Judah Solomon

Judah Solomon, one of 160 convicts transported on the Prince Regent, 17 September 1819

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Judah Solomon
Aliases:	none
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1777
Occupation:	Provisions merchant
Date of Death:	1856
Age:	79 years

Life Span

Male median life span was 59 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to Life

Crime:	Receiving stolen property
Convicted at:	Kent Assizes
Sentence term:	Life
Ship:	Prince Regent
Departure date:	17th September, 1819
Arrival date:	27th January, 1820
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 171 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 232. Tasmanian Archives - convict record http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON31-1-38,370,76,F,60.
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 Project.

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Community Contributions

Sally Steel on 13th April, 2015 wrote:

Judah and his brother were convicted in 1819 for “hiring burglers to repossess unpaid for goods”. The mandatory death sentences were quickly converted to transportation for life and they set up in business in Hobart Town soon after arrival there in 1820. Joseph moved north to Evandale and Judah remained a convict until his death, which meant he was unable to return to London to divorce his wife under Jewish law. He donated part of his land to build the Hobart Synagogue and his lovely house has pride of place on the corner of Liverpool and Argyle streets in the city. His wife and several of his children followed him to Tasmania.

greg petersen on 10th September, 2017 wrote:

Sent to VDL onboard Castle Forbes
Conditional pardon, 24th February 1832

Maureen Withey on 22nd January, 2020 wrote:

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-2$init=CON13-1-2p34
List of men sent from England to Port Jackson per Prince Regent (Anderson) to Hobart Town per Castle Forbes.
Judah Solomon, age 38, labourer, Tried at Kent, Aug 1819, Life, Jew.

Convict Changes History

Sally Steel on 13th April, 2015 made the following changes:

date of birth: 1777 (prev. 0000), date of death: 1856 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime

Nell Murphy on 27th January, 2018 made the following changes:

source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 232. Tasmanian Archives - convict record http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON31-1-38,370,76,F,60. (prev. Australian Join