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Note: Buried with wives Jane nee ISON and Jane nee Foster EMIG 16 Oct 1791 to Sydney, NSW Australia from ENGLAND on "Admiral Barrington" as convict.
According to his tombstone, he was born on 3 February 1769 and appears to be the same William Eaton who was baptised at Bethnal Green on 19 Feb 1769 to William and Mary Eaton.
On 22 June 1788, at Old Bailey, London, he was sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing one Cheshire Cheese valued at 20/-. He appears to have spent the first two years of his sentence in English prisons or on the 'hulks'. He eventually sailed with the Third Fleet on the 'Admiral Barrington'. The ship departed England on 27 March 1791 and arrived in Sydney on 16 October 1791 and there had been all sorts of problems with the trip including storms and food shortages. Government Phllip was to write 'although the convicts landed from these ships were not as sickly as those brought out last year, the greatest part of them are so emaciated, so worn away with long confinement, or want of food, or from both these causes, that, it will be long before they recover their strength.'
In about February 1799, he entered into a de-facto relationship with Jane Ison. They eventually married at St Phillips Church, Sydeny on 3 August 1800 but Jane Ison stated that her name was Jane Lloyd - a joint ceremony - their first child was baptised then too.
It appears likely that he was the William Eaton who had a half-share in the sloop 'Argument' between 1803 and 1805 with a John Ward. This sloop was one of many which provided transport between Sydney and the (then) new Hawkesbury River settlements. In 1804 he took up a block of farm land at Rose River where he resided until his death in 1858. He was granted further land on 12 June 1811. On 12 September 1912, he was one of thirty eligible to a grant of cattle to be received on 8 October 1812. (Eather Family Newsletter March 1990) Often wrongly considered to be identical to a William Bryant because of a highly erroneous assumption by a prominent genealogy researcher in the 1970s. Bryant was actually an earlier consort to William Eaton's first wife, Jane Lloyd aka Ison, Highson. Please do notenter William Bryant information with this record.
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