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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: BAC3 on Friday 01 May 20 11:34 BST (UK)
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Hello,
According to the Fremantle Prison Convict Database Thomas LOCKETT was re-convicted, after receiving his Conditional Pardon on 17/10/1865, and was imprisoned for 3 years. Sadly, the website carries no further information and TROVE makes no mention.
Can anyone help with details of his crime please?
Thank you,
BAC3
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No luck with his second conviction, but found this that you may not have
Thomas Lockett nominating Mary Lockett as an emigrant
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2973577
M
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No luck with his second conviction, but found this that you may not have
Thomas Lockett nominating Mary Lockett as an emigrant
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2973577
M
As I read the item, he had also nominated William LOCKETT in the paragraph beneath.
Sue
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His Convict number changes with his Colonial conviction, so his 3 year sentence in WA has him as a married man, a shoemaker, born 1831 and refers back to his arrival as convict no. 6912. His WA conviction is as # 10177.
https://fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/history/convict-database/
I can see that Thos LOCKETT of Greenough was named as nominator for Mary LOCKETT in Western Australian Times, 19 Jan 1875 that Matthew has linked earlier.
So I wonder about Greenough.
https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Barnett/2010/03/Greenough's-convict-bridge-to-re-open.aspx
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http://www.friendsofbattyelibrary.org.au/convict-records-of-western-australia.html
http://www.friendsofbattyelibrary.org.au/australias-last-convicts.html
http://www.friendsofbattyelibrary.org.au/index.html :)
JM
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Death in Western Australia in 1894 for a Thomas LOCKETT aged 63. #792. The index records the following info as UNKNOWN : father, mother, place of birth. :'( :'(
https://bdm.justice.wa.gov.au/_apps/pioneersindex/default.aspx
At Trove, I have looked but have not found a notice re that 1894 death.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/?q=
JM
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/69137014 29 April 1863 Inquirer
a prisoner surnamed LOCKETT absconds from the Establishment and is still at large.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66013283 3 Aug 1864 Inquirer
FOUR convicts, one surnamed LOCKETT take on their prison guard/s
29 March 1881 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/255708265 Geraldton Observer
A report from the Local Greenough Court Thomas LOCKETT sued for non delivery of three fillies … Thomas had been lying sick in hospital…
JM
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:D :D :D
Police Gazette,
Western Australia
No. 6, Wednesday, April 5, 1876 page numbered 22, two columns, so it is in the right hand column, last entry...
Miscellaneous ....
THOMAS LOCKETT, exp.; charged with wilful and corrupt perjury. Verdict - Guilty, with recommendation to mercy. Sentenced to 3 years' p.s. Geralton Police to report late Reg. No.
https://slwa.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/187604_m_0.pdf ;D
JM
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https://slwa.wa.gov.au/explore-discover/wa-heritage/police-gazettes :)
With thanks to the Friends of Battye Library and the Sholl Bequest, the Police Gazettes 1876-1900 have been digitised and are fully text searchable.
1876 Index Page 1 to 18 (PDF 7.1MB)
March 1876 Page 1 to 20 (PDF 8.1MB)
April 1876 Page 21 to 36 (PDF 6.1MB)
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ADD, I have had a quick skim look through the 1894 and 1895 pdf indexes under the heading 'INQUESTS' but I did not find the surname LOCKETT there either.
JM
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Good Morning Everyone,
Thank you for all your information. I am very grateful as will be the descendant with whom I am in contact.
The details of his continued re-offending that you unearthed are extremely helpful, although from "killing an ass", his very first major offence carrying a 10 year transportation sentence (commuted), to his second 10 year sentence for larceny and subsequent transportation via Bermuda, to perjury is interesting to say the least.
The question of his emigrant nominations is equally as interesting. Mary LOCKETT is presumably his wife, there were no children, who by 1871 declared herself a widow. She had been gaoled for 8 months in 1858 for receiving stolen goods. William LOCKETT is probably his younger brother who according to the descendant's research vanished anyway.
The death in 1894, aged 63 (born 1832 in reality), is very persuasive.
Again, thank you for all your help, especially the citations to study!!
Take care
BAC3
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Just a touch more information and background on Thomas Lockett.
Lockett, Thomas. (6912). b. 1831. M. Shoemaker, lit Prod, convicted Norwich 1858 larceny, previous conviction. 10 years. Arrived Merchantman 16.2.1863. TL 14.3.1863. CP 17.10.1865.
Champion Bay; Shoemaker journeyman. Reconvicted WA 1.3.1876, 3 years (10, 177). Age 45 – M shoemaker.
(Convicts and Western Australia 1850 – 1887).
Lockett, Thomas. b 1831. (expiree). Arrived 15.12.1863 per Merchantman. Wife in UK. Shoemaker, Greenough (1880s Alm).
Employed 5 Tcket of Leave men 1865 – 1870.
Became paralysed and was admitted to the Mount Eliza Invalid Depot 9.12.1886.
(The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians. Volume 3).
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Thank you for expanding Thomas LOCKETT's profile.
The cause of his hospitalisation in 1886 would seem to add a pre-existing condition that may have been contributory to his probable death in 1894.