Can these be the same person?

[Langley Vale Sue]

I have just found in the England & Wales Criminal Registers on Ancestry a Levi Millard, who I believe to be a brother of my GGG grandmother Sarah Millard.
He was sentenced in Wiltshire in 1830 to 7 years transportation for "feloniously destroying a threshing machine".
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1590&iid=31251_A006042-00334&fn=Levi&ln=Millard&st=r&ssrc=&pid=34088

Then, on the Australian Convict Transportation Registers it states that he was
convicted on 27 Dec 1830 and transported aboard the 'Eliza' to Van Diemans Land on 2 Feb 1831.

I got all excited because I'd found my first transported convict :d
Then I found a Levi Millard sentenced to 1 month in jail for Larceny at Gloucester court in March 1834.

Then I found a Levi Millard convicted at Gloucester Assizes on 19 October 1835 of Larceny & sentenced to 7 years transportation, sailing aboard the 'Lord Lyndoch' to Van Diemans Land on 15 April 1836.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1180&iid=IMAUS1787C_114260-00651&fn=Levi&ln=Millard&st=r&ssrc=&pid=14169

'My' Levi was baptised on 7 August 1803 in Gussage St Michael, Dorset - parents Henry and Mary Millard.

Is it likely that these convictions and transportation relate to the same man and somehow he wasn't transported in 1831 or that he came back to England before 1834?

[kiterunner]

The one who went on the "Eliza" is listed with "Ticket of Leave" in 1835, so he must still have been in Australia then.

[kiterunner]

Ah, if you look at the UK, Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849, also on ancestry, the Levi Millard who was convicted in 1830 at New Sarum was aged 26, and the one who was convicted in 1835 at Gloucester City was age 22. So it looks like the first one's yours.

[Mary from Italy]

The Levi who was transported on the Eliza in 1831 was given a free pardon on 3/2/1836:

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON31-1-30,153,56,C,20

[Mary from Italy]

This is the one transported in 1836 on the Lord Lyndoch:

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON31-1-31,135,95,F,80

He had previous convictions for larceny, so he may be the same one who was sentenced in 1834.

[Langley Vale Sue]

Thank you Kite and Mary.

This branch of research is all new to me. Never found a criminal in my tree before ;)

Where do I go now? Will I be able to find out anything else about him do you think?

[Langley Vale Sue]

I've just discovered he was one of the 'Swing Rioters'. Just reading about it now.
I may be up all night! :eek:

[Mary from Italy]

I was wondering about that, because I saw other people on the nearby pages of the Tasmanian records were also sent down for machine breaking.

[HarrysMum]

Sue....
http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?detail=1&type=C&id=49447

That's your fellow.
Click on "Conduct Record"

Then click on "view online" and read through the book.....

I didn't get as far as reading the book......lol

[Langley Vale Sue]

Wow thanks Libby :d

I've only just seen your post as I've had my 12 year old grandson along with my daughter's 12 year old Goddaughter here for the weekend (it's like having twins! LOL) and we've been playing Monopoly and other board games most of the day. They've gone home now so I can have a look through the stuff on your link in peace ;).

I may be some time :D

[Mary from Italy]

I think the link Libby's given you just leads to the pages I linked to yesterday.

[Terri]

Sue, if he went to Tasmania, there's every chance you can find out more.
http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=2

I found my Tas convict with his freedom, and a new wife and family on here.
(Which is weird, because surely the authorities obviously knew he had a wife and kids in England. Isn't that actively encouraging bigamy? Or doesn't it count if it's in a different country .........?!)

[HarrysMum]

Terri......there was some rule that if your spouse "went beyond the seas" he/she wasn't coming back and you could remarry.

As for remarrying here, the authorities wanted everyone married as it stopped "unnatural acts" lol

One of my convicts brought his wife and family out with him, and would have lived with her and worked his term.

You hav eto remember there were no buildings here, so no jails. It was much cheaper and easier for the convicts to have their own places and just work out their sentences.

My three convicts became part of the 'founding fathers' of Australia.

[Olde Crone]

Yes, the church allowed remarriage if a spouse was "sent beyond the seas for life" but I'm not quite sure how the civil authorities felt about this - probably turned a blind eye.

I recall seeing a marriage entry, late 1700s I think, which said of the bride "previously married to Joe Bloggs, sent beyond the seas for life. Remarriage with the permission of the Archbishop".

OC

[Langley Vale Sue]

Mary, yes it was. Yours was a direct link to the pages about both Levi Millards, whereas Libby's was for the whole book.

Terri, I put his name into the various searches on the site, but all that came up was a census for 1843 - apart of course from the links provided by Mary & Libby. Unfortunately I don't know which Levi the census refers to as the age is given 'between 21 and 45' which applies to both Levis :(