Thomas Thompkins

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
Thomas Tomkins, one of 200 convicts transported on the ship 'Fortune', November 1812.
Alias Ekin Britten
Sentence details: Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of life.
Vessel: Fortune.
Date of Departure: November 1812.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales
Thomas was a convict. He left his employer, William Strong's house in February 1812, taking with him, some of his employer's silver plates to his lodgings across the river at 8 Blackfriars Road, Southwark. When he attempted to pawn the silverware, he was caught and convicted at the Old Bailey. He was sentenced to death. His previous employer gave a reference stating that he had 'always behaved with the greatest deportment was of good character'. His sentence was then commuted to transportation for life.
Thomas was described as 5'7" tall of ruddy complexion with brown hair and hazel eyes. He sailed aboard the ship 'Fortune' which departed England on 3 Dec 1812 and arrived in Sydney on 11 Jun 1813.
Thomas was listed in the 1814 muster as a stockman who arrived on the ship Fortune's second voyage.
Thomas received his ticket of leave while working at the Parramatta Lumberyard, where he had been since arriving in Sydney. The Ticket of Leave was granted on 13 Dec 1813 on the recommendation of William Jewell and Rev. Samuel Marsden. Jewell, who ran the lumberyard, said that Thomas was 'sober, honest and industrious' and Marsden judged him an 'honest and industrious man being of very good character'.
By 1822, Thomas had bought 50 acres originally granted to Patrick Silk at Castle Hill. He next bought the adjacent 40 acres from Thomas Ashford in 1823 and became a neighbour of John and Elizabeth Kentwell.Thomas along with his wife Elizabeth Morris was listed in the 1828 census as a landholder at Baulkham Hills with 90 acres, 26 of which were cleared and 25 were under cultivation, with 3 horses and 19 cattle. He also had the services of two convict servants.

Thomas married Elizabeth Morris on 21 Aug 1820 in Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Elizabeth Morris was born on 31 Aug 1777 in Bisley, Gloucestershire England, christened on 31 Aug 1777 in Bisley, Gloucestershire England, died on 25 Jan 1852 in Toongabbie, Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried in Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia.)