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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: carolmc on Monday 24 March 25 16:56 GMT (UK)
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Henry Norman b.1813 Sporle with Palgrave, Norfolk UK. 1832 12 months for poaching. 1840 stealing and poaching 7 years transportation to Tasmania.1840 prison hulk York. 1841 census hulk Gosport. 1842 sailed to Tasmania Marquis of Hastings. 1847 Ticket of leave (free).Does anyone have any idea what happened to him?Any help much appreciated, regards carolmc
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Is this him in February 1847?
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65942524?searchTerm=%22henry%20norman%22
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New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters,
1846 Tasmania Ledger Returns shows him. I think he is assigned to a Mr Whitford - there's another word next to the name "Mr Whitford" but I can't read it, possibly a location?
The 1849 Ledger of the Convict Musters also shows him but with even less information.
Name Henry Norman
Arrival Date 1842
Vessel Marquis Hastings
Province Tasmania
Place of Conviction Swaffham
But no information as to his whereabouts in 1849
An on-line tree suggests that he may have died in 1849 but there's no evidence shown.
Judith
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https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON33-1-29/CON33-1-29p150
His convict record shows:
25 January 1847, Longford, Tasmania
Misconduct: being in a public house during service on Sunday - three days (?) with hard labour.
Term of transportation expired, 25 March 1847.
Seems a bit fond of frequenting the 'public house' if the Trove article is correct and it would seem to be the same man!
Judith
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Thank you for the amazing replies. I put death as 1849? as I couldn't find anything else about Henry. He left a wife Charlottre and 2 children in UK, she remarried. He had a brother, William, who was transported to Bermuda where he died. I wonder if he ever had another family? or when and where he died? I don't know anything about Longford, but modern info shows a nice place to be. I suppose I'd really like to find that he had decendants in Tasmania???regards carolmc
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It wasn't uncommon for ex-convicts to go to Victoria where there was more work and, in 1851, the discovery of gold. I couldn't see any further mention of him after 1847 on the Tasmanian names data base which sometimes shows individual travel. There seems no record of family or marriage and he had finished his sentence so record-keeping would be less diligent.
I note on that Convict record https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON33-1-29/CON33-1-29p150 in the remarks column he seems to have been at Creekton, Longford, in 1843 with E B Walker and in 1845 with Alfred Whitfield.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65980310
Trove has mention of a marriage of Alfred Whitfield of Creekton, Longford in 1848. I think Creekton may have been the name of a property.
Judith