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Born1804 to John and Mary Mayes Smith.
12March 1816 at Hertford assizes charged with " breaking into the dwelling house of Sarah Godfrey at Kings Walden and stealing money and wearing apparel" verdict death. He was with Maria Cooper. He was 12 years old and was "recommended to mercy by the jury" and sent to the colony for life. He sailed from Spithead England 9/10/1816 to 8/3/1817 on the Fame, a steamship. His occupation was given as farmers boy.
1822 in the camp gang Windsor
1828 assigned to William Lawson
1837 ticket of leave Bathurst, labourer
Application to marry Mary Anne Burke. Married 1839
1839 on a farm near Bathurst at Tarana.
1840 His daughter Lucy was born
1Jan 1842 recommended conditional pardon, granted. This means he spent 25 years as a convict.
18 held the publicans licence for "Green Swamp Inn" Yetholme, the last Cobb and Co. coaching stop before Bathurst . Mary Anne was married at the Inn.
Submitted by Researcher (4027) on 14 April 2015
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/2, p.283
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