Name: | John Vaughan |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1825 |
Occupation: | - |
Date of Death: | 30th October, 1896 |
Age: | 71 years |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 15 years
Crime: | Robbery with violence |
Convicted at: | Yorkshire. Assizes York |
Sentence term: | 15 years |
Ship: | Adelaide |
Departure date: | 16th April, 1855 |
Arrival date: | 18th July, 1855 |
Place of arrival | Western Australia |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 260 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 143 (73) |
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. |
Peter Vaughan on 20th July, 2019 wrote:
Married Elizabeth Jane Richardson 28/12/1869.
8 offspring all born in Rushworth, Victoria.
D Wong on 21st July, 2019 wrote:
The John Vaughan referred to above seems to be a different person…..
John Vaughan was listed as 30 years old on arrival.
John was tried at York, Eng., 6/3/1852.
Occupation: Tool maker.
John was single, 5’6” tall, brown hair, dark hazel eyes, long face, fresh complexion, middling stout, much pockmarked, semi literate.
28/7/1856: TOL
1/8/1859: CP
Newspapers report him as a vagrant, and he had a drinking problem.
30/10/1896: John Vaughan died at the Mount Eliza Depot, Perth, Western Australia.
1/11/1896 The Daily News, Perth, WA:
Mr Walter Dale, superintendent of Mount Eliza Depot, has supplied us with the following particulars of the deaths that have occurred at that institution during the last few weeks:—
October 23, John Woods, 70, senile decay;
October 30, John Vaughan, 72, senile decay;
Peter Vaughan on 13th December, 2019 wrote:
Information given by D.Wong is correct and does NOT refer to my ancestor John Vaughan born East London 17/05/1839 and died Chiltern, Victoria, Aus. on 12/01/1901.
Peter Vaughan on 20th July, 2019 made the following changes:
date of birth: 17th May, 1839 (prev. 0000), date of death: 12th January, 1901 (prev. 0000), gender: m
D Wong on 21st July, 2019 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1825 (prev. 17th May, 1839), date of death: 30th October, 1896 (prev. 12th January, 1901), crime
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