John Cobcroft was sentenced to life transportation after being found guilty of highway robbery – stealing 6 shillings from a person. He arrived in Sydney in 1790, as part of the Second Fleet, aboard the Scarborough.
* further information about family: The Cobcroft Family in Australia 1790-1978, compiled by Brian W. Cobcroft (1978).
'Cobcroft, John (1756–1853)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/cobcroft-john-17677/text33427, accessed 8 February 2023.
1756
Keighley, West Yorkshire, England
4 June,
1853
(aged ~ 97)
Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia
Crime: theft
Sentence: life
Court: Old Bailey, London
Trial Date: 9 September 1789
(1789)