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Facts and Events
"SHIP NEWS. -On Tuesday arrived the Ocean, Capt. Johnstone, with 219 male prisoners, from England (having lost one during the passage), under guard of a detachment of the 46th, and a small party of the 56th regiments; officers, Lieut. Nepean and Ensign Bullevant. She called at Rio, remained seven days, and has been thirteen weeks on her passage from thence. Passenger by the above vessel, the Rev. Mr. Youl. "
References
- ↑ Baptism of Francis Bassett Baptised, in "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images, Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1784-1810, Penzance Madron, Cornwall
Madron Parish Church, Penzance, Cornwall, 11 September 1885.
- ↑ Personal research data of Jean Stauton. (Unpublished research. Contact detail for Jean Staunton available on request. Initial contact made via the Genelogical Research Directory in 2000.).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Index to the Colonial Secretary’s papers, 1788-1825. (accessed <http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/colonial_secretary_1788-1825_252.asp> on the 7th April, 2007).
- ↑ List of convicts maintained by William Cox free of expense to the Crown in 1821. (SR.N.S.W. Reel 6004 4/3494 p.337&8).
- ↑ 1821 Oct 17 Recommended for ticket of leave - includes Francis Bassett. (Colonial Secreatry's Correspondence SR.N.S.W Reel 6051 4/1750 p.217 & 218, List p.221).
- ↑ Register of Convict Applications Permission to Marry 1825-1851.
- ↑ 1828 Census: Householders' returns for New South Wales (Australia). (1828 Census: Householders' returns for New South Wales (Australia), Copyright held by the publishers - Library of Australia History who have printed a full listing of names given in the 1828 Census.)
Household List: listed as one of the people in the Househol d of Carbiss, William.
- ↑ Ticket of Leave Butts 31 March 1827 - 20 Aug 1867. (District: Windsor Ticket no.: 38/801 State Records shelf ref: 4/4119, State Records reel no: 929).
- ↑ Ticket of Leave Butts 31 March 1827 - 20 Aug 1867 Entry for Francis Bassett 1841. (District: Mudgee Ticket no.:.41/991).
- ↑ Francis Bassett appeared in Court very much bruised; indeed heFix this text
had been severely beaten, so that it was found necessary that he
should lose a little blood, and a vein had been opened while in the watch-house, It was proved he was the assailant. Drunkenness was the cause ; but he had paid very dear for his festivity to Bacchus. " As the body weakens, the mind decays;¡" so it was with Francis Bassett, his body was weakened mid his mind depressed with the horrors arising from a series of drunken miseries. Complaint dismissed.
- ↑ Francis, his brother-in-law William Carbis 'The Younger', and his father-in-law William Carbis 'Senior', were all accused of sheep stealing.but absconded to sea immediately after the event to avoid capture. William Carbis Senior and Junior were fishermen, and Francis a labourer. They were captured approx. two years later and were then tried in the Bodmin Assizes Cornwall, on 27th March 1815. They were all found guilty by a Jury; the Judge sentenced them to death.
- ↑ The original sentence was commuted to transportation to Australia for life.
Francis was forwarded to Windsor for distribution with two other family members Willam Carbis and William Carbis 'The Younger".
(On arrival, a convict was either retained by the Government for labour on public works or was assigned to an individual. Very few records of assignment have survived.)
- ↑ His name is listed on the list of convicts maintained by William Cox -free of expense to the Crown in 1819, 1820, & 1821; he is also listed as Richard.
"By January 1815 William Cox had completed the considerable feat of building a road over the mountains and in April Governor Macquarie traversed this new route. When he reached the road-building party's depot on the west bank of the Macquarie River he proclaimed it 'a site for the erection of a town at some future period' which was to be named Bathurst. Later that year a government domain, consisting solely of troopers, government personnel and convict labourers, was established. Surrounded by a large government stock reserve, it was used as the launching pad for explorations of the interior by Evans in 1815, John Oxley in 1816, Allan Cunningham in 1823 and Charles Sturt in 1828.
Private settlement was forbidden on the west bank but Governor Macquarie decided to issue ten 50-acre allotments on the east bank to small landholders in the hope that they would be able to supplement the colony's food supplies. To this end ten 'sober and industrious' grantees were given a cow, a servant and four bushels of wheat seed. However, the problematic nature of transport over the difficult Sydney road negated such efforts. "
Further research to follow-up
We have the Colonial Secretary's correspondance index. Serveral referances are cites under Francis Bassett's name. We have copies of the orignal documents for all mentioned except for the lists for 1819 and 1820 original lists under both Richard and Francis Bassett
1819 (Reel 6058, 4/1769 p.86a)
1820 (Reel 6050, 4/1746 p.140)
- ↑ Mr Cox sends a letter to the Windsor Court House recommending that Francis among others be given tickets of leave.
- ↑ Francis applied for permission to marry Elizabeth Jones.
(We are not sure about this marriage more research needs to be done.)
- ↑ Francis worked as a labourer for William Carbis(his brother in law) who was a farmer and ex-convict.
- ↑ Francis was issued with a Ticket, which in theory would allow him to work out the assignment system in the Mudgee District, however this ticket of leave was cancelled 29 May 1838 because the original was returned mutilated and cancel, which probably means that it was damaged and needed to be replaced.
- ↑ This ticket of leave was given to replace the previous ticket of leave that was cancelled in 1838.
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