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William Corbett, widower, aged 47-48? was sent to Tasmania in 1838 for stealing 2 Bibles from the bar of a Mrs. Glover in Evesham, where they’d been left by a bookseller to be picked up by a second. Apparently at least his second larceny. He’d previously been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing a horse. (Likely disappointed when he found the parcel contained Bibles).
In spite of pleading, before Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, that he’d been drunk, he was sentenced to 7 years and voyaged out on the Neptune arriving in 1838. He was assigned to the Austin family who ran Austin’s Ferry and worked there until sometime in the 1840s when the bridge was built. He then went to the Austin family in Victoria. They owned Barwon Grange, now a Trust property in Winchelsea. A later Austin, Elizabeth, founded the Austin Hospital.
(Court information is from the newspaper report of William Corbett’s trial in 1837.
Submitted by Researcher (13765) on 15 February 2021
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/11, p.170
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