Thomas Jones

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Helen Campbell on 13th November 2022

Name Thomas Jones Residence Year 1820 Residence Windsor, New South Wales, Australia Arrival Ship Salamander Record Type Population Book Title Windsor Population Book, 1820

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 22nd August 2020

Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, Liverpool St Luke. Thomas Jones (Free) Ship Matilda Died Nov 20, 1817 Aged 48 years of the District of Upper Minto was buried 21 instant by me John Youl, Chaplin ------------------------------ Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Third Fleet, 1791 Thomas Jones. Middlesex Goal Delivery 7 Feb 1788. 7 years ------------------------------- Old Bailey Proceedings Online February 1788, trial of THOMAS JONES, MARSHAL PEBBEBY THOMAS JONES, MARSHAL PEBBEBY, Theft, grand larceny, 27th February 1788. 158. THOMAS JONES and MARSHAL PEBBEBY were indicted for stealing a wooden cask bound with iron hoops, value 3 s. and 9 gallons of table beer, value 3 s. the property of Richard Harrison and Richard Monday , February 6th . JAMES HIGGS sworn. I am drayman to Mr. Harrison and Monday; I lost a cask of table beer off my dray in Fenchurch-street , on Wednesday the 6th of this month, about two o'clock; I went down Philpot-lane to a customer; when I returned I missed it, it was marked T, on the outside, and Harrison and Monday, Long-lane, Smithfield; Wm. Haynes came to me, and asked, if I had lost a cask; I said, I had; he said, two men had left a cask up Langburne Coffee-house-yard; I went up the yard and found the cask in a corner; I staid an hour and half up the yard till the prisoners came to take the cask; they took it up, and then I took them both into custody; I asked them how they came by it; they could not make any answer. WILLIAM HAYNES sworn. I am servant to the Langborn-ward Coffee-house; I was standing in the yard on the 6th of February; I saw a man bring a cask up the yard. Who was the man that brought it up the yard? - I cannot swear to him; the prisoner Jones was with him, he put it down on the head and went away; I observed it run at the bung-hole, and put it down on the side; I then went across the way, and saw a drayman, and asked him if he had lost a cask; he said, he had; he went up the yard, saw the cask, and said it was his; he staid in the yard an hour and half, or two hours, to watch who would come for it. Did you see him take the prisoners? - No, I did not. How did the man who was with Jones bring the cask up the yard? - In his arms: after the cask had been in the yard about an hour, I saw Jones come up the yard and look at it, and turn away again. Look at the other prisoner, is he the man that had the cask? - I cannot swear that he is, or that he is not the man. JOHN KING sworn. I am a constable; Higgs gave me charge of the prisoners. Court to Higgs. Did both the prisoners take up the cask of beer? - Yes, they had both hold of it when I took them. The cask was produced and deposed to by Adam Hodgson , servant to the prosecutors. JONES's DEFENCE. I met the other prisoner in Holborn; I asked him if he could help me to some work; I was out of place; he said, if I would go with him to Iron-gate, he would try to get some; going down Fenchurch-street, a drayman stopped him and spoke to him; he came to me, and said, the drayman told him there was a dead man up the passage, and he would go and see who, or what it was; I went up the passage and the man laid hold of me; I never meddled with the cask. PEBBEBY's DEFENCE. I was going to Iron-gate; and in Fenchurch-street, a drayman stopped me, and said, there was a dead man up the yard; I went up the yard and saw the cask; I turned it up to see who it belonged to, and the drayman came and took me; I know nothing of the taking of it. BOTH GUILTY . Tried by the London Jury before Mr. Deputy RECORDER.