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1808 - Born in Essex England
By referring to various documents such as the Indents of the Ship, Lady Harewood and Joseph Sewell’s Ticket of Leave, it is estimated that Joseph Sewell was born in around 1808 and that his native place of dwelling was Essex in England.
1832 - Tried, Chelmsford, England
On the 3rd of January 1832, aged twenty-five years, Joseph Sewell was tried in Chelmsford for the offence of stealing a turkey. His trade was shown as a Ploughman, Reaps, Sows and Milks. He was single and a Protestant and could read and write. Having a prior conviction of three months, this saw him receive the penalty of 14 years, to be served in the Colony of New South Wales.
His description was described as five feet six and three quarter inches, dark sallow complexion, brown hair with Hazel and small eyes. He had the distinguishing features of a thick nose and a Heart with two sails, J.S. Man, M.S. Anchor, 1832 on lower letter arm, blue ring on left middle finger and a scar on the back of left thumb.
1832 - Arrival in New South Wales
The 'Lady Harewood' left Portsmouth on the 15th of March 1832 and arrived in the Colony of New South Wales on the 5th of August, 1832. The General Return of Convicts in New South Wales of 1837 shows that Joseph was aged 30 years and assigned to a P.J. Fredericks.
1838 - Ticket of Leave
Records show that Joseph Sewell received a Ticket of Leave in 1838.
1840 - Marriage in Newcastle
By 1840 and now aged 33 years, it appears Joseph Sewell was working in the Newcastle District as a ticket of leave holder when he married a young female convict by the name of Jean/Jane Whittle who was 18 years of age.
Jean/Jane had come from Glasgow in Scotland and had been a Child's Maid when she was tried in the Glasgow Court of Justiciary on the 10th of January 1839. Her offence was house breaking and because she had three prior convictions of 30 days, 60 days, and 60 days, she was sentenced to 10 years, to be served in the colony of New South Wales.
She was then 17 years of age, could read and write, single and a Protestant. She was five feet, two and one quarter inches, dark, ruddy and freckled with brown hair and eyes and a scar on the outer corner of her left eyebrow. She was transported on the ship ‘'Mary Anne’ which left Woolwhich on the 18th of July, 1939 and arrived in new South Wales on the 10th of November, 1939.
Their marriage was solemnized in the Parish of Christ Church, Newcastle, in the County of Northumberland on the 3rd May 1840 and officiated by C. Pleydell N. Wilton, M.A., Church of England, and Chaplain. The witnesses were Francis and Mary Ann Walker of Newcastle. In New South Wales the consent of the Governor was required for the marriage of all convicts still under sentence.
1842 – Birth of 1st Child
The 1841 Census shows Joseph Sewell living at the Swamps area on the Western side of town and on the 17th July 1842 Joseph and Jean’s first child, a boy, was born at Hexham. They would name him Joseph after his father.
1844 – Birth of 2nd Child and Death of Joseph Snr.
On the 2nd June 1844 Joseph and Jean would have their second son at Hexham and they would name him Henry. Some five to six months after the birth of Henry, Joseph and a Mr Edmond Hayes had both gone into Newcastle, each driving a bullock dray, and remained there for some hours before heading home around six o’clock in the evening. Both men were very drunk with liquor and barely out of town, when Mr Hayes stopped at a Blacksmith’s shop to get a barrow, while Joseph went on. Mr Hayes followed in a few minutes, but in the meantime Joseph had been run over by his own dray either by having fallen from it or attempting to get on it, his hand being very much scraped.
Mr Hayes and a person named Ralph Thornton came up to the body of Joseph lying across the road, unable to speak, but still alive. Joseph was put onto the dray, and Mr Latham, near whose house it happened, called out to look at him. Mr Latham instantly sent for Doctor Bowker, who promptly attended, but Joseph was dead when he arrived. An inquest into the death by Mr Parker of Newcastle found that Joseph Sewell came by his death by falling from a dray, which passed over his body, when in a state of intoxication and was unable to take care of himself. The Coroner’s report was reported on in the Maitland Mercury a few days later.
DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH AND JEAN/JANE [WHITTLE] SEWELL
2nd GENERATION
1. Joseph Sewell married Unknown
2. Henry Sewell married Mary Clutterbuck
DESCENDANTS OF HENRY AND MARY ANN [CLUTTERBUCK] SEWELL
3RD GENERATION
2.1. Richard Henry Sewell married Louisa Julia Griffin (nee Cox)
2.2. William Wallace Sewell married Sarah Elizabeth Cook
2.3. Herbert George Sewell married
2.4. Edward Sewell married Catherine Isabella Marquard
2.5. Thomas Sewell married
2.6. Henry Sewell married Died 5 months
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