Thomas Robjent

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Maureen Withey on 19th March 2021

Tasmanian Record. CON13-1-1 Image 60 Thomas Robjent, Tried at Bombay, 7 January 1814, Life. Ship Hayston.

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Maureen Withey on 21st July 2020

Thomas Robjent, age 31, smith and turner, native of London, 5 ft 6 ½, dark ruddy complexion, brown eyes, black hair, tried at Bombay, 7 Jan 1814, Life. Muster of eleven convicts and two returned runaways who arrived on ship Hayeston of Calcutta 13 March 1816, and mustered 15 March 1816. State Records NSW Reel 2422 2/8262 --------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary Index. ROBJENT, Thomas. Per "Hayeston", 1816 1816 May 10 - Arrived safe per "Hayeston" from Bombay (Reel 6018; 4/3521 p.67) -------------------------------------------------- Conduct Record https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-34$init=CON31-1-34p331 Thomas Robjent, No 314. 7 Jany 1814, life. Ships Hastings & Kangaroo. First entry on conduct record dated Nov 9. 22. – Drunk and disorderly- fined 5/-. Minor misdemeanours. Free Pardon No 138. 23 April 1830. -------------------------------------------------- https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON23-1-3$init=CON23-1-3-p037 Native place, Halifax, blacksmith, convicted at Bombay 7 Jan 1814, sentence Life. Age 33 dark complexion, d. bro hair, grey eyes. Ship from Europe, Hastings, Ship to the colony, Kangaroo. -------------------------------------------------- He did not come from Europe by Hastings, but from India by Hayeston, - clerk misheard or mis-spelt or assumed. -------------------------------------------------- List of fifty three male and female convicts embarked on board H.M. Colonial Brig Kangaroo for Port Dalrymple in Van Diemen’s Land , Sydney 31 July 1816. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-1$init=CON13-1-1p60 Thomas Robjent , Trade – smith and turner. Ship Hayston. -------------------------------------------------- In January 1826, at Cornwall, Van Diemen’s Land, Thomas Robjent made a statement at an inquest by the coroner, into the death of a child through accidental shooting by his master William Brumby, to which he was a witness. https://manuscript3251.wordpress.com/ page 72. an extract: The information of Thomas Robjent, a convict who being sworn saith I hold a Ticket of Leave and have been in the service of Mr James and William Brumby and have resided at their Farms on the lake River for the last two years and  a half, where I have been employed as a Blacksmith, and occasionally have been permitted to do jobs for their neighbours on my own account, a day or two after last Christmas day, Mr Richard Jordan of Norfolk Plains brought this Fowling piece to the shop where I work on Mr Brumby’s Farm, he had brought the lock there about a week before, which wanted a new mainspring, which I could not conveniently make without having the Gun …. --------------------------------------------------- 9 July 1831, The Independent (Launceston) Conditional Pardon Thomas Robjent, Hayston -------------------------------------------------