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Transportation
Thomas Eastwood was transported on the Neptune, departing 4th Oct 1837 and arriving 18th Jan 1838 with 359 passengers.
NeptuneReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/11, Page Number 164 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
National Archives. Criminal Petitions. HO HO 17/125/58 Prisoner name: Thomas Eastwood, John Elson, Sidney Kaye. Court and date of trial: Lancaster Lent Assizes, Liverpool, March 1836. Crime: [Highway] Robbery of Albert Hudson Royds. Initial sentence: Sentences commuted to transportation for life. Annotated (Outcome): Pardon prepared for John Elson, 20 July 1837 [sent to the Penitentiary]. Petitioner(s): The prisoners and petitions from inhabitants of Salford and Ashton under Lyne. Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Innocent of the crime, which has since been confessed to by five men tried at Shrewsbury Assizes and convicted of a number of highway robberies. Other papers: Large bundle of correspondence accompanying and supporting petitions and witness statements; relating to the confession of Lawrence Curtis, alias John McGuire, one of the five Irishmen convicted at Shrewsbury; reports from the Penitentiary on Elson; letters from Lord Chief Justice Denman; a printed pamphlet by Mr Taylor, prosecution counsel, A reply to the falsehoods propagated in behalf of the highwaymen Eastwood, Elson and Kay with a map showing the place of the robbery; letters from John Elson to his parents and wife, including a poem, and a letter shared with Sidney Kay; notes and other papers from the trial at Liverpool Spring Assizes 1836; newspaper cuttings. Date: [1836-1839]
Wrongly accused of highway robbery at Rochdale Lancashire on Sep 24th 1835. The actual offenders later admitted the crime and were sentenced at Shrewsbury (some executed and others transported to Van Diemans land for life) He had coincidentally been convicted wrongly of a robbery at the same place the previous year and sentenced to life. A Captain Hopwood proved his innocence and he was given a pardon. By a further coincidence the first robbery was carried out by the same gang as committed the second one. See Manchester Guardian from Sept 1835 - a series of pieces under the heading `Robbery in the Rochdale road`. Thomas Eastwood was convicted together with Sidney Kay and John Elson. Sidney Kay was on the same ship, but no record has been found of John Elson; it is suspected that he died in custody. Both Eastwood and Kay appear to have been given pardons after many years in Tasmania.