Jonathan Green

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: sailor & nail maker.

• emigrated: granted bail 24 Sept 1836, Sep 1802, on Gladdie.

• alt death, 1823.

• Conviction. From The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838)
Wednesday 28 September 1836

"...MONDAY SEPT. 26.-Jonathan Green, free, a nailer residing in Pitt-street, Jno. Laird a workman in his employ, William Haynes, holding a Ticket of Leave, and Charles O'Niel assigned servant to Green were brought forward, the three latter for a violent assault on James Sheridan, a Gunsmith, residing in Pitt-street, and Green for encouraging them in the assault. The assault was proved by the daughter of Complainant, a Mrs Ralph, wife of a publican residing in Phillip-street, who was present at the time. The defendants called no witnesses. The Bench found all parties guilty and ordered Green to enter into securities to keep the peace for twelve months; Laird to be fined in the sum of £5 or be imprisoned for two months. Haynes to be worked on the Treadmill for ten days, with a recommendation from the Bench that his Ticket of Leave be cancelled and Charles O'Neil to be worked in an ironed gang for six months, at the expiration-of which time to be returned, to Government, the master being considered an unfit person to have assigned servants."

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• notes. ¹⁴⁵⁶ Jonathan Green had no choice about his migration to Australia. He was sentenced in the Court in Chelmsford Essex on the 22nd July, 1801 and charged with two others on the 7th May; "in the Forty First Year of the Reign of his Sovereign Lord George the third he did steal three ewe sheep belonging to the widow Bridget Canning." The sentence was commuted to transportation for life for the three convicted men, to sail from England on board HMS "Glatton".
Capt. James Colnett was in charge of 387 male and female prisioners, his crew, and some "free" immigrants. The transport left London on 23rd September 1802 and sailed via Madrid and Rio de Janeiro to arrive in Sydney on 11th March 1803. Also travelling "free" was Jonathan's wife Elizabeth Cooper and 2 children; Frances and Jonathan Cooper Green Jnr. For his wife to be on board with her children was highly unusual as tickets were usually far beyond the means of a convicts wife and family.
A ticket-of-leave was granted to Jonathan on his arrival in Sydney. He was recorded as being "self-employed" living with his wife and his condition was marked as "PTL" i.e. prisoner, ticket-of-leave. He applied for a pardon in 1809 but such application was cancelled. He again applied by petition to Governor Macquarie on 13th February 1810 and requested renewal of a pardon granted by previous Capt. William Paterson. Jonathan stated that he had been 3 years in the Sydney Police. Macquarie must have refused his application and Jonathan petitioned again on 4th January 1813. In the meantime, on 29th December 1810, Jonathan was appointed a "Constable of Sydney Police" with recorded references to his being paid from the Police Fund 1811-1819.
In 1815 an Assistant Gaoler at Sydney was dismissed for corruption and Jonathan Green was apointed in his place on a salary of thirty pounds sterling per annum. Jonathan was granted a conditional pardon on 31 January 1819. He was dismissed as Assistant Gaoler on 19th October 1820 for repeated drunkenness. Jonathan was now in his mid-forties with no income and 7 children to support.
Jonathan was noted in further commentary in a list of constables in Sydney 1820-1823.
He recovered from his dismissal(s) and was soon assigned mechanic convicts and raised a more than successful family. Jonathan was listed as "provost Marshal's Bailiff" in 1822 and had only 5 of his children listed as dependants (Jonathan junior having died in 1823).
Jonathan Green was a politically active individual. He died on the 28th August 1841 aged 67 years and his wife Elizabeth died on 9th January, 1849, aged 74 (or 69). The address at the time of their deaths was O'Connell Street, Sydney and both are buried at St James

Jonathan married Elizabeth Cooper, daughter of Christopher Cooper and Hannah Spright, on 17 Jul 1796 in Wragby, Lincolnshire England. (Elizabeth Cooper was born on 27 Jan 1776 in Wrawby, Lincolnshire England, christened on 28 Aug 1776 in Wrawby, Lincolnshire England and died on 9 Jan 1849 in O'Connell St, Sydney, NSW Australia.)