Henry NORTHCOTE

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: accountant Somerset Square Bristol 1830; thereafter transported - see below. Mr Henry Northcote, cashier arrested 1838 prisoner, Gloucester Assizes
Henry Northcote, one of 336 convicts transported on the Barrosa, 31 July 1839 Gloucester Assizes 31st July, 1839 NSW term of 15years
Lease of Nova Scotia Farm Priddy 1819 with use of threshing machine by Samuel Galton jr of Dudson Birmingham Esq to Henry Northcote of Bristol (gent) MS3101/A/D/12/2 Birmingham City Archives. This is the farm where Ann Elizabeth Treasure was born 1859
Henry Northcote
Date Tried: Gloucester Assizes, March 1839
Transported: Barossa 1839
Source: Petition for Clemency, in which Henry gives how long he was employed by his prosecutor, and expresses remorse for his actions. He goes on to give which Hulk he was held on, and his responsibilities there. He also gives his duties on board the Barrosa, and those given him on arrival in Australia. In all, he gives a extremely detailed and lengthy account of his life from 1839 up to July 1841, and says that the experience has left him physically debilitated, and asks for less demanding work, asking for a role as a Sunday School teacher. Includes four brief character witnesses.
Appointed guardian of infant children of wife's uncle Francis Scott 1820s
this explains why named in wife's will as Henry Northcote 'late of Bristol'. His wife attempts to dispose of property that was in her own name.

Henry married Susanna SCOTT, daughter of William SCOTT and Betty CHAPPLE, on 26 Feb 1825 in Horfield, Gloucestershire, England. (Susanna SCOTT was born in 1792 in Ditcheat, Somerset, England, christened on 28 May 1792 in Ditcheat, Somerset, England and died in 1840 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.)