Benjamin Rooker

Benjamin Rooker was transported for stealing clothes. He was born on 11/4/1083 in Birmingham and was 21 years old. Report says: Bad, convicted before. Benjamin was 5'8" tall, dark complexion, dark grey eyes, dark brown hair, said he was not married but had 1 child, man and woman above joint right arm, mand and woman, heart and dart below mermaid above elbow joint, anchor man BP, 5 stars finger and thumb left arm left hand. 1830 Muster: Free by servitude. 7/6/1836: Charged with assault on Catherine Parsons-dismissed. 8/6/1836: Charged with feloniously receiving a stolen silk cloak. 21/6/1835: Charged with passing a bad dollar to Mrs Long at the Public House on the wharf-dismissed. 1838: Married Margaret Fitzmaurice, born 1816 (seems she was not a convict) and had a child Thomas Benjamin Rooker. Thomas died in June 1856, the Inquest says he was a hard drinker and died from water on the brain and an epileptic fit, he was married to Elizabeth Moore. 15/2/1839: Benjamin Rooker and 3 others, 4 most notorious flash men of Saint Giles' were charged with disorderly conduct - fined 11s. 17/4/1840: Charged with assaulting a Constable-fined £5. 22/5/1840: Fined £20 for unlawfully selling spirits. 20/11/1841: Charged with keeping a disorderly house in Goulburn Street, the prosecutor saying it was a common brothel, also selling sly grog - Jury deliberated for 1 hour, Not Guilty. There is some discrepancy in death dates here: One says Thomas Benjamin died in 1857, but the Inquest in June 1856 also says that his name was Thomas Benjamin Rooker. So 1 was the father and one the son, which is which??