Robert Whiteway
Robert Whiteway was born in 1802 in a place called Eastrop in Highworth,
in Wiltshire.
He was one of 7 children born to William Whiteway and his wife Elizabeth
Ford.
William was born c 1756 and died in the Union Workhouse (probably he was
demented) in 1841.
His wife Elizabeth died in 1813.
His siblings were:
Mary Whiteway born
1784 and died 1787
Thomas Whiteway born 1787 and died 1869 He
married Elizabeth Moulden in 1804
Richard Whiteway born 1789 and died 1878 He married
1. Sarah Ponter 1807 2. Martha Wood
John Whiteway born 1792 and died 1868
He married Mary Ann Winchcombe 1813
William Whiteway born 1795 and died aft 1841
Married Mary Hewer 1817
Mary Whiteway born 1798
Robert Whiteway born 1802
The Whiteway boys were all Agricultural labourers.
Their mother Elizabeth died in 1813, and that may have been the cause
Robert then being arrested for his crimes.
Robert was arrested for housebreaking and his sentence was death.
This was at the Summer Assizes in Gloucestershire.
He was sent to the Plymouth docks, and spent time on board the Phoenix
He arrived in New South Wales in 1822
Robert
Whitway
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1822
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Phoenix
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New
South Wales
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Male
and Female
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1822
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Gloucester
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From Sydney he left on the Prince of Orange and arrived in Tasmania 23rd
July 1822
His brothers Thomas and John were also arrested for crimes.
Thomas was arrested for Larceny and then acquitted in 1821
John was arrested and imprisoned in 1832, for breaking into a warehouse,
with his son James. They received a 12 month sentence.
Then his nephew James received another sentence for 15 months and was
transported.
James Whiteway
James arrived in Tasmania on the convict ship Cressey, on 20th August
1843, having left Plymouth on 30th April 1843.
James married Eleanor Smith. Eleanor arrived in 1852 on the Sir
Robert Seppings, she was aged 22. She had been convicted for setting fire
to a stack of wheat, but she had burns marks on her upper arms. She could
was, so would be a housemaid!
Eleanor
Smith, one of 220 convicts transported on the Sir Robert Sippings [Seppings],
17 March 1852
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Suffolk
Assizes at Bury St Edmunds
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Name:
Whiteway, James Record Type: Marriage Permissions Ship/free: Free
Marriage to: Smith, Eleanor Ship/free: Sir Robert Seppings
Permission date: 10 Jan 1855 Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:1268867
James was given his pardon and in 1854 travelled from Launceston on the
ship Clarence to Melbourne
He returned to Tasmania and was granted permission to marry the convict
Eleanor Smith in January, 1855. They married in Bothwell on 2nd February
1855
Edward James born August 1855 in Bothwell Edward died aged
7 in 1862 in Bothwell
Richard Whiteway was born 1857
James born 1859 who died in 1863 aged 4. There was an
inquest.
Henry was born 1864
Daughter died 1869
1866 James was listed as a labourer
WHITEWAY,
James
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Labourer
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Bothwell
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Saturday 30 June 1855
Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Thursday 8 April 1869
What became of the Phoenix?
Sydney's Prison Hulk - HMS Phoenix
1825-1827
A book has been written
Following are some excerpts from the booklet –
…..Most of the prisoners on board the Phoenix were kept there only until a ship could transport them to a place of secondary punishment. It is necessary to point out here the distinction between the terms ‘convicts’ and ‘prisoners’. Convicts generally referred to those who were sentenced in, and transported from, any of the British colonies. If they re-offended in the colony they were still convicts until they completed their original sentences or were given pardons. They then became ex-convicts. When those who were free, freed or native born committed crimes in colonial Australia, and sentenced to serve time in gaols, they were prisoners. An ex-convict could become a prisoner on committing further crimes. Serious colonial crimes could result in prisoners being transported to harsher colonial penal settlements such as Port Macquarie, Norfolk Island, Moreton Bay and Van Diemen’s Land. Not all were sent to such places. Some prisoners served their time on the hulk.
……When the Phoenix was damaged at the entrance to Sydney Harbour on 6th
August 1824, she was stuck on the reef for 24 hours. After being refloated and
towed closer to shore, it was obvious that the dockyard could not make the
necessary repairs to such a large vessel to make her seaworthy again. It was
not until January 1825 that an auction was held to sell removable fittings. The
hulk was then purchased to be specifically used as a prison ship to relieve the
overcrowded condition of the Gaol in George Street. It would accommodate those
who had received colonial sentences and were to be transported to penal
settlements, as well as Government convicts who were in a poor state, and also
Crown witnesses who were called to testify at criminal trials in Sydney.
…… In October 1830, a group of convicts who were due to be sent to Norfolk Island plotted their escape from the hulk. They had planned to overcome the guard. Their plot was uncovered and they were placed in heavy irons. The event triggered a tightening of security. Men who were to be sent to Norfolk Island had to remove their shoes in an effort to discourage attempts to abscond. The shoes were sent to the Island separately! After this attempt, the number of guards was also increased, and these guards were ordered to patrol the ship with loaded muskets. A pair of pistols; a cutlass; and ten rounds of ammunition were issued to the Superintendent of the hulk, the Assistant Superintendent and the boatswain (also spelt ‘bosun’). The latter happened to be George Lavender, after whom Lavender Bay was named when it was changed from Hulk Bay.
Convict ship -
Prince of Orange
Charles Drewery was one of 136
convicts who set sail for Van Diemen’s Land (present day
Tasmania) aboard the convict ship Prince of Orange on 1 April 1822, arriving
there on 23 July
The Prince of Orange was a two-decked vessel built in 1813 in Sunderland and weighed 363 tons Her master for the trip to Van Diemen’s Land was John Moncrief
The surgeon onboard this ship was John Crockett, and his journal for the
voyage is preserved in the National Archives
Four convicts died during the journey
The Prince of Orange had made a previous journey
carrying convicts, to New South Wales in 1820-21
Another Hull convict, William Gibbons, travelled aboard
the Prince of Orange with Charles Drewery. Like Charles,
William was sentenced on 18 October 1821 to transportation for seven years [6].
Relics of convict discipline, Hobart, Tasmania. Photo by Frank and
Frances Carpenter. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Robert and his family lived at Eastrop. From the Highworth
Historical Society, this early 1910 photograph of the Eastrop Grange.
His father was a labourer, so may have worked at the Grange
The Workhouse in England
Workhouses were to be found throughout England from the 17th to the 19th
Century and were created to provide employment for paupers and food and lodging
for the infirm. It was not until the 20th century that the system of social
security replaced them.
Unfortunately they also proved to be a convenient place to house
orphans, lunatics and criminals and some workhouses were difficult to
distinguish from houses of correction.
In some cases the inmates were either let out to provide cheap labour in
the community or kept idle to prevent competition with local workers depending
on the economic situation at the time.
The Highworth Workhouse
An Act of Parliament in 1789 resulted in a new workhouse being built in
1790. It was built in Cricklade Road, Highworth and cost the parish £1900. It
continued to be used as the parish workhouse until 1835 when as a result of the
Poor Law, Swindon and Highworth were joined in the Poor Law Union.
The workhouse in Highworth was the only building available for the new,
larger union but it was clearly not big enough and the sum of £850 was
allocated to provide alterations and enlargements to allow housing for
sometimes up to 80 inmates. However, due to increasing demand for places this
too became over subscribed which led, in 1846, to a new workhouse being built
in Stratton St Margaret near Swindon.
Surviving records show that the transactions of the Highworth and
Swindon Poor Law Union (commonly known as the Workhouse) were frequently
reported. Advertisements appeared requesting tenders for supplies from the
following trades: Grocers, Butchers, Bakers, Drapers, Shoemakers, Undertakers,
Masons, Plasterers, etc.
After receiving his pardon, Robert married Ann Larkin, on 1st
October 1838 in Hamilton Australia.
Ann's lineage is rather difficult to confirm, however there are
records which confirm definite family links. Just which one, becomes
sometimes rather difficult to confirm.
An Ann Larkin was born in March 1822, and was baptised on 10th
March 1822 at the St Michael-le-Belfry Church in the beautiful town of York.
Who was Ann Larkin?
Or Mary Ann Larkins Or Mary Ann Larking?
Was she
the daughter of George Larking who was a resident in Bothwell in 1842?
A
convict who arrived on 30th December 1823 from London leaving 1 Sept 1823 on
the Sir Godfrey Webster?
That George Larking was born in
Northallerton, a market town in Yorkshire. in 1795. He married Mary Lyon
on 17th October 1821 at St Michael-le-Belfry, in York. She was born 25th
November 1798 and baptised on 25th December 1798 at the same church.
George Larking
mentioned in the record of George
Larking and Mary Lyon
Name
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George Larking
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Spouse's Name
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Event Date
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17 Oct 1821
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Event Place
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Saint Michael-Le-Belfry,York,York,England
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They had a daughter Ann Larkin, born 1822.
Name
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Gender
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Male
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Wife
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Daughter
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Name
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Gender
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Female
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Christening Date
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10 Mar 1822
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Christening Place
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SAINT MICHAEL-LE-BELFRY,YORK,YORK,ENGLAND
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Father's Name
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George Larkin
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Mother's Name
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But this Mary perhaps is too young to
match with the arrival of Mary Larkin in 1836.
George Larking was arrested for burglary
at the York Assizes in 1823, and was sentenced to life.
He was transported to Tasmania, onboard the Sir Godfrey Webster in
1826.
He was assigned as an assistant to
Dr Scott
He made the local papers for drunkenness.
On Friday 15 February 1833 he was awarded
his Ticket of leave
Then in 1841 census George Larking is
listed as living in Bothwell, as per Linc
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There is another birth for a Mary Larkin in 1817, and this birth
would match more with the arrival in Australia.
Name:
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Mary Lakin
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Gender:
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Female
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Baptism Date:
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9 Feb 1817
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Baptism Place:
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Northallerton,York,England
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Father:
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Mother:
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There was a family George and Margaret Larkin, he born in c 1793
Yorkshire, Notherton, and according to the 1851 census, he was a Shoemaker!!!!
He had a son George born 1831, and also his grand-daughter
Jane born 1846 living with them.
Whatever her correct name or her correct parents one thing is
certain, she had to have an arrival record to Australia.
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Now for the confusing bits!! Is this George Larkings who has
now changed his name to Larkins? Because to be sure, the broad accent of
the Yorkshire people would leave no doubt at all that people would hear Larkins
and Larking as the same! Gordie is what they call some of the northern
accents!
Name:
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George Larking
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Vessel:
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Sir
Godfrey Webster
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Province:
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Tasmania
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Title:
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List
of convicts (incomplete)
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Year(s):
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1826
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Details for the convict George
Larking (1823)
The Sir Godfrey Webster departed London on 1st September 1823 and
arrived in Sydney 30 December 1823.
Convict Name:
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George Larking
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Trial Place:
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York (City) Assizes
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Trial Date:
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15 March 1823
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Sentence:
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Life
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Notes:
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Arrival Details
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Ship:
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Arrival Year:
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1823
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How did Ann Larkin arrive in Tasmania?
According to Linc:
Ship: Boadicea Remarks: age 20 Record
ID: NAME_INDEXES:1469887 Resource
CSO1/1/848 pfile 17942
Boadicea (1836)
Departed London 14 Oct 1835, arriving Hobart 02/04 Feb 1836? with
6 passengers & 216/265 free female immigrants on board.
Sources:
Pearce, Ian & Cowling, Clare, Guide To The Public
Records Of Tasmania, Section Four, Free Immigration, Archives Office
of Tasmania, 1975, p91.
Nicholson, Ian Hawkins, Shipping Arrivals and Departures,
Tasmania, 1834-1842, Roebuck, 1985, p54.
Newspaper report Colonial Times, Tuesday 09 Feb 1836, p4.
Passengers
BLACKBOURN(E) / BLACKBURN, Susanna (left for Sydney Jul 1836)
BROWN, Matilda
CALAGHAN, Margaret
CALAGHAN, Margaret
CALAGHAN, Mary
CASEY, Mary
COFFEE / COFFEY, Margaret
COLGAN, Margaret
GARD, Ann
GARD / GAURD, Ann
HALL, (family)
MEYERS, Julia (nee Lazarus)
MOSS, James
MOSS, John & Mary with John, Isaac, Ann Eliza & Mary
NOWLAN, Mary Ann
TIFFIN, Mary Ann
TOUGH, Isabella MacIntosh
WILSON, John & Catherine
WOODLAND, Elizabeth
WOODLAND, Mary Ann
(not a complete passenger listing)
Mary Larkins also left her clothes in exchange for board and
lodging!
On 1st October 1838 Mary Larkin married Robert Whiteway at
Hamilton in Tasmania.
In 1839 they had a daughter Mary Ann Whiteway
In 1841 another daughter Mary Ann Whiteway
In 1843 another daughter Sarah Jane Whiteway
In 1845 another daughter Rebecca Whiteway.
All the girls were born in Bothwell. Mary died 17th February
1847 in Bothwell, and is buried in the Bothwell Cemetery.
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But there is still the confusion between the George Larkings and
George Larkins.
In 1846 - 1847 Mr George Larkins arrived from York in England in
June, to attend to his grand-daughter Mary Ann Whiteway's education at Mrs Wilkinson's her property Larkins house, next door
and brewery, and direct Larkin's money to York (dates were noted when the
moneys were readmitted)
From this, Mary Larkins father was George Larkin from York.
Perhaps then George Larkings was a nephew or her brother. Or
perhaps George Larkings morphed into George Larkin a shoemaker.
Mary's father was certainly a man of means, as noted by his
concerns for his grand-daughter after Mary's death, and his visit to Bothwell.
Somewhere there seems to be some sort of a relationship between
these people
But is this Mrs Wilkinson also a relation to Rev Thomas Wigmore's
wife?
http://www.islandregister.com/wigmore2.html
Name:
Larkins, George Record Type: Departures Rank: Passenger Departure
date: 5 Feb 1846
Departure port: Hobart Ship: Gilbert Henderson Bound to:
London
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:573897 Resource
CUS36/1/238
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So where did this snippet come from? The personal papers of
William and John Clark of Cluny, Bothwell, Family Papers 1812 - 1872, - Royal
Society of Tasmania Manuscript Collection.
Actually there were so many other snippets which added to previous
research!
William Clark (1769-1851) arrived in Tasmania in 1824 and settled
near Bothwell
at Cluny, and later acquired other property on the River Jordan at
the Hunting Ground,
later called Mauriceton.
He had formerly served in the British army, was taken prisoner by
the French in
1812. In 1821-1823 he served in South Africa but when his regiment
was ordered to
India he sold his captaincy to retire to Van Diemen's Land, as his
health would not stand
an Indian campaign.
William Clark and his wife Ann (nee Elphinstone) had five sons and
two
daughters: Thomas Noble (1793-1853), Jane (1795-1873), Ann
(1797-1868), William
(1799-1825), George (1801-1827), Charles (1803-1833), John
(1807-1852). Four of
the sons followed their father into the army. William jr. and his
wife Isabella (daughter
of Thomas Berdmore) both died of yellow fever in Jamaica in 1825
leaving an infant
son, William Sydney, who also died before he could be brought back
to his Berdmore
grandparents. George died in India at the age of 26 in 1827 and
Charles was drowned in
October 1833 in the Wreck of the "Lady Munro" on this
way from India to join his
parents in Tasmania.
John Clark (1807-1853),the youngest son, came with his father to
Tasmania and
was Keeper of the Bonded Store in Launceston, Coast Waiter and
Searcher at George
Town and Police Magistrate at Hobart, Launceston, George Town and
later Bothwell
He returned to take over the management of Cluny in 1838. He
married Jane Eddie but
had no children.
Jane the elder daughter came to Tasmania with her father from
South Africa on the
"Adrian". She did not marry but was governess to the
children of Lieutenant-Governor
Arthur and later lived with her father. Mrs Ann Clark and the
second daughter, Ann,
came from England in the "Phoenix" to join the family.
Ann married in 1826 William
Pritchard Weston (1804-1888) of Hythe, Longford, who had arrived
in Tasmania in
1824. W.P. Weston was a member of the Royal Society of Tasmania.
He opposed
transportation and became a member of Parliament, serving as
Premier for brief period
in 1857 and 1861. He spent his later years in Victoria where he
died in 1888.
William and Ann Weston had two sons, Edward Dubrelle
(1831-1877), who married Kate
Macarthy Clerke, and Maurice (1834-1895), who married Marie
Elizabeth Wilmore in
1864, and five daughters: Madeleine Dubrelle who married John
Guthrie in 1850;
Ann (1832- ), who married Joseph Archer in 1852; Aimee (d. 1861)
who married
James Carstairs; Fanny who married Edward Morrah of the Bank of
Australia and
New Zealand in 1858; and Emma Blanche who was born in London in
1840. Ann
(Clark) Weston added Dubrelle to her eldest children's names as
the Clark family
claimed to be be descended from a French Huguenot family called
Dubrelle who settled
in Ireland in the 17th century.
Edward Weston inherited Cluny but left it in common to
all his children, so the property was leased and eventually sold.
Edward's eldest son
was William Dubrelle (d. 1946, a solicitor of Law, Weston and Archer
of Launceston)
and his eldest son Edwin Dubrelle Weston donated to the Queen
Victoria Museum,
Launceston, some papers of the Weston family and a portrait of
W.P. Weston.
The William and John Clark Papers are an interesting record of a
settler family.
They include papers concerning the management of the Cluny
property, a few papers
relating to Bothwell and John Clark's correspondence concerning
his work as a
magistrate. There are also letters to John Clark from William
Bames (1791 ?-1848).
brewer of Launceston, 1829-1839; Matthew Curling Friend of
Newnham, Pon Officer
at George Town, 1833-1841, and from Charles Arthur (1808-1884),
nephew of and
Aide-de-Camp to Lt.-Governor George Arthur, 1827-1829. There are
also letters from
British army officers' wives and daughters addressed to Jane
Clark.
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There is a death for George Larkins in 7 March 1876 in Hobart
George Larkins
Australia, Tasmania, Miscellaneous
Records
Name
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George Larkins
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Event Type
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Burial
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Event Date
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14 Mar 1876
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Event Place
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Tasmania, Australia
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Age
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70
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Birth Year (Estimated)
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1806
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Birthplace
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England
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And a will
Name: Lakin, George Record Type: Wills Year: 1876 Page: 168
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:636924 Resource
AD960/1/11
Colonial database links put this as
George Larkins who was born in 1806 in Cambridge
There is an arrival of a convict George
Larkin on the Guilford in
Name:
Larkin, George Record Type: Convicts Arrival date: 28 Oct 1820 Departure date:14
May 1820
Departure port: Portsmouth Ship: Guildford Voyage number: 9 Index number:
41377
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1410562
The Guildford was
the next convict ship to leave England for New South Wales after the departure
of the Agamemnon on 3rd May 1820.
The Guildford departed Portsmouth on 14th May
1820 with 190 male prisoners.
Hugh
Walker kept a Medical Journal from 15 April 1820 to 5 November 1820.
Officers
commanding the guard of the 46th regt., were Lieut. Dawe of 46th and Ensign
Codd of 48th regiment. Passenger: assistant surgeon Allen.
Six
weeks after commencing the voyage, the surgeon had the irons struck off the
boys who were learning to read. He was pleased with their progress as many did
not know any letters when they arrived on board.
The
prisoners were usually put in handcuffs as punishment for theft or quarrelling.
There was only one mention of corporal punishment, that of James Knibbs on 2
August, was given 2 dozen lashes for theft.
The
ship reached Simons Town on 6th August they received fresh water, vegetables
and fruit. Four prisoners were received on board from Cape Town. There was a
dispute here between Surgeon Walker and Lieutenant Dawe of the Guard over the
method of punishment of one of the prisoners, John Flynn who had stolen bread
from a soldier. The dispute was settled with a verbal judgement from Captain
Moresby of the Menai to whom the surgeon had appealed. John
Flynn's punishment was to be put in handcuffs.
They
got under way from Cape Town on 17th August. There was a violent squall on the
night of 30th August. The sail was ripped to pieces and cross jack yard was
torn away.
On
the 27 September they passed by Jervis Bay and by this time the convicts were
allowed on deck without restraints. They reached Port Jackson Heads at 8am
on 30 September 1820 and at noonCaptain John Piper, Naval Officer of the
Port came on board. By 2pm they had anchored in Sydney Cove. There had been one
death, that of an infant girl and one birth, the wife of Sergeant Wardrobe of
the 46th regiment, was delivered of a son.
..........................................
http://www.jenwilletts.com/convict_ship_guildford_1820.htm
There is a departure of George Larkins in
1830
Name:
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:573892 Resource
CUS33/1/1 p197
Some further shipping facts for George Larkins/Lakin. These
records would match the report from the Clark papers as to George Larkin who
was interested in his grand-daughter.
Research indicates that there was a George Larkin who was granted
land in Bothwell in 1833
Name:
Larkins, George Record Type:
Rank:Passenger
Departure
date: 5 Dec 1846
Departure
port: Hobart Town
Ship:
Bound
to: Port Phillip
Record
ID: NAME_INDEXES:573899
Resource
CUS36/1/499
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Tuesday 26 February 1839
The Brewery owned by Larkins suffered a
fire in March 1840 then in October 1840 he has placed the property for sale.
Tuesday 16 March 1841
In 1841 he was mentioned as being a shoe
maker at Bothwell, and the dispute was over unpaid debts, and who other than
the popular Mr Schaw!
LARKINS V. SCHAW.
This was an action brought for the recovery of a Bill of Exchange
for £71 15s. accepted by the defen- dant in February 1836, drawn by the
plaintiff. Mr. Stephen for the plaintiff; Mr, Jones for the defendant.
Mr. James Young.-Keeps a store at Bothwell, and the Bridgewater
Hotel ; kept a store at Bothwell in February 1836 ; knows the defendant,
Charles Schaw, Esq., of Bothwell; the acceptance now produced is
...............................
Now was this the same George Larkin,
shoemaker who was in Hobart and mentioned unfairly in yet another court case
in
Saturday 8 June 1850
By now George the shoemaker is living in
Macquarie Street, and was wrongfully mentioned in a court matter.
Then George Larkin who arrived on
the Souvenir possibly Wednesday 20 August 1845
Name:
Ship to colony: Souvenir Bound to: Sydney
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:573203 Resource POL220/1/1 p19
Wednesday 9 August 1848
But some really interesting fact emerge in
the paper of 4th September 1850,
Fresh Applicants. Amongst the fresh
applicants were Thomas Jones and Henry Wilson, both applying for
a licence to an old licensed house, ' the Waterloo Hotel,' George Town,
occupied by Robert McLoughin. Mr. Fawnes here stated that McLouglin
had gone to California, the house wanted repairing, which he would
do, provided he could get possession and get Mrs. McLoughlin out.
Mr. Rocher appeared on behalf of
James Wilson, and opposed the application of Jones, on the
ground that applicant a few months back was the occupant of 'the
British Hotel,' which was transferred to his client, Jones re viving
from him the sum of one hundred and ninety pounds ; he stating to Wilson
that he was going to leave the colony; now on the face of this,
he is applying for a licence of a house situate close to Wilson, namely '
the Waterloo Hotel,' — and to the manifest injury of his client.
Here Mr. Douglas, who was retained
by Jones said, — 'That Mr. Rocher was not in possession of the facts,
which were simply these — the house had been let to Mr. Larkin, who
let it to Wilson. Mr. Jones thought by leaving, it would have been
beneficial to his wife's health. Mr. Douglas spoke as to the many
transfers of a similar nature which had been effected, and contended from
the respectability of Mr. Jones, they surely would not negative bis
application ; in fact Jones had never entered into any arrangement
with Wilson. Mr. Rocher in reply, spoke as to the dilapidated state
of the premises, and reminded the meeting that their invariable rule had
been not to grant licenses to ineligible houses. Mr. Fawnes in
reply to a query said, ' as Soon as be could get possession he would
repair, the house.' The meeting here put to the vote When Jones was
elected a fitting applicant by majority
.
One thing is certain this George Larkins
knew a thing or two about brewing.
Then he is mentioned in some disputed land titles in 1872.
.
The Clyde Brewery was begun and operated by George Larkin before
the Bothwell Brewery, it's address is 4 Patrick Street Bothwell, now the home
of a beautiful heritage listed home.
The Phillip papers expand a little more on Mr Schaw
Complaints about Magistrate Schaw
July 1838 - 1841
Papers relating to grievances of
Bothwell inhabitants against "the arbitrary and
oppressive acts of Assistant Police
Magistrate Charles Schaw Esq." and also complaints
about his chief district constable
Wheatley.
Papers include correspondence with
the Colonial Secretary and with other Bothwell residents such as A. McDowall,
who reported that Schaw was insolvent and also commented on Sir John and Lady
Franklin dining at Schawfield (Jan. 1840), and James Garrett, who claimed that
he had "opened the eyes of certain personages in town relative to certain
doings here" and later described changes in the "War Office" -
its "Head" shepherding on mountains of Australia Felix, his
"jackal" to the Commercial Bank, the "poor jew" to Port
Adelaide - true that Moss tendered resignation, Wheatley acknowledges the
villainy practised on all parties and applied for
employment at the Commercial Bank: (7 May 1840) and made a complaint on behalf
of his assigned servant
(25 June 1840) see
also E.S.Hall RS8/B 15.
Also included are petitions from:
Charles Haines, tinman and brazier of Bothwell, George Larkins (including
Larkins' grant of a ticket of leave 1833 and note of his conditional pardon
1836 and free pardon 1840), Thomas Painton, James Baldwin,
Richard Andrews, George Smith,
blacksmith, and a public meeting of Bothwell inhabitants (14, 16 Dec. 1839),
and complaints concerning the treatment of a constable, prisoners, and servant
of Rev. Garrett, Ellen Hobson a free woman, suspected of being
a runaway; robbery of John Wood of
Weasel Plains of which James King suspected; complaint about the absence of the
A.P.M. when bushrangers robbed G. Nicolas' hut (Nov 1840) and complaint of
behaviour of Schaw at meeting of Bothwell Literary
Society (Oct. 1841).
(bundle of papers in chronological
order - old green J. Nos plus a few K)
BOTIIWELL JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
22 Correspondence 1839 - 1843, 1845,
1847
Correspondence relating to
magistracy matters.
Letters received include:- Charles
Schaw Assistant Police Magistrate: requests for JC. to sit on the bench for
various cases such as slaughtering contrary to the Act, licensing laws -
Richard Daniel publican of Bothwell, constables accused of assault, etc (1839);
John Bell: begging J.C. to help get him released from the [road?] party; A McDowall
of Logan: IC. to take a declaration "of a certain young lady upon a
certain subject" [marriage declaration?] (21 June 1839); Thomas Neville:
asking J.C. to help him to get job as overseer of lumber yard (8 July 1839);
H.L. Hutchinson: applying
for appointment as Police Clerk at
Longford (14 Nov. 1839); W.M.Dean, Launceston: hire of horses on government
business (Nov. 1839); J. Allpon:
advice on Sharland's threats to sue
(Jan. 1840); J. Garren: drunken cook (May 1840); E.S. Hall: police, magistrates
(16 Dec. 1840); papers relating to J.Co's complaints against AP.M. Samuel
Barrow about the behaviour of a party of constables at Cluny when pursuing the bushrangers
Cash and Jones and also when serving a summons on J.C. for allowing a cart to
be driven without the owner's name on it when they invaded his house and attempted
to distain on his goods for the fine (July 1842) and advice from solicitors on difficulty
of suing (Aug.1842 see also C 11 5,9,16 Aug.);
papers relating to Rev. Wigmore bringing a charge against J.C. for
not registering the death of Challoner after an inquest and J.Co's
complaints about Wigmore's behaviour (Aug.- Dec. 1842 See
also E.S. Hall
RS8/B23); R.P. Stuan: J.C. acting for him as AP.M. (Nov. 1842);
cases of George Dudfield, Richard
Coster (debts due), John Too (insolvent) (Dec. 1842); Lewis Smith: arrest of his servant
Higgins (1843); G.A Davis - possible appointment (19 Aug. 1845); J.C.'s
commendation of the Police Office during bush fires (1847).
In 1838 William
Clark, John's father, conveyed his property, Cluny, to his son in return for annuities for himself and
his wife and daughters and at the end of the year John Clark returned to
Bothwell to run the property. He continued to act as a justice of the
peace and coroner in Bothwell
and got involved in a dispute between some Bothwell inhabitants and the
Assistant Police Magistrate Major Charles Schaw of Schawfield.
Later he was also in dispute with
another A.P.M. Samuel Barrow and with a fellow Bothwell justice of the peace Rev.
Wigmore.
Bothwell Literary Society 1841
Copy of letters from W. Clark to
W.O. Elliston and to Matthew~Chief Police Magistrate about a false and
exaggerated report of the General Meeting of the Bothwell Literary Society
under the pseudonym "Vindex" who he had ascertained was the
police clerk [Robinson] "acting under the fear of Major Schaw" who
could not have been present and who had once been expelled from the
Society.
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Tracing George Larkings years
between 1842 and 1876. There was a daughter born in 1861 to Thomas
Larkins, and recorded as F. Larkings. Transcription errors are so very
common!
Wednesday 19 January 1848
Inquest—An inquest, was held
on Wednesday last, at the Dr. Syntax Public house, Sandy Bay; on
the body of a Boy three years old, the son of Mr, Larkins,
the poor little fellow met with a horrid death, having fallen into a
bucket of scalding water; a verdict was given of accidental death
And a Mary Ann Larkin who was born in
Scotland and arrived around 1859, and was mentioned in the newspapers.
She married George Grice.
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The Bothwell Brewery was in Patrick Street
Bothwell. Co-incidentally the Castle Hotel is in Patrick Street Bothwell,
and it was built by John Vincent, well known to the Jillett family, as he built
the Callington Mill and sold it to Thomas, and one of his daughters married one
of Henry Cockrill's sons!
Remember the same Cockrill, that Rev
Thomas Wigmore defended, then was later out of favour by the same man!
Perhaps it was to do with the good Reverend's
views of temperance!
Totally intermingled are all these branches!
John VINCENT
Born about 1779, possibly near Callington in Cornwall, John
VINCENT married Susannah RIVERS around 1803. Their first child was born in
Gloucester in 1804.
They had eight children when they arrived in Hobart Town on Elizabeth in
1823 as free settlers from London. He was granted a town allotment in Bridge
Street and set up trade as a builder.
In ensuing years he applied for land grants and built at houses at
Browns River and Sorell Springs, the Castle Inn at Bothwell, the London Inn at
Spring Hill and the Callington Mill at Oatlands.
He died at Green Ponds in 1857.
Description of a house for sale in
Dennistoun Rd, Bothwell, by Elders.
Historic Home
Nestled
in the lovely town of Bothwell is this National Trust classified brick cottage
built in 1847 and once owned by ex-convict Robert Blake who's son purchased and
ran the Bothwell brewery which became known as Blakes' Brewery. There has been
a sympathetically adjoined brick barn like addition at the back of the cottage
with a new kitchen living room and a magnificent bedroom upstairs. A wood
combustion stove has been installed which heats the large master bedroom
upstairs, the kitchen living room and the hot water. The original brick
residence has an old combustion stove and a wood-heater both flanked by elegant
Huon Pine cupboards. The original blackwood floor boards add character and
warmth to this lovely residence. The adjoined title used to have a Wesleyan
Church but it was demolished. The package is complemented by a garage, workshop
and garden shed
Mary Ann Whiteway was born 1839 She married Simon George Arnett in 1857 and died in 1912
Tamar Whiteway was born 1841 She married William Maskell in 1859 She died in 1930
Sarah Jane Whiteway was born 1843 She married Josiah Triffett in 1859 in Bothwell She d 1896
Rebecca Whiteway was born 1845 She married Isaac Blake in 1863 She died in 1935
At the time of their mother's death the girls were very young.
On 13th January 1848 he married Ellen Wigmore at Bothwell. Ellen was aged 19 They had several children, and then Ellen died in 1861, aged 34.
Ellen may have been in the need of a husband as she had been partnered to Joseph Ryan and had a daughter Elizabeth Ryan who was born 26 June 1846.
Saturday 13 September 1845 he was recommended for a Ticket of Leave
His recommendation for a pardon was in 1846. Then Joseph Ryan who had his pardon in July 1848, , married in July 1848 Mary Murray in Hobart
| Name: | F Ryan |
|---|---|
| Birth Date: | 26 Jun 1846 |
| Birth Place: | Tasmania |
| Registration Year: | 1846 |
| Registration Place: | Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia |
| Father: | Joseph Ryan |
| Mother: | Ellen Wigmore |
| Registration Number: | 54 |
| Name: | Robert Whiteway |
|---|---|
| Spouse Name: | Ellen Wigmore |
| Marriage Date: | 13 Jan 1848 |
| Marriage Place: | Tasmania |
| Registration Place: | Bothwell, Tasmania |
| Registration Year: | 1848 |
| Registration Number: | 1410 |
| Name: | Whiteway |
|---|---|
| Death Date: | 17 Dec 1861 |
| Parent/Spouse: | Ellen Mrs |
| Age: | 34 |
| Other Details: | Bothwell |
| Publication Date: | 23 Dec 1861 |
Their children were
Ellen Whiteway born 5th November 1848 in Bothwell Married John Jillett.
Sophia Susan Whiteway born 5th August 1850
m Robert Alfred Jillett in 1867 in Bothwell. She died in 1920 in Beaconsfield.
Adelaide Whiteway born 9th February 1854
m Alfred Athelston Gaby in 1875 in Bothwell She died 1896 in Ringarooma
Catherine Frances Whiteway born 15 March 1852
m Charles Edward Andrews 1877 She died in 1896
Emily Louisa Whiteway born 3 March 1856
m Richard Robinson in Oatlands in 1878 She died in 1893 in Oatlands
Robert Whiteway born 4th February 1858
m Mary Elizabeth Solomon and died in 1930
Ellen Whiteway died 17 December 1861 and
Robert Whiteway died 8th May 1865, at his residence "White Hart Inn" in Bothwell. He is buried at the Bothwell Cemetery.
So who raised the children???? No doubt Robert's three elder daughters who all married in 1859.
This is the sad realisation of researching in this period, so many people died from the epidemics including scarlet fever.
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The hotel burnt to the ground in 1937.
Friday 1 January 1937
Often the residents had reasons for naming different structures, Thomas Shone called his property Stanton, as the area reminded him of where he was born, in Shropshire, and it does.
Robert Whiteway may have decided to call his Inn after his own homeland, also, because surprisingly, his brother was living in the yard of the White Hart Inn in 1841 as recorded on the census.
From Tasmanian Archives the above photos of the Inn at Bothwell
And the real deal in Ford, in Wiltshire, I wonder if they know the links!
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Seems there were two White Hart Inns??
TICKET-OF-LEAVE MUSTERS.
FINGAL.
Those residing in that part of the district from Grayfort to Eastham, Ellerslie, and Kingston, will be mustered on Friday, the 16th of September next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, on the Church Hill, Avoca.
Those residing between Grayfort, Falmouth, and George's River, will be mustered at the Police Office, Fingal, on Tuesday, the 20th September, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
CAMPBELL TOWN.
At the Police Office, Campbell Town, on Friday, the 23d September, at 9 o'clock.
OATLANDS.
On Tuesday, the 20th September, at the Court House, Oatlands.
On Wednesday, the 21st September, at the London Inn, Spring Hill.
On Thursday, the 22d September, at the White Hart Inn, Antill Ponds.
On Friday, the 23d September, at Mr. William Neale's, Eastern Marshes.
The Muster each day will take place at 10 o'clock precisely in the forenoon.
FINGAL.
Those residing in that part of the district from Grayfort to Eastham, Ellerslie, and Kingston, will be mustered on Friday, the 16th of September next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, on the Church Hill, Avoca.
Those residing between Grayfort, Falmouth, and George's River, will be mustered at the Police Office, Fingal, on Tuesday, the 20th September, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
CAMPBELL TOWN.
At the Police Office, Campbell Town, on Friday, the 23d September, at 9 o'clock.
OATLANDS.
On Tuesday, the 20th September, at the Court House, Oatlands.
On Wednesday, the 21st September, at the London Inn, Spring Hill.
On Thursday, the 22d September, at the White Hart Inn, Antill Ponds.
On Friday, the 23d September, at Mr. William Neale's, Eastern Marshes.
The Muster each day will take place at 10 o'clock precisely in the forenoon.
Information extracted from Orchard (1991) records the post office at Antill Ponds was first opened on 25 June 1832. This was about two years after the northsouth road was built through St Peters pass and the White Hart Inn (the first HalfWay House) was built. It was subsequently closed on 31 January 1897, re-opened again on 26 April 1897, closed on 8 August 1897, reopened as Woodbury on 9 August 1897 and eventually closed on 31 August 1968.
The original Half Way House was at Sorell Springs, having been built by John Presnell, a blacksmith by trade, who arrived from England on the Midas on 13 January 1821. He was granted 300 acres of land at Sorell Springs on which he built the White Hart Inn. A licence to sell spirits, wine and beer was granted in 1822 but following the subsequent realignment of the highway through St Peters Pass and the bypassing of Sorell Springs, Presnell acquired land at Antill Ponds in 1830, pulled down the first White Hart Inn and had it re-erected at Antill Ponds so to again catch the travelling public and supply them with refreshments and accommodation.
This building comprised seven rooms, suitable for an inn and valued at £500, together with a six stall stable and other outbuildings. This was also called the White Hart Inn; it bore this name until 1842 when it was changed to the Half Way House. The old inn was delicensed in the 1930s, and eventually demolished in the 1970s.
The Hobart Mercury reported on Saturday 31 December 1932:
This building comprised seven rooms, suitable for an inn and valued at £500, together with a six stall stable and other outbuildings. This was also called the White Hart Inn; it bore this name until 1842 when it was changed to the Half Way House. The old inn was delicensed in the 1930s, and eventually demolished in the 1970s.
The Hobart Mercury reported on Saturday 31 December 1932:
ANCIENT INN ON MAIN ROAD DELICENSED
“TIME, GENTLEMEN!” – One of the oldest hostelries in the State, Half-way House, Antill Ponds, so named because of its equal distance between Hobart and Launceston, will closed its doors to the public on December 31, as a result of the decision of the Oatlands Licensing Court that the hotel was not required. Its passing as a public-house awakens indefinable sentiments, in view of its historical associations.
– Story adapted from Antill Ponds and the Half Way House by R. H. Green.
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Sometimes research reveals another family association. This time the name Bowden certainly needed some further investigation. As within the Jillett lineage, Thomas Bowden married Sarah Ann Bradshaw, and John Bowden married Elizabeth Jillett. However there was no links.
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Isaac Blake was the son of Robert Blake, and Robert had married Mary Bowden.
Robert was a convict, convicted at Wiltshire in 1830/31. He received his pardon in 1840,
| Name: | Robert Blake |
|---|---|
| Arrival Date: | 1831 |
| Vessel: | Eliza |
| Province: | Tasmania |
| Title: | List of convicts (incomplete) |
| Year(s): | 1832 |
He was granted land in Bothwell Saturday 28 December 1839
Saturday 15 November 1845
Robert Blake, ticket-of-leave, was accommodated with a brief sojourn at the ' Mill' by way of caution,not to wander about in the Morven District, nor any other district, without providing himself with a pass, which (the Magistrate observed) can always be promptly obtained by application to the Police Clerk.
He and his family lived in Bothwell.
It is reported in "The Breweries of Australia A History" that his son, Isaac Blake operated the Bothwell Brewery between 1864 to 1884.
Bowden, Edward Record Type: Convicts Arrival date: 2 Aug 1827 Departure date: 5 Apr 1827
Departure port: London Ship: Governor Ready Voyage number: 50
Remarks: Application to bring out family GO33/1/4 p516 Index number: 6155
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:1374277
After his arrival in Tasmania they were granted permission by the Lieut. Governor to join him. The children were Johnathon, Mary, Harriet, Sarah and Edward. Three other daughters - Eliza, Henrietta and Ann - were born in Tasmania.
