Pat Hase wrote: > I am looking at a Mary SOUTHCOTT who was tried at the Gloucester Quarter > Sessions for theft in Oct 1841 and sentenced to 7 years transportation (and > 3 weeks in solitude). I believe that her case is reported in the Gloucester > Journal of 2 Oct 1841. She sailed on the Royal Admiral. > According to a book on Gloucestershire Transportees published by The Bristol > & Gloucestershire Archealogical Society she was from Charlton Kings but in > the records available online from the Archives Office of Tasmania she was > from Goodridge in Herefordshire. > Could someone check her offence as given on > http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON15-1-2,340,39,F,23 > She's the 4th entry from the top and the piece I'm having difficulty with is > the last column on the right It looks like: > Transported for stealing a ring and a florin from my master Walter Geary a Surgeon, > Gloster Would he be listed in a directory of the period or the 1841 census? -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/
? Hi Pat, I agree with Charani, except that the Surgeons first name looks like Mathew to me. >From Jenny My Family History Website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~becher/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Charani Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 3:02 AM To: gloucester@rootsweb.com ; pat@pathase.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [GLS] Mary SOUTHCOTT - transported to Australia 1842 Pat Hase wrote: > I am looking at a Mary SOUTHCOTT who was tried at the Gloucester Quarter > Sessions for theft in Oct 1841 and sentenced to 7 years transportation > (and > 3 weeks in solitude). I believe that her case is reported in the > Gloucester > Journal of 2 Oct 1841. She sailed on the Royal Admiral. > According to a book on Gloucestershire Transportees published by The > Bristol > & Gloucestershire Archealogical Society she was from Charlton Kings but > in > the records available online from the Archives Office of Tasmania she was > from Goodridge in Herefordshire. > Could someone check her offence as given on > http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON15-1-2,340,39,F,23 > She's the 4th entry from the top and the piece I'm having difficulty with > is > the last column on the right It looks like: > Transported for stealing a ring and a florin from my master Walter Geary a > Surgeon, > Gloster Would he be listed in a directory of the period or the 1841 census? -- Charani (UK)