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Samuel 466- Transported to Tasmania for 10 years

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: 14 days in Walsingham Bridewell.

1843 July 7 Samuel Gotts aged 19 from Southrepps, convicted for breaking and entering a dwelling of Mr Dawson for fowls: 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.

Samuel does not appear to have returned, as he is not in the census for 1861, 1871, 1881, 1901.

Evelyn Jenner has obtained the Millbank prison records and the Tasmania convict records, which are summarised below.

Evelyn would be keen to receive any information about Samuel in Tasmania, and whether he stayed there or returned to England.

SS Marion

Built in Calcutta in 1834, it carried about 280 convicts at a time to Australia. A different SS Marion was shipwrecked at Marion Point in 1851.

Tasmania Convict record

Millbank Prison record

confirms his family:

Character notoriously bad. Convicted before felony, in prison several time, bad connexions.

Name & address of friends: father Samuel Gotts a farm labourer at Thorpe Market near Cromer, Norfolk. Mother Elizabeth with him: 3 brothers Mathew, John and Philip. 4 sister- Elizabeth, Mary, Phillis and Martha.

When removed: 18 November 1843 in “Marion” convict ship.