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Robert was baptised Robert Clary Jarvis in Woodchurch, Kent on 19 May 1816 the baseborn son of Frances Jarvis. I have been unable to find anyone with either the first or surname Clary who could be the potential father and therefore presume this was a misspelling of Caleb, the name which was used in the future.
Robert Caleb Jarvis married Rebecca Motte from Great Chart in the parish church at Woodchurch on 2 August 1840. He gave his father’s name as Walter Iden and the witnesses were his (step) siblings William and Julia (Judith) Iden.
In the 1841 census Robert and Rebecca with their baby daughter Elizabeth were living in Woodchurch listed under the surname Iden in the same household as Walter & Frances, two of their children and an illegitimate child of Julia.
Between 1841 and 1844 Robert and Rebecca had 3 children: Elizabeth Rebecca b 1841, Eliza Feanills / Frances b 1843 and Robert George Calip b 1844.
The children don’t appear to have been baptised until 1858, when all three were baptised in Woodchurch: Elizabeth and Eliza on 29 January and Robert on 21 March.
On 21 November 1844 Robert and his brother-in-law Hughes Mott were arrested for breaking into a house in Great Chart and stealing food and articles of clothing.
At the Lent Assizes on 10 March 1845 Robert and Hughes were found guilty of the burglary: stealing two hams, two loaves of bread, three apple pies, a quantity of cakes, a gallon of mead and a velvet coat the property of Mary Beeching of Great Chart and sentenced to 10 years transportation.
In June 1845 Hughes Mott left for Van Diemans Land. Robert remained in prison in England for a further three months, embarking on the Mayda on 19th August. The ship finally sailed on 27 August. Robert died at sea on 2 November.
In the ship’s surgeon’s report he was described as “a man of a very broken constitution and apparently had led a very irregular life.”
Submitted by Researcher (13883) on 8 August 2022
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/14, p.368
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