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No, he was born on 3 Nov 1810 in Birmingham. He was baptised at St Phillip's Church. His father was Charles and his mother Sarah, possibly Sarah Jones. He was transported to Tasmania on the Woodford on 2 May 1828 for life for housebreaking and arrived in Hobart on 25 August 1828. He eventually married Mary Stanaway, who was born in 1810 probably in Birmingham, and had been transported on the Sir Charles Forbes for life for highway robbery, arriving Tasmania on 3 January 1827.
It was Mary's third marriage. Her first marriage, on 25 Oct 1830, was to John Williamson, a convict transported for 7 years for theft on the Lady East, arriving Tasmania 9 April 1825. He died, and on 21 March 1838 she married Charles Osborne, a free man. She ran off with John Latham soon after, as they had a child called Elizabeth, who died in gaol, where her mother had been sent for leaving her husband and getting pregnant with another man, on 4 Nov 1840. Mary seems to have called herself Mary Williams (after husband No. 1) and this has confused most genealogists, including me for a long time. Mary and John finally married on 3 September 1855, presumably because Charles Osborne had died. In the meantime, they'd had five more children, the youngest of whom Joseph Albert Victor Latham, born in Franklin on 2 July 1851, was my great-great grandfather.
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