Name: | John Wells |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1811 |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to Life
Crime: | Horse theft |
Convicted at: | Lincoln Assizes |
Sentence term: | Life |
Ship: | Lord Lyndoch |
Departure date: | 30th May, 1833 |
Arrival date: | 18th October, 1833 |
Place of arrival | New South Wales |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 329 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 127 (65) |
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. |
Keith South on 12th January, 2015 wrote:
John WELLS, a labourer of Wainfleet or Ashby Puerorum, was tried at the Lincolnshire assize court on 9 March 1833, aged 21. He was sentenced to transportation for life for stealing a brown mare. He was transported to New South Wales on the ship ‘Lord Lyndock’ in 1833. The crime was committed with John Motson, aged 20, who was transported on the same ship.
Keith South on 12th January, 2015 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1811 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime
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