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Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Other Fleets and Ships, 1791 - 1868' shows that John Tomlinson, was transported on the Belgravia. His sentencing record is linked with a Thomas Evans and both appear to have been tried at the Warwickshire Assizes on 5 December 1864 found guilty and both sentenced to eight years transportation.
On 10 December 1864 , Birmingham Journal reported:
"Thomas Evans (27) labourer, Liverpool, and John Tomlinson (23) of Manchester, were charged on their own confession with wilfully setting fire to a to a hay stack, on the Stratford Road. On Sunday morning the prisoners gave themselves into the custody of Police Constable Hill, stating that they had set stack on fire, and were accordingly locked up. Police-constable Archer said about half past twelve on Saturday night he saw stack fire, near The Black Horse (assumed to be a public house). On going to the spot he met a woman, who stated that she had seen two young men running away from the stack just before the fire discovered." The offence appears to be high spirits gone badly wrong and the proximity of the pub suggests drink was taken.
Submitted by Researcher (4393) on 4 July 2015
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/19, p.156
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