Charles Trinder

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D Wong on 9th October 2016

Charles Trinder was listed as 21 years old on arrival, he was transported for 'Stealing 12 tame rabbits from a shed. Charles was born in Portsmouth - dates of 1805, 1807 and 1809 found. He was 5'5 3/4" tall, light brown hair, grey eyes, feint crucifix inside rt arm WT BT AT JT CT above elbow joint left arm 7 spots between finger & thumb left hand, single. Father and Mother at Chorley near Berkshire, Wm. Trinder a {Farmer} - "I lived last with Jas Davis & Wm (Dean Coal proprietors Oxford Street". 1830 Muster: Assigned to Mr. S. Lord 1832 Muster: In Gaol 1833 Muster: In Gaol 1834: COF 6/3/1837: Married Ellen Connolly/Conway (B1815 - Oct., 1897 Launceston) - they had at least 5 children. 4/6/1859: Charles died - accidental death. 8/6/1859 The Cornwall Chronicle, Launceston: DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE NEW MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. About seven o'clock on Saturday morning last, the men employed in raising the girders for the roof of the new Mechanics' Institute were loosing the tackling from a girder which had been lifted to its place on the previous evening, for the purpose of raising another. Charles Trender, a stonemason, and a very efficient active man at such work, was standing on the girder, loosing and handing down the tackling with the blocks to the Foreman, when, unfortunately, one of the carpenters shifted the foot of the girder next St John-street with a crowbar. It had been rested on a beam of wood, which was very wet with the heavy night dew, and this caused the girder to slip round, until it got off its support on both walls, and only rested in an angular portion on the beam, where it had originally been placed. The men had not got to their stations at the windlass in Cameron-street, and the guy-rope attached from the girder to it slacked, allowing the girder to cant over and fall with poor Trinder on it to the first floor, a distance of 26 feet. The unfortunate man saw his danger, and screamed out to his fellow-workmen to hold on by the girder ; but the damage was done, and nothing could avert the consequences. The immense girder, formed of strong beams, fell with a tremendous crash, breaking one of the beams in two as if it had been a mere sapling. Poor Trinder's head struck against a rafter, and that injury alone would no doubt have caused instant death,— but, in addition to that, the front bones of his chest and his ribs were crushed in such a manner as must have caused almost instant death The Foreman, who was standing under the glider taking the tackling from Trinder at the time it swayed round, had a most miraculous escape, for it was impossible for him to know under the circumstances which way to run for safety. Immediately after the accident the Foreman ran to Dr. Maddox's, and found that gentleman ready to step into his gig, to go down the river, so that in five or six minutes after the accident occurred he was beside the injured man, but prompt as he was in his attendance, before he reached the spot poor Trinder had expired. All Dr. Maddox could do was to as certain the nature of the injuries which had been the immediate cause of death, and direct that the deceased might be laid out where he was to await the coroner's inquest. The corpse of the healthy robust man who had cheerfully commenced his work about half-an-hour before was then covered over, and the ladders which gave access to the first floor where he lay were taken down, to prevent any person from visiting the place until the coroner and jury should see it, just as it appeared immediately after the accident. The wife and several of the children of deceased heard but too soon of what had occurred, and lingered long about tbe building, looking up with weeping eyes to the spot where they were told the dead man lay. At the Inquest - The jury then recorded a verdict of "Accidental Death."

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Karlena Nagle on 8th October 2016

Charles was a Carter on his convict records but by the time of his marriage he was a Stone Mason.