Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
John Potter was transported on the Blenheim, departing 11th Mar 1837 and arriving 16th Jul 1837 with 213 passengers.
Built 1845 at Shields. Wood ship of 808 Tons. Register lists of persons transported on the various sailing is still a work in progress, not all are yet listed.
Blenheim (generic)References
| Primary Source | Tasmanian Libraries. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/11, Page Number 5 (4) |
| 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
2 pages of Conduct record: Free by Servitude 4th July 1850 https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-36$init=CON31-1-36P11 https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON34-1-7$init=CON34-1-7P38
**Above details are different John Potter as he arrived in the Colony on ship Lord Lyndock. He was a seaman & there is more records of departure from Hobart in 1831 which is before this John Potter arrived in colony
This looks like it could be John Potters Departure Name: Potter, John Record Type: Departures Rank: Steerage Status: Free by servitude Departure date: 18 Mar 1852 Departure port: Launceston Ship: Sea Belle Ship to colony: Lord Lyndock Bound to: Melbourne Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:596646 Resource: POL220/1/1 p610
From the Appropriation List of the Blenheim. John Potter, labourer, 5'6" tall, 19 years old. Assigned to Mr Henry Clayton at Norfolk Plains on arrival.
I found this description of a John Potter on Ancestry Reports Of Crime MORVEN - On the 12th instant for the arrest of John Potter charged with deserting the service of Mr. J McKenzie, of Evandale on the 12th instant. Description. 45 years old 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high complexion, no whiskers, pockmarked; dressed in old black cloth coat, light moleskin trousers (old), new Blucher boots and black billy cock hat.
Notes I have Transcribed For Johns Potters Petition from His Parents Trying to get his sentence lowered and to try and keep him in UK. Page 02 John Potter - Liverpool 4 July 1836 - Larceny before - 14 Years To The Right Honourable Lord John Russell The Petition of John Potter Most Humbly Showeth That Your Petitioner Is The Heart Broken Father Of The Convict Now Under Sentence Of Transportation for Fourteen Years ; For A Felony Committed In Liverpool. That The Said Convict Has Been Seduced By The Bad Example Of Others: As He Never saw Any Thing but what was correct at home And Had The Advantage Of As Good An Education As Was In Your Petitioners power To Bestow. Your Petitioner Humbly supplicate Your Lordships interference to procure His Majesty Clemency That The Sentenced Son of the said convict may be committed To Seven Years As It Is His First Offence hushing The Situation He Is Now In May ?f?????e as an intensive to he??e? conduct and your petitions Will ??? in duty bound ???? pray Dawson Place John Potter Lawton Street Dawson Place 4th 1836 Lawton St Liverpool Page 03 My Lord I Had No Objection If In Concern Sense With Your Lordship Will That The Petition ??ayes For He Complied With, If It He Only For The Sake Of The Parents Of The Convict I Am Your Lordship Most Obedient And Obliged Servant Henry Jas Amey Prosecutor. Page 05 I have received a communication from my Son dated 13th instant, wherein he states that he is in all probability likely to sail for his destination toward the last end of this month and would your Lordship pardon the anxiety of a parent in placing that communication before ? your Lordship and Your Lordships Petitioner as in duty bound will ever Pray and Remain Your Lordships Humble Servant John Potter Right Honourable Lord Viscount Landon M.P. Liverpool July 15th 1837 Page 06 The bearer John Potter is the Father of an unfortunate Son of the same name who was transported for the time of fourteen years and is now lying in his Majesty’s Docks yards waiting to go abroad. The humble Petitioner hopeth your Lordship will assist him in getting his Son’s time mediated to a more moderate term in so doing you will have the prayers of himself and his brokenhearted wife to the end of their days John & Elizabeth Potter Page 07 The Undersigned Recommended John Potter To Your Lordship As An Honest Christian Man And A Loyal Subject Hoping Your Lordship Will Take His Case Into Your Generous Consideration And Your Humble Servants Will Be For Ever Obliged George Seddon Joseph Myres - James Wilding James Bromfield Edward Lewis John Parkinson William Parkinson Sam L Hesketh X Mark Jacub Frances George Leathweite - John Brown William Williams. Page 14 To The Right Honourable The Lord John Russell The Humble Petition of John Potter Dawson Place Lawton Street, Liverpool Humbly showeth That your Lordship’s said Petitioner is the Father of John Potter who was Sentenced at the Liverpool Midsummer Sessions, for Fourteen Years Transportation for Felony. Your Lordships said Petitioner is a Ropemaker by trade with a wife and Seven helpless Children dependent on him for Support out of his own Industry. Your Lordships said Petitioner most humbly craves Your Lordships kind intercession with the proper Department in causing the Sentence of his said Son to be Mitigated, and allowing him to remain in England and not sent across the Seas. And Your Lordships said Petitioner as in duty bound will ever Pray Your Lordships most Obedient and Very humble Servant John Potter Page 15 Liverpool July 14 1836 My Lord We The Undersigned ? eg ???t Respectfully To Recon???iend To Your Lordships Notice To The Amended Petition John Potter And Believe Him Worthy Of Your Lordships Kind Interference With The ????er Department on Behalf Of His Said Son We Are Your Lordships Most Humble Servants George Seddon Rope Maker Bitteon St Thos Bolderson Do Back Berry Street William Kirk Do Windsor James Hilding Shipwrite Joneses Street William Parkinson Ropemaker Lawton Street Piliph Ganer Ropemaker Lorton Street Francis Harrison Ropemaker Gascoine Street John Wilding Do West Derby James Winter Potter Do St Andrew Street Daniel McStay Do Shannon Street Thomas Rushton Do Christian St George Evans Do Old Swan Thomas Evans Do St Andrew Street Thomas Bickerstaff Do Dove Cott Scholl Lane James Wilson Do Peach Street James Biven Ropemaker Sandan Road Robert Gornall Ropemaker Hadson St David Renshaw Ropemaker Lawton St Thomas Ashton Ropemaker Edge Hill Robert Rofs Ropemaker Shannon St Robert Walker Ropemaker Old Swan Davis Renshaw Ropemaker Pembroke Garden Henry Dixon Ropemaker Old Swan John Ellis Do Cavidish St Thomas Smith Do Waterman St John Collister Do Leander Street William Healane Ropemaker Bolton Street Peter Tomly Do Brounlow Hill Samuel B?????? Do Back Berry St Peter Formby Do Landers Street John Burne Do Grange St James Ev??? Do Green Lane James Harrison Cabinet Maker Lawton St John Sargant Ropemaker Peach Street William SarGant Ropemaker Peach Street John Gorton Ropemaker Cliffard St Thomas Renshaw Ropemaker St Andrews St Henry Renshaw Ropemaker St Andrews St Thomas Kendrick ?????? St Andrews St James B??????? Ropemaker Lawton St John Parkinson Ropemaker Lawton St William Mofs Do Shaws Brow Thomas Parkinson Do Cropper St
Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser Lancashire, England 8 Jul 1836: To be transported for 14 years, John Potter, aged 17, and James Bains, aged 19, for having stolen a quantity of plate the property of Mr. H. James Ames. No ship found for James Bains. Conduct Record for John Potter: http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch-xsl/image/viewer.html?CON31-1-36,233,11 Tried at Lancaster/Liverpool Q.S. 4/7/1836. Gaol Report: Orderly twice Imprisoned once for Vagrancy connexions Bad.
John Potter was Baptised on 30th April 1821 at St Peters Church Liverpool, His Parents where John Potter was A Rope-maker & Elizabeth Gregory. Elizabeth died in 1841 and John Remarried to A Mary Ann Woodward they had 1 son and called him John Potter also. b 1842 In Liverpool