Edward Billett, 18061874 (aged 68 years)

Billett, Edward (1806-1874)
Name
Edward /Billett/
Given names
Edward
Surname
Billett
Birth
Immigration
Citation details: Source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 312
Text:

Edward Billett, one of 150 convicts transported on the ship Sesostris, 23 November 1825.
Sentence details: Convicted at Wilts. Assizes for a term of life on 16 July 1825.
Vessel: Sesostris.
Date of Departure: 23 November 1825.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.

Text:

Arrived in the colony 21 Mar 1826

Source: unknown
Text:

The Summer Assizes at Salisbury on the 25th July 1825 had given both George and Edward Billett a sentence of death for stealing a horse. This was commuted to life imprisonment and transportation. At their trial, Mr. Justice Littledale commenced his charge to the grand jury by expressing his regret at the many cases of heavy crimes, which appeared in the calendar. The principal one, he observed, was that of horse stealing, which had increased throughout the country to an alarming degree. Of forty nine cases on the calendar, no less than nine were charges of horse stealing, and in some cases the person charged was accused of having committed several offences of the kind. The severest punishment of the law was therefore rendered to stop the progress of this species of crime.
They were held in Fisherton Goal. On the 10th October 1825 a local newspaper reported that George and Edward were on a list of prisoners being transported from Fisherton Goal to the prison hulk ‘Leviathan’ moored in Portsmouth Harbour.
They both departed England on abt 30 Nov 1825 on the ship 'Sesostris' and arrived in the colony in 1826. After being sent to Liverpool Prisoners Barracks, the brothers were then separated and George was sent to the Camden District where his descendants continued to live and Edward found himself out at the Field of Mars.
A few months after arriving in the Colony, George sent a petition to Ralph Darling dated 8th July 1826 requesting permission for his wife and four children to join him in New South Wales at Government expense. The request was denied.

Text:

At Salisbury, the following were sentenced to:-
Death:...George Billett and Edward Billett (brothers), for stealing a mare, the property ofWilliam Hall at Westport...All of the above prisoners have been reprieved.

Census
Text:

Billett, Edward, 20, government servant Sesostris, 1825, life, Prisoner, Barracks, Liverpool

Religious marriage
Text:

V1839187 23B/1839 BILLETT EDWARD TRIBLES ANN CB
(St Johns Church of England, Parramatta)

Citation details: Vol 04, 1839-1856 (No 1-345)
Text:

Edward Billett of the parish of Field of Mars
and Ann Tribles of the parish of Field of Mars
were married in this church by banns
this 4th day of Mar 1839
in the presence of John Eyles and Ann Mobbs, all parties signing the register

Occupation
Note: On the 20th October 1840 Edward’s Ticket of Leave was cancelled. “The holder having been sentenced, by the Parramatta Bench to six months in irons for allowing spirits to be sold in his house”. A petition was submitted to the Governor on Edward’s behalf and Edward’s Ticket of Leave was restored on the 19th April 1842.
Religious marriage
Citation details: Vol 04, 1839-1856 (No 1-345)
Text:

Edward Billet of this parish a widower
and Charlotte Eliza Turner of this parish a spinster
were married in this church by banns with consent of parents
this 7 day of Mar 1854
Edward made his X mark and Charlotte signed the register
in the presence of Charles Miller of Parramatta and Sarah Tuckwell of Baulkham Hills who both made their X marks in the register

Death
Cause of death: Penumonia
Burial
Cemetery: All Saints Cemetery
Family with parents
father
17691848
Birth:
Death: January 21, 1848Melcombe Regis, Dorest, England, United KIngdom
mother
Marriage MarriageOctober 20, 1794North Wraxall, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
15 months
elder brother
1795
Birth: about 1795 25
Death:
5 years
elder brother
1799
Birth: about 1799 29
Death:
5 years
elder sister
18031877
Birth: about 1803 33
Death: September 27, 1877
3 years
elder brother
1805
Birth: about 1805 35
Death:
18 months
himself
Billett, Edward (1806-1874)
18061874
Birth: July 5, 1806 36 North Wraxall, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Death: September 25, 1874Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
4 years
younger sister
18091811
Birth: about 1809 39
Death: 1811
3 years
younger brother
1 year
younger brother
18111843
Birth: about 1811 41
Death:
3 years
younger brother
18131818
Birth: about 1813 43
Death: 1818
3 years
younger brother
1815
Birth: about 1815 45
Death:
3 years
younger sister
18171837
Birth: 1817 47
Death:
Family with Anne Tribles
himself
Billett, Edward (1806-1874)
18061874
Birth: July 5, 1806 36 North Wraxall, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Death: September 25, 1874Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
wife
18051853
Birth: about 1805 21
Death: September 19, 1853New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage Religious marriageMarch 4, 1839Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
-6 years
son
1832
Birth: October 29, 1832 26 27 Field of Mars, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death:
3 years
son
Billett, Edward Charles (1835-1923)
18351923
Birth: April 11, 1835 28 30 Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: April 7, 1923Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2 years
daughter
Billett, Sarah (1837-1919)
18371919
Birth: August 22, 1837 31 32 Field of Mars, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: December 25, 1919Stanmore, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
daughter
18401930
Birth: March 17, 1840 33 35
Death: July 13, 1930Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
daughter
18431843
Birth: March 31, 1843 36 38 Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: April 9, 1843New South Wales, Australia
15 months
daughter
1844
Birth: June 16, 1844 37 39 North Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death:
4 years
daughter
18471902
Birth: December 16, 1847 41 42 Castle Hill, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: April 28, 1902Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Family with Charlotte Eliza Turner
himself
Billett, Edward (1806-1874)
18061874
Birth: July 5, 1806 36 North Wraxall, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Death: September 25, 1874Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
wife
18351912
Birth: 1835 26 31 New South Wales, Australia
Death: March 1, 1912Newtown, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage Religious marriageMarch 7, 1854Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
10 months
daughter
18541855
Birth: December 27, 1854 48 19 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: January 21, 1855Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
16 months
daughter
18561921
Birth: April 20, 1856 49 21 Castle Hill, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1921Newtown, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
16 months
daughter
18571857
Birth: August 1, 1857 51 22 Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: August 24, 1857Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
21 months
daughter
18591860
Birth: April 25, 1859 52 24 Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: February 8, 1860Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
son
18611898
Birth: 1861 54 26 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1898Granville, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
son
18641917
Birth: March 22, 1864 57 29 Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: October 12, 1917Belgium
3 years
son
18661929
Birth: October 17, 1866 60 31 Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1929Liverpool, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
daughter
18691903
Birth: 1869 62 34 Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1903Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
son
18711943
Birth: 1871 64 36 Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: August 1, 1943
3 years
son
18741951
Birth: February 28, 1874 67 39 Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1951Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Thomas Warwick + Anne Tribles
wife’s husband
17911837
Birth: about 1791Essex, England, United Kingdom
Death: before December 9, 1837
wife
18051853
Birth: about 1805 21
Death: September 19, 1853New South Wales, Australia
Marriage Marriage1823Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
15 months
stepson
18241881
Birth: March 14, 1824 33 19 Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1881Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Francis Allsop + Anne Tribles
wife’s husband
17951861
Birth: about 1795
Death: April 4, 1861West Pennant Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
wife
18051853
Birth: about 1805 21
Death: September 19, 1853New South Wales, Australia
Marriage Marriageabout 1822
2 years
stepson
1823
Birth: 1823 28 18 New South Wales, Australia
Death:
3 years
stepson
18251882
Birth: 1825 30 20 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: January 17, 1882West Pennant Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2 years
stepson
Allsop, James (1827-1873)
18271873
Birth: January 17, 1827 32 22 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: November 16, 1873Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
stepson
18301855
Birth: January 15, 1830 35 25 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: May 10, 1855
3 years
stepson
Allsop, William (1832-1917)
18321917
Birth: October 29, 1832 37 27 Field of Mars, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: May 12, 1917
Johann George Anger + Charlotte Eliza Turner
wife’s husband
18241908
Birth: October 27, 1824Adolzfurt, Hohenlohekreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Death: 1908Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
wife
18351912
Birth: 1835 26 31 New South Wales, Australia
Death: March 1, 1912Newtown, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage Marriage1875Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
18 months
stepson
18761948
Birth: June 24, 1876 51 41 Baulkham Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1948Helensburgh, South Coast and Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia
Birth
Immigration
Citation details: Source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 312
Text:

Edward Billett, one of 150 convicts transported on the ship Sesostris, 23 November 1825.
Sentence details: Convicted at Wilts. Assizes for a term of life on 16 July 1825.
Vessel: Sesostris.
Date of Departure: 23 November 1825.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.

Text:

Arrived in the colony 21 Mar 1826

Source: unknown
Text:

The Summer Assizes at Salisbury on the 25th July 1825 had given both George and Edward Billett a sentence of death for stealing a horse. This was commuted to life imprisonment and transportation. At their trial, Mr. Justice Littledale commenced his charge to the grand jury by expressing his regret at the many cases of heavy crimes, which appeared in the calendar. The principal one, he observed, was that of horse stealing, which had increased throughout the country to an alarming degree. Of forty nine cases on the calendar, no less than nine were charges of horse stealing, and in some cases the person charged was accused of having committed several offences of the kind. The severest punishment of the law was therefore rendered to stop the progress of this species of crime.
They were held in Fisherton Goal. On the 10th October 1825 a local newspaper reported that George and Edward were on a list of prisoners being transported from Fisherton Goal to the prison hulk ‘Leviathan’ moored in Portsmouth Harbour.
They both departed England on abt 30 Nov 1825 on the ship 'Sesostris' and arrived in the colony in 1826. After being sent to Liverpool Prisoners Barracks, the brothers were then separated and George was sent to the Camden District where his descendants continued to live and Edward found himself out at the Field of Mars.
A few months after arriving in the Colony, George sent a petition to Ralph Darling dated 8th July 1826 requesting permission for his wife and four children to join him in New South Wales at Government expense. The request was denied.

Text:

At Salisbury, the following were sentenced to:-
Death:...George Billett and Edward Billett (brothers), for stealing a mare, the property ofWilliam Hall at Westport...All of the above prisoners have been reprieved.

Census
Text:

Billett, Edward, 20, government servant Sesostris, 1825, life, Prisoner, Barracks, Liverpool

Religious marriage
Text:

V1839187 23B/1839 BILLETT EDWARD TRIBLES ANN CB
(St Johns Church of England, Parramatta)

Citation details: Vol 04, 1839-1856 (No 1-345)
Text:

Edward Billett of the parish of Field of Mars
and Ann Tribles of the parish of Field of Mars
were married in this church by banns
this 4th day of Mar 1839
in the presence of John Eyles and Ann Mobbs, all parties signing the register

Religious marriage
Citation details: Vol 04, 1839-1856 (No 1-345)
Text:

Edward Billet of this parish a widower
and Charlotte Eliza Turner of this parish a spinster
were married in this church by banns with consent of parents
this 7 day of Mar 1854
Edward made his X mark and Charlotte signed the register
in the presence of Charles Miller of Parramatta and Sarah Tuckwell of Baulkham Hills who both made their X marks in the register

Occupation

On the 20th October 1840 Edward’s Ticket of Leave was cancelled. “The holder having been sentenced, by the Parramatta Bench to six months in irons for allowing spirits to be sold in his house”. A petition was submitted to the Governor on Edward’s behalf and Edward’s Ticket of Leave was restored on the 19th April 1842.