Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Edward Treasure was transported on the Minden, departing 16th Jul 1851 and arriving 14th Oct 1851 with 302 passengers.
Minden (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Class and Piece Number HO11/17, Page Number 175 (90) |
| 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
Edward purchased a large property in 1883, including the ‘Semblance of Olde England Hotel’, in Kojonup town. He died there 27 January 1886; the official cause of death was ‘excessive drinking’
the convicts on the Minden received Tickets of Leave on arrival and distributed to the various districts to seek employment with some retained for public works. It seems Edward was sent to the York district with £5/4/9convict earnings in his pocket working as a shepherd. Edward bought land near the Pallinup River in the Kojonup district
Edward was held on the Convict Hulk Stirling Castle and was doing hard labour in Portsmouth Harbour while awaiting transportation
Edward Treasure, age 23, my 2nd great grandfather, was sentenced to 10 years transportation for stealing swedes. Edward was not unfamiliar with the Somerset courts – tried twice in 1840 and sentenced to seven years transportation, the sentence was commutated to imprisonment in Millbank Prison. As in 1840,there were various petitions to mitigate his sentence, particularly by Mr MH Padfield acting for Edward’s family, but this time there was stiff opposition. Mr Charles Aaron Moody, at times the deputy and chair of the Somerset Quarter Sessions, Deputy Lieutenant of the County and the conservative Member for Somerset (West) in the House of Commons, wrote in no uncertain terms to the Home Secretary. Moody recalled from a previous case stating Stoke Lane to be a “den of thieves” and while he regarded Treasure’s offence “comparatively speaking trivial’, he could not “conceive … an old offender to whom punishment and mercy have already been in vain dealt out a further extension of mercy can either to himself or the public be beneficially granted”. Moody was aware of Edwards 1840 imprisonment stemming from a ‘curtilage breaking’ offence where, in company with John Treasure and Robert Emery, the Bell Inn Hotel in nearby Evercreech was burglarised.
TOL 14 DEC 1851
Treasure Edward Reg No 802 occupation collier Single no children 5' 5" hair light brown eyes grey face oval complexion fresh build stout Large scar over right eye