Historical Tumut Stories

Frederick Body

CONVICT HISTORY

One of 236 Convicts Transported on “Hashemy” 1848

Sentenced to 7 years at Cornwall Assizes

Transported to New South Wales

AGE: 35

TRIED: 28 July 1847, Cornwall Assizes

SENTENCE: 7 Years

CRIME: Forging a warrant with intent to defraud

SHIP: Hashemy – departed Portsmouth 11 February 1849, arrived NSW 9 June 1849, a voyage of 118 days. 239 male convicts embarked, 212 landed in Sydney. Master John Ross, Surgeon Col A Browning and Edmonston

Convict Exiles : Frederick E. Body, Hashemy, departed 9 June 1849 from Portsmouth, tried Cornwall, sentence 7 years, charge Forgery, TL District Yass, C/F 54/80

Children:

Frederick Eliel Body,

Ebenezer De S. Body - Wife: Sophia Margaret Judge PEARSON, married 5 April 1836, Maker-Cornwall

Children:

Sophia Emily Body,

Frederick Edmund Body,

Peter Desamblair Body,

Edmund Cuthbert Body,

John Eliel Body,

Mary M Body,

Harriett Body,

Jane Emma E.R. Body,

Eliel A. Body

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=monaropioneers&id=I75544

1849 – Ticket of Leave 49/143 issued at Yass, tried Cornwall (Frederick Eleil body)

1850, 11 March – Ticket of Leave Passport, 50/0212, on recommendation of Tumut Bench (Frederick Ezekial Body)

1851, 3 June – Ticket of Leave Passport, 51/0141, on the application of Mr Vyner (Frederick Ebel Body)

1854, 10 Oct – Certificate of Freedom (Frederick E Body)

CSreLAND Index – Frederick Eliel Body, 1854/55, Item 2/7805, Reel 1097

Frederick Eliel Body was married to Sophia Margaret Judge Body in Maker-Cornwall

1855 – Jane E.E.R. Body, daughter of Frederick E/Sophia MJ (V18551310 45A/1855)

1858 – Eliel A. Body, son of Frederick E/Sophia MJ, Tumut-NSW (12512/1858)

There are deaths for two children on NSW BDMs –

1912 – Eliel A. Body, son of Eliel F./Sophia M.J, Woollahra-NSW (13501/1912)

1940 –Emma Jane Body, daughter of Frederick Eliel/Sophia Margaret Jane, Woollahra-NSW (11502/1940) - (Ref- http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/31173007?searchTerm=%22eliel+body%22)

Eliel Arthur Body, died 1 July 1912, aged 54, at Double Bay, SMH 5 July 1912

There was a solicitor in Cooma named Arthur Eliel Body, same man?

NSW Archives –

Insolvency Index – Peter De Lambter Body, Tumut, Commission Agent, 13/7/1865

Aurierous Leases – John Elihu Body, Cooma, 17 Nov 1897

Register of Firms – F&J Body, Wool & Produce Buyer, Sharp Street, Cooma (Frederick Elieb Body)

Ditto – F.E. Body & Co, Wool & Skin Merchants, Sharp St, Corowa (Frederick Eliet William Body)

The Unassisted Passenger Index shows Mr and Mrs Body with 3 children arriving 22 March 1853 aboard “Resolute”, from Plymouth via Cape of Good Hope

SMH 20 October 1859 – On the 1st instant, at 163 Kent-street, Sydney, after a sudden illness, Mr Frederick Eliel Body, of Tumut, eldest son of the late Edmund Body, Esq, Devon, England, and brother of the Rev. E.E. Body, MA, Wonelah Vicarage, Surrey, England, aged 48, deeply regretted by all who knew him.

Notice of probate published SMH 25 Oct 1859 re Eliel Frederick Body of Tumut-NSW, storekeeper, estate to go to his widow Sophia Margaret Judge Body and also to Ebenezer de Sambler Body also of Tumut (note, death notice for him on Ryerson, died 2 Aug 1895, ‘Craigleigh’ Tumut, aged 70)

Notice of probate published SMH 27 June 1908 re Sophia Margaret Judge Body

NSW Archives, Deceased Estates, SMJ Body, Balmain, died 10 Sept 1902, duty paid 23 July 1908

SMH 15 June 1940 – BODY, June 12, 1940, at her residence at Carlotta Road, Double Bay, Emma Jane Body, aged 85 years.

Advertisement for the sale of Frederick Body’s Flour Mill, Store and Dwelling-house and two blocks of land located at Tumut-NSW

WEST BRITON - August 1847 -“FREDERICK ELIEL BODY, 35, was indicted for forging a warrant or order of payment for £57, with intent to defraud DAVID DERRY, one of the registered public officers of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company.

Another count charged the prisoner with intent to defraud JOHN ELLIOTT; and a third with feloniously uttering the warrant or order knowing it to be false. To this indictment the prisoner pleaded GUILTY.

He was next arraigned for feloniously forging a warrant or order of payment for £66, with intent to defraud the same parties, and for uttering the same warrant. To this indictment the prisoner pleaded NOT GUILTY. The prosecution, however, declined to offer any evidence, and he was acquitted on this indictment, but sentenced to Seven Years' transportation for the offence named in the first indictment.”

The identical item above appeared in the Cornwall Royal Gazette dated 6 August 1847, under the heading Cornwall Summer Assizes, Crown Court, Monday, August 2

REFERENCES –

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13032218?searchTerm=%22frederick+body%22

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13032058?searchTerm=%22eliel+body%22

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13118458?searchTerm=%22eliel+body%22

http://www.monaropioneers.com/bodyje.htm

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/cornwall/1847/misc/aug.html

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17692870?searchTerm=%22emma+jane+body%22

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14944890?searchTerm=sophia+margaret+body

Last Updated: 17 October 2010

Compiled by Trish Symons

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