced to be transported into foreign parts beyond the seas for the term of seven years to such place as his Majesty in his Privy Council shall order and direct. It is ordered by this court that the said Charles Wright and John Justice be transported accordingly and that they be severely committed to his Majesty’s gaol, the Castle of York there to be confined in safe custody until the time of their transportation. To: William Clayton, Gentleman Gaoler or Keeper of his Majesty’s Gaol the Castle of York. Capias Awarded.
John Justice was buried in the Old Sydney Burial Ground on George Street. The epitaph on his gravestone was recoded by Surgeon Joseph Arnold, from convict ship "Northampton" when he was wandering among the gravestones. [Diary of Joseph Arnold, 27 August 1810 to 17 December 1815 - Mitchell Library microfilm reel no. CY 339 and no. CY 3166.) . His epitaph read: "A Constable and China Mender but death his Genious has Suspended His China Broke O well A Day and Crates of Ware His turned to Clay."
John Justice arrived on the 'Admiral Barrington'. John Justice became a Town Watchman. 27/4/1804: John died, aged 50, and was buried in the Old Sydney Burial Ground. 29/4/1804 Sydney Gazette: On Friday died, very generally bewailed, poor old John Justice, who served the last eleven years of his life in the Town Watch without a FLAW. His loss to the community will be severely felt, as with him expires the useful art of renovating fractured China, in which he justly acquired an unrivalled reputation, and by means of which he long possessed and exercised the talent of alleviating the otherwise fatal and irreparable effects of domestic inquietude to the inoffensive face of pencil'd mandarins!