John Butler

  General Notes:

John and his son Reuban were sent out to N.S.W on the "Prince Regent"in 1827. John was aged 54 on the 1828 census and worked for the A.A.C.at Port Stephans.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, 11 Apr 1779.

• source. & Pat Spence who writes:
John Butler born in Stoke Lyne Oxfordshire 11 April 1779 and his eldest son Reuben born 1802 also in Stoke Lyne were convicted of stealing one shillings worth of hay and chaff in Oxfordshire in 1827 Their sentence was originally death but this was changed to transportation for life to Australia. They travelled to Australia on the Prince Regent and left behind John's wife Mary [nee Baldwin] and eight other younger children. John's next child Ann aged 22 when her father was sentenced actually died on 7th March 1828.

• fact. He was sentenced to transportation to Australia in 1827

John married Mary Baldwin about 1800 in England UK. (Mary Baldwin was born about 1780 and died on 19 Apr 1848 in Stoke Lyne, Oxford England.)