For detailed history see WIKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tucker_(settler)
1798 transported to NSW for shoplifting. PEEN
brought (stolen?PEEN) a shrunken head from NZ to Sydney 1811 JL
as a result of stealing the shrunken head 10 other sealers killed on Stewart Island during 1810. Relations between Ngai Tahu and Europeans deteriorated with consequences for a number of years.
1817 killed along with crew of his cutter EOL
previously had "Captain" TUCKER but don't think he was.
Wikipedia
Green Island may be the 'Isle of Wight' where the Sydney sealer Brothers, chartered by Robert Campbell and sailing under Robert Mason, dropped eight men of a gang of eleven in November 1809. William Tucker, who later settled at Whareakeake (Murdering Beach) near Otago Heads, was in the gang. Alternatively the 'Isle of Wight' may be Taieri Island, a few kilometres to the south. It has also been suggested that, alternatively, Green Island may be the 'Ragged Rock' where the other three men of the Brothers gang were landed. Some of the men claimed to have stayed on these two islands from 9 November 1809 until 20 December 1810.[1]
Peter Entwisle, Taka: a Vignette Life of William Tucker 1784 - 1817, Dunedin, NZ: Port Daniel Press, 2005, p.54 & pp.110?115.
He was baptised on 16 May 1784 at Portsea, Portsmouth, England, the son of Timothy and Elizabeth Tucker, people of humble rank. In 1798 Tucker and Thomas Butler shoplifted goods worth more than five shillings from a 'Taylor' William Wilday or Wildey, and were convicted and sentenced to death. They were then reprieved and sentenced to seven years' transportation to New South Wales. They left Portsmouth on Hillsborough on 20 December 1798.
The voyage was one of the worst in the history of transportation.[2] ?Jail Fever? (typhus) raged through the ship, which lost 95 convicts (out of 300+) before arriving at Sydney on 26 July 1799. It is not known where Tucker was assigned.
jan 1803 stowed away on the Atlas which sailed back to England via china and Capr Horn. Was discovered and almost immeadiately shipped back to Australia on the Experiment arriving 24 jun 1804.
24 mar 1805 just after his 7 year term had been served he was listed as a crew on the sealer 'Governor King" which went from Sydney to Dusky Sound where William probably stayed working in a sealing gang. (PEEN2) He may also have been on Stewart Island and later on the Antipodes Islands.
However, the Creed manuscript, written by the Reverend Charles Creed in the 1840s recording the information of two Maori informants and discovered in 2003, shows Tucker in a new light. His theft was not responsible for the war in the south; he was generally liked by Maori and welcomed as a settler. In fact, he was the first European to settle in what is now the city of Dunedin, as distinct from sojourning, jumping ship or being held as a captive. While his inauguration of the trade in heads has been condemned even by his own countrymen, since that time his fostering of the trade in tiki has revealed him as an enterprising art dealer, in fact New Zealand's first. William Tucker was baptized on 16 May 1784 in St Marys Church, Portsea, Portsmouth, ENG.
11 He immigrated to to Otago in 1809 a sealer left by ship Brothers at Ragged rock (Isle of Wight) Foveaux Strait nov 1809 PEEN.
4 He was a sealer on Brothers in 1809.
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