Transported then what?

[~MERLIN~]

Deaths:

OVERTON Margaret T d.1882 BATHURST #5808
Mother: Mary            

OVERTON Willian N d. age 67yrs 1887 BATHURST #6155

Margaret's Death notice inserted by William:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111315731

[~MERLIN~]

W H Overton of Bathurst retires:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62018214

Marital problems for Amelia:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62185289

[cupoflife]

Death already posted by Merlin "OVERTON Willian N d. age 67yrs 1887 BATHURST #6155"
Adding Date 19/01/1887

[Trees]

Good morning or rather good evening Australia Gosh you have been busy on my behalf while i slept like a babe.
No I didn't know of any other name than William he was baptised married and on the 1841 census tried and the long detailed report of his crime in the newspapers always refer to him simply  as William.but merlins reply 17 certainly says William H was from Leamington and was the right age.I somehow feel glad he married (even though he was a bigamist) I think hewas treated badly by the court in 1846 still sad for his wife left in the UK he would have been 26 leaving Britain and his son a newborn. It looks like he was running a newsagents doesn't it and lead a repectable life with his new family His first wife never remarried and worked for her brother in law in his laudry so I think things worked out for her too she ended up living with their daughter Adeline who married and raised a large family.
I can't thank you all enough for taking his story so far along .

[sparrett]

I wonder whether William Henry OVERTON sometimes used his second given name in place of William,

This entry form the Grevilles Directory 1872

OVERTON, Henry, dealer. Williams Street, Bathurst.

This, of course, is the same street as the death place of Margaret OVERTON in the death notice. Williams Street.

Sue

[Trees]

I am still wondering where the Henry comes from its not a family name and I have the family back to his great grand father.

[bobalong]

I can't see a William Henry Overton around Leamington at that time, he is the right age and profession so it is probably the right person. He may well have added the Henry as a slight smokescreen around his fraudulent declaration that he was a widower on the marriage certificate.

The person after him in the marriage register is also a shoemaker so they may have been friends.


    Bob

[sparrett]

This looks like Amelia's death

EVENS  Amelia T,
Reg 20530 Yr 1934 
Aged  75
At  Mental Hospital
STOCKTON

and possibly her husband ?

640/1909    EVANS George T
Parents George H & May
At BATHURST

Sue 

[Billyblue]

Trees, I don't think you should think of William as a bigamist.

In those times, if the convict had been parted from his wife and family for more than seven years and had no prospect of getting back to UK to be with them once free, they were legally entitled to remarry.  You may even find that his first wife remarried, under the circumstances

Dawn M