Convict Register Details
Midwest WA Heritage Convict Register Details
Convict Registry ID:1166
| SURNAME | LOCKETT |
|---|---|
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| OTHER NAME | |
| CONVICT NO | 6912/10 177 |
| BIRTH/DEATH | 1831 – 19.09.1894 Perth |
| BRITISH DATA | marr Mary SMITHSON, 1855 Aylsham, Norfolk; shoemaker, lit, Prot; character - good; behaviour in separate confinement - good/bad, on public works - good/very good, on voyage - indifferent |
| PRE CONVICTION | July 1848 Norwich malicious killing of an ass, 10yrs |
| CONVICTION | Norwich 06.01.1858 as a Ticket of Leave man, with his wife Mary and George Randall, breaking and entering the house of Sarah Canham, a widow, stealing a copper, 3 sacks of apples, a sack of potatoes, prev conv, 10yrs; Mary was found guilty of receiving, 8 months; George Randall, 12 months (The Bury & Norwich Post, 12 Jan 1858) |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | aged 32, 5ft 6ins, black hair, light hazel eyes, full visage, sallow complexion, stout build; Mar 1876 - scar on left thigh, lame from rheumatism |
| ARRIVAL | Fremantle – Merchantman 16.02.1863 from Bermuda Prison |
| CERTIFICATES | TL14.03.1863 Champion Bay, CP17.10.1865 Victoria District; [10 177] TL Own Acc 25.11.1878 (*p197) Greenough, *Feb 1879 (p35) deprived of TL on Own Account |
| LOCATION/ EMPLOYMENT | 10.03.1863 CE signed for his personal property - 4 books, small scissors, thread, needles, tin box, knife, boot hook, sent on to Champion Bay; 13.03.1863 located in Victoria District; 30.06.1863 - 30.06.1865 Victoria District, shoemaker, journeyman; ¹Oct 1864 Victoria District, letter inquiring about his CP; ^1865 - 1870 employed 5 TL men; 1872 Greenough, accused Joshua Waldeck of allowing 12 head of cattle to trespass on his land, proved; ᴳᴿᴾ08 Mar 1872 Greenough, accused Joshua Waldeck of allowing 5 horses to roam on his property, case dismissed, neither party attending; ᴳᴿᴾ24 Jun 1872 Greenough, accused Joshua Waldeck of allowing 13 head of cattle to trespass on his land, proved; ᴳᴿᴾ24 Jun 1872 Greenough, accused Frank Allender of allowing.... to trespass on his land, proved; ᴳᴿᴾ27 Jun 1872 Greenough, accused Joshua Waldeck of the trespass of 6 horses & 34 head of cattle on his land, proved; ᴳᴿᴾ27 Jun 1872 Greenough, accused Frank Allender of trespass, allowing 7 pigs to trespass on his land, proved; ᴳᴿᴾ19 Mar 1874 Greenough, assaulted by Henry Locke |
| FAMILY | |
| WA CONVICTIONS | 05 Feb 1866 Geraldton, with others, supplying or adding & abetting in supplying Mrs Allender with spirituous liquors she being a prohibited person by act of council, fined £5 or 3m ᴳᴿᴾ14 Feb 1872 Greenough, assault of Andrew Dyson, fined 5/- & costs ᴳᴿᴾ30 Oct 1872 Greenough, accused of trespass in a wheat field of Joshua Waldeck, cautioned & costs ᴳᴿᴾ09 Dec 1872 Greenough, drunk & incapable, fined 5/- ᴳᴿᴾ02 Apr 1873 Greenough, drunk Greenough Hotel, fined 10/- Aug 1873 Greenough, drunk & disorderly at the Hampton Hotel, fined £1 & costs 10 177 *Dec 1879 (p211) Geraldton, drunk & disorderly, 7d *May 1880 (p86) Greenough, drunk, 14d *Jun 1880 (p106) Greenough, drunk, 21d *Jul 1880 (p138) Greenough, drunk, 21d *Aug 1880 (p138) Greenough, drunk, 21d *Oct 1882 (p170, p190) Geraldton, assault on John Scully with intent to do bodily harm, remanded |
| WA RECONVICTIONS | [10 177] – ᴳᴿᴾ06 Dec 1875, 01.03.1876 (p22, 1878 p97) Geraldton, at Greenough, wilfully & corruptly committed perjury by swearing that he sold hay to John Mew and that he was lodging with Henry Locke in June 1874, committed for trial Perth, 3yrs WA Data – marr, shoemaker |
| COMMENTS | |
| REFERENCES | SROWA – Convict Register Acc 1156 R7, R21B, R22; Estimates and Convict Lists Acc 128/32; Government Gazette Mar 1863/10, p45; Record of Court Cases Acc 1156 V23; ¹Register of Correspondence Acc 1156 C48/4531; Geraldton Police Charge Book Cons 661/41 Entry 161; GRPGreenough Police Court Records Cons 4411; *WA Police Gazette; ^Erickson, R: Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre1829 – 1888, p1883; Greenough Court House – data collected by Gary Martin Greenough Museum and Gardens |
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