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Details for the convict Marmaduke Marwood (1825)

Convict Name:Marmaduke Marwood
Trial Place:York Assizes
Trial Date:20 March 1824
Sentence:Life
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Arrival Details
Ship:Sir Charles Forbes (1)
Arrival Year:1825
 
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Marmaduke Marwood was born in 1795 (baptised 14 June 1795) in Northallerton a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. He was the second oldest of the four siblings. He died in Longford, Tasmania in 27 Aug 1854 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the local graveyard of Christ Church. He was the son of John Marwood (bn 1768 in Bolton on Swale) who was the elder brother of my maternal GGG grandfather James (1771 - c1815) making Marmaduke my 1st cousin 5 times removed.
On the 20th March 1824 at the York Castle Lent Assizes, Marmaduke appeared before Justices Sir John Bayley and Sir George Sowley Holroyd charged with stealing a horse. The charge against him read:
Marmaduke Marwood 27, late of the township of Northallerton in the North Riding, Labourer, charged on oath of Peter Donaldson, of the township of Northallerton in the riding aforesaid, with the suspicion of having been guilty of felony, for that he, the said Marmaduke Marwood on the 26th of December 1823, feloniously did steal, take and convey away one bay horse, from the stable of Peter Donaldson, at the township of Northallerton aforesaid, his property...
He was found guilty and sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life imprisonment in Van Diemen’s Land which had commenced as an alternative penal settlement to NSW some 20 years earlier.
Records show that he sailed to Australia on Sir Charles Forbes, carrying 130 convicts, which departed Portsmouth on 5th January, 1825. On arrival in Hobart on 18th April with 128 convicts, Marmaduke was assigned to a Mr. A. Walker with whom he was to have an unhappy time. In the space of three years he was charged 4 times with “insolence and disobedience of [Walker’s] orders”. The first time he was reprimanded, the second acquitted, the third served 14 days solitary confinement and fed bread and water. On the fourth occasion he received 25 lashes.
In 1833 he was assigned on a Ticket-of-Leave to a Mr. Thomas Seife of Longford. Seife was himself a former convict who had been transported on the “Arab”.
Marmaduke received a Conditional Pardon on 6th September 1837 which was gazetted on 30th January, 1840.
He died at Longford on 27th Aug 1854 and his inquest (reg # 447; RGD # 35) was held two days later on the 28th (SC195/1/35 Inquest-3342). The wording of the inquest included:
THAT the said Marmaduke Marwood on the 26th day of August in the year aforesaid at the Parish of Cressy in the County aforesaid [Westmoreland] did labour and languish under a grievous disease of body, to wit, inflammation of the lungs, and on the said day, on the morning of the 27th August in the year aforesaid, at the parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid, the said Marmaduke Marwood by the visitation of God in a natural way, of the diseases aforesaid and not by any violent means whatsoever to the knowledge of the said jurors, did die.
Submitted by Researcher (Kenneth Hunt) on 22 March 2016

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Research notes

State Library of Queensland Convict Records for Marmaduke Marwood http://www.convictrecords.com.au/convicts/marwood/marmaduke/75504
Submitted by Researcher (Kenneth Hunt) on 22 March 2016

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Sources

  • The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/5, p.234

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