Thomas Ayling

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Iris Dunne on 26th July 2018

Death: Registration Year: 1872, Registration Place: Glebe NSW, Registration Number: 2023 Death: 10 Sep 1872 Grose St,Glebe, N.S.W. Australia - from Ancestry Burial: 12 Sep 1872 Sydney, NSW, Australia Church of England, Rookwood Cemetery, Lidcombe

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Iris Dunne on 26th July 2018

Certificate of Freedom No.45/7 dated 1 February 1845, Aged 44, Year of Birth: 1801, Trade: Gentleman Servant & Laborer, Offence: Housebreaking

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John Phillips on 26th July 2018

The following is an article from The Brighton Gazette dated March 23, 1826: "George Challen, 37, and Thomas Ayling, 22 indicted on suspicion of having in the night of the 18th of January, burglariously entered the dwelling house of John Colebrook, at Trotten, and stolen therefrom a teapot, carving knife, and other articles, value forty shillings, his property. Mr. Long for the prosecution called Mrs. Colebrook, who said. I am wife of J. Colebrook, at Trotten, in this county; it is a lone house; myself, husband, and child, are the only inmates; I was the last person that was up in the house on the 18th January last, and saw that all was safe, when I went to bed. My husband got up first in the morning, he went out of the front door and took the key with him; that was between six and seven o'clock; it was nor quite light; I got up about seven and went into the cellar; observed the glass of the cellar window was out of its place; it slides up and down; there are iron bars to the window as well as on the outside, which was broken, and a hole made large enough for a person to get in; the bars were safe. In looking about found I had lost a side of pork, pot of lard, some knives and forks. The doors were quite safe, no one could reach the door from the window. Cross-examined by Mr. Andrews - The house is by itself; it must be hard squeezing for a man to get through the hole in the window. J. Colebrook corroborated the statement of his wife, and added, that from some information he went to search Challen's house, at Harting, about 17 miles from Trotten, on the 20th January, and found a tea pot and some knives and forks; would swear positively to their being his property. Cross-examined by Mr. Andrews - Can positively swear to the property, by some particular marks; thinks the men could get through the hole in the window. James Cobden, the constable, who went with Colbrook to search Challen's house, said in his cross-examination that he found the knives in a brook near the house. Hannah Hunting proved she saw two men of the description of Challen and Ayling pass her gate with a horse and cart, about 12 o'clock in the day, going apparently towards Emsworth; knows Ayling very well. James Chitty sworn - Saw Challen and Ayling going towards Hartling, about one mile and a half from that place, about half-past two in the afternoon. Two other neighbours gave evidence to the same effect. Wm. Steed proved he saw the prisoners at Trotten, with a horse and cart, very early in the morning of the 18th of January, as he was racking his master's horses. Ann Nash, whose evidence was unimportant, was called, as were also Wm. Lintott, the person who went with Colebrook in the search, and John Ayling, father to the prisoner, but no question was asked him. Verdict - Guilty - Death Recorded." Evidently this sentence was commuted from death to transportation for life at a later date. John Phillips, Western Australia.