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Walton/Walter BATLEY
Alternative names:
ROUS/ROUSE/ROWSE, John
He
was tried at
Old Bailey, London
on
29 October 1783 for stealing clothing with a value of 87 shillings.
He
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years
and left England on the
Friendship
aged about 27 at that time (May 1787).
His occupation was listed as bricklayer.
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Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “troublesome at times”.According to documents of the time “an industrious quiet man” .Married Martha Baker on 21 February 1788.
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