William Charlton

1769 - 1839  (70 years)

• Name	William Charlton
  Born	17 Jan 1769	Stourton, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  Christened	17 Jan 1769	Stourton, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Oct 1839	Kelso, NSW, Australia
  Buried	24 Oct 1839	Kelso, NSW, Australia
  Person ID	I323	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2015

  
  

  Father	Thomas Charlton,   c. 19 Jan 1736, Mere, Wiltshire, England
  Mother	Ann Bracher,   c. 1 Jan 1738, Stourton, Wiltshire, England
  Married	20 Apr 1765  [2]
  	James Tudgee, Shoemaker, Salisbury, Wilthsire
  Family ID	F194	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Gettis,   b. Abt 1772,   d. 26 Jul 1847, Cumberland, NSW, Australia  (Age ~ 75 years)
  Married	16 Apr 1810	Sydney, NSW, Australia   [3]
  Children	1. Harriet Charlton,   b. 1801,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. William Charlton,   b. 9 Oct 1802, Norfolk Island ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Rebecca Charlton,   b. 25 Dec 1804, Norfolk Island ,   d. 15 May 1886, Upper Mittagong, NSW, Australia  (Age 81 years)   4. Elizabeth Charlton,   b. 1807,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Mary Charlton,   b. 1809,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Joseph Charlton,   b. 1811,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2013
  Family ID	F98	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From Steve Wright's tree on Ancestry.co.uk 1) Baptised 17 January 1769 in Stourton (near Mere, Wiltshire) England. William died in Kelso, NSW on 22 October 1839 (No Death Certificate - there is a Burial Certificate). He was 70. Buried on 24 October 1839 in Holy Trinity, Kelso, NSW. Occupation: Corporal in the NSW Corps. Left London on the NEPTUNE transport on 22 October 1789. Received 150 lashes for irregular and disorderly behaviour. 2) Details on Burial Certificate: (Applied for Death Certificate 10 July 2000 but only received Burial Certificate in reply) (#1264 Vol 23A) Name: William CHARLTON. Abode: Kelso. Age: 68 years. Quality or Profession: Linen Draper. When Died: 22 October 1839. When Buried: 24 October 1839. Where Ceremony Performed: Parish of Bathurst, NSW. Performed By: J.K. WALPOLE, Church of England. 3) Obituary in the Sydney newspaper COMMERCIAL JOURNAL AND ADVERTISER dated Wednesday 30 October 1839 states: Died. At his residence, Bathurst, on Tuesday, the 22 instant, after a long and painful illness, Mr. William Charlton, aged 68 years, formerly of the Royal Veteran Corps, and a resident in this Colony of 48 years' standing. 4) Extract from Second Fleet Records (book is The Second Fleet: Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790 by Michael Flynn - published 1993): CHARLTON, WILLIAM (c1769-1839) William Charlton was baptised at Stourton (near Mere, Wiltshire) on 17 January 1769 the son of Thomas and Ann Charlton. He was not apprenticed to any trade and at the age of 20 enlisted in the NSW Corps in London on 4 July 1789. He embarked on the NEPTUNE transport on 22 October. On 4 October 1790 Charlton gave evidence at the Sydney trial of the First Fleet marine James McManus who was charged with the theft of a box of clothing belonging to Charles McCarthy (qv) stolen on 4 August 1790. Soon afterwards McManus approached Acting Sergeant John Curry offering to sell clothing in return for rum. Curry put him in contact with Thomas Bannister (qv) and Charlton who were willing to buy clothes, but were unable to procure the rum to pay for them. In February 1793 Charlton was transferred to Norfolk Island where he was ordered 300 lashes in June for irregular and disorderly behaviour, receiving 150 lashes before the remainder of the punishment was remitted. He later co-habited with Mary Gittos (b.c1769, tried Old Bailey, qv) and their daughter Mary Ann was born in 1794. The family returned to Sydney in November 1795 where a daughter, Elizabeth, was born in June 1796 and baptised in July. Charlton was a corporal back at Norfolk Island by 1802, and the family were mustered there in February 1805. They again returned to Sydney in 1806 when Mary was recorded with one male and two female children. They appear to have moved to Parramatta. A total of eight children have been attributed to the couple (see Gitto's biography for details). In September 1808 Charlton was decribed as aged 37 years 7 months, 5'7" in height, born Mere, Wiltshire, with grey eyes, dark brown hair, and a round, dark complexioned visage. He transferred to the colonial Veteran Company when the New South Wales Corps was withdrawn in 1819 and married Gittos at Sydney on 16 April of that year. He was able to sign his name to the register. They were living in the Windsor district by 1814, but were living at Parramatta in September 1815 when they gave evidence at an inquest. With the disbandment of the Veteran Company Charlton was discharged from the army in March 1823. In 1825 his 18 year old daughter Elizabeth had formed an unhappy association and was convicted of giving perjured evidence before the Supreme Court at Sydney. She was sentenced to seven years transportation to a penal settlement and to stand at the pillory. Her parents were living at Windsor when they petitioned the governor for a mitigation of sentence; as a result the order for her to stand in the pillory was revoked. Soon afterwards the family moved across the mountains to Kelso near Bathurst. Whether Mary went with her husband and children is not known: she may have been the Mary Charlton who was an inmate of the Liverpool Lunatic Asylum at the time of her death in November 1826, perhaps disturbed by her daughter's misfortune; but she may also have been the Mary Charlton who died in the Sydney Benevolent Asylum on 26 July 1847 described as aged 75 and free by servitude. William Charlton senior died on 22 October 1839. He was buried two days later at Holy Trinity, Kelso, described as a linendraper of that place. An obituary in the Sydney Herald on the 28th gave his age as 68 and mentioned his service in the Royal Veteran Corps and his 49 years' residence in the colony. Notes: GLRO OB/SP/Sep 1788/52; PRO WO/25/642; inquest at 4/1819 p98; 1794 punishment at PRO CO210/10/122; some details contributed by J. Meredith & J. Robinson; see J. Meredith From Wiltshire to Windsor and the west, 1769-1987; Charlton was able to sign his name on his discharge papers; his baptism has been identified by descendants. 5) Musters and Lists - NSW and Norfolk Island 1800-1802 lists on Page 139 Ref: CA133, Category: Military Dept NSW Corps, Time of Victualing: 20 Nov 1802, Name: William Charlton, Quality: Corporal, Days Victld: 42. General Muster and Land and Stock Muster of NSW 1822 on Page 87 Ref: A03697, Name: William Charlton, Pres. Stat.: C (Convict), Ship of Arrival: Neptune, Sntce: 14 years, Employer,etc: Town Gang, Where: Liverpool. 6) Marriage: On 16 April 1810 when William was 41, he married Mary GETTY (GITTOS), in Sydney (CA) (Have Marriage Certificate - Volume Reference: V1810998 3A Certificate # 998 Vol 3A).

  
  

• Sources

  [S70] Baptism Stourton, Wiltshire, England 17 Jan 1769 William Charlton, (Wiltshire Baptisms (pre-1852)), 27 Apr 2013. [S79] Marriage 20 Apr 1765 Thomas Charlton & Ann Bratcher, (Sarum Marriage Licence Bonds). [S38] NSW - Registry of Births Death and Marriages, Number: 104 Vol: 5.