Convict ancestry?

[Grafe]

I've got two that I have found.

17 old boy who pickpocketed a hanky in London and got transportation for life. 1832.

21 year old young women who stole a dead hare in Glasgow and got 7 years. 1846.

Both ended up in Tasmania, were married and had my ggg grandfather.

[stevew101]

My claim to a convict was my 4th Great Grandfather Henry Gentle who was born in Stotfold in 1795.  He married a local girl and raised a family.  In 1831, he was involved in the Stotfold Riots and also stole a loaf of bread.  He was convicted at Bedford and sentenced to be hung.  The sentence was commuted to 14 years transportation.  First he was placed on the hulk Justitia at Woolwich before being transported to Australia on the Letitia.  During the voyage, the crew mutined, so it was quite an eventful trip.  He seems to have still got into trouble in West Maitland, Australia, where he is convicted of drunkeness and he has his Ticket of Leave revoked.  He is also in Court for damaging a neighbours fence, but is found not guilty.  At the age of 69, he is crossing the Hunter River after what appears to be another drink, where he falls in the river and drowns while mooring up the boat.

Quite a character and quite a life.

[BonnieDownUnder]

I've got a 'pigeon pair'. 
My 3xgf Nathaniel Francis Watson born c1816 Staffordshire was convicted of stealing a piece of meat and shipped out in 1833 prior enduring the hulk ship 'Euryalus' for 18 odd months;  he served his 7 year sentence to the day, (once arriving on our shores), married and raised a large family and from the beautiful wording on his and wife's headstone, they had a long and loving relationship.

My 5xgm Lydia Parker (a widow) nee Childs born c1765 Dorset, was convicted of stealing and arrived in 1801.  She ended up marrying in Sydney, 1802, Thomas Barber, and their daughter Ruth born 1809 makes me a very proud 7th generation Australian.

[Dorliz]

I have a few
I thank them for their misdeeds which had them sent to God's country.
William Harris - stealing
Mary Ann McCash stealing Apron - married William in Aust.
Agnes Scott McCash Mary's mother - Transported to Tas.
John Taylor - theft
Samuel Washburn - Battle of the Windmill Canada, Transported on the Buffalo to Tas. married
Agnes Scott McCash (step ancestor).

Dorliz

[a chesters]

Being a new import, I have none, but OH has two, GGF & GGM

Benjamin Hamilton, Irish Protestant, transported for 7 years for stealing cows, 1827

Margaret Manning, Irish Catholic, transported for 7 years for stealing from mistress, 1830

Benjamin left a wife and child in Ireland, but married Margaret in Sydney, at the Catholic cathederal, in 1848, after all the children, 4 of, were baptised.  

AC

[Brisgirl]

I'm lucky enough to have a few convicts ancestors... My 6 x great-grandmother was Elizabeth Cole, a First Fleet convict from Devon, convicted of stealing "a woman's stuff gown" valued at 7 shillings and other goods valued at 5 pounds and 9 shillings, and sentenced to 7 years. Her future husband and my 6 x great-grandfather was Richard Cornelius Burrows, a Second Fleet convict, who was given a death sentence for sheep stealing but commuted to 7 years. Their daughter Ann Burrows, my 5 x great-grandmother, married Sylvester Lush, also convicted of sheep stealing and given a death sentence commuted to life, transported on the "Calcutta" and part of the first group of settlers and convicts who founded Hobart. Ann and Sylvester's daughter Sarah Lush, my 4 x great-grandmother, married James aka John Fisk who was convicted of stealing and sentenced to 14 years. After Sylvester passed away, Ann married John Vale, convicted of stealing and given a life sentence but was a free man by the time they married. Ann's other daughter Ann Elizabeth Lush also married a convict, John Hollman.

[LeanneBeckley]

Very proud to say my GG grandfather, Charles Beckley was sent to Van Diemen's Land on board the Eliza to serve 7 years for Machine Breaking,  he was part of the Wiltshire Riots in 1830.  He left his first wife back in England, and eventually married another English girl (my gg grandmother Maria Chowns) after settling in Geelong.  Another GGG grandfather Robert Walker was about 18 when he was convicted for stealing lead from rooves, his father was a roofer in Birmingham, quess he tried to get rich the easy way!.  He served his time in Tassie and finally settled in Geelong, married and lived to 92 years old.
My husbands' GG grandfather was Isaac Burnham.  He was convicted of killing a horse that belonged to the man that may have possibly been his real father, (he was illegitimate and also went by the alias Mason, which was the name of the horse owner).  The only witness to his crime was Mason's legitimate son.  He arrived in Tassie to serve 14 years.  He resettled in Victoria and married an English woman and raised a family. 

[Leanne.]

My 3rd great grandfather John Whitby born 1801 Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, England.

Convicted in Cambridge Assizes and transported as a convict to Australia on board the ship "Ocean" in 1823 ( unsure of crime committed )

His wife Mary  Baker - may have been convicted at the Old Bailey on 17 August 1835 for the theft of 1 pair of shoes, value 1s. 4d

John Whitby married Mary Baker at Pambula NSW in 1839

[Billyblue]

My Billy Blue was convicted of stealing 7 lbs of sugar from a ship he was unloading - he said it was for use in his chocolate making business - and got sent here for his troubles.  He became Sydney's first water policeman!  And he was a black man, we think from Jamaica / West Indies somewhere.

His wife was 'a fair Englishwoman' who got 7 years for stealing a ribbon and a petticoat.
They married in Sydney one month after their first child was born.

And on my mum's side I have a whole family from Ireland - 2 teenage boys and their parents.  One (GGF) came first, then the others a year later and all convicted of the same crime on the same day, stealing someone's cloak.  Theory has it that they probably did it to get a free passage, as they were model prisoners and hard to trace, whereas GGF was always into brawls etc.      

Dawn M