William Dring

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Marion Purnell where it is noted:
William Dring joined a group of men in the theft of six bottles of brandy, three blue and white shirts, two pairs of trousers, a pair of red leather boots and other goods at Hull, Yorks. Another charge found him guilty of stealing two jackets, a pair of drawers, a pair of trousers and a knife. With Joseph Robinson he was sentenced at Kingston upon Hull to transportation beyond the seas for seven years on 7 October 1784.
Dring, aged 17, was sent to the 'Ceres' hulk on 15 Apr 1785. On 2 Dec a petition on his behalf said he had hoped by confession to receive a lighter sentence, and blamed persuasion by two men who had escaped. Pardon was nevertheless refused, and he was delivered to the ship 'Alexander' on 6 Jan 1787 with sailed to New South Wales as part of the First Fleet.

William married Ann (convict first fleet) Forbes on 5 Nov 1791 in Norfolk Island, NSW Australia. (Ann (convict first fleet) Forbes was born in 1768 in Spitalfields, London, Middlesex England, christened in 1770 in St Olave, Hart St, Southwark District, London, Surrey England, died on 29 Dec 1851 in NSW Australia and was buried in St Thomas, Sackville Reach, NSW Australia.)