Researchers who have claimed this convict
There are currently 2 researchers who have claimed John Tindale
- Researcher (Roberta Muir)
- Researcher (David Tindale)
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Biographies
"John" Poad Tindale was born in Pickering, Ryedale, Yorkshire (North Riding), England on 25 September 1787 and was baptized ‘Poad Tindale’ on 1 May 1788. He was the third child of Richard Tindale (born 9 Feb 1751) and Esther Poad (born about 20 Mar 1753) who married in Pickering on 24 Mar 1779. He had a sister Elizabeth (born 9 Nov 1779) and brothers Richard (born 8 Jul 1782) and Pothson (born about 1792).
On 25 January 1809 he married 22-year-old Susannah Manwaring in St Mary’s, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, London (the registration shows his name as ‘John Poad Tindale’). Six months later, on 15 July 1809, he was arrested for possessing forged bank notes, and on 13 November that year his and Susannah’s only child, John Richard Tindale, was born.
John Tindale was tried at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk on 22 March 1810 and sentenced to transportation to NSW for 14 years (and he appears simply as ‘John Tindale’ in most records thereafter, having dropped the name ‘Poad’). He left England aboard the Guildford on 20 August 1811 and arrived in Sydney on 18 January 1812. From 1814 to 1815 he worked as part of William Cox’s convict work gang building the road over the Blue Mountains – for which he received a conditional pardon (freed by servitude) on 1 January 1816. He was 27 years old at the time.
Meanwhile, Susannah, who had followed him to Australia in 1812, had established herself as a merchant on Pitt Street in Sydney and also held a liquor licence, which John appears to have taken over once he was freed. From 1816-1819 he was the publican of the Green Man on York St in Sydney. He began making donations to charities such as the Auxiliary Bible Society of NSW and the Benevolent Society of NSW, establishing himself as a respectable member of society.
Once he received his pardon, John quickly began acquiring farming and grazing land west of Sydney and in 1818 and 1819 he is recorded supplying meat to the government stores. From 1820 John Poad was part owner of 217 cattle in Emu Plains and by 1824 lived at South Creek, near St Marys. From about 1823, he owned land in Bylong, NSW and between 1824 and 1828, he acquired land in Bathurst, NSW.
In 1820, Susannah had returned to England to bring their son back to Sydney with her. It seems however, that John and Susannah didn’t live together again, she remaining in the city and he spending his time on the rural outskirts, with their son dividing his time between them until Susannah’s death in 1828.
In about 1828 John bought land in Penrith, NSW, where he built "Hornseywood Estate". He set up home with freed convict Elizabeth "Betsy" Cruickshank Clarke (born about Dec 1787), with whom he had 7 daughters: Jane Tindale (9 Aug 1820), Esther Tindale (15 Aug 1821), Jane Tindale (18 Mar 1823), Mary "Ann" Tindale (6 Jan 1825), Eliza Tindale (12 Jun 1827), Rosetta Tindale (15 Sep 1828), Elizabeth Tindale (29 Sep 1830).
He set aside land for St Nicholas of Myra Catholic Church and St Stephen’s Anglican Church in Penrith and built several inns, including the Fox & Hounds, The Rose Inn, The Kentish Arms and the Penrith Hotel. He also became well-known as a horse and livestock breeder and owner, as did his sons and grandsons in later years.
He never married Elizabeth and, on 7 February 1844, he married Jane "Tempest" Paul (born 24 May 1824) in St Phillip's Anglican Church, York St, Sydney, NSW, Australia; he was 55 and she was 19.
In 1857, he returned to England, and on 3 August that year, died aboard the Wave of Life, in the Bay of Biscay (France), en route back to Sydney. He was buried at sea.
Submitted by Researcher (Roberta Muir) on 5 July 2018
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/2, p.52
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