• Born: 1770, Bath, Somerset, England
• Married (1): 1799
• Married (2): Oct 1809, Parramatta, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
• Married (3): 16 Oct 1838, Parramatta, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
• Died: Jun 1860, Parramatta, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
• Buried: 7 Jun 1860, St. John's Anglican, Parramatta, N.S.W., Australia

  Research Notes:

Departed 1790 2 Aug Age: 20
Arrival in Sydney:1791 Jan Age: 21

1799 Aged 27. Marriage to Mary Briant, They had 2 Children, George and Thomas.

1809 Oct Age: 37. Marriage to Catherine (Barker) Hamilton, at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

1838 Age: 66.
Marriage to Mary Lakeman in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
They had 4 Children.


Monday, 2nd August, 1790, Monmouth, Wales:

Eighteen year old Richard Mortimer faced the summer Assizes of the Oxford Circuit Court which sat in Monmouth. He was charged with stealing from the home of William Morgan of Grosmont (a small village a few miles north-west of Monmouth. He was accused of taking a flaxen shirt valued at 3/-, a silk hankerchief valued at 1/-, and a silver teaspoon valued at 2/- He was tried and convicted at Monmouth, Wales on 2/8/1790 and was sentenced to send "7 years beyond sea".

Transported to Australia from Plymouth 27/3/1791
Ship: William and Ann - part of the third fleet of 11 ships and over 2000 convicts
- a ship of the first division of the Third Fleet
- a whaler of 370 tons,
- the oldest ship in the Third Fleet
- built 32 tears before in King's Yard on the Thames in 1759
- Master, Eber Bunker, his first trip to the colony of NSW, was engaged by the contractors, Messrs. Camden, Calvert and King.
- Left Plymouth 27/3/1791 with the "Salamander" and the "Atlantic".

The newspaper report states that 194 male convicts and 4 female convicts died during the voyage, and that though conditions on board the ship weren't as "diabolical" as the previous year, they were still outrageous. The convicts from Ireland who arrived on board the "Queen" are not included in the newspaper lists.
As before, the list was compiled in London as so there is no way of knowing which people died during the voyage out, or did not leave England for any reason.

From the "NEW HOLLAND POST'", 18th October, 1791
A list of criminals who have come to our shores in recent months
Our readers will find hereunder a List of Persons transported as Criminals to New South Wales in the Ships as following, via: Atlantic, William and Ann, Britannia, Matilda, Salamander, Albemarle, Mary Anne, Admiral Barrington, Active and Gorgon.
(Acknowledgement: Newspaper article transcribed in 1992 by Barbara Turner.)

No: 1156
Surname: Mortimer
Other Names: Richard
Sentenced: Monmouth, Wales
Term: 7 years

Arrival in Australia: having sailed to Rio de Janiero, south round Cape of Good Hope east to South Cape of Van Dieman's Land to Port Jackson and anchored in Sydney Cove on 28/8/1791. He was sent to Parramatta.
Occupation: convict

About 1802: he applied to join the New South Wales Corp and was accepted into Colonel Paterson's company.

1810: he became part of the Corp and appears on the payroll.

September 1808: At age 36, 5FT 7¼ ins. Service 6 years 130 days. Born Bath, Somerset (sic.)
Sallow Complexion, grey eyes, light brown hair, small visage. Wo25/642.
In Lieut. Colonel Paterson's Co. 24 March, 1804. Detached Parramatta.

To 73rd Regiment 25 March, 1810. Age 38. Wol17/2295
Mortimer, Richard: Private in 73rd Regiment. 1812 Pay List.

April 5, 1823. On return of Allotments in the town of Parramatta.

Oct. 28, 1823. Formerly of the Royal Veteran Company; to receive a grant of 100 acres.
Nov. 3, 1823. Certificate of entitlement to 100 acres of land (Colonial Secretary's Index) anywhere in the colony which had been surveyed, which apparently he didn't take up.

Census 1828. Richard Mortimer, Pensioner, Parramatta
(From the record of the New South Wales Corps Compiled by Janet Robinson)

Died 1860: from influenza, congestion of the lungs/exhaustion at George St, Paramatta NSW
Death Informant: Ann Lord, Niece, Upper Richmond

Buried: 7/6/1860 at St Johns Cemetery, Parramatta, NSW
Burial Witness: George Cain, Richard Blake
Burial Grave Location: Section 2, Row G, Number 18 ¹