G'Day....my wife's great, great, grandfather was Samuel Hite born in or around Colmworth, Bedfordshire, England circa 1801. He was transported to Van Diemans Land (Australia) for life in 1821 and then after an adventurous life married a convict, Mary Ann Pendrell. Samuel and Mary the raised a large family and then went onto have an extended family domiciled throughout Australia. What we don't have is who were Samuels family in England. The following are the details which caused him to be convicted, sentenced and transported: Samuel was convicted of Burglary in 1821 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence was subsequently commuted to transportation to the colonies. He embarked aboard the convict transport ship Malabar which sailed from Gravesend on 22 June 1821 bound for Tasmania, Australia.........previously known as Van Diemans Land......with a total of 172 prisoners and arrived on 21 October 1821. 171 of the prisoners disembarked at Hobart,Tasmania, Australia. On 10 July 1837, he married a female convict Mary Ann Pendrill (Pendrell) at Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia.Mary Ann had been transported in 1836 after being convicted of obtaining goods under false pretences and being sentenced to 7 years. * Age: From his death certificate Samuel was aged 93 in 5 June 1891 Samuel born in 1798. The trial records for Samuel give his age as 17 in 1818 and 20 in 1820, ie born in 1801. From the information in the book "Bushrangers in Van Diemans Land 1824 -1827" Samuel was a youth of nineteen, in 1824, ie born in 1805. He was uneducated or had very little education and signed his name with an 'x' on and in all known documents. * Court - Convict: Quarter Sessions Roll - Shelf Mark QSR 24 Note: I have use 'f' where written as 's' and not used punctuation unless it appears in the original document. 1819 - Reference 121 - No 17, Recognizance to Answer to an Indictment Bedfordshire - Be it remembered that on the tenth day of March in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen, Samuel Hite of Colmworth Labourer personally came before me Hugh Wadebery Clerk one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the faid County and acknowledged himself to be indebted to our Sovereign Lord the King in the sum of ten pounds of Lawful Money of Great Britain shall perfonally appear at the next Quarter Sessions acknowledged to be holden at Bedford and there to anfwer and Indictment to be preferred against him by Thomas Carter of Colmworth Labourer and not to depart without Leave of the Court. Then the Recognizance to be void, otherwife of Force. * Court - Convict: Bedfordshire Epiphany Sessions 1821 - Shelf Mark QSR 25/61 A Calendar of the Prisoners in His Majesty's Gaol for the said County Prisoner No 8 - Samuel Hite of Colmworth age 19. Committed the 23rd of October 1820, by the Rev. H.W. Gery, Clerk charged by the Oath of Thomas Stringer and others with having burglariously broken into the House of the said Thomas Stringer, a Colmworth, on the 17th Instant, and stolen therefrom a small trunk containing some writings, seventeen Guineas, five Half-Guineas and about ten Seven Shilling Pieces. * Court - Convict: Prisoners in County Gaol - Shelf Mark QGV 10/1: Page 60 - 29 December 1818 - Samuel HITE, aged 17, Colmworth, Violent Assault. Page 17 - 5 November 1820 - Samuel HITE, aged 19, Colmworth, Burglary, Transported for Life. * Court - Convict: Prisoners in County Gaol - Shelf Mark QGV 10/1: Page 60 Samuel HITE: Date Committed - 29 December 1818, Height - 5'4", Complexion - Fair, Hair - Light Brown, Age - 17, Abode - Colmworth, Offence - Violent Assault, Sentence - Bailed to 10 March 1819, Notes - orderly and well behaved. * Court - Convict: Page 70 (not 17) Samuel HITE: Date Committed - 5 November 1820 ,Height - 5' 4", Complexion -Fair, Hair - Light Brown, Age -19, Abode - Colmworth, Offence - Burglary (vide Page 60), Sentence - Death but reprieved to Transported for Life, Notes - To the Justitiar Hulk at Woolwich 8 May 1821, orderly and well behaved. * Court - Convict: Samual Hite - Convict report Transported for Burglary, Sentence - Life Goal report "Bad character, has been in custody before" Hulk report "Orderly" Stated M (mother) at Cowmouth (Colmworth?) - Washerwoman 21 Mar 1825 received 26 lashes for stealing about a peck of potatoes from Gov. garden Conditional Pardon No. 646 - 12 Nov 1834; Full Pardon No 670 - 15 Dec 1840. * Court - Convict: Name: Samuel Hite; Where Convicted: Bedford Asst; When: 14 Mar 1821; Sentence: Life; Native Place: Cowmouth Bed.; Trade or Calling: Farm Labr; Age: 19; Height: 5' 4 1/4"; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark Brown. I am looking for someone in Bedfordshire...or England itself... who could research Samuels date and place of birth, together with the full details of his parents, siblings and ancestors. I fully rtealise that there would be a cost involved and perhaps i could negotiate this with the interested party; Regards....George

There’s a family in Colmworth in 1841 who appear to be the “other” HITE family, although Samuel and James, father of your Samuel, were brothers: HO107/1/2 folio 14 Colmworth Samuel HITE 60 farmer (buried 13 July 1847 age 68) William 25; Samuel 20; James 20; Charlotte 15. Ages over 15 in 1841 were rounded down to the nearest 5 below. There’s a baptism of Charlotte HIGHT at Colmworth on 30 June 1823, daughter of Samuel and Jane, so the 3 baptisms mentioned in previous posts were a red herring, and couldn't have been children of the Samuel who was transported. (I can’t find baptisms for the three, presumably, sons living with Samuel in 1841). A Jane HIGHT was buried at Colmworth on 5 Dec 1838 age 56 There’s an Ann HITE age c55 buried in Colmworth on 11 March 1833, who might be the wife of James who was transported. Frances HITE is a bit of a mystery. She married William WAGSTAFF in 1820 – on the IGI at www.familysearch.org – and they are living in Colmworth in 1841, but I can’t trace her after that, although William is living in Whittlesey Cambs described as married, with his son Joseph in 1851. As there was no other Frances born c1801 it looks as though the burial I mentioned, of Frances Hite in 1850, may have been her, although I don’t recall seeing the burial of a married lady in her maiden name before. Colmworth parish register transcript has the following baptisms James HYTT 28 Apr 1776 son of Robert and Ann Samuel HYTT 6 Sept 1778 son of Robert and Ann Robert HITE was buried on 11 June 1787, and Mary HITE aged c89 on 19 March 1827 It would need reference to the parish register microfilm to confirm all these entries- it can be ordered from and viewed at your nearest LDS Family History Centre – a list can be found at the url above. You need to search the IGI for HITE, HIGHT and HYTT to pick up the variations. I think my surmising about the three children baptised in 1819 where the mother only is mentioned was correct, and was deliberately worded to differentiate the legitimate children of James and Ann, and the illegitimate children of Ann conceived after James had been transported. The A2A online catalogue at http://www.a2a.org.uk/ - search Hite – location of Archives Bedfordshire…. – has Reference: QSR/23/1817/207 Recognizances: Thomas Wagstaff, Colmworth, bastardy. (Woman's husband has been in foreign parts under sentence of transportation for some years.) ANN HITE Any chance that father and son could have met up in Australia? David --- En date de : Sam 12.7.08, George Herring <[email protected]> a écrit : > De: George Herring <[email protected]> > Objet: [BDF] Samuel Hite > À: [email protected] > Date: Samedi 12 Juillet 2008, 13h07 > G'Day....my wife's great, great, grandfather was > Samuel Hite born in or around Colmworth, Bedfordshire, > England circa 1801. He was transported to Van Diemans Land > (Australia) for life in 1821 and then after an adventurous > life married a convict, Mary Ann Pendrell. Samuel and Mary > the raised a large family and then went onto have an > extended family domiciled throughout Australia. What we > don't have is who were Samuels family in England. > > The following are the details which caused him to be > convicted, sentenced and transported: > > Samuel was convicted of Burglary in 1821 and sentenced to > life imprisonment. The sentence was subsequently commuted > to transportation to the colonies. He embarked aboard the > convict transport ship Malabar which sailed from Gravesend > on 22 June 1821 bound for Tasmania, > Australia.........previously known as Van Diemans > Land......with a total of 172 prisoners and arrived on 21 > October 1821. 171 of the prisoners disembarked at > Hobart,Tasmania, Australia. > > On 10 July 1837, he married a female convict Mary Ann > Pendrill (Pendrell) at Campbell Town, Tasmania, > Australia.Mary Ann had been transported in 1836 after being > convicted of obtaining goods under false pretences and being > sentenced to 7 years. > > > * Age: From his death certificate Samuel was aged 93 in 5 > June 1891 Samuel born in 1798. The trial records for Samuel > give his age as 17 in 1818 and 20 in 1820, ie born in 1801. > From the information in the book "Bushrangers in Van > Diemans Land 1824 -1827" Samuel was a youth of > nineteen, in 1824, ie born in 1805. > > He was uneducated or had very little education and signed > his name with an 'x' on and in all known documents. > > * Court - Convict: Quarter Sessions Roll - Shelf Mark QSR > 24 > > Note: I have use 'f' where written as 's' > and not used punctuation unless it appears in the original > document. > > 1819 - Reference 121 - No 17, Recognizance to Answer to an > Indictment > > Bedfordshire - Be it remembered that on the tenth day of > March in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred > and Nineteen, Samuel Hite of Colmworth Labourer personally > came before me Hugh Wadebery Clerk one of His Majesty's > Justices of the Peace of the faid County and acknowledged > himself to be indebted to our Sovereign Lord the King in > the sum of ten pounds of Lawful Money of Great Britain > shall perfonally appear at the next Quarter Sessions > acknowledged to be holden at Bedford and there to anfwer > and Indictment to be preferred against him by Thomas Carter > of Colmworth Labourer and not to depart without Leave of the > Court. Then the Recognizance to be void, otherwife of Force. > > * Court - Convict: Bedfordshire Epiphany Sessions 1821 - > Shelf Mark QSR 25/61 > > A Calendar of the Prisoners in His Majesty's Gaol for > the said County > > Prisoner No 8 - Samuel Hite of Colmworth age 19. Committed > the 23rd of October 1820, by the Rev. H.W. Gery, Clerk > charged by the Oath of Thomas Stringer and others with > having burglariously broken into the House of the said > Thomas Stringer, a Colmworth, on the 17th Instant, and > stolen therefrom a small trunk containing some writings, > seventeen Guineas, five Half-Guineas and about ten Seven > Shilling Pieces. > > * Court - Convict: Prisoners in County Gaol - Shelf Mark > QGV 10/1: > > Page 60 - 29 December 1818 - Samuel HITE, aged 17, > Colmworth, Violent Assault. > > Page 17 - 5 November 1820 - Samuel HITE, aged 19, > Colmworth, Burglary, Transported for Life. > > * Court - Convict: Prisoners in County Gaol - Shelf Mark > QGV 10/1: > > Page 60 Samuel HITE: Date Committed - 29 December 1818, > Height - 5'4", Complexion - Fair, Hair - Light > Brown, Age - 17, Abode - Colmworth, Offence - Violent > Assault, Sentence - Bailed to 10 March 1819, Notes - > orderly and well behaved. > > * Court - Convict: Page 70 (not 17) Samuel HITE: Date > Committed - 5 November 1820 ,Height - 5' 4", > Complexion -Fair, Hair - Light Brown, Age -19, Abode - > Colmworth, Offence - Burglary (vide Page 60), Sentence - > Death but reprieved to Transported for Life, Notes - To the > Justitiar Hulk at Woolwich 8 May 1821, orderly and well > behaved. > > * Court - Convict: Samual Hite - Convict report > > Transported for Burglary, Sentence - Life > > Goal report "Bad character, has been in custody > before" > > Hulk report "Orderly" > > Stated M (mother) at Cowmouth (Colmworth?) - Washerwoman > > 21 Mar 1825 received 26 lashes for stealing about a peck of > potatoes from Gov. garden > > Conditional Pardon No. 646 - 12 Nov 1834; Full Pardon No > 670 - 15 Dec 1840. > > * Court - Convict: Name: Samuel Hite; Where Convicted: > Bedford Asst; When: 14 Mar 1821; Sentence: Life; Native > Place: Cowmouth Bed.; Trade or Calling: Farm Labr; Age: 19; > Height: 5' 4 1/4"; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark Brown. > > I am looking for someone in Bedfordshire...or England > itself... who could research Samuels date and place of > birth, together with the full details of his parents, > siblings and ancestors. I fully rtealise that there would > be a cost involved and perhaps i could negotiate this with > the interested party; > > > > Regards....George > > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message _____________________________________________________________________________ Envoyez avec Yahoo! Mail. Une boite mail plus intelligente http://mail.yahoo.fr

Kia Ora Greetings from across the Ditch! Interestingly there is a member's submission (not always to be trusted!) on the Mormon site (LDS) which indicates a William Hite was baptised at Colmworth in 1798. His parents were apparently James Hytt and Ann STRINGER! There is no indication of a Samuel Hite baptism but it's interesting to note he burgled the home of a Thomas STRINGER! It might be worth getting the film of Colmworth Parish from your nearest Mormon Church Family History centre to see if you can find anything of interest. James Hite married Ann Stringer at Colmworth on 27 March 1795. They had a son named Samuel who was baptised 18 July 1819 (perhaps as an adult?? ) Most interesting perhaps is the entry for the Baptism of Hannah HITE on the 11 March 1821. Her parents were Samuel HITE and wife Jane! I cannot find a marriage, but if a marriage exists it might explain a late baptism undertaken before a marriage! I think it would be worth your while to get the film as there may be notes writtten by the Vicar that won't appear on the online version! Good luck Marlene. Fully fledged member of Ancestry Anonymous! George Herring wrote: > G'Day....my wife's great, great, grandfather was Samuel Hite born in or around Colmworth, Bedfordshire, England circa 1801. He was transported to Van Diemans Land (Australia) for life in 1821 and then after an adventurous life married a convict, Mary Ann Pendrell. Samuel and Mary the raised a large family and then went onto have an extended family domiciled throughout Australia. What we don't have is who were Samuels family in England. > > The following are the details which caused him to be convicted, sentenced and transported: > > Samuel was convicted of Burglary in 1821 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence was subsequently commuted to transportation to the colonies. He embarked aboard the convict transport ship Malabar which sailed from Gravesend on 22 June 1821 bound for Tasmania, Australia.........previously known as Van Diemans Land......with a total of 172 prisoners and arrived on 21 October 1821. 171 of the prisoners disembarked at Hobart,Tasmania, Australia. > > On 10 July 1837, he married a female convict Mary Ann Pendrill (Pendrell) at Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia.Mary Ann had been transported in 1836 after being convicted of obtaining goods under false pretences and being sentenced to 7 years. > > > * Age: From his death certificate Samuel was aged 93 in 5 June 1891 Samuel born in 1798. The trial records for Samuel give his age as 17 in 1818 and 20 in 1820, ie born in 1801. From the information in the book "Bushrangers in Van Diemans Land 1824 -1827" Samuel was a youth of nineteen, in 1824, ie born in 1805. > > He was uneducated or had very little education and signed his name with an 'x' on and in all known documents. > > * Court - Convict: Quarter Sessions Roll - Shelf Mark QSR 24 > > Note: I have use 'f' where written as 's' and not used punctuation unless it appears in the original document. > > 1819 - Reference 121 - No 17, Recognizance to Answer to an Indictment > > Bedfordshire - Be it remembered that on the tenth day of March in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen, Samuel Hite of Colmworth Labourer personally came before me Hugh Wadebery Clerk one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the faid County and acknowledged himself to be indebted to our Sovereign Lord the King in the sum of ten pounds of Lawful Money of Great Britain shall perfonally appear at the next Quarter Sessions acknowledged to be holden at Bedford and there to anfwer and Indictment to be preferred against him by Thomas Carter of Colmworth Labourer and not to depart without Leave of the Court. Then the Recognizance to be void, otherwife of Force. > > * Court - Convict: Bedfordshire Epiphany Sessions 1821 - Shelf Mark QSR 25/61 > > A Calendar of the Prisoners in His Majesty's Gaol for the said County > > Prisoner No 8 - Samuel Hite of Colmworth age 19. Committed the 23rd of October 1820, by the Rev. H.W. Gery, Clerk charged by the Oath of Thomas Stringer and others with having burglariously broken into the House of the said Thomas Stringer, a Colmworth, on the 17th Instant, and stolen therefrom a small trunk containing some writings, seventeen Guineas, five Half-Guineas and about ten Seven Shilling Pieces. > > * Court - Convict: Prisoners in County Gaol - Shelf Mark QGV 10/1: > > Page 60 - 29 December 1818 - Samuel HITE, aged 17, Colmworth, Violent Assault. > > Page 17 - 5 November 1820 - Samuel HITE, aged 19, Colmworth, Burglary, Transported for Life. > > * Court - Convict: Prisoners in County Gaol - Shelf Mark QGV 10/1: > > Page 60 Samuel HITE: Date Committed - 29 December 1818, Height - 5'4", Complexion - Fair, Hair - Light Brown, Age - 17, Abode - Colmworth, Offence - Violent Assault, Sentence - Bailed to 10 March 1819, Notes - orderly and well behaved. > > * Court - Convict: Page 70 (not 17) Samuel HITE: Date Committed - 5 November 1820 ,Height - 5' 4", Complexion -Fair, Hair - Light Brown, Age -19, Abode - Colmworth, Offence - Burglary (vide Page 60), Sentence - Death but reprieved to Transported for Life, Notes - To the Justitiar Hulk at Woolwich 8 May 1821, orderly and well behaved. > > * Court - Convict: Samual Hite - Convict report > > Transported for Burglary, Sentence - Life > > Goal report "Bad character, has been in custody before" > > Hulk report "Orderly" > > Stated M (mother) at Cowmouth (Colmworth?) - Washerwoman > > 21 Mar 1825 received 26 lashes for stealing about a peck of potatoes from Gov. garden > > Conditional Pardon No. 646 - 12 Nov 1834; Full Pardon No 670 - 15 Dec 1840. > > * Court - Convict: Name: Samuel Hite; Where Convicted: Bedford Asst; When: 14 Mar 1821; Sentence: Life; Native Place: Cowmouth Bed.; Trade or Calling: Farm Labr; Age: 19; Height: 5' 4 1/4"; Eyes: Grey; Hair: Dark Brown. > > I am looking for someone in Bedfordshire...or England itself... who could research Samuels date and place of birth, together with the full details of his parents, siblings and ancestors. I fully rtealise that there would be a cost involved and perhaps i could negotiate this with the interested party; > > > > Regards....George > > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

George, Bedford Gaol database has a James Hite 27 of Colmworth convicted in 1805 for sheep stealing with death sentence commuted to life (presumably transportation). Then in 1821 it has your Samuel Hite age 19 transported for burglary. Both have to be related, but were they possibly father and son??? IGI Batches for Colmworth don't have many Hite events before 1800. To me this suggests they came from elsewhere. Also the christening batches only have females, which might mean a separate book for males has been lost. I also found a user submission for the 1891 death of Samuel Hite which suggest he was born in Kent. Peter in Sydney