Individual Notes

Note for: Thoroton Pocklington, ABT 1816 - 10 MAR 1862 Index

Christening:
     Date:   21 OCT 1816
     Place:   St Andrew Holborn, London, UK

Individual Note:

Note -
1851 Census says he was born Clerkenwell, London.

1851 Census - 34, St. James Square, Clerkenwell, London
Thoroton Pocklington - Aged 34 years - born Clerkenwell, London - Butcher
Wife, Ann, Aged 30 years - born Lincolnshire.
Daughter, Ann, Aged 3 years - born Islington, London
Daughter, Harriet - Aged 1 year - born Clerkenwell, London

(NB - St. James Square, it is situated just behind St. James Park which is by The Mall that runs up to Bucking Palace) - (birth place of Newgate Market is only approx. 2 miles from above abode and near to St. Pauls Cathedral)

(Thoroton Pocklington, the younger, of City of London, Butcher.
Effects under Ł50
Died at Kingsland, Middsx.
Admin. 4th Dec 1864
To Anne Pocklington of Kibworth, Lei. widow and relict)

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Anne Cook, ABT 1820 - 1 OCT 1888 Index

Burial:
     Date:   4 OCT 1888
     Place:   Moulton, Lincs, Eng

Individual Note:

Admin/Probate/Wills Index =
Mary Ann Pocklington, Widow, late of Spalding, Lincs
Died 1st October 1888 at Spalding
Granted at Principal Registry to Susanna Shaw
(wife of Robert Shaw) of Swineshead, being
Sister and one of the next of kin
Estate Ł248 16s 6d

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Cook Pocklington, ABT 1854 - OCT 1854 Index

Burial:
     Date:   4 OCT 1854
     Place:   All Saints Church, Moulton, Lincs.

Individual Notes

Note for: Rupert Pocklington, 3 SEP 1821 - UNKNOWN Index

Baptism:
     Date:   23 DEC 1823
     Place:   St. Faith Under St. Paul

Christening:
     Date:   3 DEC 1823
     Place:   St Andrew Holborn, London, UK

Individual Notes

Note for: Maria Pocklington, 16 MAY 1823 - UNKNOWN Index

Baptism:
     Date:   3 DEC 1823
     Place:   St. Faith Under St. Paul

Christening:
     Date:   10 JUN 1823
     Place:   St Andrew Holborn, London, UK

Individual Note:

Maria was baptised 3rd December 1823 at St. Faith under St. Paul, London.
She was Christened at the same time as her brothers Robert and Rupert and sister Sarah.

Maria Pocklington, spinster and daughter of 16 Cross Street, Islington, Middlesex. - Sole Exec to her mother Sarah's will - Oath (1865)

Individual Notes

Note for: Christopher Pocklington, 16 MAR 1825 - UNKNOWN Index

Christening:
     Date:   12 APR 1825
     Place:   St Andrew, Holborn, London, UK

Individual Notes

Note for: Catherine Pocklington, 21 MAR 1827 - UNKNOWN Index

Christening:
     Date:   5 APR 1827
     Place:   St Andrew Holborn, London, UK

Individual Note:

Catherine was witness to the marriage of her brother Thomas Cornelius P. and Jane Swift Rice.

Individual Notes

Note for: Elizabeth Pocklington, 15 JUN 1829 - UNKNOWN Index

Christening:
     Date:   13 JUL 1829
     Place:   St Andrew Holborn, London, UK

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas Cornelius Pocklington, 10 MAY 1831 - 1911 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   14 JUN 1841
     Place:   St. Andrews, Holborn, London

Occupation:
     Place:   Book Binder

Individual Note:

He appears to have seperated from wife Jane between 1885 and 1986 and returned to England.
Shipping Records Brisbane Government Archives =
Ship - City of Brisbane
Out of - London 18th February 1862
Bound for - Moreton Bay
Arrived - 30th June 1862
Passengers -
Pocklington - Thomas - 30 years
        Jane - 26 years
        Isabella - 5 years
        Henry - 4 years
        Ernest - 1 year
        Francis - no age ( Birth registration for Francis makes his and Ernst's ages incorrect)

1878/9 Post Office Directory for Queensland has an entry Thomas Pocklington of Wedd Street, Spring Hill.
The Directory of 1883/4 TP not listed

1868- Queensland Directories Thomas Pocklington resident Brisbane.

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Queensland Archives - Thomas Pocklington
Hulk 'Prosperine' in Moreton Bay
Date of Warrant February 7 1867
Received on Hulk August 7 1867
Committed by Judge Sheppard
Where Brisbane
Offence and remarks False Pretenses

From Brisbane Courier Mail -- Thursday 7th February 1867
Metropolitan District Court
the criminal sittings of the Metropolitan District Court commenced today. The list of names is unusually heavy :-
Thomas Pocklington - obtaining money by false pretenses.

From Brisbane Courier Mail - Saturday 9th February 1867
Obtaining Money On False Pretences.
        Thomas Pocklington was charged with having obrained 10s. from Henry W. Haseler by means of false pretences.
        The prisoner was time-keeper of No. 5 Relief Camp, working in South Brisbane in November last. It was his duty to keep a list of the time each man employed on the camp worked during the week. A man named Michael Cunningham was put down by the prisoner in the pay-sheet as entitled to 15s. for having worked six day, in the week ending the 1st of December, while, according to his own statement, he worked by two days that week, and was only entitled to 5s., which the prisoner gave him on Saturday. From the evidence of Mr. H. W. Haseler, the Government pay-clerk, it appeared that on pay-day, when Cunningham's name was called, the prisoner said that he would take his money and as he had been in the habit of receiving the money for men when they were absent, the 15s. was handed over to him.
        The prisoner called several witnesses for the defence, who explained the general method of working at the relief camps, and how the pay was distributed. the prisoner also endeavored to prove that on several occasions irregularities had occurred in the returs, and that some men had been underpaid, while others had received more that the amount due to them.
        The prisoner stated in his address to the jury that he had not intended to commit the offence with which he was charged; owing to a mistake in a weekly return, one of the men employed had lost his wages, and he had paid him out of his own pocket; by putting down in his time list that some men had workd longer than they really had, and by then drawing the additional pay, he had only attempted to remunerate himself for money he had expended out of his own pocket.
        After a short consultation the jury found the prisoner "Guilty", but recommended him to the mercy of the Court.
        His Honor, in sentencing the prisoner to six calendcar months' imprisonment, with hard labor, said that he had taken into consideration the recommendation of the jury, and the fact that the prisoner had been in gaol for two monts before trial.
        The Crown Prosecutor withdrew a second charge against the prisoner, of obtaining 5s. by means of false pretences.

Alphabetical Surname Index to all prisoners admitted to the Hulk Prosperine and St Helena Establishment
Hulk Prosperine in Moreton Bay
Date of Warrant February 7 1867
Received on Hulk March 23 1867
Date of Discharge August 7 1867
Committed by Judge Sheppard
Where Brisbane
Offence and Remarks False Pretenses

Queensland Electoral Rolls 1866-1867
Thomas Pocklington, Salary, North Brisbane.

Queensland Electoral Rolls 1867-1868
Thomas Pocklington, Brunswick Street, North Brisbane.

Inward Shipping Lists to Queensland 1869. 'Royal Dane' from London.
Thomas Pocklington listed as cook. Ship arrived Customs House Brisbane 28 September 1869 after 140 day trip.