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- Researcher (Jim Lewis)
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Biographies
ROBERT WILLIAM JONES My Paternal 3rd great grandfather
BORN 1791 London UK ?? (taken from his convict papers)
9 August 1791 Hampshire Portsmouth England
PARENTS William and Ann Jones nee
ARRIVED "Almorah" at Sydney 31 8 1817 (180 convicts) , then transferred to Hobart VDL aboard the "Pilot" sailed on 14 9 1817 to Derwent River (200 male convicts)
DESCRIPTION 5' 3 1/2" tall, fair complexion, fair (Flaxen) hair, hazel eyes.
MARRIED Harriet Davis nee Neat at St Davids Cof E Hobart Tasmania on 30 5 1828
(he signed the register, she made her mark) a widow of William Davis with 2 children
(Henry Neat k/a Davis born 19 5 1820 and Caroline Davis born 21 12 1822.)
BDM 1828 1120 76
OCCUPATION Silk weaver-wool carder /convict/farmer
DIED 14 2 1888 aged 97yrs at his daughters residence High St, Oatlands Tasmania buried in St Peters Cof E Cemetery Oatlands (information given by undertakers John Thomas of Oatlands)
Robert Jones althought his occupation says Wool Carder/ Silk Weaver on his convict indent papers, was an educated young man which was very unusual for English people of the early 1800's, especially if they were from the lower classes. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the bottom fell out of the silk trade, as soldiers uniforms were no longer needed and with all the exsoldiers and labourers no longer needed on the farms, they came flooding into London, work would have been hard to find. Maybe Robert Jones had read of how the convicts sent to the colonies had prospered and therefore he thought he would have a better opportunity in Australia.
18 September 1816 No 127 Old Bailey Court House Robert Jones 19 yrs convicted of
Larceny (theft) in a Dwellinghouse.sentence Death.
No 841 ROBERT JONES was indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of William Griffin, about the hour of four in the forenoon, on the 26th of July, (William Griffin, and other persons in the same dwelling house then being,) and stealing therein, eight sheets, value 38s, five waistcoats, value 1/-, three pairs of drawers, 12s, four pillow-casses, value 10s, three petticoats, value 8s, two frocks,value 5s, twelve shifts, value 2/-, seven night gowns, value 1/-, twelve night caps, value 1/-, twelve handkerchiefs, value 2/-, and four pairs of stockings, value 10s his property.
WILLIAM GRIFFIN. I remember being called up a few minutes before four o'clock on the morning of the 26th of July, by John Smith, he is a next door neighbour of mine; I am a labourer in the East India House; this here was my property that was stolen.
Q. What did you discover when he called you up--A. I heard the alarm by a knocking at the door, and I went backwards, and saw John Smith outsideof the gardenpales.-when I opened the window, he told me something; I observed from the window, some linen lying in the garden;it was on the ground in the garden. I found a window open, the kitchen window, where the basket of cloths had stood facing; that kitchen looks into the garden; the basket of linen was in the kitchen the night before, and that which I found in the garden had been with the rest. The basket was half out of the window, part of the linen was in the garden, some of the linen was in the garden and the remainder was in the basket.I went to bed the night before at half past ten; I left the window fastened with a screw then.The window was open, and the screw appeared to have broken; the window was thrown up, and it appeared to me to have been broken by violence; it had been wrenched with something; the basket stood near to the window the night before, on a dresser facing the window; it could be reached by an arm. Nobody could get to that window without getting over the garden pales. The whole basket was removed from the spot where it was the night before; that was my dwelling -house, and the linen was my property. I did not see the prisioner in my garden; I saw him when he was taken. I did not see him until I took him; we took him in the next ga
Submitted by Researcher (Kathleen Kay Palmer) on 25 October 2015
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/2, p.342
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