Hi, we are trying to find the arrival of Thomas Hobbs b. 1813 Sussex England, son of John & Mary Hobbs. He married in 1836 to Harriet Rolfe in England, they had a daughter Sarah Ann Hobbs b. 1836 in England and then came to Australia, where two other children were born from around 1840 and 1842 at Narellan, NSW Australia. His wife died in childbirth in 1842, and Thomas then remarried to Mary Croker (nee Dawson) in 1848 at Camden.
Am not sure if this would be our man, a Thomas Hobbs was convicted at Central Criminal Court in England and sentenced to life imprisonment, for Highway Robbery, sent to Australia on board the "Lady Kennaway" on the 2nd October 1836. But how his wife Harriett would have come to Australia is another question. 1837 Muster shows a Thomas Hobbs assigned to William Cooper at Maitland.
There is much history on Thomas Hobbs family settling at Stonequarry, Picton, where Thomas had the General Merchants Store at Camden and also a partnership in a Store at Kiandra NSW. He died in 1862 and his wife Mary Hobbs moved all her family to Cootamundra after his sudden death.
If anyone can assist me to find Thomas and Harriet's arrival records from the UK, would really appreciate that.
Regards Jan