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Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Thomas Palmer was transported on the Palmyra, departing 4th Mar 1846 and arriving 22nd Aug 1846 with 312 passengers.
Previously named "Lady Palmira". Built 1820 at Calcutta. Wood barque of 602 Tons.
Palmyra (generic)References
| Primary Source | Gazette and Tasmania libraries convict records. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/15, Page Number 44 |
| 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 |
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Convict Notes
After arrival in 1846 convict record states he was at Rocky Hills and the then from 1848 had a position with Mr Buxton at Swansea. Granted a conditional pardon in 1854 and still at Swansea in 1857.In 1863 he absented himself from a hired position with William Webb at Black Marsh Bothwell and arrested for this. The Gazette states "he has a child kept by someone down the Huon and is well known there".
Baptised Cheswardine,Shropshire 31 Dec 1820 as Thomas Nicklin son of Sarah Nicklin of Lipley Heath Cheswardine. Father Charles Palmer, farmer at Lipley. Charles and Sarah married 1825 at Cheswardine. Hospital record- Admitted to Hobart hospital Feb 1875 with meningitis.Address 29 Sorrell. Death 14 March 1875. Buried Hobart Cemetery 18 March 1875 -location no 145 compartment A
Trial 5 January 1846 Crime: House breaking before court of Felony
pardon/permission to leave 1854 after serving 8 years of 10 year sentence. Appears he continued to live in Tasmania and died 14-3-1875 at the General Hospital Hobart
Transported because this was a second offence. On this occasion broke into a local house at Chipnall nr Cheswardine Shropshire and stole a shirt. Convicted previously in 1843 at Stafford for stealing a scythe