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Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Sarah Thomas was transported on the Speedy, departing 30th Sep 1799 and arriving 15th Apr 1800 with 54 passengers.
Speedy (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 259 (129) |
| 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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Family connections for Sarah (Thomas) may be: THOMAS There are 2xSarah (Thomas)s with entries on this ship. .. [Sarah (Thomas) arrived in NSW as a convict on 15 4 1800 after a voyage of 6months on SPEEDY. She may have had several relaionships.>>> .. Known relationships for Sarah (Thomas) are: .. AA.a Sarah (Thomas) had a relationship with Benjamin (Stewart). Benjamin (Stewart) may have been a seaman or soldier on SPEEDY. Sarah (Thomas) & Benjamin (Stewart) produced 1child: 1.Rose (Stewart) was born on 23 12 1800 & baptised on 4 3 1801 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. Noted a Rose (Thomas) is recorded as dying on 18 3 1807] & buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney. .. BB.a Sarah (Thomas) had a relationship with Samuel Rodman (Chace). Samuel Rodman (Chace) arrived in Australia in 1801 as ships Master of HARRIOTT. He had a first relationship with Sarah (Thomas). He married secondly Marianne Laetitia (Yates) on 15 2 1806 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. In 1808 he received property in Hobart previously owned by Matthew (Power) husband of David (Collins)s later concubine Hannah (Power). He produced 7known children in his lifetime. Details of of Samuel Rodman (Chace)s family are given in entry for Thomas (Eddington ALEXANDER 1788) on this Website. .. CC.a Sarah (Thomas) was Free by Servitude by 1810 & married at age25 Josiah (Cooper) of 102nd Regiment on 19 3 1810 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. Josiah Emery (Cooper) was a wheelwright who was tried at Leicester Assizes, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 30 5 1792 after a voyage of 4+months on Fleet ship ROYAL ADMIRAL also; he was 5.73' tall. He enlisted in NSW Corps on 14 5 1794 in Sydney as a private. In 1798 he was detached to (Abbott)s company, with which he was sent to Norfolk Island in 1801. In 1804 he was returned with (Abbott)s company to Parramatta, followed by service at Hawkesbury from 1808. In 1809 he was detached to 1Company & on 24 4 1810 to 73rd Regiment. He died on 3 1 1826 age60 & was buried at Christ Church Castlereagh. [Some details taken from this Website] .. DD.a Sarah (Thomas) emancipist married Robert (Jones) emancipist on 2 6 1811 at St Matthews CofE Windsor.] CCONVICTdone Robert (Jones) was born in 1762 & became a labourer. He was tried for shoplifting silk stockings, on 5 1 1792, of Richard (March) at Old Bailey on 15 2 1792, sentenced to 7years/Life, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 30 5 1792 after a voyage of 4+months on Fleet ship ROYAL ADMIRAL also. Robert (Jones) was born in 1762 & became a labourer. He was tried for shoplifting silk stockings, on 5 1 1792, of Richard (March) at Old Bailey on 15 2 1792, sentenced to 7years/Life, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 30 5 1792 after a voyage of 4+months on Fleet ship ROYAL ADMIRAL also. [Some details taken from this Website] Sarah (Thomas) & Robert (Jones) produced 1child: 1.Julius Paul (Jones) was born on 13 8 1819 & baptised on 22 8 1824 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. .. [Noted a Robert (Jones) is recorded as marrying Catherine (Simms) on 28 8 1797 at St Johns CofE Parramatta.] [ & a Robert (Jones) is recorded as marrying Elizabeth (Pickering) on 11 3 1799 at St Johns CofE Parramatta.] .. a Sarah (Thomas) is recorded as dying on 11 6 1828 age59 & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney-who does not precisely tally with either lady. References: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land' Pamela Statham 'A Colonial Regiment-New Sources Relating to the New South Wales Corps-1789-1810'
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 18 August 2022), June 1799, trial of SARAH THOMAS (t17990619-49). SARAH THOMAS, Theft > grand larceny, 19th June 1799. 366. SARAH THOMAS was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 5th of June , a cotton gown, value 4s. 6d. the property of Margaret Macarthy , spinster . MARGARET MACARTHY sworn. - I am a single woman, and live at No.36, Little Pulteney-street : The prisoner took a gown out of my room, I was told by a person of it; I saw it the same day, in the morning, I sleep in the room, it was about eleven o'clock at noon, I missed it soon after; she is not a lodger in the same house. EVAN THOMAS sworn. - I am the house-keeper: I saw the girl come into the house, and go up stairs, about eleven o'clock, on the 5th of June; I did not know her, but I followed her up, and just as I got to the top of the stairs, I saw her standing at the door with a gown in her hand, and she knocked at the next door, and asked for a different name; upon which I apprehended her. ( William Jackson produced the gown, which was deposed to by the prosecutrix.) Prisoner's defence. I am innocent of the charge, I know nothing of it. GUILTY (Aged 15.) Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice HEATH.