Convict Register Details
Midwest WA Heritage Convict Register Details
Convict Registry ID:2484
| SURNAME | PATIENCE |
|---|---|
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| OTHER NAME | PASHEN |
| CONVICT NO | 2 |
| BIRTH/DEATH | 1819 Peasmarsh, Sussex – 24.09.1870 Bootenal Greenough, consumption |
| BRITISH DATA | s/o Joseph PASHEN and Hannah nee MILLER, marr 2 chn, lab, miner, lit, Prot |
| PRE CONVICTION | |
| CONVICTION | Dorset 11.03.1848 with William Grabham, aka Gratham [94 also on the Scindian], breaking into the house of John Stone and stealing six five pound notes, gold, silver and copper coins to the value of £30, a silver watch, a powder flask and a shot charger, 14yrs (The Western Flying Post & Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury, 18 Mar 1848, p3) |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | 5ft 7ins, brown hair, grey eyes, oval visage, fair complexion, middling stout, C P E P on right arm, J P on right hand |
| ARRIVAL | Fremantle – Scindian 01.06.1850 from Pentonville Prison then Portland Prison |
| CERTIFICATES | ³&⁶TL05.05.1851 CE to Champion Bay with temporary pass to Perth District; CP16.05.1855 |
| LOCATION/ EMPLOYMENT | ⁶26.05.1851 Fremantle, passed to Champion Bay District, a miner labourer at ₤2 per month; ⁵1852 accompanied A.C. Gregory’s discovery party to the Gascoyne River; ³Aug 1853 Port Gregory, letter concerning amount still owing for passage from England; ²23.12.1853 authorities believed Patience made false statements regarding being granted permission to marry; ^1854 -1867 employed 20 TL men; Jan 1854 Geraldine Mine, employed John Harris [1441]; May 1854 Geraldine Mine, engaged Thomas Ellerton [277]; Aug 1854 Geraldine Mine & Greenough Flats, farmer; Oct 1854 Geraldine Mine, employed John Carroll [204] & William Jinks [2653]; ¹Jan 1858 Geraldton, signed petition for the granting of a public house licence for Champion Bay; Jun 1860 license to lease 75 acre T Class property at £5 per year; 1860s shoemaker Bootenal, Greenough; 1888, a letter from his brother Robert in Queensland looking for John PASHEN calling himself PATIENCE |
| FAMILY | Marr2. – Ellen ______bur. 14.11.1854 Geraldine Mine Cemetery
Marr3. – Ann CRIDDLE (02.05.1841 Toodyay WA - 13.12.1897 Dongara WA, d/o William Criddle, farmer Greenough) 14.11.1857, Lynton, Port Gregory; Ann Patience marr2. Thomas HARRISON [7443] 19.05.1877
Children: Stillborn PATIENCE: b/d 14.11.1854 Geraldine Mine, child of Ellen; Joseph John PATIENCE: 27.11.1859 Greenough - 04.12.1935, marr Elizabeth BARNDEN 1883 Greenough; Male PATIENCE: 28.12.1860 Greenough; Isaac PATIENCE: 19.11.1861 Greenough - 06.11.1878 (*1878 p190) accidental gun wound caused by John Cook; Anne (Annie) PATIENCE: 14.12.1863 Greenough - 29.01.1947, marr Francis Gow ARMSTRONG 1896 Greenough; Elizabeth PATIENCE: 30.03.1866 - 10.07.1851, marr Solomon COOK (Mayor Geraldton 1907 - 1908) 16.07.1889; Susannah PATIENCE: 30.03.1868 Greenough - 1923, marr George COOK 16.07.1889; Hannah PATIENCE: b.23.08.1870 Greenough, marr Walter Henry ING 1895 Day Dawn Mine |
| WA CONVICTIONS | ⁴14 Jan 1868 Greenough Court, regarding the ownership and payment for dog licence ᴳᴿᴾ07 Dec 1869 Greenough, neglecting to pay his servant Henry Raynor the sum of £3/13/6d for wages, matter settled out of court |
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| REFERENCES | SROWA – Convict register Acc 1156 R17, R21A, R21B; Estimates and Convict Lists Acc 128/7; ³Convict Related Letters Acc 488/30 letter 397; ¹Colonial Secretary Correspondence Received Acc 36 CSR 413/59 & 60; ²Convict Related Letters Acc 488/31 letter 999; ³Comptroller General Letterbook Acc 1156 C11/322 & 448; WA Government Gazette Jul 1860/30 p8; ᴳᴿᴾGreenough Police Court Charge Book Cons 4411; ⁴Cons 1277 Box 7; ⁵Gregory A.C.: Exploration Diary, p294, Battye Library; ‘Felon to Farmer: Thomas Harrison and His Family of Greenough, Western Australia’, by Bruce Baskerville 1983/84, Minor Thesis, Society of Australian Genealogists, Observatory Hill Sydney, NSW; ⁶Perth Police Court TL Register Acc 1386 p19, p182, p620; Downes Joan: The Descendants of William Criddle, 1981; Greenough Death Register 1864 – 1895, 1870 Entry 84, 1878 Entry 207; ^Erickson, R: Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre1829 – 1888, p2428 – 2429; Maley’s Mill & Store Records courtesy Greenough Museum & Gardens |
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