Thomas Fleming

HE MARRIED ANNE JANE GRIGGS GRANDAUGHTER OF SARAH GRIGGS 2 FLEET CONVICT WHO ARRIVED ON THE SHIP 'NEPTUNE 'THE SHIP FROM HELL.THOMAS AGE 28YRS AND ANNE JUST 15 YRS AND HAD MANY CHILDREN. ONE OF HIS CHILDREN WAS SARAH CHARLOTTE FLEMING WHO MARRIED MARS MORPHETT MILLER SECOND BORN SON OF HENRY 'MONEY' MILLER AND JANE MORPHETT, HENRY WAS THE RICHES MAN IN VICTORIA FOR HIS TIME. THOMAS FLEMING WAS BORN ABT; 1796 TRIED IN OXFORD 23 APRIL 1816 FOR STEALING A METAL WATCH TO THE VALUE 5/-. THE GOODS BELONGING TO JOHN VERNON. HE WAS SENTANCE TO 7 YRS TRANSPOTATION.ABOARD THE SIR WILLIAM BENSLEY AND WAS TRANSPOTED TO THE ELIZEBETH HENRIETTA 7TH APRIL 1817AGE 15YRS DESCRIBED AS BEING 5FT 9' BROWN HAIR, HAZEL EYES. GOT HIS TICKET OF LEAVE FEB 1824 RECIEVED HIS FREE TICKET 18 DEC 1825. DIED 25 MARCH 1870 AGE 72 YRS. ANN SURVIVED HIM BY TEN YEARS DYING 29 AUGUST 1880 AGE 70 YRS. BOTH ARE BURIED IN A WESLEYAN METHODIST CEMETERY WELLINGTON ST OATLANDS TASMANIA.THATS ALL I KNOW FOR NOW.

THOMAS FLEMING WAS THE SON OF THOMAS FLEMING b abt;1750 WALINGTON ENGLAND and ELIZEBETH JOHNSON b abt; 1760 OXFORDSHIHIRE ENGLAND. THOMAS WAS THE YOUNGEST AND THE ONLY SON ,HE HAD 2 SISTERS ANN b abt; 1797 and Pheby [ Phoebe ] b abt; 1799, Thomas was b abt; 1801 d abt; 1870, He was only 15 when sentanced to 7 yrs Transportation in 1816 for stealing a watch. THERE IS A PORTRAIT IN THE TASMANIAN ARCHIVES OF A CONVICT THOMAS FLEMING AT PORT ARTHUR PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN BUT POSSIBLY TAKEN BY A. H. BOYD OR T.J. NEVIN TAKEN FROM A GLASS NEGATIVE BUT NOT SURE IF IT IS THE SAME THOMAS FLEMING. THOMAS m ANNE JANE GRIGGS COLLINS and they had 13 CHILDREN -6 DAUGHTERS AND 7 SONS.as follows, SARAH CHARLOTTE,b Nov 1825, MARY ANN b July 1828, THOMAS b Oct 1830, JANE b Jan 1833, RICHARD b 24 June 1835 , ELIZEBETH b Oct 1839, GEORGE b Mar 1842,JAMES b June 1845, JOHN[DEC]1846, CHARLES FRANCIS b MAR 1849,FANNY B JULY 1851, ANNE b July 1851-52, AND JOHN b Aug 1855.

Thomas Fleming per St Vincent was tried at the Supreme Court on 9 Sept 1867 for housebreaking and larceny, sentenced to seven years. He was born in Yorkshire , aged 38 yrs, 5 ft 6ins, black hair, Free in Servitude. Two moles on left cheek. He was discharged from the Hobart Gaol on 7 January 1874, and photographed on discharge by police photographer Thomas J. Nevin. There was no photographer by the name of A. H. Boyd in Tasmania: he was briefly a Commandant at the Port Arthur prison. He had nothing to do with these police mugshots.

my name is gay fleming I was born in 1939 and I am claude Flemings daughter who was born in1907 and died in 1962. He lived at the Shot Tower,TAROONA and later at BATTERY POINT.

Unfortunately, the Thomas Fleming photo at Port Arthur is not our Thomas. The photo was taken in 1874, after our Thomas had died.

Some of the comments are incorrect. The only ones I accept as correct were Anonymous on 15th June, 2011 and Andrew Bonnitcha on 7th June, 2016. The two with bad comparisons are Anonymous on 8th June, 2011 who said that Thomas Fleming was born circa 1796, when he was born in 1801, and Sid Fisher on 13th November, 2014 who said that Thomas had been charged in 1867, which was after Thomas' release many years earlier.

Thomas' mother had died in 1810 when he was 9 years old, and his father died in 1815 when he was only 14 years old. Possibly, with no parents any more, the watch he had stolen might have been either to get money for food or might have been to do with his grief. Getting a 7 years jail sentence was far too much, but for Thomas to get to Australia meant he could start a new future with a wife, children, and becoming a publican.

Anonymous's comment "HE MARRIED ANNE JANE GRIGGS GRANDAUGHTER OF SARAH GRIGGS 2 FLEET CONVICT WHO ARRIVED ON THE SHIP ‘NEPTUNE ‘THE SHIP FROM HELL",is not quite correct. Ann Jane Griggs was the grand daughter of the convict Sarah Griggs of the ship Neptune, not daughter. Convict Sarah Griggs had a daughter named Sarah Griggs with Captain John Townson. Anne Jane Griggs Collins was born of Sarah Griggs Jr and Nathanial Collins.

Find A Grave Memorial ID No. 152509274, with Biography Death: 25 March 1870 Burial: Weslyan Oatlands Cemetery https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152509274/thomas-fleming

At our County Sessions, holden Tuesday last, before Coker, Esq. Chairman, and other Comity magistrates, William Jarratt and Thomas Fleming, were convicted of stealing one metal watch, the property of Mr Vernon, Watlington, and sentenced to be transported for 7 years; Oxford University and City Herald, 27 April 1816. -------------------------------------------------- On Monday last, Wm. Coburn, John Sumner, Stephen Steele, William Jarrett and Thomas Fleming, were removed from our county gaol to the hulks at Woolwich, preparatory to their being transported to Botany Bay; Oxford Journal, 15 June 1816. --------------------------------------------------- Hulk Records at Woowich. Received 10 June 1816, Thos Fleming, age 15, Metal watch, Oxford Q. Sess, 23 Apr 1816, B. Seas, 7 years, Trans 5 Sep 1816. Wm. Jarrett, age 16, Metal watch, Oxford Q. Sess, 23 Apr 1816, B. Seas, 7 years, Trans 5 Sep 1816. -------------------------------------------------- Tasmanian Convict Conduct Record. No 151. Thos. Fleming. Sir William Bensley & E. Henrietta. Tried 23 April 1816, 7 years. Nov 9 1826. F.S. (Free by servitude) Drunk & disy. last night, fined 5/-. April 17 1823. F.S. Drunk & disy. Fined 5/-. Feb 24 1824. F.S. Refused to fulfill his contract as a hired servant- ord. To fulfill it. Nov 7 1828. F.S. Refusing to pay Robt. Notley wages justly due to him. Ordered to pay Notley 25/- in money & to deliver him 6 sheep & a pr. Of Boots as per agreement. March 1833. F.S. Feloniously taking & killing one ewe sheep , the property of Wm. Watson of Hobart Town fully commd to Hobt. Town Gaol for trial before Supreme Court. ------------------------------------------------------- Description Record. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON23-1-1$init=CON23-1-1-P136 No 151. Thomas Fleming, age 23/1825. height, 5 ft 8 ½ , fresh comp, brown hair, haszel eyes. Labourer. Tried at Oxford, 23 Apr 1816, 7 years. From Europe- Sir William Bensley 1817, To This colony (I.e. VDL) E. Henrietta. Native place, Waddleton, Oxfordshire. Large scar inside right wrist, ring fr right hand crippled. F.C. 439 18 Dec 1825.

Tasmanian Records. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-1$init=CON13-1-1P71 List of the names of 70 male convicts embarked on board the H.M. Col. Brig Elizabeth Henrietta for the settlements of the Derwent and Port Dalrymple in Van Diemen’s Land, with their places and time of trial, etc, from the Muster Roll of the Ships by which they arrived. Sydney, 22 March 1817. Port Dalrymple. Thos. Fleming (bricklayer), arrived by Sir Wm. Bensley, tried at Oxford, 1816, 7 years. -------------------------------------------------- After Thomas' death: NOTICE.-All persons having CLAIMS against the estate of the late Thomas Fleming, of Oatlands (deceased), are requested to forward them at once to the Undersigned. ANN FLEMING. Oatlands, 18th April, 1870. The Mercury, 20 Apr 1870. -------------------------------------------------- DEATH - FLEMING.—On Sunday, August 29, at Oatlands, Anne Jane, relict of the late Thomas Fleming, aged 70 years and 4 months. The funeral will leave her late residence THIS DAY, 31st inst., at half-past 2 o'clock. Friends are invited to attend. The Mercury, 31 Aug 1880.