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Title: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: chantelle_49 on Wednesday 31 March 10 13:23 BST (UK)
I am trying to find information on Thomas EASTERBY born about 1816 in Kirkbymoorside. He was convicted of theft in 1847 and transported to Tasmania in 1852. 

His convict records in 1852 state that he was informed of his wife's death and he is now a widower with 4 children. Any idea how I could find out what happened to those children?  I've searched the the 1841 census with a possible match, however the wife in that family still appears in the 1861 census (although without a husband, but with 2 more children.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 18:46 BST (UK)
his criminal past is on A* - assuming these are all him!!

2/1/1837 age 23 Lacerny  imprisonment 4 months

9/4/1844  age 29 recieving stolen goods imprisonment 1 year

1910/1847 age 33 larceny  transportation 14 years

Looking for census.
Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 18:50 BST (UK)
1851 census: greenwich,kent, Warrior Convict Hulk, woolwich dockyard.

T.Easterby age 33 married gunsmith  convict  born Kirby Moorside,Yorks

HO 107 /1588/506/4

Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 18:58 BST (UK)
1841:kirkby moorside

Mary Holroyd  50
Thomas Easterby 25  Gunsmith
Mary Ann 25
Elizabeth 7
Ann  6
Mary 1

is this the one you found as it does seem to fit?

Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 19:00 BST (UK)
death: Mary Ann Easterby mar 1846 helmsley 24/288

Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 19:03 BST (UK)
extracted marriage (from original record) on LDS:

Thomas Easterby = Mary Ann Holroyd
19/12/1833 Lastingham (4 miles NNE of KirkbyMoorside)

Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 19:17 BST (UK)
there is another Easterby -Richard married to a mary also from KirkbyM. i think the 1861 census you found (and me) as follows has both these families. - I suspect Richard might be Thomas brother.

Hutton Le Hole
Mary Holroyd 79  wid
//

Mary Ann Easterby h wid 47
David  7
francis  7
Mary Gdu 3mths
//
Elizabeth Easterby H  unm 27
Thomas son  6
Harry  2
isabel  1

Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 19:22 BST (UK)
parent search on LDS has siblings in Kirkby Moorside:

Thomas Easterby 3/6/1813

Richard Easterby 2/10/1815

James 10/12/1817

Bessie 15/1/1821

all parents William & Elizabeth

Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 19:27 BST (UK)
1851 census:spilsby

Elizabeth Esterby 18 servant b. Hatton le Hole
living in household of Wilsons.

Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 19:37 BST (UK)
Ann Easterby:

1841 as given
!851: Living in Helmsley as servant
Ann Easterly age 16
HO 107/2372/387/11

marriage: Ann Easterby = either George Ellerker / Edward mercer dec 1855 Pickering 9d /748
OR dec 1854 Whitby 9d /?
I think Pickering more likely and you can look to 1861 to check which she married.

Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 19:44 BST (UK)
Mary Easterby:

1841 as given

1851 in KM with her grandmother Mary Holroyd. the mary (MA) given as Mary Holroyds daughter is i think Richards wife as previously stated.

Mary Holroyd 62
M A Easterby dau 34
Mary gdau 10-
Phoebe gdau 7

1861 servant in KM age 20
RG 9/3640/57/23

Marriage: mar 1871 Mary Easterby = John Green or George Thompson
Pickering 9d /541


Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Wednesday 31 March 10 19:49 BST (UK)
will clock off now and let you sort that lot out!!

Diddy  ;D
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: chantelle_49 on Wednesday 31 March 10 21:43 BST (UK)
Diddy you're a wonder! Thanks so much! I thought Holroyd fitted too well to be a coincidence.
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: snowqueen on Friday 02 April 10 19:26 BST (UK)
Hi Chantelle,

The baptism of Bessy Easterby 1821 Kirbymoorside says her father William Easterby was a gunsmith in Kirbymoorside.  His parents were Christopher Easterby and Phoebe (I think Phoebe's maiden name was Rivis).

Bessy's mother Elizabeth was daughter of James and Ann Ray (Ann's maiden name I think was Conyers).

Lyn
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: cousinjack on Tuesday 08 June 10 16:24 BST (UK)
Hi Chantelle

I have worked out a detailed family tree, which I can message you privately if you want – it is too complicated and long to post here. Thomas Easterby is an ancestor of my wife.

Basically, his parents were William and Elizabeth (nee Kay according to IGI batch sources), and his g/parents Christopher and Phoebe (nee Rivas).  He was christened in 1813. Siblings were Bessie, James (a shoemaker), and Richard (a whitesmith) who married Mary Leng. Richard and Mary almost certainly died in the mid-1850s. Their daughter, another Mary Ann must have died young, as she does not appear in the 1851 census when she would have been 4. Their son Christopher appears in the 1861 census as a cabinet maker living in Pickering with his wife Elizabeth.

Thomas married Mary Ann Holroyd and had four children (born between 1834 and 1844), Elizabeth, Ann, Mary, and Phoebe. Mary Ann seems to have survived until at least 1861, and to have conceived two more children, David and Francis (possibly twins as their births were registered together) without Thomas who must have been imprisoned on the Warrior since 1847, after which he was sent on the Fairlie to Tasmania in 1852.

The Elizabeth with three children living next to Mary Holroyd, Mary Ann’s mother, in the 1861 census is almost certainly the eldest daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann, and the baby Mary living with Mary Ann, who is clearly not a “widow” is the daughter of her daughter Mary, who had a live-in job as dairymaid at the “Dog & Duck” pub in Hutton-le-Hole. Mary later had two more children, Margaret Hannah and John William who was my wife’s ancestor. She later had further children after marrying George Thompson, an ironstone miner.

I believeThomas married Bridget Stanton in Hobart in 1854, and moved to Gunning NSW where he farmed until his death in 1890.

It seems to me that both Thomas and Mary separately decided to start new lives, with Mary describing herself as a widow, and Thomas marrying again in Tasmania.

Incidentally, in the 1841 census, Mary Holroyd is described as a farmer, and is living with Mary Ann, Thomas and their first three children. By 1851, she has become an ag lab, suggesting she sold land to raise money, or couldn’t afford to rent it any more. Her late husband, David, had been a blacksmith.

Cousin Jack
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: julieriddiough on Thursday 24 June 10 17:40 BST (UK)
his criminal past is on A* - assuming these are all him!!

2/1/1837 age 23 Lacerny  imprisonment 4 months

9/4/1844  age 29 recieving stolen goods imprisonment 1 year

1910/1847 age 33 larceny  transportation 14 years

Looking for census.
Diddy


Hi i have relative with i similar back ground sentances to life improsinment on prison ship, where can i go about finding this sort of informatiom for him?  I am a subscriber on a******y  is there anywhere on there?

thanks
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: diddymiller on Friday 25 June 10 09:09 BST (UK)
HI, info as to sentence / crime will be on there. put in ancestors details and click on immigration & travel.

Diddy
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: Pels. on Sunday 15 April 12 16:32 BST (UK)




Hi everyone,

Just to say a new member has posted some information relating to Thomas Easterby on the following thread :

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,592452.0.html

Pels.
Title: Re: Thomas EASTERBY - Convict to Australia
Post by: lesj on Monday 30 April 12 06:03 BST (UK)
   hello to all having an interest in thomas easterby,

marriage william easterby-elizabeth ray of kbm  1797
 children all baptised at kbm
john  1798
ann    1799
phoebe  1801
william    1803
mary       1807
christopher  1809
george     1811
thomas     1813 x
richard      1815
james        1817
bessy         1821

william's father christopher married phoebe rivas at kbm  1771
children all baptised at kbm
william 1772x
elizabeth  1775
john        1777
jane        1779
ann         1781

christopher's father thomas married  either mary prust or ann foxton in 1727 or 1733 unsure who???
children all baptised at kbm
elizabeth   1728
john           1730
thomas       1733
thomas        1737
william         1737
john            1740
george       1740
christopher   1743x
richard           1748
anne               1748


 too many thomas's to work out who was who after this point.
can anyone help?
i have e mailed cousin jack but he has failed to reply.
i do have info on thomas easterby's life in australia and current living relatives if anyone is interested.

                   kind regards   lesj