Joseph Aylward

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Maureen Withey on 16th December 2021

Joseph Aylward was transported twice. —Joseph Aylward, charged with stealing a quantity of red clover seed and hempen sack, the property of William Freeborn, of Aldham. The Suffolk Chronicle, 23 Feb 1833. -------------------------------------------------- Friday last, six male convicts were removed from Bury Gaol to be put on board the York Hulk, lying at Gosport, viz. Joseph Aylward, Caleb Banks, Joseph Last, Edward Plummer, George Downing, and John Davis, to be transported for seven years. The Ipswich Journal, 30 March 1833. -------------------------------------------------- Description Record: https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON18-1-20$init=CON18-1-20p127 Joseph Aylward, trade, Farmer, age 27, height 5ft 7. Native Place, Bury St Edmunds. ---------------------------------------------------- His first Conduct Record: https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-2$init=CON31-1-2p98 No 587. Joseph Aylward, tried Suffolk Q.S. 6 March 1833, 7 years. Transported for stealing clover seed. Gaol report: Neighbours speak ill of him. Hulk report: Good. Single. 1 brother Peter transported to the colony about 3 years ago. Surgeon’s Report, Good. Free Certificate No 248/1840. ---------------------------------------------------- His second conviction and sentence: Joseph Aylward, and Joseph Aylward, jun., for stealing a quantity of wheat from a barn at Groton ; to be transported, the former for life, and the latter for 7 years. Bury and Norwich Post, 15 Jan 1845. Robbery at Groton, and apprehension of the thieves.—On Thursday morning week, as constable Carlo was on his beat, little before two o'clock in the morning, and when near to Gosling's Green, Boxford, he suddenly came across two men, each of them with a sack-full (as it afterwards turned out to be) of undressed wheat, and which had just been taken from off-hand barn belonging Mr. Isaac Strutt, of Groton Place, about half mile off. The thieves made off towards Street Green, but Carlo came up close enough, as they crossed the stile, to know them, and would have taken the elder one of the two, but the sacks were in the way and impeded his doing so. He, however, next morning apprehended Joseph Aylward, the elder, at Kersey; and on Friday he apprehended Joseph Aylward, the younger, and nephew to the above. Saturday they were examined at the Fleece Inn, Boxford, before Chias. Tyrell, Esq., and the Hon. and Rev. F. A. Phipps, when the wheat was sworn to being the property of the said Mr. Strutt; and upon Carlo's identifying of the thieves, and other strong evidence, they were both fully committed to take their trial at the next Bury Sessions. Norfolk Chronicle, 11 Jan 1845. His second Indent record: Indent: https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON14-1-29$init=CON14-1-29P266 and https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON14-1-29$init=CON14-1-29P267 Joseph Aylward, age, 5.2, C.E. religion, can read, married, 1 child. Offence: Stealing wheat, 5 bushels, pro Mr Strutt, C. Suffolk. Served 7 years transportation in V. D. Land before with Capt Moriarty, came out in the Stakesby in 1833. Went home in the Barque Ann. Trade, Farm labourer. Native place, Suffolk. W, Eliza, B, John, Robert, Peter. Sis, Sarah, all at N.P.