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My great great grandfather, Jacob Elson, was convicted in 1847 of stealing lead off a building, the property of William Davenport, at Burslem. He was 14 with occupation listed as labourer, but I don't know in what industry. In October the following year, he was convicted of stealing a jacket at Tunstall and in 1851 was transported to Tasmania for 10 years. He was 16 years old.
His convict records give his native place as Tunstall in the parish of Wolstanton.
Jacob settled in Tasmania, married and had children. He became a land owner in Tasmania (and a farmer I think), something he never could have achieved in his homeland.

Karen Groeneveld
Queanbeyan, NSW
Australia
email: Karen Groeneveld

January Sessions 1847

 

NO

PRISONERS’ NAMES.
WHEN AND BY WHOM COMMITTED


AGE.

READ, WRITE, &C.


CRIME.


SENTENCE.

88

89

JOHN SIMPSON………

JACOB ELSON………..

27th November.
T. B. Rose, Esq.

…14

…14

N.

N.

Stealing fourteen pounds weight of lead, fixed to a building, the property of William Davenport, at Burslem.

To be severally privately whipped and imprisoned and kept to hard labour three calendar months.

 

Source: Staffordshire Archives: QSBl Epiphany 1847

Information on Davenport....

From History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851): 

W. Davenport & Co

In the suburbs and the town are many extensive china and earthenware manufactories. Messrs W Davenport & Co have glass works and three large potteries at Longport, and employ about 1200 hands. They were appointed porcelain manufacturers to William IV and Queen Adelaide, and are the largest earthenware and china manufacturers and exporters in the kingdom. 

Burslem and Sneyd are in the manor of Tunstall-Court, of which Ralph Sneyd, Esq, is lord of the manor, and he is also lord of Hulton Abbey manor, but a large portion of the parish belongs to other landowners, the largest of whom are the Earl of Macclesfield, Lady Chetwynd, Lord Camoys, Miss Sparrow, the representatives of the late John Wood, Esq, William Davenport, Esq, and HH Williamson, Esq.

on Davenport

 

STAFFORDSHIRE  MICHAELMAS  SESSIONS,

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16th, 1848

 

 

CALENDAR   OF   THE   PRISONERS

TRIED

BEFORE

FRANCIS TWEMLOW, Esquire, Chairman, and HENRY HILL, Esquire, Assistant Chairman.

 

THE  HONOURABLE  FREDERICK  GOUGH,  HIGH  SHERIFF.

NO

PRISONERS’ NAMES.
WHEN AND BY WHOM COMMITTED


AGE.

READ, WRITE, &C.


CRIME.


SENTENCE.

 

 

 

 

Felony.

 

65

JACOB ELSON………...
25th August.
E Wood Esq.

...16

R. Imp.

 Stealing one jacket, the property of Lewis Wileshaw, at Tunstall, after a previous conviction of felony.

NP  To be Transported ten years

 

 

Source: Staffordshire Archives: Q/SBl Michaelmas 1848 – QSB/M/1848/1-9

 

A RETURN of all Persons Committed, or Bailed to appear for Trial, or Indicted, at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Stafford held on the Sixteenth day of October 1848, stating their Names, Ages, Crimes, and the Result of Commitments.

Note.- It is not required that this Return should include the Names of Persons discharged by Proclamation at the Sessions who were committed for want of Sureties on charges of Common Assault Breach of the Peace, and had no Indictment preferred against them.

NAMES

Ages

OFFENCES of which those Tried were Convicted or Acquitted, and of which those Discharged without Trial were charged on Indictment or Commitment

If Tried
 Sentence or Acquittal

If discharged without Trial,
and from what cause

Jacob Elson

16

Larceny after a previous Conviction of Felony

To be severally transported ten years

 

Source: Staffordshire Archives: Q/SPc/1 Calendar of Prisoners 1840-1860

 

Guilty

The Jurors for our Lady the Queen upon their Oath present that Jacob Elson late of the parish of Wolstanton in the County of Stafford, Labourer

on the eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight with force and arms at the Parish aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, one jacket of the value of five shillings of the ---------------------- Goods and Chattels of one Lewis Willshaw -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

then and there being found, feloniously did steal, take, and carry --------------- away against the Peace of our said Lady the Queen, her Crown and Dignity, and against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided.

 And the Jurors aforesaid, against their Oath aforesaid, do further present that the said Jacob Elson at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lady the Queen holden at Stafford in and for the said County of Stafford upon Monday the fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven and before committing the Felony hereinbefore mentioned was convicted of Felony: and the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do further present that the said Jacob Elson on the fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven and before committing the Felony hereinbefore mentioned at Stafford in the County of Stafford was convicted of Felony.

Source: Staffordshire Archives: Q/ SR 1848 – Quarter Sessions Rolls

 

Jacob Elson – (Born, c. 1832, Tunstall, Staffordshire, England)

 

Convict Details:

{Tasmanian Archives:
{Record ID 23958
{Convict Description List CON18/56
{Indent CON14/43
{Conduct Record CON33/107

Tried at Stafford QS on 16 Oct 1848

Transported per the convict ship Fairlie
departed Plymouth 11 Mar 1852
arrived Hobart 3 Jul 1852

Height 5 feet 0¼ inches
Age 20
Sentence 10 years
Religion C of E
can read and write a little
Married or Single – single
Children – (blank)

Father: William, Mother: Elizabeth

Brothers:
Joseph William (transported to Tasmania in 1851 per Rodney 2)
William John
Thomas William

Sister: Mary

Native place: Tunstall

Transcript of conduct record:

 Tried at Stafford QS [quarter sessions] 16th Oct 1848 – 10 years (can read and write a little).

Arrived 4 July 1852.  C of E. 

Native Place                           Remarks

Tunstall                                  None

 Transported for:-

Stealing a jacket after pre-con [previous conviction].  Single.  Stated this offence stealing a coat at Tunstall. for lead 3 months and whipped.  Vagrancy 14 days.  Single. [The archivist at the Tasmanian Archives interpreted this as: received 14 days for vagrancy, followed by 3 months imprisonment and a whipping for stealing lead.  Followed by a conviction for stealing a coat with a sentence of transportation for 10 years.]

 

Trade

Height

Age

Complexion

Head

Eyebrows

Eyes

Labour

5’ 0 ¼”

20

Pale

Small

Black

Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nose

Whiskers
Visage

Forehead

Mouth

Chin

 

Small

-

Oval

Small

Medium

 

 

P--s on arrival  [P-something. Not P.B.  Could be PWs for Public Works or PHs for hospital?]

2 years CP [has to wait 2 yrs to get a conditional pardon?]

Services

 

12/7/52  P.B. [prisoner barracks]

20/9/53 T of L [Ticket of Leave]

13th  Ian Mackay Sandy Bay

 

29th  P.B.

 

7/8/52  Mic [Michael or Alice] Quinlan Oatlands

C Pardon 9 July 55

30/8/53  Not yet eligible for T of L

 

20/9/53  Must serve 2 years for CP

 

16/5/54  Apply again in July next

 

1/8/54  Recommended for CP

Certificate of Freedom to “Spalford” Leven

14th Sept 1883

 

 

 

 

 

Married:

Mary Elizabeth Devlin (age 19) at Deloraine, Tasmania, on 30 September 1864

Reg no 78

Tas Archives: record 37/23, 3rd bracket in reel, no 78 marked in left margin

Register reads:

Married on the 30th of September 1864 in the Wesleyan Chapel

Dunorlan Jacob Elson 33 yrs (occupation: sawyer)
Mary Elizabeth Devlin 19 yrs (occupation: servant)
Clergyman: Robert Smith Casely (Wesleyan Minister)

Witnesses: Charles Catchpole, Mary Ann Catchpole [nee Macintosh] and W. Flint

 Mary died 25 May 1884, age 41

registration no. 731, registered no. 35

Married:

Hannah Hooper (Adult) at Ulverstone on
15 April 1889

Reg no. 485

Tas Archives record 37/48; No 128 marked in l margin

Register reads:

April 15 1889 Ulverstone Jacob Elson married Hannah Hooper both full age
Rank: farmers

J Elson: widower
H Hooper: Spinster
Clergyman: Humphrey Davis CofE

Witnesses: Robert Stones and Mary Parkins

 

Hannah died on 16 July 1929 at her residence, Queen Street, West Ulverstone, aged 67 yrs (“beloved wife of the late Jacob Elson”).  She was buried in the Church of England Cemetery, Ulverstone (grave  not found)

 


16 Feb 2005