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Worcestershire / Re: How were they related?
« on: Thursday 03 October 13 03:49 BST (UK)  »
Hi Ted

We can only speculate why Richard and Thomas committed their crime.  (And there was the third accomplice "Reynolds" - I wonder if he was ever caught?).  Did Richard resent the disparity of the financial position of his uncle Benjamin Halfpenny?  Halfpenny was a rich man and Richard had no money to buy a coffin for his child.

I have fully researched Thomas Pye's life and written it up.  His employer wrote about Thomas in his book "Old Melbourne Memories" referring to him as "Joe Burge".  This book can be read online - the author is Rolf Boldrewood.

I have not looked into Richard Corbett in much detail.  I believe he was assigned to the Ryrie brothers (of Yarra Glen?), but how he obtained the station Rutherford? on Western Port Bay is not known by me.  He committed suicide - it appears his second marriage was not a happy one.

Liz

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Worcestershire / Re: How were they related?
« on: Tuesday 01 October 13 14:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Ted

I am not related to Richard Corbett, but to Thomas Pye who he was convicted with.  I had corresponded with some descendants of Richard and obtained copies of information regarding Richard whilst researching Thomas Pye.
Sounds like you have a lot of info on Richard and probably already have the information that I have.
Liz

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Worcestershire / Re: How were they related?
« on: Tuesday 01 October 13 02:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi Ted,

I am descended from Thomas Pye, who was indited when Richard Corbett.

I had copies of Richard Corbett's letters to his sister and brother and also one that John Corbett wrote to his uncle (however all the documentation that I had on the Corbetts including certificates went missing when I moved house five years ago).  The good news is that I transcribed the letters as best I could and I have those transcriptions if you would like to receive them.  One letter states that Richard was spending money back to "Mr and Mrs Halpenny".
I was looking at a London newspaper article regarding the trial and it described Richard Corbett as "a good-looking countryman, aged 31" and Thomas Pye "who was also a man of very respectable appearance".  Benjamin Halfpenny stated in the article that "the prisoner Corbett is a relative of mine and had been at my house."

Liz

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