Thomas Carle

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Iris Dunne on 6th August 2019

Ticket of Leave No.462/193 dated 6 October 1825 in lieu of No.76/885 (difficult to read numbers), Year of Birth 1781, Trade Gardener Ticket of Leave No.38/411 dated 10 March 1838 in the district of Windsor, in leau of No.462/1936 dated 6th Oct. 1825 Cancelled, Trade Gardener, Year of Birth 1781 Conditional Pardon No.285 dated 1844, Trade Gardener, Year of Birth 1781

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Beth Taylor on 6th August 2019

1806, 1 January - Thomas Curl and Betty (Elizabeth) Stacey were wed in Bramshaw, Wiltshire, England. (Source: Wiltshire, England, Marriages, 1538-1837, Ancestry online) ======================================================================= 1814-1815 - Thomas Curl was tried at the Lent Assize Court in Warwick, Wiltshire on 12 March 1814. Curl was charged with horse stealing. His original sentence was "death" which was commuted to transportation for life. He reached Sydney on the convict ship Indefatigable on 26/04/1815. (Source: England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892, Class: HO 27; Piece: 10; Page: 331 & Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868, Class: HO 11; Piece: 2) ======================================================================== 1815, June 19 - CURL, Elizabeth. Came free per "Northampton", 1815; wife of Thomas. On a list of free passengers on board "Northampton" with 2 children, Elizabeth, aged 8 & Sophia (Kezia) aged 5. (Source: NSW Col Sec Papers, Reel 6045; 4/1732 pp.160, 163) ================================================================ 1817 - A remarkably fine sized pullet is at this time in possession of Thomas Curl, of Castlereagh-street, which from its peculiar proportion and conformation deserves a rank among those extraordinary productions, which as natural phenomena fix the attention of the curious, and excite sentiments of admiration in the mind of the moralist.— The above animal is possessed of three legs; has every external appearance of possessing two exclusory passages ; and has for several days past laid two eggs a day. The price demanded for her by the owner is at present two pounds sterling. (Source: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Saturday 12 July 1817, page 3) ======================================================================== 1827 - WINDSOR. Thomas Curle was charged, that he had improperly taken possession of a cow, said to be the property of a person at Pitt Town. The prisoner said it had strayed into his herd of cattle. The man bears a good character, and it would be a pity he should lose that for beef, which has now "saved his bacon." Some few sentences by way of lecture were given to the prisoner, for the benefit of the auditory also; and he was then discharged. (Source: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Wednesday 16 May 1827, page 3) ======================================================================== 1831 - WHEREAS THOMAS CURL, my husband, a prisoner for life, a I ticket-of-leave man, to whom I came out free,- but whose ill treatment induced me to complain to the Magistrates, and which was attended with a separation, is about to make away with, by sale or mortgage, a firm at the Hawkesbury, in the parish of Pitt Town, at Nelson's Point,of sixty acres, which farm I paid for with my own.money, the said money being the produce of town allotment ;given me by Governor Macquarie; I hereby forewarn all persons from purchasing the said farm from the said Thomas Curl; he being a prisoner for life; and not being authorised in-law to sell my property without myconsent, and he a being at this present time charged with a e felony and on bail: - ELIZABETH CURL. Erskine-street, Sydney, 1 Nov. 7, 1831. (Source: Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838), Saturday 12 November 1831, page 3) ========================================================================== 1856 - WINDSOR. An inquest was held at the North Rocks, on the 20th instant, before Mr. J. Dowe, coronor, and a jury, on the body of one Thomas Curl, then and there lying dead. It appeared that the deceased was a very aged man (74), and that death resulted from natural causes. A verdict was returned accordingly. (Source: Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Monday 1 September 1856, page 2) ========================================================================== 1857 - SALES BY AUCTION. JOHN B. LAVERACK has received instructions from Messrs Thompson and Morris to sell by public auction, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th instant, at 11 o'clock, at Mr. Walter Blanchard's Hotel, Windsor, 60 acres of land at the North Rocks, near Pitt Town, lately the property of Mr. Thomas Curl. (Source: Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Saturday 25 July 1857, page 7) ==========================================================================

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Maureen Withey on 30th April 2019

At the Wiltshire Assizes, James Symes, was capitally convicted for setting fire to a coach-house and stable belonging to Mrs Mary Bush, of Bradford, and received sentence of death, he is to be executed on the 29th. Robert Marshmant (aged 16) was convicted of a rape on Eliz Greenhill, at Trowbridge, and is also to be executed on 29th inst. Thomas Curle, for stealing a horse, the property of T. Judd, Winterslow; Paul Chubb, for stealing a black gelding, the property of person or persons unknown; Richard Dee, for stealing one ewe sheep, the property of N. Bennett; and Henry Waters, for breaking into the dwelling -house of George Burt, at West Dean, and stealing goods from thence; received sentence of death, but have since been reprieved. Salisbury Journal, 21 Mar 1814. On Tuesday last, Thomas Curl and Paul Chubb, for horse-stealing, and Robert Marchment, for rape, (convicted at our last assizes), were removed from Fisherton Gaol, and place on board the Captivity hulk, in Portsmouth harbour, preparatory to their being transported for life. Salisbury Journal, Mon 27 Jun 1814 Prison Hulk Record, HO 9-8-3 p.34 Received (3 prisoners) from New Sarum. Thomas Curle, aged 34, convicted for Life at New Sarum, 12 March 1814