WRIAM, Zimran Aboard Third Fleet Atlantic 1791
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ZIMRAN (YIMRAN) WRIAM - THIRD FLEET - One of 220 Convicts Transported on “Atlantic” 1791 Sentenced to 7 years at Launceston Assizes Transported to New South Wales Third Fleet Index: Zimeam Urain and Timram Uram Zimran Wriam arrived in Tasmania with John Hasan. He was born in Hyderabad in India but travelled to England at some time in his early life (date not known), because he was a convict on the “Atlantic” in the Third Fleet in 1791. He was sent to Norfolk Island and was granted a Pardon for his work in closing down the settlement. He was granted 40 acres at Norfolk Plains in Tasmania. Unfortunately, he was beaten to death some years later by two men. http://manuscript3251.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/ms-3251-1821-1844-box-1-vol-2/ Witness in a Court Case in Tasmania – http://manuscript3251.wordpress.com/ NAME: ZIMRAN WRIAM BORN: About 1759, Hyderabad, India DIED: 6 July 1848, Longford-Tasmania (result of murder) BURIED: Longford Pioneer Cemetery INQUEST: 18 July 1848, SC195/1/22 – Inquest 1907 (Tasmanian Archives) WILL: Zimram Yowram - 1850 (AD960/1/2) – No 361 (page 477) – Online at Tas Archives, 9 pages of Will – Dated 1 December 1831, Executor his good friend William Saltmarsh the Elder, leaving all his goods, lands, finances, chattels, cattle and household goods etc to his very good friend William Saltmarsh the Younger. There was a William Saltmarsh, born 1792 on Norfolk Island, who settled at Longford, married to Elizabeth Stevens and having 13 children, who is possibly the younger William Saltmarsh mentioned in the will http://digital.statelibrary.tas.gov.au:1801/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=AD960-1-2- 361.xml&dvs=1300948879839~575&locale=en_AU&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/acti on/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&usePid1=true&usePid2=true (Note from Irene Schaffer – William Saltmarsh junior was the son of the First Fleeter, William Saltmarsh senior, who disappeared from Norfolk Island before his son was born. He was the son of William Saltmarsh senior and Mary Butler, and stepson of James Jordan, and arrived in VDL with James Jordon, but there doesn’t appear to be much contact between them after their arrival) DIED: 6 July 1848, Longford-Tasmania – Zimram Youram was murdered by John Jordan (22) and Patrick (Paddy) McDonagh; Jordan was sentenced to be hanged (7 November 1848). McDonagh was acquitted, but was later found guilty of stealing money from the deceased after the deed had been committed and was sentenced to 7 Years Transportation, to which the prisoner exclaimed “Thank you your Honour, and long life to you”, and left the dock laughing. ALSO KNOWN AS: ZIMEAM URAIN, ZIMEAM URAM TIMRAM URAM (on some of the Third Fleet Indexes) SIMORA NEURAN (newspaper account of his murder trial) ZAMRIM YOURAM, born 1759 (Tas. Colonial Families Index) TRIED: 20 March 1790, Launceston Spring Assizes, Cornwall SENTENCE: 7 Years CRIME: 20 March 1790, Zimram Uram - Stealing money from a dwelling house above the value of 40/-. Recommendation: 7 years transportation (Bodmin Gaol website) SHIP: Atlantic – Departed Plymouth 27 March 1791, and arrived New South Wales 20 August 1791, a voyage of 146 days, carrying 220 male convicts (18 deaths). Master Archibald Armstrong, Surgeon James Thomson THIRD FLEET: Eleven ships – Active, Admiral Barrington, Albermarle, Britannia, Matilda, Queen, Mary Ann, William and Ann, HMS Gorgon, Atlantic and Salamander – arrived in the Colony in 1791, bringing a total of 1,869 male convicts and 172 female convicts. 1791 – ARRIVED IN NEW SOUTH WALES ABOARD “ATLANTIC” AND LATER SENT TO NORFOLK ISLAND 1813 – SENT TO VAN DIEMEN’S LAND ABOARD “LADY NELSON” AND GRANTED 40 ACRES OF LAND RELIGION: Indian Muslim LITERACY: Cannot write (Will signed with his mark ‘X’) NEWSPAPER REPORTS – WORLD (London), SATURDAY, 13 FEBRUARY 1790 – SPRING CIRCUITS – WESTERN – Mr Baron HOTHAM and Mr Baron PERRYN – Cornwall – Saturday, March 20, at Launceston WORLD (London), SATURDAY, 3 APRIL 1790 – At Launceston Assizes, 15 prisoners were tried – two were capitally convicted. COLONIAL TIMES, 21 JULY 1848 – THE MURDER AT NORFOLK PLAINS – The probation servant who was taken in charge shortly after the discovery of the murder, has made a full confession, from which it would appear that a young man named Jordan is the principal in the dreadful crime. The servant states that Jordan took a pair of boots to Youram’s, and having murdered him by striking him on the head with a hammer, and beating him with a spade, returned home terrified, communicated to the servant what he had done, avowing that his heart failed him, and he had not courage to search for the old man’s money. Upon this, says the approver, they went out in company, searched the place, and found ₤50, which they shared. This is the substance of a long and detailed statement, which is backed by other circumstances of strong suspicion against Jordan. (Launceston Examiner) (Further details followed in this article) http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/36255400?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/52216157?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits= http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/710468?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3716058?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/3641456?zoomLevel=3&searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=date Asc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/3641614?zoomLevel=3&&searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dat eAsc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/36255800?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/637862?zoomLevel=3&searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAs c (Jordan’s mother gave birth to her fourteenth child the day he was sentenced) http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2967767?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/708278?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/3641662?zoomLevel=3&searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=date Asc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/36256449?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/36256449?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/8763162?searchTerm=youram&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc REFERENCES – http://www.southcom.com.au/~tma/history.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CharminarConnection/message/1023 Zimran Wriam, an Indian Muslim convict who arrived in Atlantic on the Third Fleet in 1791,[57] missed this most oppressive time. Born in Hyderabad Deccan, Zimran was sent to Norfolk Island and in 1813 was removed to Port Dalrymple in Van Diemen's Land as a third class passenger on the Lady Nelson with John Hassan. He was given a 40 acre land grant to permit him to be economically independent.[58] Unfortunately he did not live long to enjoy it as two currency lads (locally born men) beat him to death. [59] for he was one of most prosperous person of that time involved with building of infra structure activities in this British colony . Book: “Flotsam and Jetsam” – Chapter VII : A shocking murder was committed at Norfolk Plains on the night of 6th July 1848. An old man of eighty-five, named Zimraim Youram, was found dead in his hut, his head having been beaten in with a hammer. A prisoner named Patrick McDonough, in the service of Mr Jordan, was arrested on suspicion, and confessed that his master’s son, John Jordan, had committed the crime to get the old man’s money; that he then got frightened and left, but returned with McDonough to search the place, and that they found £50 which they shared. Jordon’s account was that the crime had been planned and executed by McDonough through he was present, and that the got £37.10s This statement was generally believed, but Jordan was convicted on 4th October and executed on 7th November. McDonough was acquitted on the capital charge. I had known Jordan quite well as he had been apprenticed to a Mr George Ross, a shoemaker in Wellington- street, who was also one of the deacons of Tamar-street Church. Jordan was only about twenty-two, and was preparing to marry a respectable girl. This is another illustration of the blighting effect of convictism on the social condition of the people. http://www.archive.org/stream/flotsamjetsamflo00buttiala#page/118/mode/2up/search/murder http://www.ozgenonline.com/~riacaroline/LongfordChristChurchPioneerCemetery.html Headstone of Zimran Youram, at Longford Pioneer Cemetery – headstone reads: “In memory of Zimram Youram (Illegible) Who Died 6 July 1848 Aged 89 Years Z.Y. 1848” Figure 1 : Headstone of Zimran Youram Last Updated: 18 February 2012 Compiled by Trish Symonds .