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From: "Malcolm Ward" <>
Subject: Convicts obtaining & dealing in land
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:27:56 +1100


Thanks to Sally, Peter & Kesa for their replies re convicts who obtained land
while still convicts (I was starting to despair of getting any responses :-)

My bloke remarkably similar to Peter's William Rice.

George LARKING was convicted in York in 1823 and sentenced to transportation for
Life. This convict had a few entries in his Conduct Record up to 1829 (in
Hobart until 1826, unsure of location thereafter), obtained a Conditional Pardon
in 1836 and a Free Pardon in 1840.

A George LARKIN also applied for a First Class allotment in Hobart Town in 1829
upon which he proposed to build a 2 story brick building.

My ancestor George LARKINS received permission to build in Bothwell in 1827, was
involved in a dispute over block location until about 1833, applied for & was
granted the block in Patrick Street Bothwell in 1839. He later built the
Bothwell Brewery there.

One other convict George LARKIN arrived 1820 for a 7 year stretch & almost
certainly left Tasmania in 1827 when he finished it, so he's not the ancestor.

I was really struggling to reconcile my landed ancestor with the convict who
arrived in 1823 & was still a convict during the land deals, but in the light of
Sally, Peter & Kesa's ancestor's experiences, it seems its quite possible (no
evidence yet of anyone else by that name in Hobart at the time).

Any other accounts of serving convicts owning / dealing in land? Circumstances
whereby this could occur?

Cheers

Malcolm Ward
Hobart, Tas



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