BARKER John

Name	John BARKER
Country Of Origin	England
Born	1796
Died	unknown
Birth/Baptism	Born approx. 1796, Warrington, England
Parents	unknown
Apprenticeship	unknown
Skills	Watchmaker
Work Locations	Hobart
Street Address	Corner Melville & Elizabeth Streets, Hobart (Alexander Morrison)
Marriage/Spouse
Trial	18 May 1829, Lancaster Quarter Sessions, Lancashire, England
Sentence	Transportation for life for stealing (not his first sentence, previously served a four-year sentence in Bermuda)
Arrival	14 December 1829, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) on the convict ship, Surrey (2). The surgeon report for John stated he was a well-behaved, clever man.
Police Number	1231
Convict Assignment	Alexander Morrison, Hobart
Ticket of Leave
Conditional Pardon
Other	Other skills: Gunsmith. John received additional colonial sentences resulting in transportation to Macquarie Harbour Penal Station on the remote west coast of Van Diemen’s Land. In 1834, he was part of a convict group to ‘piratically seize’ the brig Frederick and travel to South America. John subsequently lived under the alias of Benjamin Smith in Chile.
Death	unknown
References
Simon Barnard, A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, 2014. TAHO: CON27/1/4, CON31/1/1, CON18/1/19, CON23/1/1. Colonial Times 10 September 1830, 1 March 1831; Hobart Town Courier 2 July 1831, 13 August 1831, 7 February 1834.