Robert Thrower

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 22nd April 2021

New South Wales, Australia, Liverpool St Luke. No; 389 Name; Robert Thrower Abode; Liverpool When buried; 1833, 22 Oct Age; 47 Ship’s Name; John Barry 1 Quality or profession. Assigned servant to Rob Cartwright By Whom Ceremony was preformed; Robert Cartwright

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 22nd April 2021

Old Bailey Proceedings Online ROBERT THROWER, Theft > theft from a specified place, 2nd December 1818. 60. ROBERT THROWER was indicted for stealing, on the 24th of November , at St. Martin's in the Fields, one clock, value 3 l.; three coats, value 50 s.; one pair of breeches, value 6 s.; two pair of trowsers, value 10 s.; three pair of stockings, value 3 s.; four shirts, value 20 s.; two sheets, value 8 s.; one table-cloth, value 6 s.; seven yards of calico, value 4 s.; two waistcoats, value 5 s.; two watches, value 20 s., and five spoons, value 10 s., the goods of Joseph Braidley , in his dwelling-house . JOSEPH BRAIDLEY. I keep a pork-shop , at No. 73, St. Martin's-lane, in the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields . I keep the house. On the 24th of November, in the morning, while I was dressing, my servant came up and said, somebody had been in the shop; I went down and found the tills had been opened, and I missed a clock out of the parlour, all my clothes out of the drawers, and the rest of the property mentioned in the indictment. I sent for an officer, who examined the premises, and said it must have been done by somebody who knew the way of the house. There was no appearance of outward violence. I have a lodger, who is a salesman at Covent-Garden market; he goes out very early, and leaves the door on the lock, unbolted; anybody might come in who had got a key. WILLIAM KILNER . On the 24th of November I came down stairs about seven o'clock, and opened the door which leads from the stairs to the shop; I found the trapdoor open. I unfastened the shutters, and when I came to the shop-door I found it shut, but neither locked nor bolted, it was put too. Nobody could open it from the outside. I sent the servant to inform my master. HOWARD LEWIS . I am a clothes salesman, and live in Cable-street, Whitechapel. On Thursday, the 26th of November, the prisoner offered a pair of trowsers, two waistcoats, and a handkerchief, for sale. I questioned him to know if they were his own property. I suspected him, took him to Lambeth-street Office, and gave him in charge of Griffiths, who found five tea-spoons in his pocket. When he was before the magistrate he confessed to robbing the house, and said where it was. JOHN GRIFFITHS . I am an officer of Lambeth-street. The prisoner was given into my charge by Lewis, on the 26th of November, in the morning. I searched him, and found five silver tea-spoons in his breeches-pocket. He was taken before the magistrate that day, and charged on suspicion of this robbery, and committed until the Thursday following. After he left the office he said, if I went with him, he would show me where all the property was, but he could not tell me without going with me. The magistrate gave me leave to put him in the watch-house that night. I put him in a coach next morning, he ordered it to drive to the Obelisk in St. George's-fields; when he got there he ordered it to drive on, and he would point out where it was to stop, and told him to turn to South-street, Lambeth; when we got there, he desired him to stop at the Marquis Wellesley public-house, kept by Cribb; we went in there. I took him into the passage, and asked the landlord if he knew him? He said Yes. I asked him to show me the room where he lodged. Before he took me up stairs, he produced a clock, which he said the prisoner had left in the bar; the prisoner acknowledged leaving it there. We went up two pair of stairs into his room, as soon as we got into the room the prisoner stooped down himself, and pulled a bundle from under the bed, and said that was part of the property, and if I would open the closet, I should see a box, where all the rest was. I found all the property stated in the indictment there. Three legs of pork were packed up with the clothes, which the prosecutor claimed. I took him to the office, with the property. JOSEPH BRAIDLEY . The things offered to Lewis, and the other things found at his lodgings, are all mine. Prisoner's Defence. I lodged in the prosecutor's house for two years. I was afterwards distressed, and went to the work-house. The overseers wanted me to go out, and I left the work-house, leaving my child behind me. Seeing the street-door open, I was tempted to commit the robbery. JOSEPH BRAIDLEY . He left me about three months before. GUILTY. - DEATH . Recommended to Mercy . Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 22nd April 2021

New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Name; Robert Thrower Age; 31 [1787] Native Place; London Trade or calling; Painter & .... Trial where & Date; Middlesex - 2 Dec 1818 Height; 5 ft. 3 3/4 in Eyes; Hazel Hair; Brown Completion; Dark Sallow

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Peter Hinds on 14th December 2020

The John Barry had arrived at Portsmouth on 16 April 1819 and on 20 April, 60 male convicts were embarked from the hulk Laurel and 80 from the hulk Leviathan in Portsmouth harbour. On 23 April 1819 two more convicts were sent on board the John Barry from the Leviathan. One of the passengers on board the John Barry was John Thomas Bigge, New South Wales’ first Royal Commissioner. The John Barry finally arrived at Port Jackson on Sunday 26 September 1819 (See my book The Campbelltown Convicts).