Blakey family Halifax/Leeds

[vanessa2011]

Hello,
I am looking for connections to Emma Blakey who was born in 1828 in Halifax. She was later transported to Australia as a convict. I believe her parents were John Blakey (Born about 1795 in Yorkshire) and Martha Stevenson. She had an interesting criminal record after transportation and ended up marrying William Lee (alias Smith) in Tasmania.

Kind regards, Vanessa

[dobfarm]

John Blakey 

Bapt 01 Sep 1794  BIRSTALL,YORK,ENGLAND

father's name: Samuel Blakey

JOHN BLAKEY
Marriages:
  Spouse:  MARTHA STEPHENSON
  Marriage:  05 APR 1812   Batley, Yorkshire, England




Bapt Emma Blakey
21 SEP 1828   Saint Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Father John Mother Martha

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Emma Blakey

Convicted at York Assizes for a term of 10 years on 09 March 1848.
 
 transported on the Cadet, 10 November 1848.

Departure Port:    Woolwich / Plymouth Departure Date:    10 Nov / 17 Dec 1848
Arrival Port:    Hobart Arrival Date:    12 Apr 1849

Destination Van Diemen's Land

Person reseaching Emma Blakey -- Julie Belcher (scroll down list and click on Julie's name


The York Herald, and General Advertiser 4th March 1848

York Court Calendar prisoner to Got to trial at York Spring assizes 9th Thursday March before Baron Alderson
 and Baron Rolfe judges cases 45-46 (Emma)-47


Harriet Wilson, Emma Blakey and Margaret Casey charged with having on the 26th Jan 1848 at Leeds
robbed Samuel Kelly of 2 sovereigns, a half sovereign and 60 half crowns

on Tuesday 23rg May 1848 Emma Blakey was sent to Millbank Prison,  Pimlico, London  from York castle,
Every person sentenced to transportation was sent to Millbank first, where they were held for three months before it was decided where to send them. Around 4,000 people convicted of crimes were being transported annually from the UK as of 1850. Prisoners awaiting transportation were kept in solitary confinement and restricted to silence for the first half of their sentence.


Copy to  the image to your  picture and I will remove this in a few days after acknowledgment you have copied it

[vanessa2011]

Hi Dobfarm,

Thank you so much for the information you have provided and particularly for the newspaper clipping. Several of Emma's trial details I had incorrectly noted! I really appreciate your time and assistance. I have copied the image as suggested.

Kind regards, Vanessa

[dobfarm]

 Sorry I Forgot this

Researcher Julie Belcher

http://www.tasfamily.net.au/mailform.php?senditto=Julie%20Belcher&fwdsite=AUS-Tasmania%20Genealogy&cat=convicts&nabout=Convict%20query%20BLAKEY%20Emma&ctype=c2&noad=&id=4401

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/convicts/con_b.htm

[dobfarm]

Hi Dobfarm,

Thank you so much for the information you have provided and particularly for the newspaper clipping. Several of Emma's trial details I had incorrectly noted! I really appreciate your time and assistance. I have copied the image as suggested.

Kind regards, Vanessa

I've now removed the newspaper clipping.

Its not a  good thing! as R.I.P of Emma.! bringing out such detailed scandal of old family skeletons out of cuboards to put on public boards for all un-sundry to read

Good hunting
Dobby

[vanessa2011]

Hi Dobby,

No worries at all. I am a little unusual I guess in that my family tree contains 12 convicts!! - which is an extraordinarily high number.

I have a special interest in the lives of the convicts as a result. So many of them went on to become successful pioneering families over here, in what must have been such a tough environment. Fascinating stuff.

Thanks again for your help with this