Samuel Carr
Transferred from Millbank Prison to
Parkhurst Prison -- 26/03/1850 -- age 17
Occupation: Piecer in Factory
(presumably a cotton factory)
Convicted at Manchester Sessions --
23/10/1849 for Larceny
Sentenced to 7 years transportation
He was single, could read (imperfectly) but
could not write
Gaoler's Report at Parkhurst indicates that
he had quite a few previous convictions
4 for Vagrancy, 2 for Larceny and 2 under
the Juvenile Offenders Act (unspecified)
He embarked on the "Equestrian"
for Van Diemen's Land on 19/08/1852 and arrived in Hobart
on 16/12/1852 and treated as an
"Exile", that is, he was more or less free
to come and go as he chose
but unable to return to England until his 7
years had been completed.
Samuel may have married Eliza Donavan in
Tasmania (yet to be verified)
He married Sarah Jane Hilliard at Geelong
November 8th 1873
Children:
Sarah Jane Carr born 24th January 1872
Elizabeth Kate Carr born 25th Jan 1875
Mary Ann Carr born 1877. She
died from suffocation while in bed with her mother 1877
Samuel's wife Sarah Jane Carr dies 1878
from Exposure (inquest held)
Samuel arrives at local jail with a coffee
for Sarah, expecting that she had been locked
up for drunkenness.
Instead finds out that she was found dead
on the road having fallen on her way home.
1878 Samuel dies Geelong hospital aged 47
heart disease
Samuel's children, Elizabeth, Sarah and
half brother Edmund go before the court as neglected children.
All children are sent to Industrial schools
until they are 15. Girls to one school and the boy to another
They never saw their half brother Edmund again.
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Sarah Jane Carr married Ernest George Hall
in Geelong 1898
Daughter: Elsie - born....1900...Clifton
Hill --- died...1902...Fitzroy...aged...2
years
Son: John ...born....1899....Clifton Hill
--- died...1899....Clifton
Hill..aged...1 day
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Elizabeth married Charles Taylor in 1897
Daughter: Berl
Leonora....born....1901...Hawthorn----Married.... William
Cochrane....1926-----died ...1976...Ferntree Gully...aged 74
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Information kindly supplied by:
Steve Johnson -- Australia
He would appreciate any more information on Samuel.
Contact me; reunitedfamily@gmail.com