Edward Tuckwell

[deeiluka]

I'm on a scavenging hunt.

There's an Edward Tuckwell, convict, convicted at the Old Bailey in 1827 and sent to Tasmania in 1828.  According to his age at conviction, he was born c1809. I've found mention of him in various convict records and Trove newspapers, including mention of Ticket of Leave, and then nothing more. The last mention of him that I've found is in the Cornwall Chronicle, Launceston in 1836.

I have a theory about where he went, but I don't seem to be able to find anything to back it up. So if anyone feels like the challenge of trying to find any information about him, I'd appreciate it greatly.


Dee   

[mum mum]

Hi
Does his convict record give a place of birth or next of kin, save us a bit of search time?

mum mum

[deeiluka]

Old Bailey record http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18271206-128&div=t18271206-128&terms=tuckwell#highlight seems to indicate he was an orphan from Middlesex and aged 18 in 1827.

I'm still trying to actually find his page in the online Tasmanian records. (My slow slow broadband takes ages to load a page.)

If he is who I think he may be, his South Australian marriage record gives his father as also being Edward Tuckwell. It's finding something that may indicate he moved on to South Australia or not is what I haven't been able to do.   


Dee       

[mum mum]

Hi
Unfortunately it seems that convicts moved to the mainland and tried to hide their past. Also difficult finding shipping records for families leaving Tas and arriving on the mainland.
I guess if you can find the parents of the convict and they are the same parents listed in the SA marriage that makes him very likely.
mum mum

[Dundee]

Conduct Record

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON31-1-42,190,147,L,80

Description List

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON18-1-22,248,243,L,80

Debra   

[deeiluka]

I know this is a really long shot, but I felt I had to give it a go.   
It's my children's 3 x great grandfather I'm trying to trace.

Thanks mum mum for trying.

Dundee, many thanks for the links. Why do the pages open fairly quickly from your links, but each page I try to open direct from the index takes forever? Technology!   

Maybe now I'll be able to find something about an Edward Tuckwell from Uxbridge.

Edward married  a woman who appears in a rather unsavoury courtcase, and in the records she states she came from Tasmania with her then husband Benjamin Clegg. She has a child with Edward named as the father in 1851 but doesn't marry him till 1869. As for Benjamin Clegg, I can't find anything about him either, other than in the Family Links database.


Dee   

[mum mum]

Hi
Where the hell is Uxbridge? Just tried to search on Freereg and without a county it wont search, Uxbridge doesn't show up on their county list.
mum mum

Just google it you idiot, Middlesex.
Still nothing on FreeReg

[Dundee]

Outskirts of London, last stop on the Piccadilly line 

Hillingdon, I think.

Debra 

[deeiluka]

try this, MM......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxbridge

Can't find anything on A******* as yet.
But there are several Tuckwell mentions for Uxbridge.


Dee