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Roger Haydock was born on the 1st of April 1831 in Balderstone Lancashire, England. The son of John Haydock and Mary Browne. He died in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia on the 2nd of March, 1901 of a stroke. He was buried in West Terrace Cemetery Adelaide. Sadly, his grave no longer exists as it was sold/given to another person in the 1930’s, so nothing remains of Roger’s final resting place.
Roger married Agnes Walsh on 22nd of September 1851 in Blackburn, Lancashire. They had four children; Mary, Agnes, John and William.
On 11th of February, 1861 in the early hours of the morning, Roger and four other men, committed armed robbery against an elderly farmer and his daughter at Written Stone Farm, in the township of Dilworth, Lancashire.
Roger received a sentence of 14 years and was transported to Perth, Western Australia, Australia where he was incarcerated at Freemantle prison. The other four were also found guilty and received sentences of 12 years. Three of the men, John Jackson, William Mawdsley and Richard Corbridge were also transported on the York. The fourth man John Barnes was not transported to Western Australia as he was responsible for his elderly mother.
In the York prison ship records Roger is described as an iron moulder, 5' 6 1/2", brown hair, grey eyes, a fresh complexion with a middling stout physique and a cut over left eyebrow. Roger received a ticket of leave on the 20th of May, 1865 and a conditional pardon on the 6th of December, 1870.
On the 8th of January, 1870, his first wife Agnes Walsh died in Blackburn, Lancashire where she was a resident of the poor house. Agnes had been implicated in the robbery due to her being found holding the proceeds of the crime but was not convicted.
On the 25th of November, 1870, Roger married Elizabeth Kelly, born 1849 in Co Derry, an Irish immigrant, daughter of James Kelly and Mary McCluskey, at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. They travelled to South Australia and lived in Gawler. Roger and Elizabeth had 9 children; Margaret, Henry, Elizabeth, Catherine, Joseph, Daniel, Richard, Thomas and Thomas. Richard emigrated to New Zealand in the early 1900’s. Daniel was killed on the 14th of March, 1917 at Armentieres, France.
Elizabeth Kelly had given birth to a son, William James on the 24th of December 1868. William’s birth certificate doesn’t list a father. It was thought that Roger may have been William's biological father but both DNA evidence and the fact that new records indicating that Elizabeth was 3 months pregnant when she arrived in Australia have ruled Roger out as William's father.
There are many documents about Roger, his crime and trial in England and his life in Australia.
Through family history research with the addition of DNA, has seen descendants of both of Roger’s families re-united after 150 years.
Submitted by Researcher (Jo Bastian) on 3 September 2016
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/18, p.465
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