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PALMER, Thomas Aboard David Clarke 1841 THOMAS PALMER One of 308 Convicts Transported on “David Clarke” 1841 Sentenced to 15 years at Central Criminal Court Transported to Van Diemen’s Land NAME: THOMAS PALMER AGE: 24 BORN: About, 1817, Helston-Cornwall DEATH: Possible only – unconfirmed: Thomas Palmer, aged 55, born about 1820, buried 18 March 1875 at Cornelian Bay in a Pauper’s Grave, Section A, Number 145. Ancestry shows he died 14 March 1875 (No 2598/1875) TRIED: 1 March 1841, Old Bailey SENTENCE: 15 years CRIME: Stealing jewellery TRIED WITH: James Warren (No 3324, b.Devon, onboard “Lord Goderich” to VDL in November 1841) GAOL REPORT: Not known HULK REPORT: Good SHIP: David Clarke – departed Plymouth 7 June 1841, and arrived Hobart 4 October 1841, a voyage of 119 days, carrying 308 male convicts (307 landed). Master William B. Mills, Surgeon Edward Jeffery SURGEON’S REPORT ONBOARD: Employed as Overseer; Orderly – Strongly recommended SURGEON’S REPORT: Folios 27-29: Surgeon's general remarks. The David Clark Convict ship left Portsmouth on 13 May 1841 with 158 convicts, embarking an further 150 from Plymouth making a total of 308 male prisoners. All appeared generally in a tolerable state of health and arrived at Hobart on 4 October 1841 making a passage of four months having left Plymouth at the beginning of June. A school was established on board and at the period of embarkation, 47 of the prisoners could neither read nor write, once at the termination of the voyage, 18 could read and write a little, 15 could read very well and 12 tolerably well. RELIGION: Protestant LITERACY: Can read and write FAMILY * – Marital status: Single Father: Thomas Mother: Catherine Sister: Three – names not given * Possible Family Tree online (unconfirmed this is the correct family) – Father: Thomas Palmer Mother: Catharine Martin (15 June 1795) Married: 23 October 1817 at Stithians-Cornwall. They had two children who were baptised at Helston – 1818 - Thomas Palmer 1820 - Mary Hawker Palmer http://home.vicnet.net.au/~martinfh/membint/ancestor/i3506.htm DESCRIPTION – http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON18-1-29,259,109,L,80 Convict No: 3051 Trade: Clerk Height: 5’ 7 ¾“ Age: 24 Complexion: Fair Head: Oval Hair: Brown Whiskers: Black Visage: Long Forehead: Medium height Eyebrows: Dark brown Eyes: Light blue Nose: Long Mouth: Medium Chin: Long Native Place: Helbone-Cornwall (Helston) Remarks: None TASMANIAN CONDUCT RECORD – http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON33-1-13,321,207,L,80 Police No: No 3051 Crime: Transported for Larceny in a dwelling house – Stated this offence “Stealing jewellery – I was concerned with the Admiral’s son at Devonport Docks and who got three years” Probation: Period of Probation: Two years Station of Gang: Brown’s River (now known as Kingston) Class: 2nd Class Reports: March 1842 to May 1843 – Quiet and good Probation Expired: 4 October 1843 Assignment: 16 Dec 1843 – Javelin Man *, New Norfolk 26 Apr 1847 – T. Price, New Norfolk – 12 months (* Either a police constable, or holding the position of a bailiff or similar; in the 1820’s in Van Diemen’s Land it referred to men recruited from the “better behaved” class of convicts to transport prisoners between court and prison, and from prison to the gallows, and had other duties in the prison as well, and were paid about £10 per annum. Later on the term was also used for constables – http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/AUS-Tasmania/2005-04/1113978427 Offences and Sentences: 7 March 1843 – Probation – Prisoners Barracks – Being drunk – Ten days solitary confinement 4 Oct 1843 – Original term of Probation expired 21 Oct 1848 – New Norfolk - Breach of the Police Act – Fined 5/- and costs Ticket of Leave: 21 December 1847 Conditional Pardon: 17 October 1848 – Recommended for a Conditional Pardon 27 November 1849 – Conditional Pardon approved Published in the Launceston Examiner, 21 October 1848 – http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36255864 INDENT – http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON14-1-9,131,103,L,80 http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON14-1-9,131,104,L,80 No 3051 – Thomas Palmer, Helstone, Height 5’7¾ “, Age 24, Occupation Clerk, Single, Protestant, Can read and write, Tried at CCC, 1 March 1841, Offence tealing jewellery – “I was concerned with the Admiral’s son of Devonport Dockyard who got 3 years”, Sentence 15 years, Surgeon’s report: acted as Overseer onboard, strongly recommended – Family (father) Thomas (mother) Catherine, three sisters APPROPRIATION LIST – http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON27-1-9,198,88,L,80 No 3051 – Thomas Palmer, Clerk, Stealing jewellery, CCC, 15 years, Helston, Probation Two years, sent to Brown’s River (now known as Kingston) CONVICTS PERMISSION TO MARRY INDEX – 15 November 1845 – Application Sent to the Secretary for No 3051 Thomas Palmer of “David Clarke”, and Emma Mills, free – December 1845 Approved December 1845 Reference – CON52/1/2, p159 TASMANIAN COLONIAL FAMILIES INDEX – 1846 – Thomas Palmer (b.1818) married Emma Mills (b.1823) in Hobart in 1846 Children – 1846 – Thomas George, b.Hobart; died 1846 Hobart 1850 – Female, b.New Norfolk 1854 – Thomas *, b.Hobart – possible marriage 12 October 1878 to Matilda Moore (newspaper item); they had a son, Frederick Thomas Palmer, born 21 December 1884, died 31 December 1945 1854 – Male, b.Hobart 1856 – Robert, b.Hobart; died 1858, Hobart * http://www.turnbullclan.com/tca_genealogy/tca_all2-o/p224.htm#i54922 SPOUSE – Name: Emma MILES Born: 1823, Hobart-Tas. Father: William Miles, born 1797 Mother: Hannah Chaffey, born 15 March 1803 at Norfolk Island Siblings: Elizabeth Miles, b.1822, Hobart; married John McCoy in Hobart in 1840 Edward Miles, b.1830, Green Ponds (now Kempton) Hannah Chaffey was the daughter of Second Fleeters, Thomas Chaffey, a Norfolk Island convict, born 1763 and died 10 May 1849 Hobart aged 86 years; and of Maria Israel, also a Norfolk Island convict, born 1767 and died 19 October 1849 Hobart – they had 9 known children between 1790 and 1808 The convict Maria ISRAEL was onboard the Second Fleet’s “Lady Juliana”, aged 17 at time of trial, and married Thomas CHAFFEY, NI-NRF, died 1849 VDL Thomas CHAFFEY arrived in NSW aboard “Scarborough” as part of the Second Fleet, and arrived in VDL on the “Porpoise” 1808 Convict Stockade – Thomas Chaffey, Highway Robbery, Old Bailey, 10 December 1788, Death commuted to Life Maria Israel, Stealing 2 pieces of muslin from a shop, Old Bailey, 22 April 1789, 7 years Born 1771, died 19 October 1849 at Hobart, buried 25 October 1849 at St David’s, Hobart; Married Thomas Chaffey in November 1791 at Norfolk Island; 1 August 1790 sent to Norfolk Island from Port Jackson; December 1807 transferred to VDL on “Porpoise” with Thomas and their children; they received a 62-acre land grant at Queenborough at a spot later known as Chaffey’s Point – the Wrest Point Casino is now on the site BIOGRAPHIES FOR THOMAS CHAFFEY AND MARIA ISRAEL – THOMAS CHAFFEY – NORFOLK ISLAND CONVICT - Arrived in Sydney Australia on the 28 June 1790 aboard the Scarborough as part of the Second Fleet to Australia. In 1808 he arrived in Tasmania from Norfolk Island aborad HMS Porpoise* The first house was built at Wrest Point in 1808 by Thomas Chaffey, who had arrived in the infant colony of Van Diemens Land with a group of settlers from Norfolk Island in 1808. The site became known as Chaffeys Point. Chaffey's son William was the first to associate what was later to become Wrest Point Casino with the hospitality for which it is now famous, building an inn on the site in 1839. Just a few years later, in 1842, it became the venue for the Hobart Regatta. In 1845 William Chaffey sold five acres (two hectares) of land, where Wrest Point stands, to a prominent merchant David Dunkley, who built a substantial house. IMPOSING THE ROYAL PARDON: Execution, Transportation, and Convict Resistance in London, 1789 - (by Simon Devereaux) THEIR OWN EXECUTIONERS – Shortly after two o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday, 19 September 1789, the last act of the sessions at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey began. London's accused capital offenders were tried here eight times yearly. Those who were convicted and received sentence of death or transportation remained in nearby Newgate Prison until their sentences could be carried into execution. So, too, did the capital respites: those convicts who were to be spared execution but who would not actually be pardoned until the Recorder of London, the chief sentencing officer at the Old Bailey, had decided what condition should be imposed. The vast majority of pardoned capital respites were transported to New South Wales. Before that condition of pardon could be put into effect, however, the respites had first to be brought back into the court at the end of another sessions in order to be formally notified, and to signal their acceptance, of the condition of their pardon—that is, to "plead their pardon" at the bar of the court. Although it is unclear from the sources whether or not the respites were still obliged, as they had been down to the 1690s at least, to present the most overt symbol of deference—kneeling while pleading their pardon—the symbolic significance of this procedure seems still to have been thought important, even if it had become largely a formality.1 1 The events of this particular day, however, when the first fourteen of no less than ninety-five capital respites were brought in to learn of their final disposition, would prove to be remarkably different.2 The first convict brought to the bar, John Boxley, had been convicted of robbery in October 1786 and now accepted a long- delayed pardon on condition of transportation for life.
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