SANDERS Thomas
Name | Thomas SANDERS |
Country Of Origin | England |
Born | 1825 |
Died | unknown |
Birth/Baptism | Born approx. 1825, Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
Parents | unknown |
Apprenticeship | Coventry, Warwickshire |
Skills | Watchmaker, Watch Finisher |
Work Locations | No record found working in his trade in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) |
Marriage/Spouse | |
Trial | 9 April 1844: Northampton Borough Quarter Sessions February 1852: Launceston Quarter Sessions March 1857: Hobart trial 26 September 1860: Oatlands trial 2 September 1862: Supreme Court, Hobart Town |
Sentence | 1844: Seven years transportation for housebreaking and stealing lead and money. 1852: Transportation for life for stealing 75 sovereigns from the residence of James Ellis. 1857: Three years penal servitude in irons for breaking, entering, and stealing watches, jewellery and banknotes. 1860: Not guilty of housebreaking. 1862: Death sentence commuted to penal servitude for life for violent robbery. |
Arrival | 26 December 1844 on the convict ship, Sir Robert Peel |
Police Number | 15142 and 2249 |
Convict Assignment | |
Ticket of Leave | |
Conditional Pardon | |
Other | Also known as Thomas Saunders.
On arrival, recorded as a Watch Finisher of three years. Offences on his convict conduct record include idleness, absconding, disobedience of orders, theft, telling a falsehood, talking after the silence bell had rung, and disturbing the public peace. Punishments included hard labour in chains and time in solitary confinement. Final entries on Thomas’s convict record: |
Death | unknown |
References | |
TAHO: CON31/1/31, CON37/1/7, CON33/1/63, AB693/1/1 1857 [Tom Sanders], SC32/1/8 1860, AB693/1/1 & SC32/1/8 1862 [Thomas Saunders]. Web: Ancestry: 1841 England Census; https://thomasnevin.com/featured-articles/rogues-gallery-qvmag-collection/ Britannia & Trades’ Advocate 28 March 1850; The Examiner (Launceston) 19 April 1851, 27 September 1860; Hobart Town Mercury 4 March 1857 [Thomas Saunders]; Tasmanian Daily News 30 March 1857 [Thomas Saunders]; Cornwall Chronicle 6 September 1862. |
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