RICHARD TIPPETT One of 304 Convicts Transported on “Sea Park” 1854 Sentenced to 10 years at Quarter Sessions Transported to Western Australia

NAME: RICHARD TIPPETT ALSO KNOWN AS: Richard Tippet AGE: 27 – born 1823 BORN:

TRIED: 15 October 1850, Bodmin Quarter Sessions SENTENCE: 10 Years CRIME: House-breaking and Larceny; previous conviction

GAOL REPORT: CRIMINAL REGISTER :  1849 – Richard Tippett, tried 25 July 1849 at Cornwall County Sessions, for Burglary, 1 years imprisonment  1850 – Richard Tippett, tried 15 October 1850 at Cornwall General Quarter Sessions, for Housebreaking and Larceny therein, before convicted of Felony, 10 years transportation

CONVICT TRANSPORTATION REGISTER: Richard Tippett, tried at Cornwall Quarter Sessions, 15 October 1850, 10 years transportation

SHIP: Sea Park – departed London 1 January 1854, arrived Fremantle 5 April 1854, a voyage of 94 days, carrying 304 male convicts (304 landed). Master Thomas Spedding, Surgeon Josiah Caldwell

RELIGION: LITERACY:

FAMILY – Marital status: Single The following information for parents’ names was found in WA Death Indexes: Father: William * Mother: Margaret Berrison FreeREG – Marriage – 21 July 1810 – – William TEPPET (yeoman) and Nancy BEDTINSON OPC – Children of William and Nancy TEPPET -  24 July 1814 – William Tippet – of Gluvian ltp, father a husbandman  27 October 1816 – Mary Tippet – of Gluvian, father a labourer  8 September 1821 – Betsy Tippett – of Gluvian, p.St Columb, father a labourer  6 April 1823 – Richard Bettenson TIPPET, son of William and Nancy, of Castle Gate, labourer, baptised at St Columb Major  10 November 1824 – Richard TIPPETT, of Castle Down Gate, father a labourer  20 January 1833 – Sarah TIPPETT, of St Columb Town, father a labourer

* There is a William TIPPETT who was transported to NSW 1835 on “Recovery” – possibly Richard’s father?

DESCRIPTION – Trade: Stone cutter Height: 5’ 5 ½“ Age: 31, born 1823 (at time of arrival in WA) Complexion: Fair Head: Hair: Sandy Whiskers: Visage: Oval Forehead: Eyebrows: Eyes: Blue Build: Stout made Distinguishing marks: Freckled and pockmarked

CONDUCT RECORD –

Ticket of Leave: 5 April 1854

Expiree: October 1860 (Free by Servitude)

Permission to Marry: 30 June 1856, Mary Jordan

Wife and Children: Spouse: Mary JORDAN – possibly a convict arrived “Clara” 3 Sept 1853 Married: 24 June 1856, Culham, Toodyay-WA (Reg No 970/1856) Children – 1856 – Richard Tippett, born Toodyay-WA (Reg No 3605/1856); died 1856 aged 1 day (876/1856) 1860 – Louisa Tippett, born Toodyay-WA (Reg No 5236/1860) * 1862 – Elizabeth Tippett, born Toodyay-WA (Reg No 6324/1862) 1862 – Mary Ann Tippett, born Toodyay-WA (Reg No 6324/1862); died 1862 aged 1 day (1975/1862)

1877 - * Louisa Tippett married Charles Kilpin, Newcastle-WA (Reg No 4344/1877); and died 1939 in Northam (106/1939). Louisa and Charles Kilpin had eight children, all born in Toodyay – John Thomas Kilpin (1879); Louisa Elizabeth Kilpin (1880); Charles Richard Kilpin (1883); Linda Mary Kilpin (1885); Ruby Kilpin (1888); James Alley Kilpin (1892); Unnamed Male Kilpin (1899); John Thomas Kilpin (1903)

Death: 1905 – Richard Tippett, aged 83 years (born about 1822), born Cornwall-England, father William, mother Margaret Berrison, (Reg No 2244/1905)

There is also the following in the WA BMD Indexes, not known if any relation - 1905 - Richard Tippett, aged 61 years (born about 1844), parents names not given, born Cornwall-England (694/1905)

Toodyay and Culham Cemetery: There are no headstones in these Cemeteries for any member of the Tippett family – http://www.ozburials.com/CemsWA/Toodyay/toodyay.htm http://www.ozburials.com/CemsWA/Toodyay/culham.htm

DEPARTURES INDEX: Not found

NEWSPAPER REPORTS –

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 18 OCTOBER 1850 - Richard Tippett (27) indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Henry Hoil a farmer in the parish of Advent, and stealing therefrom apples, flour, bacon, and other articles; former conviction at Assizes in July 1849 guilty and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for breaking, entering and stealing from the house of William Olver of St Colum Major; Jury returned a verdict of Guilty

WEST BRITON, 18 OCTOBER 1850 - RICHARD TIPPET, 27, was indicted for breaking an entering the house of Henry HOLE, and stealing therefrom apples, flour, bacon, and other articles. Mr. SHILSON, for the prosecution, called Henry Hole who stated that he was a farmer in the parish of Advent. On Saturday night, the 21st of September, before going to bed, he carried a pan of milk to the dairy, and then saw that all was right. On coming down next morning, prosecutor's jacket, which had been left hanging before the kitchen fire, had been taken away, flour and bread had been stolen from the room adjoining the dairy, and a pair of shoes were also missed. Prisoner had worked for prosecutor nine days during the harvest, and had left the Thursday night preceding the Saturday night on which the robbery was committed: prisoner used to take his meat in the kitchen when working for prosecutor. Having suspicion of him, prosecutor gave information to constable Fitzgerald, who apprehended the prisoner on the same Sunday that the robbery was discovered. Prisoner had a bundle on his back, and in it were several of the articles that had been stolen. Prisoner told the constable that no more had been taken than was found in the bundle. Prosecutor's jacket was placed elsewhere; but the linking of it was found around the flour in the bundle. Prisoner now told the jury that he had the contents of the bundle from a man who he overtook between and Stratton. Prosecutor's wife also gave evidence in the case. The Chairman in summing up, said there was no evidence of the breaking and entering, but it was open to the jury to consider the evidence of stealing. The jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty. A former conviction was proved against the prisoner, who at the Assizes in July 1849, was found Guilty and sentenced to one year's imprisonment, for breaking, entering, and stealing from the house of William OLVER, of St. Columb Major. There was now another indictment against the prisoner for breaking and entering the house of William Tippet at St. Columb Major, on the 5th of September last, and stealing a coat, waistcoat, and other articles. On the indictment no evidence was offered. TEN YEARS TRANSPORTATION.

REFERENCES – Marriage of Richard Tippett and Mary Jordan in the Newcastle area of Toodyay – http://news.rootsweb.com/th/read/DPS-CHAT/2001-05/0991052366

Louisa Tippett and Charles Kilpin – http://hedgehogscottage.co.uk/family/phpGedView/family.php?famid=F0803&ged=ForWebsite.ged

Last Updated: 16 March 2011

Compiled by Trish Symonds