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William SMITH

He was tried at Dorchester, Dorset on 16 March 1786 for burglary with a value of 14 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Charlotte aged about 31 at that time (May 1787). He had no occupation recorded. He died in 1830.

Notes: Report from Dunkirk hulk was “tolerably decent and orderly”.On Norfolk Island in 1791 he shared a son with Ann Smith. In 1794 he received a land grant near Parramatta. His will left his farm known as "Ann’s Place" to his "loving wife" Ann.



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