Charlotte Winter

Charlotte Winter, one of 109 convicts transported on the Midas, 22 July 1825

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Charlotte Winter
Aliases:	none
Gender:	f

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1785
Occupation:	-
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Female median life span was 56 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to 14 years

Crime:	Receiving stolen property
Convicted at:	Somerset Assizes
Sentence term:	14 years
Ship:	Midas
Departure date:	22nd July, 1825
Arrival date:	17th December, 1825
Place of arrival	New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 108 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 281 (142) Thelma McKay 'Van Diemens Land Early Marriages 1803-1840' Phillip Tardif 'Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls-Women In VDL 1803-1929'
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.

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Community Contributions

iain Frazier on 9th July, 2021 wrote:

Charlotte (Winter) daughter of ??? (Winter)/Elizabeth (???) was born in 1785, perhaps in Somerset. She was convicted in Somerset Assizes in 1825 of receiving stolen goods, with her mother, & sentenced to 14yrs transportation. She is described as good in gaol, her character unknown. She had a brother who had earlier arrived in Australia.
There is no related information indicating who the brother was.
She & her mother arrived at Hobart Town on 17 12 1825 She married Thomas (Chapman) on 28 10 1826. Thomas died in the period 1832-40.
There is no related information of Thomas (Chapman), however a Thomas (Chapman) arrived in Van Diemens Land on 27 7 1821 on COUNTESS OF HARCOURT; he has an entry on this Website.
On 22 5 1832 Charlotte’s Conditional Pardon was recommended & approved on 18 7 1834. On 20 12 1833 she was fined 5shillings for drunkenness and ordered to pay 1sh6p damages, in default to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Corrections for 7days - for drunkenness and wilfully breaking two glass tumblers, the property of Thomas (Haskell).
She became Free by Servitude on 29 3 1839.
On 17 1 1840 she made application to marry William (Wattins) from ASIA, which was approved; & later on 10 3 1840 she applied to marry Henry (Cartwright) fro WOODMAN.
Henry (Cartwright) has an entry on this Website; he was convicted for Life at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived at Van Diemens Land on 29 4 1826.
In the meantime a Charlotte (Winter) widow, on 21 6 1837, married Thomas (Stephenson) at CofE Hobart Town.
Noted that a Thomas (Stephenson) had also married Susanna (Philpott) on 22 2 1831 at Cof E Hobart Town.

Both Thomas (Chapman) & Elizabeth (Winter) have entries on this Website.

Convict Changes History

Ann Marie Gould on 25th March, 2020 made the following changes:

date of birth: 1785 (prev. 0000), gender: f, crime

iain Frazier on 9th July, 2021 made the following changes:

source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 281 (142) Thelma McKay 'Van Diemens Land Early Marriages 1803-1840' Phillip Tardif 'Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls-Women In VDL 1803-1929' (pr