Samuel Kettle
I would appreciate any information on Samuel Kettle prior to his transportation to Sydney, Australia in December 1820.
The first record of the Kettle name appears to be that of a Samuel Kettle* who was a Clerk from Audley, Staffordshire and was tried in Summer Assizes (Lancaster, England) on 23rd August, 1820 for a crime entitled, “Uttering a false order for money”. Samuel Kettle was found guilty and sentenced tHe was transported to Australia on the Ship Speke 1 (2), which left England on 22nd December 1820 and arrived in Australia on 18 May, 1821. Speke 1 was a ship of 473 tons, with the Master being Peter McPherson and the Surgeon Edward Coates. There were 156 male passengers on board at departure and 154 on arrival in Sydney. The trip took 147 days.
Samuel was a Protestant and a Carpenter.
Samuel was married to Mary Icke in Liverpool, England and had a son Henry and three daughters. Mary and the daughters arrived in the Colony in 1822 as free persons on the ship Jupiter.