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William Gladman & Rhoda Hurst

Husband

Marriage

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Children

They had the following 16 children. Most of their children married and had large families of their own. Their 13th child, John Gladman is our direct descendant.

Details

William Gladman was born Norton Folgate, London, around 1802 (possibly 1801), son of Samuel and Elizabeth Ann Gladman.

William was tried at Middlesex Gaol on 20 Feburary 1822 for the theft of material from Benjamin Hull of Stepney, Middlesex and sent for seven years transportation. At the time he was living with his mother, a washer woman, at Kingsland Road, and his trade was an Errand boy with a cart, working for John Kimbley, of Shoreditch, near London. He was described as, 20 years of age, 5' 1 3/4" in height with light brown hair and eyes.

Below is from the The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t18220220-191, "WILLIAM GLADMAN, theft : simple grand larceny, 20th February, 1822." (retrieved from www.oldbaileyonline.org in Aug 2007)

514. WILLIAM GLADMAN was indicted for stealing, on the 22d of February, two yards of canvass, value 1 s., and one sack, value 1 s., the goods of Benjamin Hull.

ROBERT CHRISTIAN . I am an officer of Mile End. On Sunday morning, at quarter past six o'clock, I saw the prisoner and another lad at the back of Hull's house; the other one got over the rail, and handed something over to the prisoner, who put it in a bag - the other ran off. I secured the prisoner with the bag, containing the sack and canvass.

BENJAMIN HULL . They are mine; I lost them out of my garden on the 22d of February.

Prisoner's Defence. I found them.

GUILTY. Aged 20.

Transported for Seven Years.
First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.

William's convict number was 29208 (conduct record CON31/15, muster roll CS01/403/9100). He was on the "Retribution" hulk at Sheerness before being transported on the 26th of April 1823 to Van Diemans Land, departing England aboard the "Commodore Hayes", arriving at Hobart Town on the 16th of August 1823. The voyage took 112 days, and 3 of the 219 male convicts aboard died at sea.

William married Rhoda Hurst, on 29th Apr 1834 in Brighton, Tasmania (Church of England).

Rhoda was born 18th Dec 1815 at Wootton, Bedfordshire, England. Baptism 21st Apr 1816 in Wootton, Bedfordshire. Her father William Hurst was a convict.

William and Rhoda were to have 16 children in all (details below). The first twelve of their children were born in Tasmania. Sometime between 1849 and 1851, the family sailed from Tasmania to Victoria, making their home in Winchelsea, 23 miles west of Geelong. Here the other four children were born.

William died on the 12th December 1885 in Winchelsea, and is buried at Winchelsea Cemetery. The cause of his death was "Cirrhosis Hepatitis", of which he is thought to have suffered from for the final couple of his years. His wife Rhoda died 11 years later on the 6th April 1894 at Winchelsea, and both are buried at the Winchelsea Cemetery.

There is a Gladman Street in Winchelsea, and considering the large number of Gladmans that were born there it is probably named after someone in the family.

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