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This Charles Jones (alias Silverthorne) was convicted in the Old Bailey on 12 May 1831. He was 16 years old and sentenced to transportation for life.
Of the origins of this Charles Jones/ Silverthorn in England or the Isle of Wight we no nothing more at this point. Assistance has been requested of the Isle Of Wight Family History Society.
He was indicted for stealing a handkerchief to the value of 2 shillings on 18 April from a Mr William Coles Dutton of Islington. At the time Charles was alleged to have been one of three people involved in petty theft although he was the only one captured. The incident took place in Harp Lane, off Cross Lane and near Custom House, around 200 metres west of the Tower of London.
The Surrey arrived in Sydney on 26th November 1831, around 3½ months after embarkation. This was the vessel's 5th journey to New South Wales although it ultimately made 11 to the colonies (both New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land) between 1814 and 1842. Charles was one of 200 convicts on board, 82 of whom were sentenced to transportation for life.
The UK National Archives HO 10/29 (Record of Convicts Arriving 1828-32, p110 RHS) records that Charles, age 17, is placed in the employment of Joseph Hudson at Parramatta. This may have been the Joseph Hudson who, along with William Redfern, was convicted on mutiny aboard the HMS Standard in 1797 and who was transported in 1801. Joseph may also have been related to the Henry Hudson who ran an inn at Windsor and was also the mail contractor and coach proprietor who died at Windsor in 1848.
Charles was granted a Ticket of Leave in Windsor and, around 15 years after arrival, in 1846 is recommended for a Conditional Pardon by R Fitzgerald JP, J L Scarvell JP, Thomas Arndell, and George Macfie. Robert Fitzgerald (1807-1865) was a pastoralist, politician and a Justice of the Peace who lived at Windsor and Rev. George Macfie was based at Pitt Town from 1842-67. Charles' Conditional Pardon (47/679) was signed by Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, Governor General, on 11 July 1847 and registered on 8 September in the same year. He is recorded thereon as being a native of the Isle of Wight, a shoemaker, born in 1814, 5' 1 ½' in height, having a dark ruddy freckled pock-pitted complexion, brown hair, brown eyes, with a small scar on the right side of his forehead and another under his right eyebrow.
Submitted by Researcher (Peter Jones) on 17 March 2017
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/8, p.133
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