BARNETT Reuben Henry
Name | Reuben Henry BARNETT |
Country Of Origin | England or Poland |
Born | 1818 |
Died | 1894 |
Birth/Baptism | Born approx. 1818, England or Poland |
Parents | unknown |
Apprenticeship | unknown |
Skills | Watchmaker, Jeweller |
Work Locations | No record found working in his trade in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) |
Marriage/Spouse | 1841, London, England, to Julia Aarons. 1861, Oatlands, Tasmania, to Julia Salmon. |
Trial | 23 October 1843, Central Criminal Court, London |
Sentence | Seven years transportation for burglary |
Arrival | 17 June 1845, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) on the convict ship, Mount Stewart Elphinstone (1) |
Police Number | 15568 |
Convict Assignment | |
Ticket of Leave | December 1846, revoked in 1847, reissued December 1849 |
Conditional Pardon | |
Other | Other skills: Blacksmith.
Arrived on the same convict ship as clock and watchmakers, Francis Abbott and Charles Salmon. Reuben’s birthplace was recorded as Warsaw, Poland on convict records, but death and burial records state he was born in England. 1894: A newspaper obituary has no mention of his convict past. |
Death | 17 September 1894, Allison Street, Hobart Cause of death: Cancer |
References | |
TAHO: CON33/1/66, CON18/1/45, CON14/1/21, CON13/1/9, CON28/1/2, RGD33/1/28 no 295 Marriage 1861, RGD35/1/14 no1336 Death 1894. Web: Ancestry: England & Wales Civil Registration Index 1841. The Hobart Town Advertiser 4 December 1846, 14 December 1849; The Examiner (Launceston) 30 March 1886; The Tasmanian 29 September 1894. |
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