Name: | John Needham |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1801 |
Occupation: | Cabinetmaker |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 7 years
Crime: | Theft of boots |
Convicted at: | Kent Assizes |
Sentence term: | 7 years |
Ship: | Prince Regent |
Departure date: | 17th September, 1819 |
Arrival date: | 27th January, 1820 |
Place of arrival | New South Wales |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 171 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 232 |
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 31st August, 2020 wrote:
Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal Kent, England
31 Mar 1818:
John Needham, 14 years of age, for stealing out of the shop of Edw. Val and S. Emden, at Woolwich, a pair of boots.__Transported 7 years.
John Needham was listed as 17 years old on arrival.
Native Place: Woolwich.
John was 5’2” tall, fair ruddy complexion, brown hair hazel eyes.
12/8/1824: TOL, Richmond - 5’9¾” tall.
1825: Ticket of leave holder. Employed by James Mudie
12/10/1826: COF - aged 23.
15/1/1827: Appointed Constable, Patrick Plains.
1828 Census: Merton, Hunter River, Free by servitude. Constable employed by William Ogilvie.
22/5/1830: Permission to marry Elizabeth Duffy (Woodman 1823) - Elizabeth was previously married to Patrick Fanning (Recovery 1823).
22/6/1830: Marriage of John Needham of Pickering and Elizabeth Fenning of Pickering. Witnesses at marriage John Pike and William Ogilvie.
Children:
1830: Thomas Needham.
1832: Henry Needham.
7/5/1832: Merton, Dismissed from position of constable.
D Wong on 31st August, 2020 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1801 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime
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