Thomas Horsnell1
#458, (1811-9 December 1856)
| Mother | Lucy (?)2 (c 1880-) |
| Last Edited | 22 Jan 2022 |
Thomas Horsnell was also known as Thomas Hosnell. NOTE: The information on this page is my research to date and is subject to change as I become better informed. I very much welcome any corrections or additional info you might have - my email address is at the bottom of this page. Whilst historical facts are not copyright, my writing about these facts are. If you wish to use any text from this site on Ancestry or on any other website, please ask me first - Tim Hill.
Thomas Horsnell was also known as Thomas Horsenail.1 He was born in 1811 at Plymouth.1 He was the son of Lucy (?)2 Thomas lived in March 1830 at Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire. Thomas was boarding with his employer, John Barnard, a grocer and draper.3 He was a shepherd who ploughs, reaps and mows, and a shopman in April 1830.1
Thomas was convicted in Hertford on 20 July 1830 of stealing eight silk hankerchiefs, 30 yards of lace, eight yards of ribbon, a large quantity of money and a pair of children's shoes. Thomas was charged with stealing them from John Barnard, his employer and was sentenced to transportation and 14 years hard labour.1,3 He was described as being 5ft 11in with a ruddy and freckled complexion, hair light brown, hazel eyes with a scar top of forehead left side, another on the nose and one on the left side of upper leg.1
He was transported on 15 October 1830 on the 'Lady Harewood' to New South Wales.1 He arrived at Sydney Cove on 4 March 1831.1
He was pardoned in 1835.3
He married Martha Goddard, on Friday, 8 October 1841 at Bathurst, New South Wales. Marha was the daughter of a farmer.. They went on to have 7 children over the next 15 years.1,4,3
By an unknown date he had been granted a ticket of freedom.1
In April 1851 he applied for a publican's licence at Long Swamp, New South Wales.5
September 1856 he purchased land in the Carcoar District town of Buck's Creek, New South Wales.1 At this time his occupation was given as a farmer and grazier.4
Thomas died on 9 December 1856 at Buck's Creek, New South Wales, of a fractured vertebra. He survived 8 days after his accident.2,1 His body was interred on 10 December 1856 at Bathurst, New South Wales.2
Thomas was given a short obituary on 15 December 1856:
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Thomas Horsnell was also known as Thomas Horsenail.1 He was born in 1811 at Plymouth.1 He was the son of Lucy (?)2 Thomas lived in March 1830 at Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire. Thomas was boarding with his employer, John Barnard, a grocer and draper.3 He was a shepherd who ploughs, reaps and mows, and a shopman in April 1830.1
Thomas was convicted in Hertford on 20 July 1830 of stealing eight silk hankerchiefs, 30 yards of lace, eight yards of ribbon, a large quantity of money and a pair of children's shoes. Thomas was charged with stealing them from John Barnard, his employer and was sentenced to transportation and 14 years hard labour.1,3 He was described as being 5ft 11in with a ruddy and freckled complexion, hair light brown, hazel eyes with a scar top of forehead left side, another on the nose and one on the left side of upper leg.1
He was transported on 15 October 1830 on the 'Lady Harewood' to New South Wales.1 He arrived at Sydney Cove on 4 March 1831.1
He was pardoned in 1835.3
He married Martha Goddard, on Friday, 8 October 1841 at Bathurst, New South Wales. Marha was the daughter of a farmer.. They went on to have 7 children over the next 15 years.1,4,3
By an unknown date he had been granted a ticket of freedom.1
In April 1851 he applied for a publican's licence at Long Swamp, New South Wales.5
September 1856 he purchased land in the Carcoar District town of Buck's Creek, New South Wales.1 At this time his occupation was given as a farmer and grazier.4
Thomas died on 9 December 1856 at Buck's Creek, New South Wales, of a fractured vertebra. He survived 8 days after his accident.2,1 His body was interred on 10 December 1856 at Bathurst, New South Wales.2
Thomas was given a short obituary on 15 December 1856:
"SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-In the early part of last week a small settler, named Thomas Horsnell, who resides in the neighbourhood of the Three Brothers, was riding an entire through the bush, when a young man named Mackay cantered past him and thus caused the animal to buck-jump in a most furious manner. Horsnell remained in the saddle for some time, but was finally thrown with great violence against a stump, when a dislocation or partial fracture of the vertebrae was the consequence. Medical treatment was obtained as early as possible, and the patient subsequently forwarded to Bathurst, where he now lies in a very precarious state, having lost all sensation in his legs and lower part of his body. Accidents by fall from horses have of late been unusually numerous. Since the above was written the unfortunate man has died."6
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Citations
- [S870] E-mails from Lorraine Finn to Tim Hill (e-mail address), 2015- 'ThoseBefore.com - Thomas Horsenail/Horsnell 1811-1856' - 23 March 2015 at 21:54.
- [S2] New South Wales, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1856 No.001706.
- [S1317] E-mails from Judith Moir to Tim Hill, 2022- 'Re: ThoseBefore.com - Thomas Horsnell' - 20 Jan 2022, 20:00.
- [S3] New South Wales, Marriage Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1871 No.1637.
- [S268] The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1851 'NEWS FROM THE INTERIOR.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 7 April, p. 2, viewed 19 April, 2015, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12926119
- [S616] The Empire, Sydney, NSW, 1856 'WESTERN DISTRICTS.', Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), 15 December, p. 2, viewed 19 April, 2015, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64981325