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John Limeburner was transported on the Charlotte, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 111 passengers.
Being 335 tons, 105 ft long and 28 ft at the beam, The Charlotte held 88 male and 20 female convicts. Built in 1784 and Skippered by Master Thomas Gilbert, her return to England saw her doing the London - Jamacia run until she was sold to a Quebec merchant in 1818 and was then lost off the coast of Newfoundland that very same year.
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1790: Married Elizabeth Ireland (Neptune/Surprize/Scarborough 1790) at Rosehill, Sydney.
John Limeburner: The South Australian Register (Adelaide)reported, in an article dated Wednesday 3 November 1847: "John Limeburner, the oldest colonist in Sydney, died in September last, at the advanced age of 104 years. He helped to pitch the first tent in Sydney, and remembered the first display of the British flag there, which was hoisted on a swamp oak-tree, then growing on a spot now occupied as the Water-Police Court. He was the last of those called the 'first-fleeters' (arrivals by the first convict ships) and, notwithstanding his great age, retained his faculties to the last." John Limeburner was a convict on the Charlotte. He was convicted on 9 July 1785 at New Sarum, Wiltshire of theft of a waistcoat, a shirt and stockings. Originally sentenced to death, his sentence was commuted to seven years transportation. A report from the Dunkirk hulk described John as “tolerably decent and orderly” He married Elizabeth Ireland in September 1790 at Rosehill and together they establish a 50-acre farm at Prospect. He died at Ashfield 2 September 1847, aged 104, and is buried at St John’s Ashfield.