Researchers who have claimed this convict
There are currently 4 researchers who have claimed William Carbis
- Researcher (Marsha Webster)
- Researcher (Sandra Williamson)
- Researcher (Marie Coles)
- Researcher (Alison Peake)
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Biographies
William Snr. was convicted of sheep stealing with his son William (the younger), and his son-in-law Francis Bassett. It was at the end of 1812 and the three accused absconded to sea. It wasn’t 1815 that they were caught, convicted and sentenced.
Their case was heard in the Launceston Assizes, on the 27th of March 1815. They were all He convicted and sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to transportation to Australia.
They were held on the Portland Hulk, before being discharged to the government contracted transport ship the Ocean on the 22 August 1815 for their journey to Australia. They arrived in Port Jackson, New South Wales on 30th January 1816.
At the age of 55 William Carbis Senior found himself in a new country working as a government labourer in Windsor NSW as the servant of Mr J.T.Campbell. However, by the end of the Muster of 1822, he had received his Ticket of leave and become a farmer.
In 1828 census he was 67 years old and had seven convicts working for him on his farm in Lower Portland Headland in the Hawkesbury area, including his son and his son-in-law. His son had joined “his aged father” according to the Muster in 1827.
In 1825 William Carbis (jnr) was a Government Servant on his father's, William Carbis [Snr], estate in Wilberforce, New South Wales. in 1828 William Carbis “C.P.”[conditional pardon] owns land in Mangrove Creek, Porthead Land, New South Wales, his son by the same name is working for him [note William Carbis Junior did not get his C.P. until 1839 ]. In the same year, 1828, William Carbis [Snr] also requested 3 Government Servants for Farm Service. Beyond 1828 we have not been able to find about him in the records, or when he died. According to Jean Staunton who has been in correspondence with the Central Coast Family History Society who advised: “that if a minister didn't perform the burial it wasn't recorded as it could be a chance [for the convict] to escape under[create] a new identity.” So maybe there was no minister to perform the burial when William Snr died and consequently no record was made of his death.
Nothing has been located in the official New South Wales records, in TROVE, or in the known cemeteries of the region.
Submitted by Researcher (Sandra Williamson) on 28 June 2017
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/2, p.233
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