Researchers who have claimed this convict
There are currently 2 researchers who have claimed Thomas Wootton
- Researcher (Michelle Watson)
- Researcher (rebecca wootton)
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Biographies
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Text: Thomas Wootton, Stafford Quarter Sessions, 15 Oct 1823, 7 years, native place Staffordshire, age 25, iron founder, 5 feet 5 inches tall, brown complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes
THOMAS WOOTTON 1799 - 1867
Thomas Wootton was born 12 May 1804 in Hamsworth, Staffordshire England and
died 01 August 1867 in Taree NSW, Australia. He was the son of William Wootton and Mary Wright. He married Mary O’Donnell 02 April 1840 Port Macquarie.
On the 12 May, 1815 Thomas, with the consent of his father, was apprenticed to
Matthew Robinson Boulton and James Watt Jr. of Soho in the Parish of Handsworth
and county of Stafford for five years.
Thomas and William signed a document which set out the rules and regulations that had to be adhered to for the entire term of his indenture. During that time Thomas had to serve his Masters lawful commands, keep secrets, not waste their goods or lend them unlawfully to anyone nor buy or sell anything without his Masters permission. He could not play at cards, dice tables or any other unlawful games, he could not haunt taverns or Ale houses nor absent himself from the service of his Masters unlawfully.
Further to that his father, William Wootton, had to provide Thomas with proper and sufficient meat, drink, washing and lodgings. Clothes and all other necessaries during the term of his apprenticing. The master paid the father, William Wootton for such work and service for his son a weekly wage during the first year of eight shillings, second year nine shillings, third year ten shillings, fourth year eleven shillings and fifth year twelve shillings.
Thomas Wootton seemed to be a reasonably bright and educated young man and
yet he was tried in Stafford Quarter Session on 15 October 1823 for stealing four ducks and four fowls and was sentenced to seven years. He was transported to Australia on the Countess of Harcourt on the 12 July 1824.
In the 1828 convict muster, he is listed as being assigned to Mary Shea of lower
Portland Head in the Hawkesbury area of NSW. It was in this area that he received
his Ticket of Leave on 7 May 1830. He was granted his Certificate of Freedom on 28
December 1830 and moved to the newly opened area of the Manning Valley where he met Mary O’Donnell, his future wife. He applied for permission to marry Mary, also a convict.
Thomas Wootton's wife, Mary O’Donnell was born 1818 in County Clare, Ireland.
She was convicted of larceny in County Clare in June 1836. and was transported to New South Wales... Wynter and served him as a housemaid and died 05 September 1815 in Taree, NSW, Australia.
Thomas and Mary were married in St Thomas Church of England, Port Macquarie on 02 April 1840. They lived in the Manning River area where they had four daughters and three sons, who stayed in the Manning river area. Thomas purchased a town allotment 1864 on the Taree Estate and became small tenant farmer.
Thomas Wootton met a watery end on the 02 August 1867 at the age of 63 years, when he accidentally drowned off the Tinonee punt. His death notice in the Maitland
mercury states, “Thursday evening at six o’clock, Thomas was drowned by falling off the punt, whilst endeavouring to pull it across the river. A active search was made for his body, but it was not found till Friday morning”.
Source: Bob Brown
Maitland Mercury, 8th August 1867
John Ramsland— “The Struggle against Isolation,
A History of the Manning Valley (1987)
http://watsoncanet.webcon.net.au/convicts.html
Submitted by Researcher (rebecca wootton) on 19 July 2016
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/5, p.120
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