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There is currently one researcher who has claimed Charles Glossop
- Researcher (Leanne Mason)
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In the Register of all persons charged with an indictable offence during the year 1841, Charles Glossop, 14 years of age in the county of Middlesex, was charged with an offence. Charles was charged with larceny. Charles was acquitted of this charge however, this is in contradiction to the Newgate Calender of Prisoners, 1785-1853, which writes “Bill not found, guilty and trans for seven years”.
Charles had not been transported in 1841 because he was again facing the courts. In April 1842, at 16 years of age, Charles was recorded in the Newgate Calender of Prisoners 1785-1853, he is recorded with a sentence of three months for stealing. Charles is recorded as a labourer and again was charged with stealing, this time the charge included stealing 1 handkerchief, the property of George Smellie. George Smellie was a pawn broker at No. 184 High Street Shadwell.
It is now 1843 and Charles is again back in the courts, Charles, now a hawker and facing more criminal charges according to The UK Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951. It documents Charles was charged with stealing and he was sentenced to seven years transportation and was disposed of at the Millbank Prison. For this offence Charles was accused of stealing a saucer that contained money that was the property of Mr Saunderson at Spitalfields. With this latest charge, Charles protested his innocence, stating “I was on the ruins, saw two men running, one of them said give Mr Saunderson back his money”, Charles then stated “what money? I have no money”, despite Charles’s innocent protestations, he remained in prison guilty as charged until transportation. In the Prison Registers and Statistical Returns 1843-1844 it records Charles being received on the 4th of October 1843 from Newgate Prison; he is single, before committed also acquitted, and on the 18th of November 1843 to be discharged per the Marion to Van Diemen’s Land.
Charles also spent some of his sentence at the Millbank Prison, the Millbank Prison located in Pimlico was a prison that housed prisoners before they were sent to other prisons, hulks or transported to other countries.
The Marion left England and arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in April 1844. Charles was one of 986 convicts on the Marion who was sent to Van Diemen’s Land between 1840-1849. While the conduct record for Charles is small it is however bountiful in information. Charles was a protestant, could read and write and was described as a labourer. Further descriptions include Charles’s height, hair colour, eye colour, chin, complexion and native place.
Charles was presumably taken from the Marion and marched to a probation station. Charles’s conduct record writes that Charles was assigned to the Jericho probation station for fifteen months and whilst at this station Charles was part of a chain gang. While Charles continues his probation period, there are recordings of punishment by solitary and fifty lashes for being absent from his gang. In 1845, Charles was released from the first stage of probation. In 1849, Charles is recorded as having a tick-of-leave in the Convict Musters, 1806- 1849, with an expiration of sentence for Charles then being advertised in the Cornwall Chronicle 1848.
What became of Charles following his expiration of sentence?
It is believed Charles arrived in the colony in 1852 on the 'Alice' per a charge certificate aged 28 where he is charged with stealing a watch. It is believed Charles became a gold miner and married Frances Reeves in 1855, Creswick.
Submitted by Researcher (Leanne Mason) on 10 July 2023
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/13, p.492
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