JOHN TREGONNING One of 142 Convicts Transported on “John Barry” 1819 Sentenced to 7 years at Quarter Sessions Transported to New South Wales

NAME: JOHN TREGONNING ALSO KNOWN AS: John Tregoning AGE: 28 – born about 1790

TRIED: 20 October 1818, Cornwall Quarter Sessions SENTENCE: 7 Years CRIME: Stealing money from a fellow pauper in the poor-house at

GAOL REPORT:

HULK REGISTER: No 4146 - John Tregonning, 28, born about 1790, convicted 20 October 1818 at for stealing silver coin, received onboard prison hulk “Captivity” moored at Portsmouth on 27 November 1818, sentenced to transportation for 7 years, sent to NSW on 20 April 1819

CRIMINAL REGISTER:  1816 – John Tregonning, tried April 1816, Cornwall April Sessions, for Larceny, Imprisonment for 1 month  1817 – John Tregonning, tried October 1817, Cornwall Sessions, for Larceny, Imprisonment for 1 month  1818 – John Tregonning, tried October 1818, Cornwall Sessions, for Larceny, Transportation for 7 Years

SHIP: John Barry (first voyage) – departed Portsmouth 30 April 1819, arrived Sydney 26 September 1819, a voyage of 149 days, carrying 142 male convicts (142 landed). Master Stephenson Ellerby, Surgeon James Bowman

NEW SOUTH WALES –

Assignment: 23 May 1823 – On list of prisoners transported to Port Macquarie per “Lady Nelson” (NSW State Archives, Reel 6019, 4/3864 p.50)

Apprehension: 7 June 1823 – Apprehension (NSW State Archives, Reel 6058, 4/1769 p.44)

Settler and Convict Lists 1787-1834: Jno Tregonnin, Sept 1819, John Barry, Ellerby, Bodmin, October 1818 (HO 10/1/2)

1822 Convict Muster: John Tregonning (Traguning), C (Convict), John Barry, 7 Years, Emu Plains (HO 10/36)

Certificate of Freedom: 9 November 1825, No. 029/4601 (NSW State Archives)

NEWSPAPER REPORTS –

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 27 APRIL 1816 – CORNWALL QUARTER SESSIONS – The Easter Sessions for the County of Cornwall commenced at on Tuesday last, before E.W. Wynne Pendarves, Esq, Chairman, and a numerous and highly-respected Bench of Magistrates. John Tregoning was charged with stealing a pair of stockings the property of John Robins. Mary Treglohan stated, that she is a servant at the Royal Standard Public House, at Redruth. That on Wednesday the 10th of January, she washed and hung out to dry, in the garden behind the house, a pair of stockings belonging to the prosecutor, who was her fellow servant. In the course of the day they were stolen. The stockings now produced are the same which were lost. Richard Conning said that he was the Governor of the Poor-house at Redruth, and that prisoner was a pauper of that Parish, under his care. That a pair of stockings having been found in prisoner’s hat, which Witness knew did not belong to him, he enquired where he got them. At first he said they had been given to him by his former master; but at last, he said he had taken them from the garden of the Royal Standard. The stockings now in Court are the same. The prisoner was found Guilty. To be confined one month to hard labour.

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 8 MARCH 1817 – TRURO – Since the publication of our last, the following persons have been conveyed to Bodmin jail and bridewell, by Mark Rowe and Josiah Randall, constables of the Borough of Truro – John Tregoning, of the parish of Redruth, committed by Hugh Rogers, Clerk, charged with stealing a waistcoat, a pair of trowsers, and a blue cloth jacket.

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 1 AUGUST 1818 – TRURO – John Tregoning, an inmate of the poor- house at Redruth, was also committed to Bodmin on Thursday, charged with stealing 19s 6d from a fellow pauper.

Last Updated: 18 March 2011

Compiled by Trish Symonds