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Edward Garth
GARTH
[GASH]
Edward
Scarborough
LondonOld Bailey
08 12 1784 / 23 02 1785
7 years. Death commuted
Edward Garth Gash 24 English Convict Male Scarborough
8/12/84 Old Bailey Larceny Animal 340/- Death – 23 02 1785 Commuted to Transportation 7 years
Norfolk Island 1788 to 1807 then Tasmania. Married Susannah Garth 1795. 13 December 1823, Tasmania
He was tried at Old Bailey, London 8 December 1784 for stealing livestock (two cows) with a value of 340 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left Englandon the Scarboroughaged about 23 at that time (May 1787). He had no occupation recorded. He died in 1823.
Notes: On 6 July 1789 he was ordered to receive 100 lashes for the theft of three quarts of wheat. Night watch member by the end of December 1791. Married Susannah Garth in 1795 – a daughter had been born to them in 1789 and they had six more children in later years. Having the same surname, there is debate as to whether they were related.
At the Old Bailey Edward Garth was sentenced to hang for his crime of stealing two live cows valued at £17. Luckily the sentence was reduced to seven years transportation allowing him to ultimately continue his dairying interests atHobartTown. Garth later married Susan Gough about 1795.