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Samuel Schofield on 25th May 2021

Family Group Record for Samuel SCHOFIELD 113743 ================================================================================ Husband: Samuel SCHOFIELD 113743 ================================================================================ AKA: Samuel SCHOLFIELD Born: 10 Oct 1812 - Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Christened: 20 Apr 1813 - Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Died: 31 Jul 1883 - Sorell, Tasmania, Australia Buried: 2 Aug 1883 - Sorell, Tasmania, Australia Marriage: 15 Apr 1839 Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Spouse: Nancy Roberts WIGGINS (1844-1911) Date: 6 Jul 1865 - Sorell, Tasmania, Australia Events 1. Birth3 (conflicting): 1813, Manchester, Lancashire, England. 2. Birth2 (conflicting): 1814, Manchester, Lancashire, England. 3. Birth2 (conflicting): 1816, Manchester, Lancashire, England. 4. Birth3 (conflicting): 1818, Manchester, Lancashire, England. 5. Resided: 1826, Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. 6. He was involved in a court case on 21 Jul 1829 in Salford, Lancashire, England. 7. He was involved in a court case on 28 Sep 1831 in Bolton, Manchester, Lancashire, England. 8. He was employed on 9 Jan 1832 in Manchester, Lancashire, England. 9. Court case (criminal): Lancaster Quarter Sessions at Salford, 9 Jan 1832, Lancaster, Lan, England, UK. 10. Prison term: Leviathan, After 9 Jan 1832, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK. 11. Newspaper article: 14 Jan 1832, Manchester, Lancashire, England. 12. He emigrated Transported to Australia on 7 May 1832 from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK. 13. He immigrated on 22 Aug 1832 to Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 14. Prison term: Prison Record, 29 Aug 1832, Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia. 15. Newspaper: 15 Aug 1835, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 16. Newspaper: 22 Oct 1835, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 17. Prison Release: Ticket of Leave, 8 Sep 1837, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 18. Court case (criminal): 16 Jul 1839, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 19. Prison Release: Ticket of Leave, 27 Oct 1843, Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia. 20. Voter Registration: 1861, Wattlehill, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. 21. Newspaper: 26 Sep 1862, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 22. Newspaper: 24 Dec 1862, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 23. Resided: 1866, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. 24. Voter Registration: 1870, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. 25. He owned land on 1 Mar 1870 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 26. Newspaper: 13 Sep 1872, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. 27. He owned land in 1880 in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. 28. He signed a will in 1880 in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. 29. His obituary was published on 1 Aug 1883 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 30. He owned land on 22 Jul 1887 in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. ================================================================================ Wife: Mary HEBDEN ================================================================================ Born: 13 Jul 1812 - Wakefield, Yorkshire, England Christened: 20 Dec 1812 - Wakefield, Yorkshire, England Died: 2 Dec 1862 - Sorell, Tasmania, Australia Buried: 6 Dec 1862 - Sorell, Tasmania, Australia Father: John HEBDEN (Abt 1785-Abt 1873) Mother: Betty THOMPSON (1784-Abt 1862) Events 1. Birth2 (conflicting): 1818, England, UK. 2. Birth2 (conflicting): 1820, England, UK. ================================================================================ Children ================================================================================ 1 M Joseph SCHOFIELD Born: 26 Jan 1845 - Sorell, Tasmania, Australia Christened: 6 Mar 1846 - Pembroke, Tasmania, Australia Died: 19 Nov 1919 - Tinui, Wairarapa, New Zealand Buried: 20 Nov 1919 - Tinui, Wairarapa, New Zealand Spouse: Laura Eliza ROBINSON (1860-1946) Marr. Date: 25 Dec 1878 - Makara, Wellington, New Zealand -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ General Notes: Husband - Samuel SCHOFIELD 113743 ================================================================================ There is a male birth given as M Schofield whose parents were Samuel Schofield & Mary Ann Holding on 5 Aug 1864 in Sorell,Tasmania. RGD 33 Reg No 1736. After the Declaration of US Independence in 1776, the overcrowding of prisons in the UK meant the use of prison hulks in UK harbours. The first fleet convict ships to Australia began on 13 May 1787 and up until the end of transportation in 1868, a total of 162,000 convicts were shipped to Australia. They had the option of returning to the UK upon the completion of their prison terms. References: "Bound for Australia" by David T Hawkings, Publisher Alan Sutton New Hampshire, USA. Also Phoenix Mill, Stroud,GLS,UK Criminal Ancestors (1992) David T Hawkings. The Convict Ships by Bateson? "How to trace your Convict Ancestors" by Janet Reakes (1999) Transportation The first major innovation in eighteenth-century penal practice was the extensive use of transportation. Although there was some idea that transportation might lead to the reformation of the offender, the primary motivations behind this punishment were deterrence and the exile of hardened criminals from society. Although many convicts were transported in the seventeenth century, it had to be done at their own expense or at the expense of merchants or shipowners. In the early eighteenth century there was a desire to extend transportation as a way of creating a more effective alternative to the death penalty (in terms of deterring crime) than benefit of clergy and whipping. In 1718 the first Transportation Act allowed the courts to sentence felons guilty of offences subject to benefit of clergy to seven years transportation to America. In 1720 a further statute authorized payments by the state to the merchants who contracted to take the convicts to America. The first Transportation Act also allowed those guilty of capital offences and pardoned by the king to be sentenced to transportation, and it established returning from transportation as a capital offence. Under the terms of the Transportation Act, those sentenced to death could be granted a royal pardon on condition of being transported for fourteen years or life. From 1739, a number of such cases appear in the Proceedings. In 1776 transportation was halted by the outbreak of war with America. Although convicts continued to be sentenced to transportation, male convicts were confined to hard labour in hulks on the Thames, while women were imprisoned. Transportation resumed in 1787 with a new destination: Australia. This was seen as a more serious punishment than imprisonment, since it involved exile to a distant land. In the early nineteenth century, as part of the revisions of the criminal law, transportation for life was substituted as the maximum punishment for several offences which had previously been punishable by death. The population of Sorell in 1867 was 254. (MacPhails National Directory of Tasmania.) Port Arthur was opened as a penal facility in 1830 and the last convict was moved in 1877. The Tasmanian convicts are easier to research as the British government of the time kept very good records about who they were sending overseas. The major document to find is their conduct record which usually has the following information: place of trial in UK, Ireland, Scotland and date of trial information about convict's transgression a word or phrase from the gaol, hulk and or surgeon on the boat religion and whether convict can read and write date arrived in Van Diemens Land a description of convict down to scars, freckles, limps, tattoos, speech problems name of place where convict spent first part of sentence in Tasmania offences that occurred once convict was here in Australia It also includes dates about ticket of leave, other pardons and remarks from masters regarding hospital visits or when sent back to service or the prisoner's barracks. This document though is often hard to understand as many abbreviations are used - such as names of places, names or initials of masters under which convict is serving as well as other words relating to the sentences. A couple of papers regarding as well as a conduct record are also on this site. The next record to look for is the convict indent. This has similar information about the particulars of the convict's trial but it often includes in the last column data about the convict's parents, siblings or family. It is important to look at this record to help you get back to the correct family in the United Kingdom. Description lists are just that. They describe in minute detail the look of your convict including tattoos and other scars as well as freckles, lisps and other impediments. The other records that are mentioned are muster lists, which usually occurred with the earlier convicts. A member of the then New South Wales government went on board the ship and wrote lists of who was present and who had died during the voyage. The last type of record is the appropriation list and this tells you where the convict was sent to work off his sentence. It often mentions the name of a probation station or a settler who took on the convict as a servant of some sort. If your convict is in Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) then the references to look up for these records are found on the Tasmanian Convict CDROM which can be purchased from the Archives Office of Tasmania , Murray St, Hobart. ================================================================================ General Notes: Wife - Mary HEBDEN ================================================================================ Mary does not appear to be a convict. Other Hebden arrivals in Hobart include Mr Hebden Wave Mar 1835 from London Film 1 Page 245. Unassisted Pax to Hobart (1829-1865) ================================================================================ Notes: Marriage ================================================================================ Parish Church of Trinity, Church of England, District of Hobart No 4931. 1839 Marriages, RGD 37 Reg Index Ref 35. Samuel Aged 22, B1817. Groom. Mary aged 27 so B1812 Witness Maria Ann Williams and D Duggin. Groom's First Name:Samuel Groom's Last Name:Schofield Bride's First Name:Mary Bride's Last Name:Hebden Marriage Date:15 Apr 1839 by Rev Philip Palmer MA (1799-1853) Marriage Place:Hobart, Tasmania, Australia State:Tasmania Country:Australia Residence:Tasmania, Australia Groom's Age In Years:22 Groom's Birth Date:1817 Bride's Age In Years:27 Bride's Birth Date:1812 Record set:Australia, Marriages, 1810-1980 Category:Life Events (BDMs) Record collection:Marriages & divorces Collections from:Australia & New Zealand First name(s) Samuel Last name Schofield Sex Male Age 22 Birth year 1817 Marriage year 1839 Marriage date 15 Apr 1839 Registration year 1839 District Hobart State Tasmania Country Australia Spouse's first name(s) Mary Spouse's last name Hebden Spouse's sex Female Spouse's age 27 Spouse's birth year 1812 Registration number 35 Record set Tasmania marriages 1803-1899 Category Life Events (BDMs) Record collection Marriages & divorces Collections from Australia & New Zealand Neither Samuel Schofield nor Mary Hebden were able to sign the register suggesting they were illiterate which may explain the lack of consistant birth dates. Trinity Church, Hobart Town. The Brick church with a clocktower built in 1821 was sited on the corner of Brisbane and Campbell Street, Hobart. The former Hobart Convict Penitentiary. The church was commemorated on 1 June 1933 in The Mercury. He was married whilst still serving his prison term. His sentence was remitted 11 Mar 1839. He was given his ticket of leave on 27 Oct 1843 He gave his age as 22 (B1817) and she as 27 (B1812) which is inconsistent with his B 1813 birthdate, which would make him 26. Last Modified: 18 May 2021

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Samuel Schofield on 29th June 2020

The names of his parents are not confirmed, however this is most likely. First name(s) Samuel Last name Schofield Birth year 1812 Birth date 10 Oct 1812 Baptism year 1813 Baptism date 20 Apr 1813 Place Oldham Denomination Wesleyan Methodist Father's first name(s) Joseph Mother's first name(s) Mary County Lancashire Country England Archive reference TNA/RG/4/1492 Description LANCASHIRE: Oldham, Manchester Street Chapel (Wesleyan): Births & Baptisms Record set England & Wales Non-conformist births and baptisms Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Births & baptisms Collections from United Kingdom This case was conducted during the reign of William IV (1830-1837) Tried during the quarterly sessions visits by Magistrates to Lancaster. From the National Archives, Hobart Tasmania. Stole a top coat value 18 pence, the property of Mr Paulsen/Paulden. Sentenced to transportation for a period of seven years. The limit value was 12 pence before considered a serious crime. The bill of Prosecution showed that there was £6/14s/6d costs . QJC1 1832 Showed the case was at Salford Sessions 9 January 1832 with James Paulden of Manchester being named sentence 7 year transportation QSO2/201 Showed Samuel Schofield late of the township of Manchester , labourer. Here is an article copied from the Manchester Guardian newspaper of 14 Jan 1832. ROBBERY FROM A LOBBY On Wednesday evening last (4 Jan 1832) between six and seven o'clock, the front door having been incautiously left unfastened, the lobby of the house of Mr Paulden, in Gravel Lane, Salford, was entered, and a top coat, a silk umbrella, and a hat were stolen there from. Information was given, as soon as the articles were lost, to various pawnbrokers, and shortly afterwards a man named Samuel Schofield offered the coat in pledge at the shop of Mr Holgate, pawnbroker, Deansgate. He was detained, subsequently given into custody. On Thursday the prisoner was brought before the sitting magistrate at the New Bailey, the coat was identified by Mr Paulden, and the prisoner was committed for trial. The witnesses went at once before the grand jury, who found true bill against Schofield, and yesterday he pleaded guilty to the indictment. Also during this same quarter session on 9 Jan 1832 the following convicts were similarly sentenced: Edward Barbour, Lewis Stubbs, James Tinsley, Richard Westall, James Booth, John Kenworthy, Henry Sandiford, Richard Rishton, William Haslam. All were sentenced for seven years transportation, they were imprisoned on the Leviathan in Portsmouth for three months and then travelled on the Lord William Bentinck to Van Dieman's Land. From his description in the file CON 18/12 on arrival in Hobart his age is given as 19. If this date is correct then his date of birth supports the 1813 option. Description Con 18/12 Trade Groom Height 5ft 6¼ Age 19 Complexion Fair Head Large Hair Light Brown Visage Oval Forehead Medium Eyebrows Lt Grey Nose Long Mouth Small Chin Small Relevant Files HO 8 Lord William Bentinck convict ship register list (1832) HO 11, Convict Transportation Registers HO 17, Criminal Petitions Series I (1819-1839) HO 18, Criminal Petitions Series II (1839-1854) HO 19, Criminal Entry Books (Not seen, unavailable) HO 10/29 Quarterly Sessions NSW Convicts Also listed on board the Leviathan prison ship were his fellow convicts from the same quarter session in Salford, Manchester #11163 Edward Barbour aged 18, #11164 Lewis Stubbs aged 18, #11165 James Tinsley aged 28, #11166 Richard Westall aged 24, #11167 James Booth aged 17, 11168 John Kenworthy aged 25, #11169 Henry Sandiford aged 26, #11171 Richard Rishton aged 28, #11172 William Haslam aged 21. All had been convicted of felonies, Rishton and Haslam having been convicted of obtaining goods by false pretences. All were later transported for seven years on the Lord William Bentinck in the April 1832 voyage to Tasmania. Ref 835 Age 67, so B1816 from death certificate. Ref 725 from death certificate. Age 65 on Headstone B1818 which agrees with his 1839 marr certificate. Pioneer farmer at Canning then later Sorell. Sorell St George S004/01528 Cnr Fitzroy Street/Parsonage Place, Sorell 7175, Tasmania Children stated as Thomas and Alfred and three others which is consistent. William Sorell (1775-1848) was a Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania Death Notice The Mercury Supplement Saturday 1 Aug 1883 and 8 Sep 1883 Schofield- At Sorell on the 31 July Samuel Schofield, aged 67 years. -The Mercury, Hobart (Trove Newspapers)

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Samuel Schofield on 3rd May 2014

Stole a top coat value 18 pence, the property of Mr Paulsen/Paulden. Sentenced to transportation for a period of seven years. The limit value was 12 pence before considered a serious crime. The bill of Prosecution showed that there was £6/14s/6d costs . QJC1 1832 Showed the case was at Salford Sessions January 1832 with James Paulden of Manchester being named sentence 7 year transportation QSO2/201 Showed Samuel Schofield late of the township of Manchester , labourer. He was imprisoned on the Leviathan in Portsmouth for three months and then travelled on the Lord William Bentnick to Van Dieman's Land. From his description in the file CON 18/12 on arrival in Hobart his age is given as 19. If this date is correct then his date of birth supports the 1813 option. Description Con 18/12 Trade Groom Height 5ft 6¼ Age 19 Complexion Fair Head Large Hair Light Brown Visage Oval Forehead Medium Eyebrows Lt Grey Nose Long Mouth Small Chin Small Relevant Files HO 8 Lord William Bentinck convict ship register list (1832) HO 11, Convict Transportation Registers HO 17, Criminal Petitions Series I (1819-1839) HO 18, Criminal Petitions Series II (1839-1854) HO 19, Criminal Entry Books (Not seen, unavailable) HO 10/29 Quarterly Sessions NSW Convicts Also listed on board the Leviathan prison ship were his fellow convicts from the same quarter session in Salford, Manchester #11163 Edward Barbour aged 18, #11164 Lewis Stubbs aged 18, #11165 James Tinsley aged 28, #11166 Richard Westall aged 24, #11167 James Booth aged 17, 11168 John Kenworthy aged 25, #11169 Henry Sandiford aged 26, #11171 Richard Rishton aged 28, #11172 William Haslam aged 21. All had been convicted of felonies, Rishton and Haslam having been convicted of obtaining goods by false pretences. All were later transported for seven years on the Lord William Bentinck 1832 voyage to Tasmania.

Family Group Record for Samuel Schofield ================================================================================ Husband: Samuel Schofield ================================================================================ AKA: Samuel SCHOLFIELD Born: 10 Oct 1812 - Oldham, Manchester, Lan, England, UK Christened: 20 Apr 1813 - Oldham, Manchester, Lan, England, UK Died: 31 Jul 1883 - Sorell, TAS, Australia Buried: 2 Aug 1883 - Sorell, TAS, Australia Marriage: 15 Apr 1839 Place: Hobart, Tas, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Spouse: Nancy Roberts Wiggins (1844-1911) Date: 6 Jul 1865 - Sorell, TAS, Australia ================================================================================ Wife: Mary Hebden ================================================================================ Born: 13 Jul 1812 - Wakefield, Yks, England Christened: 20 Dec 1812 - Wakefield, Yks, England Died: 2 Dec 1862 - Sorell, TAS, Australia Buried: 6 Dec 1862 - Sorell, TAS, Australia Father: John Hebden (Bef 1792- ) Mother: Betty Thompson (Bef 1792-After 1812) ================================================================================ Children ================================================================================ 1 M Joseph Schofield Born: 26 Jan 1845 - Sorell, TAS, Australia Christened: 6 Mar 1846 - Pembroke, Tas, Australia Died: 19 Nov 1919 - Tinui, Wrp, New Zealand Buried: 20 Nov 1919 - Tinui, Wrp, New Zealand Spouse: Laura Eliza Robinson (1860-1946) Marr. Date: 25 Dec 1878 - Makara, Wtn, New Zealand Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ Birth Notes: Husband - Samuel Schofield ================================================================================ There is no definitive evidence as to the parents however Joseph Samuel, son of Joseph and Mary Schofield of the township of Moston in the Parish of Manchester born Oct 10 1812 and baptized Apr 20 1813 by Philip Garrett. Oldham Manchester St Wesleyan Methodist Church Lancashire. The age 19 option on conviction in 1832 also supports the B1813 date. The History of Lancashire by Edward Baines Esq. MP Vol II (1836) published by Fisher & Son & Co. London. Held by Torrance FHC, CA, USA. ================================================================================ Christening Notes: Husband - Samuel Schofield ================================================================================ Joseph Samuel Son of Joseph and Mary Schofield of the township of Moston , Parish of Manchester born Oct 10 1812 and baptized April 20 1813 by Philip Garrett. ================================================================================ Death Notes: Husband - Samuel Schofield ================================================================================ Ref 835 Age 67, so B1816 from death certificate. Ref 725 from death certificate. Age 65 on Headstone B1818 which agrees with his 1839 marr certificate. Pioneer farmer at Canning then later Sorell. Sorell St George S004/01528 Children stated as Thomas and Alfred and three others which is consistant. William Sorell (1775-1848) was a Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania Death Notice The Mercury Supplement Saturday 8 Sep 1883 Schofield- At Sorell on the 31 July Samuel Schofield, aged 67 years. ================================================================================ Burial Notes: Husband - Samuel Schofield ================================================================================ At Sorell on 31 Jul 1883 Age 67. The funeral will take place on Thursday Aug 2 at 2pm. Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand papers please copy. "The Mercury 1 Aug 1883" Headstones of Tasmania No 7 $12.00 Images of the graves, headstones from Sorell to the east of Hobart in Southern Tasmania, Australia. Postage for this itrm is free. Henry St anglican Cemetery - St George's Anglican church and Cemetery - Scots Uniting Cemetery - St Thomas Catholic Cemetery. ================================================================================ Birth Notes: Wife - Mary Hebden ================================================================================ Date comes from age at marriage (27) B1812. May be 1819, was 42 when died so B 1820 is more likely. Death record says Age 44 so B1818. Birthsite at 12 Miles , York , England The birth record comes from IGI, Wakefield,Yorkshire, Parents John Hebdon/Betty Film 7424917 Sht 30 The Newcastle reference comes from Robinson Story ================================================================================ Death Notes: Wife - Mary Hebden ================================================================================ Ref 481 Reg in 1863 Age 44 so B1818 RGD No.35 May be buried 6 Dec 1862, Sorell, Tas. Age 42. so B1820 Age 42 on Headstone Sorell St George S004/01313 ================================================================================ Notes: Marriage ================================================================================ Parish Church of Trinity, Church of England. District of Hobart No 4931. 1839 Marriages. RGD 37 Reg Index Ref 35. Sam Aged 22, B1817. Groom. Mary aged 27 so B1812 Witness Maria Ann Williams and D Duggin. Neither Samuel Schofield nor Mary Hebden were able to sign the register suggesting they were illiterate which may explain the lack of consistant birth dates. Trinity Church, Hobart Town. He was married whilst still serving his prison term. His sentence was remitted 11 Mar 1839. He was given his ticket of leave on 27 Oct 1843 He gave his age as 22 (B1817) and she as 27 (B1812) which is inconsistent with his B 1813 birthdate, which would make him 26.