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Wiltshire Lookup Requests / Re: STEVENS - Salisbury, England
« on: Saturday 04 October 08 08:51 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for this - I am away from home but just had a quick look at this info - very useful - just need to link him to Norfolk Island to get greater surety - will pick this is up in due course - thanks again.

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Wiltshire Lookup Requests / Re: STEVENS - Salisbury, England
« on: Friday 03 October 08 23:18 BST (UK)  »
I am a GT/GT/Grandson via his second child James.  Not conclusive evidence but I suspect that he had a sister named Georgiana.   If it is the same man he was tried in the Old Bailey in 1838 - refer <www.oldbaileyonline.org>  He then was transported to Hobart in the Pyramus, arriving in 1839.   Good luck with the actual birth date and place.

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Wiltshire Lookup Requests / Re: STEVENS - Salisbury, England
« on: Thursday 02 October 08 14:34 BST (UK)  »
I suspect that he was a convict first and was "promoted on-the-job" at a time when command of that penal colony was corrupt.  I have not been able to conclusively prove this however and I expect that it will take on-site research at Tasmanian Archives, or the Mitchell Library in Sydney.

James Stevens was subsequently dishonourably discharged from the Campbell Town Police Force, for a reason which I also have not established.

I have not yet found any precise records to show which ship(s) he or Mary travelled on to arrive at any Australian colony, or to travel to/from Norfolk Island.

I am a direct descendant - how are you related?

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Wiltshire Lookup Requests / Re: STEVENS - Salisbury, England
« on: Thursday 02 October 08 09:28 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Glendreath on Wednesday 08 August 07 12:40 BST (UK)
Tracing James Stevens born Salisbury, England ABT 1818.
Trade listed as a Baker on his police records in Tasmania.
Probably arrived Tasmania mid 1840s.
Married Mary Callaway in Hobart, Tasmania 1850, he was 32years and she was 18years. Mary was born in Crediton, Devon, England 4/2/1832. and her father was Richard Callaway.
They ended up in Victoria, Australia.
All efforts to find James birth or parents have failed.
CAN ANYONE HELP PLEASE???
Glendreath

This James Stevens was in Norfolk Island prior to joining various regional police forces in Tasmania.   Mitchell Library records (NSW) record him as Chief Constable between (from memory) 1847 - 1853.  He obviously sailed to Hobart to be married in 1850, and then back to Norfolk Island where his first daughter Mary Jane was born in 1851.

I hope that his helps.

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