Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Thomas Bennett Gard was transported on the Arab, departing 3rd Jul 1822 and arriving 6th Nov 1822 with 156 passengers.
Arab had another voyage as a convict ship - after discharging 228 prisoners in Hobart, Arab departed on 26 July 1834 with 11 prisoners for Sydney; arrived there on 15 August 1834. Source: The Sydney Herald, Monday 18 August 1834 p 2 Two of the prisoners were William COMSTIVE, and Thomas HORTON - both having arrived in VDL per "Lady Ridley" 1821; and both having been sentenced to secondary transportation.
Arab (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 185 (93) |
| 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 |
Claims
"My 3 x great grandfather. He married Mary Bailey in 1831. Mary was daughter of Kent convict John Bailey. The Gard family moved to South Australia in the late 1840's and the death of Thomas is not known. Mary died in 1894."
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Convict Notes
National Archives. Criminal Petitions. HO 17/92/18 Prisoner name(s): Thomas Bennet Gard (or Thomas Bennettgard). Court and date of trial: Wiltshire Lent Assizes 1822. Crime: House-breaking. Initial sentence: Death commuted to transportation for life. Annotated (Outcome): 9 May 1822 Refused. Petitioner(s): William Howard, in whose house the prisoner had lived for five years and four others, all inhabitants of Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Innocence of prisoner - he had merely been found speaking to the culprits when officers came to arrest them; good character of the prisoner throughout life. Date, 1822 Apr 25.
Hulk Report, National Archives, HO9-9-3. p.1 Received on hulk from Fisherton Gaol, 1 May 1822, with 13 other prisoners. T. B. Gard, age 19, convicted at New Sarum for a felony, 9 Mar 1822, sentence, Life, left hulk for NSW, 29 Jun '22.
Father Robert Gard was transported in 1819 (aged 59) Married Mary Bailey in 1831 and moved to South Australia 1850's. Date of death unknown
Salisbury. The following prisoners were tried and sentenced as under: Death –.... T. B. Card, T. Smith and W. Gale, for burglary and robbery in the house of Rachel Gale at Steeple Ashton, ...(All the above prisoners, nineteen in number, have been reprieved.) Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 18 Mar 1822
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