Thomas Tanner (1802 - 1875)

Born 1802 in Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Husband of Mary A (Townshend) Tanner — married 6 May 1850 in Wollongong, New South Wales

Descendants

Died 15 Feb 1875 at about age 73 in Murrurundi, Colony of New South Wales

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Biography

Thomas Tanner was born in 1802 in Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire to Thomas and Susannah Tanner. He was mentioned in his grandfather Edmund King's will in July 1824, but Edmund said he will leave Thomas nothing. Either it was because he was over 21 or his criminal antics displeased his grandad. He was mentioned in a 1825 Oxford newspaper as being seen loitering around Oxford.

In 1826 he was arrested and tried at Gloucester gaol for horse stealing. He was said to be from Toot Baldon in Oxfordshire and was arrested in Cirencester, according to a local newspaper. He was given Death but him and some other ones sentenced to death at the same time were sentenced to transportation for life. In 1827 he was sent to a convict hulk in Chatham, Kent, then was put on the "John" convict ship, for the 10000 mile journey to Australia. Thomas arrived in Port Jackson in November 1827. He is on the 1828 New South Wales census in a convict hulk is Sydney. He was later taken to Wollongong.

He stayed in Wollongong about 50 miles south of Sydney, and married there in May 1841 to Sarah Hart. He was given a pardon in December 1847. He remarried in May 1850 to Mary Townsend, so his first wife must have died. He wed his second wife in Wollongong.

Thomas and Mary had several children over the next 20 years, they had their first child Thomas Edmund Tanner in 1851 in Jamberoo, Wollongong, then they moved to Armidale by 1856 when their daughter Mary Tanner was born, then to Tamworth by 1858, then up to Murrurundi by 1860 where they settled. Thomas appeared in a timber merchants directory for Murrurundi in 1869.

Thomas Tanner died in February 1875 in Murrurundi, Colony of New South Wales.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ * "Familypedia" [1]

• "Convict Records" [2]

• "NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, 1788-1969" .[3]
  Marriage Registration: Reg. Number/Year, Groom's name, Bride's name, District
  445/1841 V1841445 25C - TANNER THOMAS / HART SARAH - MD

• "NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, 1788-1969" .[4]
  Marriage Registration: Reg. Number/Year, Groom's name, Bride's name, District
  4477/1850 V18504477 74B - TANNER THOMAS / TOWNSHEND MARY - JC
  317/1850 V1850317 79 - TANNER THOMAS / TOWNSHEND MARY - JC.

• "NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, 1788-1989" .[5]
  Death Registration: Name, Reg. Number/Year, Father's Name, Mother's Name, District
  15/02/1875 - TANNER THOMAS - 8035/1875 - THOMAS E / SOPHIA - MURRURUNDI.

Further research

1849 A Thomas Tanner arrived in Aust onboard the Harbinger, as an assisted immigrant. He was aged 20, which would put his birth at approx. 1829. Is this him?
"Indexes to Assisted Immigrants, 1839-96 - Immigrant Index 1844-59", State Records New South Wales, [6]

• Convict details ~ 9 April 1827 ~ Thomas was reprieved from the death sentence at the Gloucester Assizes, Gloucestershire, England, he was sentenced to transportation for life, for horse stealing.

• Convict details ~ 1827 ~ Thomas was transported from England aboard the "John".

• Convict details ~ 25 November 1827 ~ Thomas was transported to Port Jackson, New South Wales aboard the "John".

• Convict details ~ 24 January 1848 ~ Thomas was granted a Conditional Pardon in Wollongong, New South Wales.

• 1st marriage ~ 27 May 1841 ~ Thomas's first marriage was to Sarah HART, in Wollongong, New South Wales.<