1st June 2001
Contact: Julie Stokes
jules@bigblue.net.au
SIMPSON, Walter, born in Battersea c.1799, believed to be son of Walter & Sarah Simpson who was baptised at Battersea in 1801. Convicted of a crime (don't know what) in July 1818 at Surrey and sentenced to 7 years transportation to Van Deiman's Land (arrived there on the Surry in 1819). His convict records list him as an apprentice boat builder.
Would like to know where I might find his apprenticeship records or if they may still exist?
SCAMMELL, William, supposedly a jeweller in London before 1821. Had a daughter Mary Ann(e) who married Walter Simpson (above) in Hobart Town, Van Deiman's land in 1843 - she was 20 odd years his junior. William Scammell must have emigrated to or was sent to Van Deiman's Land. Can find no record of Mary Ann(e)'s birth in Tasmania, but her marriage record lists her as a "free" person.
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