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Transportation
Thomas Weaving was transported on the Eliza, departing 2nd Feb 1831 and arriving 29th May 1831 with 224 passengers.
The Eliza was a 511-ton (later 538 ton) merchant ship built in British India in 1806. She made five voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia.
Eliza (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 3 |
| 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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No records have been found for when and how a “Thomas “Weaven” came to Australia, which encourages the idea that Thomas Weaven and Thomas Weaving are one and the same person. The records show he married Christine/Christiana Butcher in 1842. Christine/Christiana Thompson was a free settler who sailed to Hobart on the “Strathfieldsay” which sailed from Gravesend (River Thames) on 1 May 1834 and arrived at Hobart on 13 Aug 1834 Extract of a Despatch from Lieutenant-governor Arthur to Mr. Secretary Stanley, dated Van Diemen's Land, Government House, 26th September 1834: “Sir, With reference to your despatches announcing the intention of the Government to send out to this Colony another shipload of female emigrants, and directing that the necessary accommodations should be provided for their reception, I have the honour to inform you, that the "Strathfieldsay" arrived here on the 13th of last month, and the females were landed on the 16th, and taken to a large house in the precincts of the town, which had been previously hired for their accommodation”. Passenger No. 238, Christiana Thompson, Age: 17, Occupation: Sempstress, Disposal: Mrs. Frayatt. She later married convict, Henry Butcher in 1836 , whilst in Tasmania, at Green Ponds, near Kempton. Henry Butcher and wife Christiana had a daughter, Isabella, in 1939. There is a record of Henry Butcher’s death in 1842. Records show Thomas Weaven (Waivin), Christiana and her daughter (with Thomas’s surname) on the schooner “Minerva” leaving George Town, Tasmania for Portland, Victoria on 19 Oct 1840. Their Marriage Certificate is then shown for 1842, presumably after Henry Butcher’s death. After Thomas Weaven’s death at Tahara, near Portland, on 13 Jul 1857, Christiana went on to marry for the third time, to a Samuel Hardy in Portland, Victoria, on 8 Mar 1869. Sadly , Samuel Hardy died in Portland on 6 Feb 1868, again leaving Christina widowed, for the third time. She died in 1903.
Thomas Weaving married Hester Yeats/Yates in April 1830. He was sent to Van Diemen's Land for feloniously wrecking a threshing machine. Thomas was pardoned along with others from the "swing riots" and went back to England having served 5 years of his 7 year sentence. He went back to his wife in the village of Hatherop, in Gloucestershire and had a child, Martha, with Hester in 1837. He died in December 1869 and Hester died in September 1873.