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Thomas Spence was transported on the St Vincent, departing 13th Sep 1836 and arriving 5th Jan 1837 with 119 passengers.
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| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. |
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Convict Notes
County of Antrim Assizes. Thomas Spence, James Marshall, and William Marshall were indicted for a burglary in the house of David Cameron, at Dromore, on the 3d April last, and taking several articles therefrom. David Cameron, sen. Lives in Dromore; on 3d April last his house was broken into by a window being taken out; saw two persons in the house that night; they came to his bedside and demanded his money ; he said he had none ; they then went a press that was in the room and broke it open, and took several articles of clothes and 2£, in money ; saw come of the articles about a month after with the police in Ballymena; produced in court, and identified some of them. David Cameron, jun.: Is grandson to last witness, and lives in the same house ; on 3d April last saw a man coming forward with a candle in one hand and a bayonet in the other; saw another man coming behind the first through a window it was fastened in the wall ; they came forward to the bed- side and demanded his money ; said he had none ; they then lifted the bed-clothes and said they would stab if he would not give them his money ; said again he went to a box and demanded the key of it; said he had it said he had it not; they then forced it open and took a suit of clothes out of it; there were gun and bayonet in the house, which were away in the morning; identifies Spence ; he saw him at his grandfather’s that night; it was he that carried the candle and the bayonet; is not sure that the Marshalls were at his grandfather’s that night; never saw them before; when found the articles at Marshall’s, he (Marshall) said he knew nothing about them; saw Wm. Marshall at James Marshall’s; did not know Spence before. Elijah Morrison, Police constable—-Knows James Marshall ; went to his house on 30th April, and found a gun and a blue body coat there; identifies them; found them on the roof of a bed; could not sec them oft the ground; asked young Marshall if the gun was his, and he said not; seized the gun, as it was not registered; got another gun there, which young Cameron claimed as his property ; got the coat box in the room ; asked old Marshall where he got them, and he said he did not know, unless his son brought them in ; saw Spence also that evening in the police barracks. Archibald Boyd—Was a police constable on 30th April: accompanied a policeman and two other persons to Spence s house; he was not within at the time they called; he then went outside, and saw Spence coming a field ; when he saw witness, ran off; they pursued him, and took him into custody ; young Cameron said that that was the man who came to his bedside with the bayonet ; …. FOR DEFENCE Jane Marshall — daughter to James Marshall, the prisoner at the bar; has four brothers; her father was unwell from November, and when he was taken in April, he was still very unwell, but was in the way of getting better; he had to on sticks. Spence, guilty ; the others not guilty—sentence of death recorded against him. James Marshall and Wm. Marshall, for receiving a gun, the property of David Cameron, sen. and a body coat, the property of David Cameron, jun. on 3d April last, at Dromore. Guilty ; James to be imprisoned for ? months, and and William to be transported for 7 years. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 16 July 1836, (and Dublin Morning Register, 20 July 1836.)
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Thomas Spence, age on arrival, 30, per St Vincent (1), 1837. Tried Antrim, 1836, Life for Robbery house. DOB, 1807, Native place, Antrim Co. Married, 4 male, 2 female children. Protestant. Trade, Weaver.