| Name: | Thomas West |
| Aliases: | none |
| Gender: | m |
| Date of Birth: | - |
| Occupation: | Miller |
| Date of Death: | - |
| Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 58 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to Life
| Crime: | Stealing |
| Convicted at: | Sussex Assizes |
| Sentence term: | Life |
| Ship: | Earl Cornwallis |
| Departure date: | August, 1800 |
| Arrival date: | 12th June, 1801 |
| Place of arrival | New South Wales |
| Passenger manifest | Travelled with 294 other convicts |
| Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 286 'Thomas West of Barcom Glen' by Edward West Marriott. |
| 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 Project. |
Rob West on 3rd March, 2013 wrote:
Constructed and opened the first water mill for making flour on 14 January 1812 at Rushcutters Bay.
On 21 July 1812 an add in the Sydney Gazette states West’s mill at Barcom Glen now open for business.
Thomas owned 40 acres from the harbour to Old South Head Road now Oxford Street.
Thomas West was pardoned on Christmas Eve 1813 for, “his general good conduct and character for Sobriety and industry and also in consideration of his having erected a Water Mill for grinding of grain at Barcom Glen within one mile of the town of Sydney, being the first Water Mill ever erected in the immediate vicinity of the Town, and as a further Mark of approbation of the conduct of the said Thomas West the Governor has been pleased to make a Donation of a Cow from the Government herds.”
Rob West on 3rd March, 2013 made the following changes:
source, gender, occupation, crime
This record was discovered and printed on ConvictRecords.com.au
