WILLIAM CORY (CORRIE)

William Corrie was convicted of larceny for stealing fowls at the Epiphany sessions on 6 January 1834 at Plymouth and was sentenced to transportation for 7 years.  He was a cooper by trade and transported on the ship Surry with 262 convicts on board leaving England on 9 April 1834.  He arrived in New South Wales on 17 August 1834 and was assigned to Alexander Park of the Paterson District.

The general muster of male and female convicts in the colony on 31 December 1837 recorded William Corrie as assigned to Alexander Park in the Paterson district.

A ticket of leave was granted to William Corrie at Paterson on 24 October 1838.  A record of the ticket of leave was included in the Annual Return of Prisoners of the Crown to whom Tickets of Leave have been granted commencing the 1st of January and ending 31st of December 1838.

William married Caroline Parker (Kensett) in 1839 who was housekeeper to Alexander Park at Lewinsbrook. A daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (or Anne) Cory was born on the 17th September, 1839. Sarah was baptised with her half sister, Jane Elizabeth Parker at St. Philips in Sydney on the 29th September, 1839.

On 4 September 1839 at Paterson, William Corry had his ticket of leave cancelled with his belongings to be sold for the benefit of creditors (empty casks, a grindstone, some cooperage tools, 21 fowls, cedar boards, etc). His TOL was cancelled for “disorderly conduct and suspicion of having stolen property in his possession, a saddle”. He was sent to Carters House of Correction in Sydney for 2 months and released on the 30th September 1839.

William received his Certificate of Freedom in 1841 and died at Maitland on the 27th March, 1843.