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Biographies
THOMAS READ WAS ONE OF SEVEN MEN TRIED AT KENT QUARTER SESSIONS ON 25TH. NOVEMBER 1830 ON CHARGES OF HAVING PARTICIPATED IN THE SWING RIOTS. HE WAS CONVICT NO. 694.
HE WAS SENTENCED TO TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMANS LAND TO SERVE A LIFE SENTENCE. HE SAILED FROM PORTSMOUTH ON THE 6th. FEBRUARY 1831 ABOARD THE ELIZA 2, ARRIVING IN VAN DIEMANS LAND ON 27TH. MAY 1831. RECORDS INDICATE THAT HE WAS MARRIED AT THE TIME OF SENTENCE TO (COINCIDENTLY) AN ELIZABETH (MARRIED AT MARGATE)
HIS PRISON RECORDS ALSO INDICATE THAT HE HAD BEEN CONVICTED ONCE BEFORE FOR STEALING LEAD ABOUT 7 YEARS AGO (PRIOR TO HIS CHARGES OF MACHINE BREAKING), FOR WHICH HE WAS SENTENCED TO 3 MONTHS AND A WHIPPING, AND HAD BEEN REALEASED FROM PRISON IN 1825 (AGED 20).
On arrival in Tasmania he would have been taken from the ship to the Hobart Town Prisoners Barracks (which then took up the whole block of Campbell Street between Brisbane and Bathurst Streets where he would wait assignment. OCCUPATION WAS CLASSIFIED AS A PLOUGHMAN, AND WAS ASSIGNED TO WORK FOR MR. GEORGE DIXON WHO HAD A PROPERTY IN THE CLYDE VALLEY
NOTE: GEORGE DIXON WAS BORN IN 1800 IN DURHAM ENGLAND AND ARRIVED IN TASMANIA WITH HIS BROTHER GEORGE IN 1821. FOR 2 YEARS THEY BOTH WORKED FOR EDWARD LORD, TENDING HIS CATTLE STATION. IN 1823 THEY WERE BOTH GRANTED 100 ACRES OF LAND IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIVER CLYDE, AND IN 1824 THEY BOTH RECEIVED A FURTHER 200 ACRES. IN JULY 1926, GEORGE BOUGHT HIS BROTHER'S LAND AS HIS BROTHER MOVED TO SYDNEY.
THOMAS IT SEEMS DID NOT LIKE WORKING. PRISONER RECORDS (Page 57 of 246) SHOW THAT HE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING PUNISHMENTS DURING HIS STAY...........
JANUARY 15th. 1834 - INSOLENCE AND GROSS DISRESPECT TO HIS MASTER (GEORGE DIXON). GIVEN HARD LABOUR ON A ROAD PARTY FOR 4 MONTHS.
APRIL 9th. 1834 - NEGLECT OF WORK WHILST IN CHAIN GANG. GIVEN 20 LASHES.
APRIL 23rd. 1834 - NEGLECT OF WORK. REPRIMAND.
APRIL 30th. 1834 - NEGLECT OF WORK. 30 LASHES.
MAY 7th. 1834 - NEGLECT OF WORK. 30 LASHES.
MAY 21st. 1834 - NEGLECT OF WORK. 30 LASHES.
JUNE 16th. 1834 - NEGLECT OF WORK. 1 MONTH HARD LABOUR IN ADDITION TO HIS ORIGINAL SENTENCE.
JUNE 23rd. 1834 - DISOBEYING ORDERS. 25 LASHES.
JUNE 30th. 1834 - MAKING AWAY WITH HIS PROVISIONS. 25 LASHES.
Sent back to George Dixon from the Road Gang
DECEMBER 31st. 1834 - NEGLECT OF DUTY. REPRIMAND.
APRIL 15th. 1835 - ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE. DISCHARGED.
JANUARY 23rd. 1835 - BEING ON W. PATTERSON'S PREMISES WITHOUT LEAVE AND NEAR A HUT WHERE A FELONY HAD BEEN COMMITTED THE PREVIOUS DAY. SEVERLEY REPRIMANDED.
HE WAS PARDONED ON 24TH. APRIL 1837 AND LEFT "TASMANIA" FOR "PORT PHILLIP" IN APPROX. 1840.
ON THE 7th. MARCH 1842 HE WAS MARRIED IN GEELONG. MARRIAGE EXTRACT SHOWS SURNAME SPELT "REID". WITNESSES AT HIS WEDDING WERE THOMAS FREEMAN & RICHARD GROVES. Registration No. 608.
SOMETIME AFTER HIS MARRIAGE ( PROBABLY AFTER 1859 AS HIS LAST CHILD WAS BORN IN GEELONG THAT YEAR), THOMAS AND ELIZA MOVED FROM GEELONG TO ALLANSFORD.
WHEN HE DIED HE WAS A FARMER.
HE DIED ON 21st. SEPTEMBER 1868 WHEN A TREE FELL ON HIM. Registration No. 5473. AT HIS INQUEST INTO HIS DEATH, TWO OF THE WITNESSES WERE BOTH NAMED GEORGE GOLDSTRAW. GEORGE SNR. (BORN 1800, DIED 1870) WAS A TIMBER MERCHANT (HIS SON GEORGE JNR. (BORN 1840, DIED 1870) WAS A FARMER AT NARINGAL). IT IS BELIEVED THAT THOMAS WAS ASSISTING GEORGE WITH HIS BUSINESS AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.
BURIED IN WARRNAMBOOL CEMETERY ON 23rd. SEPTEMBER 1868 IN THE WESLAYN SECTION ROW 8, GRAVE 34. HE IS BURIED WITH HIS WIFE ELIZABETH AND WILLIAM (WHO IS HIS SON).
Submitted by Researcher (Trevor READ) on 2 September 2024
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/8, p.3
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