Samuel Gilbert

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Win & Steven Sinden & Marion Purnell where it is noted:
Samuel was a convict.21 Jun 1815: Old Bailey:
SAMUEL GILBERT was indicted for having feloniously disposed of, and putting away, twenty forged and counterfeit one-pound notes, purporting to be the notes of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England , with intent to cheat the said Governor and Company.
To this indictment the prisoner pleaded
NOT GUILTY.
SECOND COUNT. Charging him with having forged notes in his possession, knowing them to be forged.
To this indictment the prisoner pleaded
GUILTY , aged 27.
Transported for Fourteen Years .
London Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
Samuel was transported aboard the ship 'Mariner' which sailed from England in June 1816 and arrived in Sydney on 11 Oct 1816. The master was John Herbert.
Samuel received his ticket of leave in June 1817. In 1825 he received a conditional pardon.
He owned 10 properties at one time according to the Royal Australian Historical Society Journal of 1926. He erected a small building on his land on the corner of George and Smith Streets Parramatta. It was built from standstone and overlooked the Parramatta River. It had been built there because flour could be brought up to it across the river. This building was restored in 1982-83 by a local businessman.
At one time, he owned each of the corners at the intersection of Philip and Smith Streets and No. 14 was on the south east corner which possibly might have been the bakery shop
Samuel was the baker who won the right to supply bread fo the Government Depot in Parramatta in 1852.
Samuel received a grant of 140 acres of land by Governor Darling. This land borders the land that the Samuel Gilbert Primary School now stands at Castle Hill. The school was originally to be called Gilbert Road Public School but the name was changed on request of the first principal John Dawson (the school opened in 1989). The Department of Education named the school on the basis of information which had been provided by Mr Dawson who believed that Samuel, the Parramatta baker, was the owner of Crown Grant of Section 144 in the Parish of Castle Hill.
Another convict was made his servant - Thomas Hutchinson who had been transported on the ship 'Waterloo' in 1831.
In March 1843 he and his son Thomas set off in the barque 'Alfred'. The voyage took four months. They returned in the ship 'Persian' on 27 Dec 1844 after a voyage of three months.
Thomas left all of his property to his son Thomas and his daughters Maria and Sarah, his three living children. When he died his goods were sworn to be worth 500 pounds.

Samuel married Mary Amonet, daughter of Jeremiah Amonet and Unknown, on 18 May 1806 in Stepney Church, Stepney, London, Middlesex England. (Mary Amonet was born on 10 Jun 1788 in George Yard, Essex England, christened in 1817 on board the 'Lord Melville' on way to Australia, died on 21 Feb 1827 in Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried on 23 Feb 1827 in St Johns C of E, Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia.)