Richard Tilson

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Gail Robyn Newman on 24th July 2024

1837 Dec Richard Tilson, Aged: 32; Arrived per ship John Employment: House of Correction; Residence: Illawarra

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Sheila Elliott on 17th November 2018

Married Phoebe Oldham 1824. Daughter Sarah married James Elliott. Son James b 1827 died as a baby.

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D Wong on 17th November 2018

8/4/1836 Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties Nottinghamshire, England: Stealing Manure from a Boat. Richard Tilson, 31, William Middap, 33, and Henry Sladen, 30, were charged with stealing twenty bushels of bone manure, the property of Messrs. Fothergill. Mr. W. Parsons called the prosecutor, John Fothergill, who said that on the 7th of May, he sent the prisoners from his wharf with a boat load of bone manure, to Sleaford. They had no permission to sell any. James Fothergill saw the prisoners at Sleaford, on the 11th of May, when they delivered the manure at Smith's wharf. Charles Copping, lives at Hart's ground in Lincolnshire, near the river Slea ; he saw the prisoners with a boat on the 9th of May ; Middap was driving, Tilson was steering, and shouted to ask if he wanted any bones; he asked 2s/ a bushel, and witness bid 1s 6d.; he bought twenty bushels for 30s. and paid them in his barn. Cross-examined by Mr. Bowley.__Had never bought bones before, and did not know their value; did not know whether the men were authorized to sell bones, he was in the habit of buying coals from boats as they passed. Never heard any inquiry of this matter till January. John Stothard, farmer, Kyme, saw some bones in a boat, and men delivering them to Mr. Copping; he saw the name of Fothergill on the boat. William Lowndes, turnkey at the county jail, proved a former conviction of Tilson, at the county sessions in 1827. The prisoners severally denied the charge. John Higginbottom, captain of one of Messrs. Fothergill's boats, had the boats in his charge; did not miss the bones at Sleaford, should have observed if so many were taken. Cross-examined.__Did not know whether the boats contained three hundred bushels, or three hundred quarters. John Scarr, boatman, was at Kyme, when the boatmen were all called up, in January, when Mr. Copping said he could not swear to any of them. John Marriott, coal-merchant, Castle-wharf, gave Middap a good character, as did Wm. Spencer, boat-owner, Wm. Smith, and Charles Lee. Three persons were called to Tilson's character, but did not appear; Sladen was stated to live at a distance. Mr. Parsons recalled James Fothergill, who said that the boat contained above two thousand bushels, and it would not nbe possible to distinguish the absence of so small quantity as twenty bushels. John Fothergill stated that he was at Kyme when the boatmen were sent down, and Mr. Copping immediately identified those who were with the boat. Guilty. Middap recommended to mercy. The court sentenced him to be imprisoned for nine months, Sladen twelve months, and Tilson seven years' transportation. 1827: Charged with stealing a gate - Samuel Newton bought the gate and gave him 2s. and two quarts of ale for it. Tilson said that he got the gate out of the Fusion river. Richard Tilson was 32 years old on arrival : Native Place: Nottingham. Richard could read, was protestant, married with 1 male and 1 female children, he was 5'2¼" tall dark ruddy and pockpitted complexion, brown hair, dark blue eyes, large round scar centre of forehead scar back of left hand. 11/3/1848 Bathurst Advocate, NSW: Richard Tilson, charged with indecent exposure, was dismissed; the proof to support the fact being deficient.