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Crime
Voyage
Transportation
William Snow was transported on the Lord Lyndoch, departing 7th Sep 1840 and arriving 5th Feb 1841 with 322 passengers.
1838 Voyage - Lord Lyndoch. Surgeon Superintendence; Doctor Pineo, From the Surgeons Notes; " Total Embarked; 330 Male Convicts. 19 Died on Passage. 8 Died of Scurvy, 11 of Old age and diseases contracted previously to embarked which could not be detected ...... An accident occurred whereby 16 men were dreadfully scolded with boiling tea. many of them from the shoulders down to their knees.. 112 were sent to the Sydney Hospital on arrival "
Lord Lyndoch (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/12, Page Number 220 |
| 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
"I am Jeanette Isaac 2XGgranddaughter of William Snow who married Sophia Frazier"
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Convict Notes
The Calendar of the Prisoners. To be tried the Somerset Lent Assizes Taunton, April 2nd, 1840, before Sir Thomas Collman and Sir Robert Mousey Rolfe. … Wm. Snow, and Ann Snow, housebreaking, and stealing a watch and other articles. ... The following Prisoners have received their sentence, Thomas Fone, Thomas Lock, William Hector, death recorded;. William Snow, transportation for life; Ann Snow, 2 years imprisonment; … ...There were many cases of burglary, but nothing that required any notice of him. There was a case of Snow and his wife, to which the Judge called their attention, but eventually discovered the woman was the sister and not the wife of the man, and therefore his observations went for nothing. Taunton Courier, 8 April 1840.
Sophia Frazier has an entry on this Website
Native place: Somersetshire Trade: Stone Cutter Gaol report: Transpd before Transported for: Felony Stated this offence: House breaking Sentenced 7 Years in 1832 Stealing money served it at Bermuda & Plymouth Statement (other): Single Sentence: Life Hulk report: Good Single Trial court: Somerset Assizes (England) Departed from Plymouth, England on the ship Lord Lyndoch Voyage: Lord Lyndoch, 1840-1841 Shipmaster: Jn. Humble Ship surgeon: Thomas W. McDonald Travelled via: Cape Surgeon's journal: Good Gender: Male Age on Arrival: 23 years Hair: Dark Brown Eyes: Grey Remarks: Battery and flagstaff sailor and Lass on left arm blue mark on left arm Scar on forehead http://www.founders-storylines.com/mugsheets/convicts/profile/ai66541/william_snow http://trees.ancestry.com.au/tree/82327646/person/42458087284/photo/18?pgnum=1&pg=32916&pgpl=pid|pgNum
He was Babtised William Barlay Snow, Barclay being his Mother, Carolines' maiden name. He received a conditional Pardon in 1853, in 1858 he is listed as the owner of five houses. By 1884 William owned no fewer than eleven properties in Hobart Town, he added more before his death in 1885. He adopted Sophia Fraziers' illegitimate son Charles (born May 29, 1846 at the Cascade Female Factory). They married at St Georges Church of England Battery Point, Hobart Town in 1846. He left all his properties to Sophia with their Son in Law Edward Brown as Manager of them. William died age 69m years, at his residence 3 Bathurst Street, Hobart Town and is buried at Cornelian Bay Cemetery C of E section B, number 68 with his wife and their sons William,Henry and their grandaughter Elsie Clarice Brown, Peter L. Isaac GGG,Grandson
See Sophia Frazier