A quick look at ancestry.co.uk <http://ancestry.co.uk/> and findmypast.co.uk <http://findmypast.co.uk/> confirms the UK part. Convicted at Bedford Assizes summer 1831 for Housebreaking he was initially sentenced to death, commuted to transportation for life.
LDS Family Search shows that he was born 28 March 1810, baptised at Flitwick in Bedfordshire on 3 June 1810, son of Aliss and Joseph Dillingham. The siblings I found easily were Anne born 1798, Millicent born 1800, Joseph born 1805 and Mary born 1807. All bapt at Flitwick, but there could have been more (in an earlier or later register book). See his gaol record http://apps.bedford.gov.uk/grd/detail.aspx?id=4700 <http://apps.bedford.gov.uk/grd/detail.aspx?id=4700> The Katherine Stewart Forbes arrived Van Demans Land 21 February 1832 The various prison/transportation records in 1831 give his age as 20 and 23, but itâs not unusual for ages to be slightly out. The baptism date and the birth date recorded with the baptism record are much more likely to be correct. Brenda > On 18 Nov 2016, at 21:50, mouracreek <mouracr...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > Result of a quick and dirty hunt (and therefore not genealogically valid [could > be figments of fancy of the researchers or poorly researched or just copied from > other such sources]): > Richard Dillingham from Bedford, born ca 1811 (or March 1810), Father Joseph > Dillingham, Mother Alice Holmes, siblings listed include sisters Amelia, Harriet > and Anne, brothers James and William [and possibly a Joseph as well]. Caught > housebreaking at age 23. 5'7" tall, stout build, brown hair, sentenced to life > but commuted to transportation for life. Transported to Tasmania on the > "Katherine Stewart Forbes" , had a friend write home to tell his family that 4 > years after arrival he was within a mile of Hobart, drove a cart to market, went > to Victoria after Conditional Pardon and died there at age 65. Letter home say > he had a daughter in Oz called Anne but not married to the mother. Brenda in Allhallows paternos...@appleshack.com www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
