John Frederick Mortlock

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JD on 14th October 2024

Please note that the two John Frederick Mortlocks links on this website have NOTHING to do with John Mortlock a Groom and Gentleman's Servant who was transported on the William Metcalfe arriving in VDL in 1834 for 7yrs for obtaining money by false pre-tenses. It was my family's John Mortlock who then worked at Brickendon marrying a fellow servant Mary Smith in 1844 (RGD 37/1/3 No. 846) as a "Free Man" (ie. He was Granted Certificate of Freedom before Marriage Permissions were sort) and noted as Widower on his marriage certificate. His convict Record shows him as previously being married with one child, both of whom appear to have remained in England (Edgeware, Middlesex, England). Hope this helps - there is a great history re John Frederick Mortlock online written by Pauline Conolly https://paulineconolly.com/2014/john-mortlock/ v's the excellent w/up on this website for my family's John Mortlock under the William Metcalfe voyage

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Leanne on 23rd April 2015

John Mortlock free man married Mary Smith convict April 1844, described as both widowers, ages he 45 she 39. John Mortlock was coachman at Brickendon House. NOTE: John Frederick Mortlock (Cambridge Mortlock Banker family) arrived on Norfolk Island Feb 1844 to commence his 21 year sentence. He was 36 years of age.

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D Wong on 25th April 2014

John Frederick Mortlock was previously transported on the Maitland 1843 (see entry on the profile page), was at Norfolk Island and then VDL. In 1857 John Frederick, quite illegally - he refused to recognise the limitations of his licence - returned to England in the Swiftsure, Captain Pryce. It is a sad reflection on his saintly and forgiving uncle Alderman William Mortlock that it was news of a small legacy from William that triggered this return and hence its consequences. Apprised that this £46 was due to him, John Frederick counted up his various savings, which came to £240 and took ship as above; however the £46 did not reach Tasmania until well after John Frederick was back in England. Landing at Dartmouth, John Frederick made his way to London via sightseeing - ever the tourist - in Exeter, Bath and Oxford. In London he lodged at his customary headquarters, the Craven Hotel near Northumberland House. Trafalgar Square was new to him, as was the Crystal Palace. In March 1858 John Frederick was sentenced to a year in gaol at home to be followed by re-transportation, this time to Western Australia, to serve the five-year remainder of his original sentence. An uncovenanted benefit for us is the police description of John Frederick published at the time of his illegal return, which shows him as 5'9" tall, of square, thickset and powerful build, with light hair but a darker moustache. At the end of his time John Frederick came back to London where he lived in relative obscurity and poverty, in a boarding house in Craven Street (which runs off the Strand next to Charing Cross Station), kept by one Todd, an ex-servant of his mother’s, until his death in 1882. John was then described as: 50 years old, single with no children (he had been married to Mary Smith (Royal Admiral) in Tasmania and had 3 children, no mention of them now, 5'6 1/8/" tall, light brown hair, light hazel eyes, fresh complexion, stout, scar right arm, scar left arm.