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Looking at some old records from Norwich Record Office, National Archive at Kew and Australian records, we have found Samuel 466 in tree #022. He was baptised in Thorpe Market on 31 October 1824, son of Samuel 141 and Elizabeth Colman. In the Walsingham Court records he appears three times:
1841 Samuel Gotts aged 17 from Southrepps, accused of Breaking and entering a dwelling: Discharged.
1843 Mar 29 Samuel Gotts aged 18 from Southrepps, convicted of Larceny, got 14 days in Walsingham Bridewell.
1843 July 7 Samuel Gotts aged 19 from Southrepps, convicted for breaking and entering a dwelling, got 10 years transportation.
National Archives at Kew record of convicts in Tasmania, 1844, Samuel Gotts from Norfolk. Tried in 1843. Sent for 10 years.
Archive Office of Tasmania: Samuel Gotts arrived 4 April 1844 in SS 'Marion' which left London on 9 Dec 1843. The 'Marion' carried immigrants and was eventually shipwrecked in Yorke Point in 1851.
Evelyn Jenner would be keen to receive any information about Samuel in Tasmania, and whether he stayed there or returned to England.
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John Dixon 757 Gotts is the grandfather of Craig Spencer. Craig wrote:
My Grandpa was a cabinet maker and built part of the High Altar at Durham Cathedral. He worked as a fireman during World War II as he was a conscientious objector during the war and did not believe in fighting - a decision which I believe caused him some hardship during the war.
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Here's an article by Vivienne Hayward in the Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Family History Society magazine describing life in the trenches.
Click here to see
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Emma Sarah was the companion of Sarah Barcham in Norwich who died in 1926. Someone had found a bible given to Sarah Barcham by her niece in a pile of books outside a bargain shop. We have now found a relative and put them in touch with the owner of the bible.
In Emma Sarah's will of 1928, she makes reference her brother Charles Robert and his wife Emily Christiana, her cousin Mrs Louisa Parson as well as donations to the British foreign Bible Society an the London Jewish Society. She also contributed towards the 'Sarah Barcham' bed in Jerusalem hospital. (tree#017)
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