Found at last Ezekiel Prescott

[duckweed]

Been looking for this ancestor for some time. I knew he'd been in gaol for theft but couldn't trace him. New records for prison hulks have found him. Poor guy. All he stole was a pair of trousers.

 

[oznannie]

Hi Duckweed
I hope he didn't get transported?

ozn

 

[duckweed]

Worse he died there.

 

[gibbo]

Hi DW,

Did he die from the conditions in the prison? How old was he do you know?

 

[leefer]

Been looking for this ancestor for some time. I knew he'd been in gaol for theft but couldn't trace him. New records for prison hulks have found him. Poor guy. All he stole was a pair of trousers.

Thats Pants:biggrin:

 

[duckweed]

He wasn't very old. In his 30s. Think it was conditions though I think there was also cholera about too.

 

[leefer]

What prison was he in Duckweed?

 

[duckweed]

It says he was on the prison hulk Fortitude at Chatham in 1842 so maybe he didn't die of cholera. as I thought he died 1840. He was only 30 but he disapeared after he was convicted and I assumed he died in prison as he was not sentenced to transportation as far as I knew and it is a very unusual name not to show up.

 

[leefer]

Chatham...maybe in the Navy?

Strange name though funny enough there seems to be a couple in the USA.

 

[duckweed]

No it is definitely down as a prison hulk.

 

[leefer]

No it is definitely down as a prison hulk.

Chatham was almost entirely a navy town in those days.....this could have been the prison for Navy bad boys Duckweed..i have a feeling he was in the Navy?

 

[duckweed]

He was a canal boatman as were most of his family. They worked the Liverpool Leeds canal, so not exactly naval and he was definitely not in the navy when he was sentenced.

 

[oznannie]

Hi
1842 Anc## have a record at Lancaster for Ezekial aged 30yrs
house breaking convicted of felony
transportation 10 yrs.
I'm sure you already have this.
Warmies

ozn

 

[duckweed]

No I don't have this. So he came out of gaol and then back and ended up transported so presumably he was at Chatham awaiting transportation. We thought he had died of cholera. It gets curiouser and curiouser. Certainly this has never come up in the family before.

 

[duckweed]

Makes me wonder if other Prescotts that we found difficult to trace weren't sentenced to transportation. They were certainly quite a dodgy family later on though not by the time my father was born.

 

[leefer]

Hi
1842 Anc## have a record at Lancaster for Ezekial aged 30yrs
house breaking convicted of felony
transportation 10 yrs.
I'm sure you already have this.
Warmies

ozn

Got to be on the convict records someware surely.

 

[duckweed]

Did he get transported for the whole time as an Ezekiel Prescott died in 1851 in Kirkby area?

 

[oznannie]

Spitting chips, I posted a reply and connection went down

There is another record for Ez who went to trial in Lancaster & got 12 mnths for larceny, he was 28 and looks like he was employed, so hard to read.
10th May 1841.
I'll try the link to Lancaster Convicts & get back to you.
I couldn't find the death you listed in Kirkby, only one for Lpool in 1851.

Cheers
ozn

 

[DaveHam9]

No sign of him on the Transportation Database, however it only has about 70% of those transported to Australia for some reason.

No sign of him in NSW or Tasmania.

 

[oznannie]

Hi Dave
Thanks for looking.
Perhaps he died before he left England?

ozn