Convict Register Details
Midwest WA Heritage Convict Register Details
Convict Registry ID:1974
| SURNAME | SMITH |
|---|---|
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| OTHER NAME | |
| CONVICT NO | 5139 |
| BIRTH/DEATH | 1835 – 29.06.1894 Geraldton, heart failure, bur Urch St Cemetery Geraldton |
| BRITISH DATA | unmarr, farm lab, semi lit, Prot; character - good |
| PRE CONVICTION | |
| CONVICTION | Chester 28.03.1857 manslaughter of William Vaughan, police officer, at Birkenhead, ‘prisoner thanked his Lordship and walked away with a firm step’, 14yrs (The Cheshire Observer, 04 Apr 1857, p7; The Preston Guardian, 04 Apr 1857) |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | 5ft 8ins, brown hair, dark grey eyes, round visage, sallow complexion, middling stout, cut right thumb |
| ARRIVAL | Fremantle – Edwin Fox 21.11.1858 from Portsmouth Prison |
| CERTIFICATES | TL17.12.1860, CP11.04.1863 York, CF03.11.1871 |
| LOCATION/ EMPLOYMENT | ^1862 Greenough farmer, bought 40 acres (reserve 5041), at the intersection of Kennedy and Georgina Roads Back Flats Road in the vicinity of the primary school; 1860 - 1880 employed 8 TL men, one a plasterer |
| FAMILY | Marr – Sarah BRIDGEMAN (07.05.1842 England - 25.10.1918) 07.06.1865 Geraldton
Children: Maud SMITH: 1863 Greenough - 1920 Kojonup, marr Bert Bowman of Tambellup; Ellen SMITH: 04.04.1866 Greenough - 09.12.1928 Toodyay, marr Henry ANDERSON, Ellen was a teacher at the school; Alice SMITH: 1867 Greenough – 1929, Alice was a teacher in the school, marr Thomas ANDERSON of Geraldton; Annie SMITH: 1869 Greenough - 07.06.1943 Perth, marr Walter Moltke WITHAM 1896 Perth; Mary Ann Amelia SMITH: 1873 Greenough - 1940 Northam, marr Herbert Henry OLIVER 1895 Geraldton |
| WA CONVICTIONS | *Sep 1882 (p163) Guildford, unlawful use and occupation of Crown Lands, fined £5 and costs |
| WA RECONVICTIONS | |
| COMMENTS | |
| REFERENCES | SROWA – Convict Register Acc 1156 R21B; Estimates and Convict Lists Acc 128/32; WA Museum Welcome Walls; ^Erickson, R: Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre1829 – 1888, p2879; *WA Police Gazette |
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