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- Researcher (John McElroy)
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Biographies
Charles West- Baptised at Hanborough on 13 November 1825, the son of James West (labourer) and Rachel Trinder, they were married at Hanborough, near Freeland, Oxfordshire 13th November 1825.
This couple also baptised children James (1827), Mark (1828), Rose (1830), Eli (1833), and Rosanna (1836). Things did not go well for this family; Rachel died in 1838, and in 1841 only two of their children (Eli) in Witney Union workhouse, and (Mark) in prison aged 12 can be found.
In 1844 eldest brother Charles West was convicted at Oxford Quarter sessions of stealing a quart jug and a quart cup from the Oxford University. He was also listed as stealing some glasses (cups) from a local Public House and poaching in the Wychwood Forest.
He was sentenced to seven years transportation. He boarded with 264 male convicts transported on the “Maria Somes” departing London 25th April 1844 arriving Van
Diemen's Land 30th July 1844.
He was listed as about 18 years of age - occupation as a shepherd from the small village of Freeland.
Initially sent for his first year to the Darlington Probation Station on the Maria Islands off the east coast of Tasmania to join a working gang.
Soldiers of the 96th Regiment were stationed on the Island.
Later his indent employers (over a dozen) all returned him after a few months of convict employment.
He received his Ticket of Leave in Dec 1848 and completed his sentence by March 1851.
By the 19th of March he was listed on the steamer “Shamrock” to Port Phillip, Victoria.
He then invented the alias name of Charles Frederick Trinder previously of the 96th Regiment.
In 1853 under this alias Charles Trinder he married Mary “Molly” Halls...they married 2nd Sept at Pentridge Holy Trinity Church at Greenvale in Victoria.
Mary a servant girl aged 20.
Charles aged 28 was a Shipwright ?.
Together they lived at Norris Bank on the Darebin Creek Nth of Melbourne.
Mary “Molly” Halls was born about 1833 Radwinter, Essex, England, Great Britain - daughter of Abraham & Sarah (or Rebecca) Saville. Molly died in 1901 at Lilydale, Yarra valley, at 68 yrs. She could read and write and was buried in the same plot as her husband Charles Trinder.
She arrived in the colony per “Monteagie” from Deptford aged 19 on April 1853.
Charles was known to the police as a man of bad character a thief and a liar.
In 1864 Charles was sent to prison for perjury after standing false witness against his employers son for the accusation of an unnatural sex act. It was said Charles did this to “blackmail” his employer; (Unnatural Acts was a crime - Punishable by death.-- the young man was acquitted.)
However Charles in May 1864 was sentenced to 3 years hard labour at Pentridge Prison (H Division) for Perjury in relation to the matter.
Charles a wood cutter & Mary at this time had 5 children.
In the months before his release he was incarcerated on the hard labour prisoner hulk ship moored at Gellibrand Point at Williamstown known as the “Sacremento”.
Within months of his release Charles was again arrested and charged for cattle stealing in December 1866 in Lilydale and held for several weeks, but, he escaped conviction.
It is clear Charles then took up with a young Aboriginal mistress of the Kulin Nation with some evidence her name was Alice. He essentially started another family likely fathering up to another 5 children with Alice while co-habituating on the same land with Mary and the children at Birts Hill, Brushy Creek (Now Croydon).
Charles Frederick Trinder died in Croydon 8th April 1898 .
Submitted by Researcher (John McElroy) on 30 May 2018
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/14, p.62
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