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09-07-2008, 4:00 AM
My great great great grandfather George Tickell was sentenced to seven years transportation in 1834 at the age of 16 for "stealing fowls" the records of the trial and the newspaper report revealed he stole a kettle, one hen, and eight chickens with two others, and that they were very bad characters of Birmingham, well known to the police, who regularly took an ass along with them to carry off their plunder.
His future wife, my great great grandmother Mary Hill spent three months in Lawfords Gate gaol, Bristol in 1834 (also aged 16) for, with a few other young woman, stealing a bag containing 15 or 16 shillings. Later that year she conspired with a man to wait until a family had gone to church and then go in and rob them. The goods were later found at their lodgings. This last crime got Mary sentenced to seven years transportation the next year. Years later in 1861, married to George, and pregnant with her second last child, she spent five months in Maitland Gaol (Maitland, NSW) for attacking her husband and eldest son with a knife. Her husband made sure that every knife in the house had a blunt end, due to her excitable disposition. In this case, Mary had had too much to drink.
His future wife, my great great grandmother Mary Hill spent three months in Lawfords Gate gaol, Bristol in 1834 (also aged 16) for, with a few other young woman, stealing a bag containing 15 or 16 shillings. Later that year she conspired with a man to wait until a family had gone to church and then go in and rob them. The goods were later found at their lodgings. This last crime got Mary sentenced to seven years transportation the next year. Years later in 1861, married to George, and pregnant with her second last child, she spent five months in Maitland Gaol (Maitland, NSW) for attacking her husband and eldest son with a knife. Her husband made sure that every knife in the house had a blunt end, due to her excitable disposition. In this case, Mary had had too much to drink.