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Voyage
Transportation
William Jobson was transported on the Marion, departing 7th Jun 1845 and arriving 16th Sep 1845 with 299 passengers.
Built 1834 at Calcutta. Wood ship of 684 Tons. The 1847/48 voyage sent to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) BUT also went on to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria where 300 exiles disembarked. (The newspaper source says they were from Millbank, Pentonville & Parkhurst prisons.)
Marion (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/14, Page Number 299 (151) |
| 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
"William Alfred AKA Alfred Jobson was my GGG Grandfather"
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Convict Notes
Tasmanian Records. Indent for Marion. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON14-1-31/CON14-1-31/CON14-1-31P62 and https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON14-1-31/CON14-1-31/CON14-1-31P63 No 16453. William Jolson, alias Alfred Johnson, Tried Essex ? , 5 March 1845, 10 years, age 19, single, can read a little. Offence: Housebreaking & stealing £5 ? pr, Jno. Casborough. For chickens, 3 mos. Proper name Alfred Johson. Surgeons Report: Well behaved. F. Labourer. Native place, Nr Aberill. Remarks: F, Thos; M, Susan, B, Geo., Chas., Jacob, Aaron. S, Lucy, Eliza, Harriet, at N.P. -------------------------------------------------------------- His name is recorded as Jolson in some Tasmanian records, probably the clerk's mistake. Native place, near Aberill, probably should be Haverhill, in Suffolk, near Essex border. (Local pronunciation of names)
Essex Lent Assize. John Green and William Jobson, labourers, were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of Win. Casbolt, at Helions Bumpstead, and stealing and other property.—Mr. Marsh stated the case to the jury.—Wm. Casbolt, aged 84-On the night of the 10th of January, I went to bed about half-past eight; soon after, I heard a noise and got up, when, on going into the back place, man collared me; he was the tallest of the prisoners; he said he must have some money, and I gave him 9s. 6d. and my watch; the prisoner went to my son's bureau and broke it open, and took six sovereigns from it; he gave me one back. The prisoners were nearly an hour in the house; and held cudgel up, which I expected to have on my head. Elizabeth Casbolt. I went to bed last, and closed all the windows up. I got up on hearing the noise, and found the things pulled about but one there: in the buttery I saw some rum which had been poured out of the bottle; Green after that was in the house and asked my husband for some money, and he went into the bed-room, and gave it him. Green called out to a person outside that there was a bureau in the room, and he told him to break it open. I missed from the house a quantity of rum, two legs of pork, the watch, and money.—James Casbolt, the son, said that the bureau was his, and the six sovereigns were new, with the date of 1845, and bright —Samuel Moore. On Wednesday, the 10th of January, I saw the two prisoners at four the afternoon going the direction of the prosecutor's prosecutor's house, and about three miles off: at ten o'clock they came back, and went into a public-house together.—J. B. Brazier. I keep the Oak at Hempstead; at ten o'clock on the night of the 10th of January, the prisoners came there and had a pint of beer; they asked me drink, and I found they had put rum in it; after that Jobson took bottle out of his pocket and drank some rum out of it, and Green said he was a fool for pulling the bottle out there.—Thomas Moore, policeman, proved that he took Green at Halstead 1 miles off, and found a watch with chain and seal, a new sovereign and 14s. The watch was produced and identified as prosecutor's.—William Cook. The day after the robbery Jobson asked to go to look for Master Casbolt's hams, and if he found them he could sell then for a shilling or two, or get them cooked. I declined.—William Turner. At five the morning of the 17th of January, I met Jobson about one hundred yards from Casbolt's house; after that I found the two hams a cart shed just by, and the direction in and the direction in which he was going. When I had him in custody he said he went with Green, and broke open the house, but Jack did not use him well, as when he came he said he only got 9s. 6d and gave him a few shillings.—Wm. Smith, Braintree, proved that the prisoner Green came his shop about the time of the robbery, and, buying clothes to the amount of one pound thirteen shillings, paid with two new sovereigns. —It was also proved that he changed a new sovereign at Halsted.—The jury found them both guilty. —Jobson had before been convicted of felony, and Green of a burglary. Each ten years' transportation. —As soon as sentence was pronounced, Green suddenly struck Jobson a heavy blow, which knocked him down. Chelmsford Chronicle, 14 March 1845. also Essex Herald 11 March 1845.
William died in Wollun via Uralla NSW and is buried in the local cemetery beside his second wife.