Reuben Buckner

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
Reuben was a convict. His was tried at Lewes Quarter Sessions, Sussex at age 26 for 'false pretences' and sentenced to be transported for 7 years Sussex Record Office; Session Roll QR/647; May 1791) and his wife Elizabeth, who came free, departed Yarmouth England on the ship 'Pitt' on 17 Jul 1791. The ship arrived in the colony on 14 Feb 1792. Reuben died during the voyage and Elizabeth, aged 17, formed a relationship with a soldier on the ship, Richard Tuckwell of the New South Wales Corps.
Reuben died probably during the voyage of the ship 'Pitt' from England to the colony or shortly after it arrived in the colony on 14 Feb 1792.
The journal of George Thompson, who sailed in the Royal Admiral, May 1792 records that of the 450 that came from England in the Pitt only twenty nine were alive six weeks since at a general muster.
Reuben Buckner does not appear in the return of those Convicts who have died or run from the 'Pitt', but this return lists only those who either escaped or died whilst attempting to escape. No mention of Reuben Buckner in New South Wales appears on musters or other documents and one can assume, because of the high death toll amongst convicts on the Pitt that Reuben Buckner died on the voyage or soon after landing in 1792.

Reuben married Elizabeth Budden, daughter of John Budden and Hannah, on 23 Nov 1788 in Cranborne, Dorset England. (Elizabeth Budden was born circa 1771 in England UK, christened on 20 Mar 1771 in Wareham, Dorset England and died circa 1850 in NSW Australia.)