Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Joshua Wolvertone was transported on the Mangles, departing 27th Sep 1825 and arriving 18th Feb 1826 with 192 passengers.
ManglesReferences
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. |
Claims
No one has claimed Joshua Wolvertone yet.
Photos
No photos have been added for Joshua Wolvertone.
Convict Notes
Correction to above entry- no reference to any death for Joshua, and no entry on Death register.
NSW Convict Index. Joshua Wolverton, per Mangles 1826, Ticket of Leave, No 29/76. District, Parramatta; Convict Death Register. Joshua Wolverton, per Mangles 1826, Certificate of Freedom, 4 Feb 1831.No 31/0060. TL, 29/76.
The following newspaper report refers to a son of Joshua Wolverton, who was also involved in stealing from a bleach green. Last Thursday evening, at hour of eight o'clock, three suspicious persons were found in house of bad fame, in this town, supposed to be part of gang of robbers, concerned with others, in {stealing linens out of the bleach-green of Sir John Burgoyne, at Mallison-bridge,|and M'Cormick and O'Neill’s, at Bumdennet. Oar of them calls himself Crawford Wolverton, son to Wolverton, who was convicted at Omagh Spring Assizes, for stealing linens out of Sir J. Elleyne’s bleach-green; another of them says his name is Samuel Hamilton, and lives near New Building; and the third calls himself Charles M'Garvin, from Augbaloo, in the county Derry. They were individually examined by E. Edie, Esq. a Magistrate, and from the account they gave themselves, with their prevarications, there can be little or no doubt they are notorious robbers, and thrat they follow visible means to maintain themselves. Wolverton ... and attacked, when his sister rushed to his assistance, and, sustaining great injury herself, enabled him to escape a second time into an adjoining house, which, they broke into. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 16 Sep 1822.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Joshua Wolvertone, alias Wolverton, age on arrival, 57, per Mangles (4) 1826, Tried Omagh, Tyrone Co, 1822, 7 years for Robbery bleach green. DOB, 1769, native place, Antrim. Married, 7 children. Protestant, Trade, Weaver.