John was born in 1780.
Source: Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Text: age given as 48 in 1828
Immigration Immigration 10 January 1818 (Age 38)
Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source: State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line]. Citation details: Source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 373 (188) Text: John Simpson, one of 180 convicts transported on the ship Ocean, August 1817. Details: Sentence details: Convicted at Derby Assizes for a term of 7 years on 20 March 1817. Vessel: Ocean. Date of Departure: August 1817. Place of Arrival: New South Wales. Source: Bateson, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1985 ie 1969 Text: The ship Ocean arrived in NSW 10 Jan 1818 Marriage Marriage Sarah Marshall - View family about February 1818 (Age 38)
Source: Lauder-Frost, Gregory. 'Australian Royalty website', email message to Marion Purnell, Mar 19 2011
Census Census November 1828 (Age 48)
Evan, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source: Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Text: Simpson, John, 48, free by servitude, Ocean, 1818, 7 years, taylor, Evan, 5 acres, 5 acres cleared and cultivated Simpson, Sarah, 31, free by servitude, Friendship 1818 7 years Simpson, Lucy, 10 born in the colony Simpson, John 9 born in the colony Simpson, George 7 born in the colony Simpson, Eliza 6 born in the colony Simpson, Mary 4 born in the colony Simpson, William 3 born in the colony
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