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Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
John Schora was transported on the Norwood, departing 6th Apr 1867 and arriving 13th Jul 1867 with 256 passengers.
Norwood (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/19, Page Number 212. --0-- https://fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/research/convict-database/ |
| 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 |
Claims
"John is my second great uncle."
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Convict Notes
FREMANTLE JAIL RECORD: SCHORA, John; inmate #9561, arrived 13 Jul 1867 per Norwood (Journey 2) Date of Birth: 1839 Marital Status: Married Occupation: Carter Literacy: Illiterate Sentence Place: Manchester Crime: Rape Sentence Period: 12 years Previous Convictions: Yes Ticket Leave Date: 18 April, 1872 Comments: Labourer, splitter (https://fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/research/convict-database/). --00--
FOOTNOTE 2: NEWSPAPER REPORT OF THE TRIAL in 1866 OF THOMAS COCHRANE AND JOHN SCHORA: "MANCHESTER ASSIZES. CROWN COURT. BEFORE MR. JUSTICE LUSH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14. RAPE CASE.-John Schora, aged 23, and Thomas Cochrane, aged 22, were indicted for rape on Ellen Wait, at Manchester. Wait is a married woman, but separated from her husband. On the night of the 12th February she had been working with a friend as a seamstress, and was returning home at nearly twelve o'clock, when in Chapel-street, Ancoats, she was seized by two powerful men, one of whom (Cochrane) threw her down and held her while the other committed the offence. Schora afterwards held her while Cochrane committed a similar assault. They stopped her mouth, but immediately they left her she screamed, and several policemen were soon on the track of the offenders. There was a third man present aiding part of the time in the assault, but he was not in custody. The two prisoners were taken at a public house, soon afterwards, and identified there. The police had previously seen Schora near the place where the offence was committed. Verdict, guilty. Sentence, twelve years' penal servitude each." (Liverpool Mercury, Friday 16 March 1866, p6 at https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000081/18660316/016/0006) --0--
CRIME: RAPE 1866, 26 April: John Schora, aged 23 years and 4 months, a labourer, along with Thomas Cochrane, aged 22 years and 8 months, also a labourer, was admitted to Millbank Prison – both men having been convicted of rape (the same crime) and sentenced to 12 years’ penal servitude by the Manchester Assizes on 10 March, 1866. Prisoner #862, John Schora, a Roman Catholic, was married and could read but not write. His behaviour was described as “good”. He had two previous convictions and when admitted to Millbank had served a total of 1 month and 16 days in solitary confinement at Salford jail. His next of Kin, his wife Catherine Schora, lived in Long Street in Manchester. --0-- 1866, 24 December: Both men were sent to Portsmouth prison (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Portsmouth Prison; Registers of Prisoners; 1866-1868). John Schora is listed as having been sent to WA on the Norwood on 2 April 1867. He arrived in WA on 13 July, prisoner #9561 at Fremantle jail, and served just under 5 years of his sentence before receiving a Ticket of Leave (https://fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/history/convict-database/). Footnote: Thomas Cochrane, prisoner #646, was sent from Portsmouth to board the ship Hougoumont for Western Australia on 15 October 1867. Two months later he died during the voyage and was buried at sea. Also known as Thomas Corcoran, he "had the honour to be the last transportee of all to die aboard ship in this extraordinary phase of British penal transportation to Australia" (Thomas Keneally, “The great shame and the triumph of the Irish in the English-speaking world”, p568).