Convicts Crimes

[JoyceMH]

I have finally found my gg grandfather. He was a convict to Tasmania. Can someone tell me where i can look up what his crime was in England - thanks.

[warncoort]

Plenty of links on Tasmanian resources board.

[giblet]

Do you have access to the British newspapers? Sometimes one can be lucky and find a article on them.

[solidrock]

Have you a name and date?

[JoyceMH]

John Dykes - transported to Tasmania on the Norfolk - 1834. Convicted at Devon , Plymouth.

[matthewj64]

Conduct record here

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON31-1-10,193,162,L,70

Convicted for stealing rope. Previous convictions mentioned

To VDL on the Lady Kennaway

"Convicts originally embarked on the Norfolk were transferred to the Lady Kennaway at Cork"

http://www.jenwilletts.com/convict_ship_lady_kennaway_1835.htm

More records available by searching the Tasmanian Names Index

https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/

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[JoyceMH]

Thank you so much , i really appreciate your help. I could only find larceny before convicted of felony, so i was a bit confused.

[giblet]

Woolmer's Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, etc
Saturday, April 19, 1834

John Dykes and Henry Rowe, two lads, were found quilty of stealing rope. Dykes had been convicted of theft on a former occasion, and Rowe, though quiet a boy, was tried in conjuntion with another lad, and acquited, at a previous session; in this instance the judgement was  -- Transportation for 7 years.

[JoyceMH]

Great work!