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- CONVICT
Joseph Thorogood was one of 200 convicts transported on the Bussorah Merchant, 01 October 1829.
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- COVICTION & REASONS THERFORE
Trial Place: Bedford Assizes
Trial Date: 14 March 1829Sentence: LifeSkip to content
It was at this time (1829-30) that agricultural workers were being displaced by new machinery that could do the work of many men. The Swing Riots directed their anger at the rich tenant farmers who had been progressively lowering workers wages while introducing the new machinery.
There were also terrible harvests in 1828 and 1829 with families facing a bleak winter the following year.McCormick Twine Binder 1884
The harsh conditions put Joseph under immense pressure.
On 24 October, 1828 he was charged with stealing a sheep three days earlier from the property of John Day, Esq. At the trial on 14 March, 1829 it was revealed that The shepherd saw the flock the preceding evening, and found them all right; the following morning he found a lambhog missing, and the skin was found in one corner of the close on the following Thursday; a warrant was obtained, and in the prisoners house, he, with a constable and a man named Jones, found several pieces of mutton hid under some coals. The sheep had been slaughtered in a very rough manner, and on comparing the meat, they found with some fat that was left on the skin it exactly corresponded. Death recorded.
No doubt his previous convictions in the Bedfordshire court would have influenced the sentence. He had spent three months in jail for snaring in 1818, then another three months for breaching gaming laws the following year and the same offence and sentence in 1820. The Conduct Report states this was for poaching.
However, there must have been a review of his sentence as he was transported for life. Joseph lived on the prison hulk Justitia at Woolwich prior to his embarkation from Downs, England on board the Bussorah Merchant as convict 480.
- CONVICT TRAVEL TO AUSTRALIA & ASSIGNMENT AS CONVICT
Joseph lived on the prison hulk Justitia at Woolwich prior to his embarkation from Downs, England on board the Bussorah Merchant as convict 480.
After 104 days the ship arrived at Hobart Town.
Joseph was assigned to Archibald McDowall of Logan, Bothwell who had arrived in Van Diemens Land from Leith, Scotland in 1824 settling in Bothwell the following year.
- MOVE TO VICTORIA
Joseph received his Conditional Pardon on 24 May 1842, and this was extended to include all of the Australian Colonies on 2 Sep.1845.
Some time around 1846/47 the Thorogood, Mawson, Betts, and Baker families went across Bass Strait to Indented Heads in Port Phillip Bay, before getting to Geelong West region.
Joseph died at his son's house at Murroon, Victoria and buried at the Whoorel Cemetery, near Birregurra,
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