John Green (abt. 1786)

Born about 1786 in England

Died [date unknown] in Australia

Biography

John Green was a convict after the Third Fleet transported to New South Wales

John Green was a convict who came to Australia for life in December 1818 having been convicted for Life at Warwick Assizes. The ship he travelled on was the Hadlow and he was resident in Castlereagh and Evans, New South Wales, Australia with a group of fellow convicts in 1820. By 1828 Green had obtained his ticket of leave and was living in Argyle, NSW, working as a labourer to William Balcombe, colonial treasurer to NSW.

There were two John Greens travelling on this voyage of the Hadlow, the other John Green can be found here. One of these John Greens was (i) married to a Dorothy Green and/or (ii) in 1824 was stationed near Liverpool working for a settler called David Reid ^[1].

Sources

1. ↑ State Records of New South Wales, Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825, (Reel 6012; 4/3510 p.637)

See also:

• Convict Records.com entry for John Green

• Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868: Home Office: Convict Transportation Registers; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO11); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.

• New South Wales, Census and Population Books, 1811-1825, entry for John Green (1819)

• 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.