John Waite, 17811863 (aged 82 years)

Name
John /Waite/
Given names
John
Surname
Waite
Name
John /Wait/
Given names
John
Surname
Wait
Birth
about 1781
Immigration
Text:

John Wait, one of 338 convicts transported on the ship Coromandel and Experiment, November 1803.
Sentence details: Convicted at Kent Assizes for a term of life.
Vessel: Coromandel and Experiment.
Date of Departure: November 1803.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.

Text:

Sentenced to death by hanging then commuted to life for sheep stealing. 5'5half" ruddy complexion, flaxen hair, hazel eyes. Appointed to Charles Throsby.

Text:

1810 Feb 14 - Servant of Charles Throsby. Petition for mitigation of sentence.
1817 Dec 1 - Servant to Charles Throsby. Petition for mitigation of sentence
1818 Sep 10 - Of Liverpool. On list of persons to receive grants of land in 1818
1819 Apr-May - On expedition to Bathurst with Charles Throsby
1819 May 31 - Granted one hundred acres for services on Throsby's expedition of exploration
1819 Aug 27 - Proceeding to new country, County of Camden, as settler; granted a victualling order on Liverpool store
1823 Apr 8 - Former servant to Charles Throsby; settler in the County of Argyle.
1825 Apr 7 - Former servant of Charles Throsby; of County of Argyle. Memorial for additional grant in County of Argyle

Citation details: Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal - Friday 06 May 1803 p. 4
Text:

"Sunday morning the following convicts set off in a coach and four, properly guarded and secured, from Maidstone gaol, for Portsmouth, there to be put on board a transport destined to New South Wales, viz....John Wait...

Citation details: Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal - Tuesday 22 March 1803 p. 3
Text:

GAOL CALENDAR.
LENT ASSIZES, AT MAIDSTONE,
MONDAY MARCH 14...
"George Croucher and John Wait, for stealing a ewe sheep, the property of William Tongue, of Chevening - DEATH. Reprieved.

Religious marriage
Citation details: No 397
Text:

John Wait of the parish of St John Parramatta and Mary Robinson of ditto
were married in this church by banns
this fourteenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve by me Samuel Marsden
John Wait and Mary made their X marks in the register
in the presence of Charles Wright and Mary James who both also made their X marks

Census
Citation details: p. 378
Text:

Wait, John, 47, conditional pardon, Coromandel, 1804, life, Protestant, settler, Sutton Forest
Wait, Mary, 35, born in the colony
Wait, John, 10, born in the colony
Wait, Charles, 7, born in the colony
Wait, William, 2, born in the colony
Wait, Elizabeth, 16, born in the colony
Wait, Maria, 12, born in the colony
Wait, Matilda, 6, born in the colony
Wait, Mary Ann, 6m, born in the colony

Death
Citation details: Sydney Morning Herald Tue 13 Oct 1863 p. 1
Text:

At Cumberooma, near Albury, the residence of his son-in-law,
Mr. John Waite, formerly of Browley, Sutton Forest, in his 88th
year.

Family with Mary Robinson
himself
17811863
Birth: about 1781
Death: 1863Albury, South West Slopes, New South Wales, Australia
wife
17971850
Birth: March 10, 1797 38 28 Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: September 10, 1850Broulee, South Coast and Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage Religious marriageApril 14, 1812Windsor, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
6 months
daughter
18121895
Birth: October 10, 1812 31 15 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1895Victoria, Australia
21 months
daughter
18141815
Birth: July 15, 1814 33 17 New South Wales, Australia
Death: October 22, 1815Appin, South Coast and Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia
2 years
daughter
18161841
Birth: August 27, 1816 35 19 Liverpool, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1841Berrima, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
2 years
son
18181857
Birth: about 1818 37 20 New South Wales, Australia
Death: April 8, 1857Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
4 years
son
18211892
Birth: 1821 40 23 Liverpool, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1892Albury, South West Slopes, New South Wales, Australia
2 years
daughter
18221915
Birth: 1822 41 24 Liverpool, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1915Wodonga, High Country, Victoria, Australia
3 years
daughter
3 years
son
18261901
Birth: 1826 45 28 New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1901Albury, South West Slopes, New South Wales, Australia
2 years
daughter
1828
Birth: April 4, 1828 47 31 New South Wales, Australia
Death:
2 years
son
18301912
Birth: August 21, 1830 49 33 Berrima, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1912Bathurst, Central Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
2 years
son
18321849
Birth: 1832 51 34 Sutton Forest, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1849New South Wales, Australia
4 years
daughter
1836
Birth: April 17, 1836 55 39 Sutton Forest, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
Death:
2 years
son
18381906
Birth: May 29, 1838 57 41 Sutton Forest, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1906Albury, South West Slopes, New South Wales, Australia
Birth
Citation details: p. 378
Text:

age given as 47 in 1828

Immigration
Text:

John Wait, one of 338 convicts transported on the ship Coromandel and Experiment, November 1803.
Sentence details: Convicted at Kent Assizes for a term of life.
Vessel: Coromandel and Experiment.
Date of Departure: November 1803.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.

Text:

Sentenced to death by hanging then commuted to life for sheep stealing. 5'5half" ruddy complexion, flaxen hair, hazel eyes. Appointed to Charles Throsby.

Text:

1810 Feb 14 - Servant of Charles Throsby. Petition for mitigation of sentence.
1817 Dec 1 - Servant to Charles Throsby. Petition for mitigation of sentence
1818 Sep 10 - Of Liverpool. On list of persons to receive grants of land in 1818
1819 Apr-May - On expedition to Bathurst with Charles Throsby
1819 May 31 - Granted one hundred acres for services on Throsby's expedition of exploration
1819 Aug 27 - Proceeding to new country, County of Camden, as settler; granted a victualling order on Liverpool store
1823 Apr 8 - Former servant to Charles Throsby; settler in the County of Argyle.
1825 Apr 7 - Former servant of Charles Throsby; of County of Argyle. Memorial for additional grant in County of Argyle

Citation details: Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal - Friday 06 May 1803 p. 4
Text:

"Sunday morning the following convicts set off in a coach and four, properly guarded and secured, from Maidstone gaol, for Portsmouth, there to be put on board a transport destined to New South Wales, viz....John Wait...

Citation details: Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal - Tuesday 22 March 1803 p. 3
Text:

GAOL CALENDAR.
LENT ASSIZES, AT MAIDSTONE,
MONDAY MARCH 14...
"George Croucher and John Wait, for stealing a ewe sheep, the property of William Tongue, of Chevening - DEATH. Reprieved.

Religious marriage
Citation details: No 397
Text:

John Wait of the parish of St John Parramatta and Mary Robinson of ditto
were married in this church by banns
this fourteenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve by me Samuel Marsden
John Wait and Mary made their X marks in the register
in the presence of Charles Wright and Mary James who both also made their X marks

Census
Citation details: p. 378
Text:

Wait, John, 47, conditional pardon, Coromandel, 1804, life, Protestant, settler, Sutton Forest
Wait, Mary, 35, born in the colony
Wait, John, 10, born in the colony
Wait, Charles, 7, born in the colony
Wait, William, 2, born in the colony
Wait, Elizabeth, 16, born in the colony
Wait, Maria, 12, born in the colony
Wait, Matilda, 6, born in the colony
Wait, Mary Ann, 6m, born in the colony

Death
Citation details: Sydney Morning Herald Tue 13 Oct 1863 p. 1
Text:

At Cumberooma, near Albury, the residence of his son-in-law,
Mr. John Waite, formerly of Browley, Sutton Forest, in his 88th
year.