AVERY   FAMILY

 

At the Southampton Assizes in 1802 John Avery was charged with stealing a mare.  He was found guilty and sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to life transportation.  He arrived in Van Diemens Land in 1804 with David Collins on the Calcutta/Ocean. 

 

In 1815 he married Margaret Dann/Mary Dunn, a convict who had arrived been transported on the Catherine  in 1814.

 

Children born to them were:

 

William AVERY (1815-1871)

   Married Matilda Fellowes (died 1864)

   Married Emily Whitbread

 

Edward AVERY (1817)

 

John AVERY (1819-1870)

  

George Thomas AVERY (1821-1836)

 

    Jane AVERY (c1823-1823)

 

 John Avery died in Hobart in 1851.

 

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