JACOBS Isaac
Name | Isaac JACOBS |
Country Of Origin | England |
Born | 1816 |
Died | unknown |
Birth/Baptism | Born approx. 1816, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England |
Parents | unknown |
Apprenticeship | unknown |
Skills | Watchmaker |
Work Locations | No record found working in his trade in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) |
Marriage/Spouse | 13 June 1841, at Mr Joseph Solomons, Charles Street, Launceston, to Elizabeth Nelson |
Trial | 1 November 1832, Derby Borough Quarter Sessions, England |
Sentence | Seven years transportation for stealing two watches |
Arrival | 24 August 1833 on the convict ship, Atlas |
Police Number | 687 |
Convict Assignment | |
Ticket of Leave | May 1838, suspended in July 1839 and later restored. |
Conditional Pardon | |
Other | Recorded as a watchmaker of two years on arrival and assigned to a convict road gang.
1839: Certificate of Freedom. June 1858: Isaac Jacobs, merchant of Melbourne, Victoria, is listed in the newspaper as a creditor in watchmaker John Tozer’s insolvency estate. |
Death | unknown |
References | |
John Levi, These are the Names: Jewish Lives in Australia 1788-1850, 2013. TAHO: CON31/1/24, CON18/1/3, CON23/1/2, RGD37/1/2 no1213 Marriage 1841, CSO95/1/1 1845. Hobart Town Courier 18 May 1838; Cornwall Chronicle 2 November 1839; The Hobart Town Advertiser 13 March 1840; The Examiner (Launceston) 22 June 1858. |
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