Thomas
Lucas
Born in Leatherhead, Surrey, England
Ancestors 
Son of Antoine Lucas
and Louisa Renove
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Ann (Howard) Lucas
— married
17 Aug 1801 in Norfolk Island
Descendants 
Died
at age 54
in Browns River, Van Diemen's Land
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Biography
Thomas Lucas ... was a marine who came to Australia with the First Fleet
LUCAS, Thomas. Of Norfolk Island, then Van Diemen's Land; husband of Ann Lucas; father of John, Nathaniel, Richard and Thomas Lucas
Thomas Lucas (1759-1815), formerly a glazier, was a marine in the 23rd (Portsmouth) Company when he arrived at Sydney aboard the Scarborough in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet. We know he was on the Scarborough because he was noted as leaving marine John Easty’s mess on 1st September 1887 and falling down a hatchway on 18 October.[1]
He served in Captain John Shea's Company at Port Jackson in 1788 and worked in the colony as a glazier.[1]
Lucas had a son Thomas with Ann Howard, (born 29 December 1791, baptised at St Philip's Church of England, Sydney 29 January 1792).[2]
He enlisted in the New South Wales Corps in December 1792 as a corporal.[1]
He was sent to Norfolk Island in October 1794 on the Daedalus. He was discharged from the Corps in April 1797. He received a 60 acre land grant in August 1797. Lucas also worked as a glazier and painter at Norfolk Island.[1]
Thomas Lucas married Ann Howard on 17 August 1801 at Norfolk Island. By this time they had four children. The ceremony was performed by Reverend Fulton. Lucas signed the register, Ann marked with a cross. Witnesses were John Barnes, and Martha Edwards.[3]
He was a first class settler in 1805, with a wife and four children. 31 of his acres were cultivated and he owned 26 sheep and 31 swine. From these herds he was paid £37.13s in December 1806 for 25 full grown sheep and one hog. In 1807 he had 12 acres in grain, 47 as pasture, ran 44 sheep and owned 60 hogs, holding 200 bushels of maize in hand. In 1808 he had a two storey house, shingled and boarded, (24x12ft), a large floored barn, and six outhouses.[1]
However in 1808 the settlement at Norfolk island was closed down, and the settlers had to leave. They were promised land at Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), but had to start again from scratch. Thomas Lucas and family arrived on 02 October 1808 to the Derwent from Norfolk Island on City of Edinburgh. [4] They settled at Browns River, later renamed Kingston.[5] He held 100 acres at Queenborough, 180 at Kingborough and 60 acres at Lennox.[1]
He made his will in 1813.[6]
Thomas Lucas died at Kingston, Tasmania, on 29 August 1815 and was buried 1 September at St David's, Hobart; his age was given as 56.[7] He had a Masonic burial.[5]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), pp 225-26.
- ↑ St Philip's Church of England, Sydney NSW: Church Register - Baptisms; ML ref: Reel SAG 90.
- ↑ The marriage record was copied into the register in St Philip's Church of England, Sydney NSW: Church Register - Marriages; ML ref: Reel SAG 90.
- ↑ TAHO arrivals CSO1/1/177 file 4306, p222 https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1472223
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 John Boyd (compiler) 2020, "FF THOMAS LUCAS Marine ‘Scarborough’ (c1759-1815)", Fellowship of first fleeters website http://www.fellowshipfirstfleeters.org.au/thomaslucas.htm
- ↑ 1813 Aug 4 Of Brown River, district of Queenborough. Will of (Fiche 3261; 4/433 No.84 pp.107-8) SRNSW Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825 http://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/l/F34c_lo-ly-11.htm#TopOfPage
- ↑ Tasmanian Archives, Death: Lucus, Thomas Date of burial: 01 Sep 1815 Registered: Hobart Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1175789 Resource: RGD34/1/1 no 188https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1175789
n.d. In index to land grants in Van Diemen's Land (Fiche 3262; 4/438 p.53)
1797 Aug 1 On list of all grants and leases of land registered in the Colonial Secretary's Office (Fiche 3267; 9/2731 p.82)
Acknowledgements
Lyn Honey, Sunday, July 20, 2014.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Thomas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Thomas:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Thomas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Thomas:
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Pat (Fearn) Lucas
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Thomas Lucas joined the Marines in 1786. Lord Sydney, the Secretary of the Colonies announced tha HIS MAJESTY had thought it advisable to establish a convict station at Botany Bay. Captain Arthur Philip was appointed to take chare of the expedition and to be appointed Governor of New South Wales on his arrival. Captain Shea's Marines were chosen as guards for the convicts which consisted of 775 convicts, which included 190 women. The Marines consisted of 21 officers and 192 other ranks whom were distributed over the fleet which consisted of the flaship H.M.S SIRIUS, armed tender H.M.S SUPPLY, six transports and three storeships. The fleet left PORTSMOUTH in 1786, Thomas Lucas was on board the H.M.S SCARBOROUGH. The fleet landed at Botany Bay on the 26th January, 1788. After several years of marine duty in Sydney, Thomas Lucas was moved to Norfolk Island where the main convict settlement was established. At Norfolk Island, Thomas Lucas met and married Ann Howard who was a convict, she received a sentence of seven years transportation to Australia for stealing a petticoat, two aprons and a child's cap, the property of her mistress Mrs Reader. Ann was transported to Australia on board the LADY JULIANA, part of the second fleet leaving Portsmouth during July 1789 arriving at Port jackson during June 1790. Ann was born in London in 1758. She was later sent to Norfolk Island where she married Thomas Lucas in 1801. By that time they had four children. Why Thomas and Ann had not married earlier was the Rev Fulton did not arrive at Norfolk Island until 1801 when their marriage was legalised and their children baptised. They received a grant of land but in 1803 it was decided to abandon Norfolk Island and resettle the free settlers and convicts in Tasmania. So Thomas and Ann with their four children, Thomas, Richard, John and Nathaniel left Norfolk Island in 1808 on board the City of Edinborough and settled at Browns River later named Kingston where they received a land grant of 42.25 acres cleared and17.75 acres uncleared: later he held 530 acres. Thoams did in 1815 and Ann in 1832. John Fawkner was born in 1770, Hanna Pascoe was born in 1774 and married in 1792. John and Hanna has two children, John Pascoe born 1792 and Elizabeth born 1795, John was a metallurgist and was convicted and received a sentence of 14 years transportation to Australia for melting down stolen gold and silver buttons. John Fawkner received permission to take his wife and children with him to Australia. On the 9th February, 1803 Hanna and the children joined father John on the H.M.S CALCUTTA for the transportation to Australia arriving at Port Phillip of the 9th October, 1803. The settlement near Rosebud failed and the whole party depared for Hobart on the H.M.S OCEAN with the LADY NELSON arriving in Hobart 16th February, 1804. Elizabeth married Thomas Green who died in 1815, the Elizabeth married Richard Lucas in 1816. John Pascoe Fawkner ultimately became the cofounder of Melbourne with John Batman.
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