mordecai solomon -london -honesty and legitimacy

[borewood]

Hello-there has been a lot of forum chatter about this ancestor of mine.My grandmother was jane Solomon born Sydney in NSW-came to London in 1902. Can anyone please prove he was legitimate son of Meyer Solomon-famous in London jewish society-see google-and book on western synagogue How come this son of an antique dealer and religious man got transported to Tasmania in 1818-aged 18 for allegedly stealing rabbits- in London-v improbable

Anthony

[lizdb]

Sorry, I must confess I don't understand this at all!

What relation is Mordecai (in the title) to your gran  Jane Solomon?
If he is her son, then his father is unlikely to be someone who stole rabbits in 1818 - if Jane was going round the world nearly 100 years later in 1902!

As for "improbable" he was stealing rabbits - well 18 yr olds can do some pretty daft things!

[[Ray]]

Hi

"there has been a lot of forum chatter about this ancestor of mine"

Would you post the links to the forum threads?
That would save us duplicating effort on work already done/accepted?
(I don't see much on Rootschat?)

As for being transported for "allegedly stealing rabbits".
Sounds, to me, like the allegations were proven.

Regards
Ray

[[Ray]]

Hi

Jan 1817  Not Guilty of "Larceny on a dwelling...."
Apr 1817 Guilty of "Larceny" = 6months

Found on 12 public trees..........................

"752.   JAMES ARGENT and    MORDECAI SOLOMON were indicted for stealing, on the 11th of April , ten live tame rabbits, price 10s. , the property of   Richard Hawkes .
RICHARD HAWKES . I am a labourer , and live at  Stratford . On the 11th of April, between five and six o'clock in the morning, I missed my rabbits out of my out-house; they were safe the evening before-the hutches were open.

THOMAS PIERCEY. I am an officer. On the 11th of April, I was on duty on Stepney Common, and met the prisoners about seven o'clock in the morning-each had a bag. I asked Argent what he had got - He said, "rabbits,
"and that he was going to take them to Whitechapel. He said he got them from Stratford. Solomon said, Argent had hired him to carry them. I secured them.

THOMAS WALKER . I am an officer, and was with the last witness; I took the prisoners to the office, with the bags-there were nine live, and one dead, rabbits, in one bag, and nine dead ones in the other. They said a man with a cart-load of potatoes had hired them to carry the rabbits to Whitechapel.

(Property produced and sworn to.)
ARGENT - GUILTY . Aged 17.
SOLOMON- GUILTY . Aged 17.
Confined Six Months .
Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
"