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A NEW YEAR, A NEW LIFE
The story of John Wood Parton of Holborn
A Family History
by Gladys Faulkner and Dianne Rayner
The story of John Wood Parton (1800-1874), sentenced to life imprisonment and transported from his native place of Holborn, London to New South Wales on the ship, General Stewart, in 1818. Labouring as a government man at the dockyard, confined to Hyde Park Barracks, being flogged on the triangle and chained in a gaol gang, were all punishments John had to endure in his early years in the colony. Finally, he had done his time and was granted the first step to ‘freedom’, his Ticket of Leave.
There was no holding back for John now. Marriage to Ann Porter, and fatherhood followed. John fathered 14 children, worked as a shipwright, dealer, greengrocer and farmer during his life, and along the way, he also had the misfortune to be made a bankrupt. This book also provides some information about his ancestors and descendants.
Family names in later generations include: Anderson, Brown, Canty, Carpenter, Crockett, Dallison, Davies, Gale, Gee, Hardy, Killion, Knight, Lawson, Leach/Leech, Luxton, Massey, Meek, Nash, Osborne, Parr, Parsons, Ryan, Sago, Spencer, Swenson, Walker, Walton and Watts.
- ISBN: 978-0-646-81649-4
- Published privately in paperback in 2020 for the family. 177 pages, with colour photographs.
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