Thomas Hammond

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Heather Stevens on 19th August 2021

Birth about 1792 Gawsworth, Cheshire, England.  Conviction: On 12 January 1820 Thomas Hammond was tried at the Stafford Quarter Sessions for embezzling money from attorney Thomas Jones. Thomas Hammond had been employed as his clerk.  He was admitted 21 February 1820 at Woolwich on the Justitia hulk. Transported on the Neptune which sailed on 18 March 1820 and arrived 16 July 1820 at New South Wales. Arrival Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Convict Indent  has the following: Thomas Hammond, Aged: 28 years Born: Macclesfield ; Attorney. Tried: 12 Jan 1820, at Stafford Quarter Sessions, Sentence: 7 years, Height 5ft 8in; Complexion: Fair pale; Hair: Black; Eyes: Hazel.  1820 On list of convicts disembarked from the "Neptune" and forwarded to the Government Agricultural Establishment, Emu Plains. In 1821 he received a Conditional Pardon. The Registers of pardons for 25 October 1821 record his birthplace: "Origin Place: Gawsworth Macclesfield". In the 1822 Muster he is listed with Conditional Pardon; Employment: Clerk to Magistrates; Residence: Liverpool. He was Clerk to the Campbelltown Bench in 1822 when he recommended that favourable consideration be given to Samuel Franklin's petition for mitigation of sentence. In 1823 he was Clerk to Campbelltown Bench when he was witness to Thomas Burke receiving payment for victualling men. Marriage 1824 Campbelltown, New South Wales to Ann Byrne (1806–1885). Ann Byrne was the daughter of convicts Sarah Best (Britannia 1797) and Patrick Bryne (Marquis Cornwallis 1795). They had 8 known children. In the 1825 Muster he was listed at Campbelltown, New South Wales, as a landholder. In the 1828 Census: Thomas Hammond at Airds district, age "32", Neptune 1820, Free by servitude, with wife Ann 20 BC (born in colony) and children "Thos. Warde" 2 and "Henry Wm" 1. Total acres: 100, Cleared: 80, Cultivated: 50; Horses: 3, Cattle: 14. On 12 July 1831 he obtained the license for the "Kings Arms" public house at Campbelltown. He placed an advertisement for his school Clari-montes Academy, near Campbelltown, in Sydney Monitor, 12 December 1832. In 1843 his Insolvency was reported in several newspapers.  Death 4 September 1876 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia. Death Notice: Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 7 September 1876: "HAMMOND. —At his residence, Clari Montes, near Campbelltown, Thomas Hammond, Esq., in the 85th year of his age, a resident of the district for over fifty years." Burial: St Peters Anglican Church Cemetery, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia. Sources in Wikitree https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Hammond-11560&public=1