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Voyage
Transportation
Thomas Squire was transported on the Bardaster, departing 7th Sep 1835 and arriving 13th Jan 1836 with 239 passengers.
Bardaster (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/10, Page Number 160 |
| 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 |
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Convict Notes
Committed to Fisherton Gaol:—R. Woolford, Thomas Squire, Zachariah and Wm. Giles, Henry Charles Fisher, and George and Henry Page, charged with having on the night of Saturday 29 Nov. in company with many others, entered Park Coppice, belonging to Lord Bolingbroke at Lydiard Tregoze, for the purpose of destroying game. An account of the desperate affray, which took place on this occasion, will be found in the preceding page. Salisbury Journal, 8 Dec 1834. Desperate Affray with Poachers.—(From a Correspondent.)—On the night of Saturday last, as the keepers of Lord Bolingbroke were on the watch at Lydiard, this county, they fell with seven 1 poachers, all of them well armed. The numbers being equal, and pretty well matched in point of size, &c., the keepers asked them if they intended to fire or to fight like men? The poachers at once said, that they would have a fair fight for it, and immediately each party put aside their arms. desperate struggle soon ensued : but the poachers being likely to be overpowered, one of them sounded a horn, and in a minute more of the gang made their appearance. The keepers were now beaten unmercifully, particularly Cox, the head-keeper. His son, after the most brutal treatment was thrown into large pond of water, and was saved almost by miracle. All the poachers effected their escape: one of them, however, was severely cut about the neck, which has since led his apprehension, and is likely to be the means of discovering the whole gang. Poaching, it is said, has been the temptation which has brought nearly three-fourths of the rustic criminals to the end of their career of vice, by transportation or the gallows; and the chaplain of one of the largest gaols in the kingdom, not long since, stated, M that inconceivably great portion of all the criminals who are brought to speak of the course of their vices, voluntarily declare that poaching is the beginning, and that after one night's experiment their ruin sealed. Salisbury Journal, 8 Dec 1834. Geo. Fisher, Henry Fisher, Chas. Fisher, Richard Woolford, Squires, Geo. Page, Henry Page, Zachariah Giles, and Wm. Giles, (Abraham Lovett, approver), were indicted for having, with divers others, unlawfully, the night, entered enclosed coppice, the property of the Right Hon. Viscount Bolingbroke, armed with guns, bludgeons, and other offensive weapons, for the purpose of destroying game, at Lydiard It appeared from the evidence Jas. Cox (gamekeeper to Lord Bolingbroke) and others, supported by the testimony A. Lovett, accomplice, that, on the night of that, on the night of Nov. 2G, Cox, accompanied by twelve others, went to Park Coppice, a preserve for pheasants, where guns were heard, and a large party of poachers was discovered. the proposition of the poachers, the guns were put aside, and a desperate conflict ensued, in the course of which, the keepers were dreadfully beaten, and one of them, Geo. Titcomb, had his arm broken. Prisoners were all identified as having been present, and verdict of guilty was returned against the whole. Geo. Fisher, Thos. Squire, and Richard Woolford, being sentenced to transported for seven years, Henry Fisher, Chas. Fisher, Geo. Page, Henry Page, Z. Giles, and Henry Giles, to 12 months' imprisonment and hard labour. Salisbury Journal, 16 Mar 1835.
Certificate of Freedom issued 7 March 1842
Salisbury During the week, the following convicts have been removed from our county gaol, at at Fisherton Anger, and put on board the Leviathan hulk, in Portsmouth harbour, in order for transportation; namely, Jonas Backhouse, horse-stealing; Charles King, Enoch Heaven, sheep-stealing; Daniel Sprowles, stealing a pewter jug and basin, life.—John Telling, stealing hay; Edward Johnson, stealing trousers; George Hitchins, receiving stolen property; George Fisher and Thomas Squire, poaching in the night —seven years each.—Also George Carty convicted at the Lent Assizes, 1834, for house-breaking, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment to hard labour, and and then to be transported for life. Salisbury Journal, 6 Apr 1835