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Samuel, an agricultural labourer, born Necton in Norfolk in 1832, was convicted in 1859 of maliciously wounding the gamekeeper of Lord Walsingham’s estate. He had apparently been poaching at the time of the Watton Fair on 11 October 1859 and had been tackled by the gamekeeper. He had turned a gun on the gamekeeper and caused him severe injury. He was tried at the Norfolk winter Assizes and was sentenced to eight years penal servitude. After short periods in Pentonville and Portland Prisons in England, he was transported to Freemantle Prison in Western Australia. His convict ship, Lincelles, left Portland on 5th October 1861 with 304 prisoners on board arriving in Western Australia on 28 January 1862.
He served his time and received his Certificate of Freedom in March 1868 and seems to have stayed in Australia, eventually dying there in 1892 near York, Western Australia. His first wife, Elizabeth (nee Cater), had sadly died of phthisis aged 31 in her home village of Carbrooke, Norfolk in 1865 just six years after her husband’s conviction. It seems he married a second time an Eliza “McLocklan” in Perth in 1877.
Submitted by Researcher (13852) on 5 March 2021
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/18, p.375
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