Charles Lomax - Lancashire

[karoy]

Hi, I would be very grateful for any help and to find someone else interested in this family. My GGGGrandfather Charles Lomax bn Lancashire to John & Margaret Lomax. Not sure of birth date. Only information I have is that he came to Australia 1840 on the Ship Eden. His brother or cousin Samuel was also onboard the Eden at the same time as Charles. He may have a cousin Peter who came to Australia on the ship Albion. Charles Lomax was tried at the Lancaster Bolton QS and sentenced 10 years. Samuel was tried at the Chester Quarter Sessions.  Would love to fill in the gaps of these men as I have nothing on the family or crime.

Thanks in advance

[Radcliff]

If this is the correct Charles he was tried at Bolton Borough sessions Lancashire,
25 Th October 1839,
charged with Larceny,
and sentenced to transportation for ten years,
age 23,
on the prison ship Fortitude ,30 th of November 1839,Chatham,he could read and write

Samuel was tried at Chester ,
and sentanced to 7 1/2 years transportation,he was 18,
 again larceny was the crime,
5th of August 1839,

A Samuel was sentanced to a year in prison in 1837 in Lancashire,so the two could be the same person,
I cannot find a baptism for either with the parents you have given ,
but I am sure someone will have a look today

[karoy]

Thank you for such a quick reply, could there have been two Charles Lomax's? the State records here in NSW has Charles and Samuel on the Ship Eden 1840, but you have Charles on the Fortitude earlier very interesting. I will check again to make sure.

[keyboard86]

Hi not certain if this is your Charles but:-

Christening Charles James Lomax 18th December 1814 Bolton le Moors Lancashire Father John Mother Margaret?

Keyboard86