LEACH William

Name	William LEACH
Country Of Origin	England
Born	1774
Died	1853
Birth/Baptism	Born approx. early 1770s, St Luke’s, Islington, London, England
Parents	unknown
Apprenticeship	unknown
Skills	Watchmaker
Work Locations	Hobart
Street Address
Marriage/Spouse	3 June 1816, Hobart, to Mary Brown.
Trial	February 1801: Publicly whipped and sentenced to one month in Newgate Prison for stealing two shirts. 1 July 1801, Middlesex, recorded as John Leach
Sentence	Seven years transportation for stealing a copper pot, value 6 shillings
Arrival	October 1803, Port Phillip, Victoria, on the convict ship, Calcutta. January 1804, Van Diemen’s Land, on the ship, Ocean.
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Convict Assignment
Ticket of Leave
Conditional Pardon
Other	1816: Land grant, Glenorchy, Hobart. 1827: Death of wife Mary, recorded as a ‘poor woman.’ March 1838: Acreage sold by auction, mortgagee order.
Death	24 September 1853, 33 Argyle Street, Hobart, recorded as a watchmaker. The Hobart Town Advertiser 27 September 1853: ‘Death. On the night of the 24^th instant, at No. 33 Argyle Street, William Leach, aged 83 years and one of the first arrivals in the Colony.’
References
Marjorie Tipping, Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts & their Settlement in Australia, 1988, pp19, 289. TAHO: CON22/1/1, RGD36/1/1 no202 Marriage 1816, RGD34/1/1 no1442 Death 1827 [Mary Leach], RGD35/1/4 no470 Death 1853. Web: Ancestry: England & Wales Criminal Register 1801, 1788-1868 Convicts Records; Old Bailey online, Ref No. t18010218-55 18 February 1801, John Leach Ref. t18010701-75 1 July 1801. Hobart Town Courier 18 October 1828, 30 March 1838; The Examiner (Launceston) 29 September 1853.