Thanks to the generous Australia Day gift of Ancestry.com.au to free access to their convict records for three days, I think I have tracked down the boy 'Mawbey' convict.
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I found details of a 'John Morbey' who arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1833 in two records:
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He was subsequently convicted again in Hobart.
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Finally finding this out feels like a major breakthrough!
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He is not listed on either the Tasmanian Archives or Queensland Library convict registers under this spelling, Morbey, of his name.
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If he was aged around 10 in January 1835 when he was in Hobart court, he was only eight at the time he was given a 14 year sentence in England.
What on earth could he have done to merit such a harsh penalty?
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I found details of a 'John Morbey' who arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1833 in two records:
- Australian Convict Transportation Registers, Other Fleets and Ships, 1791-1868
- New South Wales and Tasmania, Australian Convict Musters, 1806-1849
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He was subsequently convicted again in Hobart.
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Finally finding this out feels like a major breakthrough!
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He is not listed on either the Tasmanian Archives or Queensland Library convict registers under this spelling, Morbey, of his name.
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If he was aged around 10 in January 1835 when he was in Hobart court, he was only eight at the time he was given a 14 year sentence in England.
What on earth could he have done to merit such a harsh penalty?
