| Name: | John Weston |
| Aliases: | Wotton |
| Gender: | m |
| Date of Birth: | 1798 |
| Occupation: | - |
| Date of Death: | 7th February, 1868 |
| Age: | 70 years |
Life Span
Male median life span was 60 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to Life
| Crime: | Theft |
| Convicted at: | Middlesex Gaol Delivery |
| Sentence term: | Life |
| Ship: | Lord Eldon |
| Departure date: | April, 1817 |
| Arrival date: | 30th September, 1817 |
| Place of arrival | New South Wales |
| Passenger manifest | Travelled with 219 other convicts |
| Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 330 |
| 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. |
Don Weston on 13th August, 2013 wrote:
Re permission to marry John Weston, per “Lord Eldon”, at Sydney; also listed as Farling (Reel 6007; 4/3502 p.108 & 4/3503 p.11).
Married Mary FARLAND in Sydney 1821.
D Wong on 15th August, 2013 wrote:
John Weston was 18 years old on arrival in NSW. He was transported for stealing a silver watch and chain and seals, value 40s., the property of Elizabeth Harris in the dwelling house of William Balfour.
1827: TOL Sydney
1828: TOL Sydney
1/12/1829: TOL Cancelled for keeping a disorderly house.
1839: TOL Penrith :Born London, trade Hairdresser/Stonemason.
20/8/1849: CP
1821: Married Mary Fahrland/farland/farrell (Lord Wellington 1820).
7/2/1868: Syd. Morn. Herald: John Weston, Stonemason, late of Penrith and Hampshire, aged 66 years, of chronic disease of the brain.
Ron Garbutt on 23rd March, 2020 wrote:
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 23 March 2020), October 1816, trial of JOHN WESTON (t18161030-13).
JOHN WESTON, Theft > theft from a specified place, 30th October 1816.
1110. JOHN WESTON was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 18th of October , a silver watch, chain and seals, value 40s. and upwards, the property of Elizabeth Harris , in the dwelling-house of William Balfour .
ELIZABETH HARRIS . I was servant in Mr. Balfour’s family. I am not now. I now live at No. 13, George-street, Foley Place. On Tuesday evening last, I left Mr. Balfour’s; I had only lived there six weeks. Mr. Balfour lives at No. 26, Wilpole-street ; I know the prisoner at the bar; I remember his coming to Mr. Balfour’s house; he first came with the stewart of the West-Indiaman. I saw him twice after that. At one time he slept in the house; on the the 18th of October. Mr. Greenfield had told me that he was his brother; the way he came to sleep there was; that he had a long way to go home, and he should be glad of a bed. He slept in the attic story; I slept in the next room; I put my watch under my head when I went to bed. I rose the next morning, at half past seven o’clock; I looked at my watch to see what time it was, and I put it back under the bolster. The prisoner had no opportunity of seeing it there. The watch was concealed under the bolster, but the seal, key, and ribbon were not; any person coming into the room might see them; then I got up, I went down stairs, and I did not see the prisoner until a quarter past eight o’clock. when I was sweeping the drawing-room stairs. He said he thought it was very late; he went out of the house without his hat, and I went up stairs afterwards, is consequence of the manner in which he went out. I went up stairs in search of my watch, and it was gone. I am sure I had seen it at half past seven o’clock. The prisoner had not been in my room to my knowledge.
- BROWN. I am an officer belonging to Shadwell. I took the prisoner into custody; I found on him the duplicate of a watch, pawned for one pound ten shillings, and I found a purse with five pounds six shillings in money in it.
GEORGE GILES . I am shopman to Mr. Dunbar, a pawnbroker, in Skinner-street, Sommer’s Town. On the 19th of October, I received a silver watch in pledge from the prisoner, and a gold seal; they were pawned for one pound ten shillings.
(Property produced and sworn to.)
Prisoner’s Defence. I went to Mr. Balfour’s on the day in the indictment, and I knocked at the gate, and I said I wished to see Richard, the black servant, and the other servant said he had gone out at the front door, and I asked him how he did; and he introduced me into the kitchen, and I asked him what o’clock it was, and he took out his watch and gave it me, and said “look, and you will see;” and he went and left me with the watch in my hand; and he came again in about half an hour; and in a short time this young woman came and sat down to supper, and they pressed me to stay and take a bed, and she said it must be aired, and we went up stairs, and she said about a quarter of an hour with me. In the morning I rose, and I thought it was between ten and eleven o’clock; it was so light, and I saw this watch, and I took it, and she told me to go down stairs and get my hat, and not finding it, I went through the kitchen, the way I came.
GUILTY - DEATH , aged 18.
Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Dallas.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=t18161030-13
D Wong on 15th August, 2013 made the following changes:
alias1, date of birth 1798, date of death 7th February, 1868, gender, crime
This record was discovered and printed on ConvictRecords.com.au
