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5. Joseph Henry
COPPOCK was born on 30 Mar 1811 in Union Court, Holborn, Middlesex.8,68,69 Place of brith does not appear
in IGI records. Possibly appears in the parish register for baptisms at St Andrews,
Holborn. He was baptized on 21 Jun 1812 in St Andrew, Holborn, City of London.68,70
In 1829 he was a Horse Hair Weaver.71
Between 1829 and 1838 he was a Convict Labourer.72 He was transported, arrived 1320 in 1829 in Australia.73 In 1849 he was a Settler & Stockkeeper.72 He died on 11 Jan 1866 near
Cadia, New South Wales, Australia.8,74
Joseph was convicted for picking pockets at the Adjourned Surrey Quarter Sessions
at Newington, London 20/7/1829 & transported for seven years being his first
conviction. He had been committed, along with his partner in crime John Cantlon,
on 4 July 1829, by J T Hone Esq, charged on the oaths of George Buckmaster Gibbons
and others, "with feloniously stealing, at Saint Saviour, a silk handkerchief,
his property."
James was held pending his trial and sentencing at Horsemonger Lane Gaol. The
lane took its name from "Horsemonger lande" in possession of St Thomas's
Hospital, then in Southwark, in 1536. The jail was erected at the suggestion
of John Howard, from the designs of Geo Gwilt, under provisions of an Act passed
in 1791, and was completed in 1798. The building consisted of a quadrangle of
three stories. Three of the sides were appropriated to criminals, the fourth
to debtors. Provision was made for 400 prisoners, the wall enclosing an area
of about 3-1/2 acres.
The following excerpt is taken from "The London Encyclopaedia ", 1991,
describing Horsemonger Lane Gaol: Built as a model prison by George Gwilt in
1791-9. Public executions used to take place outside. It was here in November
1849 that Dickens attended the hangings of Mr and Mrs Manning who killed a friend
for his money and buried him under the kitchen floor. He wrote to The Times,
"I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror
as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is permitted. The horrors
of the gibbet and of the crime which brought the wretched murderers to it faded
in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks & language of the assembled
spectators." In 1813-15 Leigh Hunt was imprisoned here for a libel on the
Prince Regent, whom he called "a fat Adonis of forty". Byron met Hunt
here for the first time. The gaol was closed in 1878 and demolished in 1880.
Newington Recreation Ground marks the site.
Morning Chronicle 21/7/1829: Surrey Sessions - Monday
Two young men, named JOHN CAMPTON & JOSEPH COPPOCK, were tried & sentenced
to be transported for seven years each, for stealing a silk handkerchief from
the person of George Gibbons. After sentence had been passed, Campton, on retiring
from the bar, struck Coppock a desperate blow on the face with his fist. The
Chairman being witness of the outrage committed in Court, ordered him to be brought
back to the bar, & sentenced him to be transported for life. [from Alison
Coppock]
The File of Indictments (ref. QS2/7/1829, entry no. 270, held by the Surrey County
Council Archives): Coppock's accomplice was John CANTLON, they were lately of
"St George the Martyr in the Borough of Southwark" & the value
of the handkerchief was 4 shillings. [Alison Coppock]
(From 1718 to 1783, about 50,000 British criminals were transported to British
colonies in America. With the American War of Independence in 1775-1783, hostilities
with Britain brought transportation to an end. British prisons and hulks (derelict
ships left to rot in the Thames River) began to over-flow. Then, in 1786, the
colony of New South Wales was proclaimed by King George III, the east coast of
Australia first having been mapped by Captain James Cook on his epic voyage of
discovery in 1776. On 23 January 1787, the British parliament informed Lord Sydney
agreed to send convicts to New South Wales. The eleven ships of the First Fleet
left Portsmouth on 13 May 1787, under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip.
The Fleet arrived in Botany Bay on 18 January 1788, but the landing party was
not impressed with the site, and moved the fleet to Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour),
and settled in Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788. From the arrival of the First
Fleet In 1788, to the end of the transportation system in 1868, over 160,000
convicts, men, women and children, were transported to Australia. The exact number
is not known, and many died on the voyage, which was undertaken in terrible conditions.)
Joseph Coppock arrived in Australia on 18 February 1830 on the ship "Katherine
Stewart Forbes" which had left Spithead (England) on 14 October 1829. (About
the Katherine Stewart Forbes: First voyage. Ship was 457 tons, built at North
Fleet 1818. Class El Master: Jos. Grote; Surgeon: Jas Gilchrist. Sailed 2 October
1929 from Dublin, to Spithead and thence to Sydney. Carried 200 males, 1 death,
landed 199 males in Sydney.) Upon arrival in Australia he was assigned to R J
Allen at Lake George.
Age on arrival in Australia: 20
Native place: London
Education: Could read and write
Marital status: Single
Religion: Protestant
Trade: Horsehair weaving
Physical aspects: 5ft 4 ins in height; fair to ruddy complexion; brown hair;
blue eyes
Identifying marks: Sun, moon, stars, anchor and man on right arm; mermaid, fish,
I.C., July 20 1829, JC on left arm.
(from the Indent to Convicts, 1830, NSW State Archives)
In the 1837 Muster, Joseph Coppock was listed as "came on Katherine Stewart
Forbes", 1830, age 25, Road Party, Vale of Clwydd (near Lithgow). Road parties
were groups of men, ex-convicts and other labourers, working on roadworks in
the colony. Road gangs also worked on the road, consisting of men who were still
serving their time, and they would have to work with their fetters and chains
on. There was quite a large program of road building at this time in the colony's
history, as the government was keen to open up the farming areas to the north
and west of Sydney.
In 1838 Joseph was free by servitude, in service to Mr Parker at Dunn's Plains
(on the Campbell River near Rockley), where he met Jane Jones. Joseph applied
to marry Jane on 3 July 1838. Permission was necessary as Jane was still a convict.
From a List of persons applying for the Publication of Banns at Bathurst: Joseph
Coppock, 26, bachelor ("Katherine Stewart Forbes" from Spithead, 1830),
free, sentence 7 years, present service Mr Parker & Jane Jones, 23, spinster
("Mary III" 5/1835) bond sentence 14 years, present service Mr Parker.
On 19 June 1838 Mr Parker gave his approval to the marriage of Joseph Coppock
and Jane Jones, as follows: "I hereby give my consent to the withnamed prisoner
of the Crown being married, she being my assigned servant". J Parker. On
3 July 1838, Reverend Walpole, Trinity Church, Bathurst (now Kelso) married Joseph
Coppock and Jane Jones. (Register of Convicts' Applications to Marry January
1838 - March 1841, NSW State Archives). According to the recollections of Florence
Workman, nee Coppock (granddaughter of Joseph and Jane), Joseph was an Irish
Londoner and Jane was Welsh.
In 1841 the family were still living at Bathurst, but by the time Betsy, Mary
Ann, Eliza, John, Jane, were all baptised on 8 April 1849 at Orange (in the Parish
of Carcoar, County Bathurst) the family had moved to Flyer's Creek where Joseph
was a settler and stockkeeper. In November 1846, the Government Gazette (p1516)
listed an unclaimed letter for Jane Coppock at the Sydney general post office.
Joseph - listed as Henry Coppock - purchased land from the Government on 23 July
1856 in the County of Bathurst, Parish of Waldergrove. The land consisted of
30 acres 3 chains, the block was stated to be at Carcoar. He paid the sum of
forty one pounds ten shillings and threepence to the Colonial Treasury. The land
was a Conditional Purchase under the Old Titles Act, which meant that it was
held by Joseph and his heirs in perpetuity but was still nominally owned by the
government and was actually a perpetual lease. If it wished, the Government could
demand the rent of one peppercorn. The grant commenced on Flyer's Creek at the
North Eastern corner of an unassigned portion of thirty acres two roods and bounded
on the South by the Northern boundary of that land being in a line bearing west
thirty one chains fifty links; on the west by a line bearing North ten chains;
on the North by a line bearing East to Flyer's Creek thirty two chains fifty
links; and on the East by that creek downwards to the North East corner of the
thirty acres two roods aforesaid. Exclusively of a road, one chain wide, passing
through this land from a point twenty four chains East from its North Western
corner the area of which has been deducted from the total area. Being the land
sold as Lot 22 in pursuance of this proclamation of 9 June 1856. The land purchase
was signed by the Governor General, Sir William Thomas Denison Knight Commander
of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, dated 4 December 1856. Recorded by the
Supreme Court 3 February 1857.
The Coppocks remained there in the Parish of Waldergrove, variously stated to
be Carcoar, Cadia or Orange as the district changed. They were still there in
1860 when daughter Mary Ann married. The lease continued to be renewed through
to 1864 when Joseph, now aged about 54, sold the land to his son Joseph Jnr.
Joseph Snr also purchased land from Thomas Leach, paying 35 Pounds, and made
this over to Joseph at the same time. The indenture for the change of title was
signed by Joseph. Flyer's or Errowinbal Creek, rises in the South east of Canobolas
cluster of hills, flowing about 18 miles through rough scrub country, with tolerably
good alluvial ground on the west bank. A good poor man's diggings (that is, a
small amount of gold was to be found) at one time existed on this creek. In 1860
the population of the whole district of Orange municipality was 2,000. In 1860
Mrs Coppock was witness at the baptism of Thomas, son of neighbours William and
Mary Ann Garvin, on 18 February.
The year 1866 was a very eventful one for the Coppock family. On 11 January Joseph
died; his death certificate shows that he was a farmer living near Cadia aged
56, he died of bronchitis and asthma having been ill for six weeks. The Doctor
was I. Daniel, Joseph was buried in Orange Cemetery (D024 - there is no marker
on the grave); the informant was Henry Hunt, friend (and husband of Jane Coppock);
and witnesses T. Reynolds and H. Coppock. Also in 1866, about a week before Joseph's
death, Joseph and Jane's fourth daughter, Jane, married Henry Hunt. Their son
Joshua was born that year and named for Henry's brother, who was married to Mary
Ann Coppock. Joseph's widow Jane remarried the same year as his death. Joseph
Henry COPPOCK and Jane RANDALL were married on 5 Sep 1838 in Trinity Church Bathurst
(Kelso), New South Wales, Australia.8,72 Jane RANDALL
(daughter of Living and Living) was born before 29 Apr 1816.75,76 Keyser
Family Tree (Ancestry.com) gives Jane Jones, b 1813 Shropshire. I00064.
She was baptized on 29 Apr 1816 in St Alkmund, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.72,76
She died on 17 Oct 1879 in Long Swamp, Orange, New South Wales, Australia.72,76
On 12 January 1835 Jane, known as Jones because see had married a William Jones
in St Peter's Liverpool Lancashire England, was tried at Lancashire (Liverpool)
Quarter Sessions for man robbery and sentenced to 14 years' transportation. It
was her first conviction. Jane arrived in Australia on 6 September 1835 on the
ship "Mary III" which sailed from London on 16 April 1835, a sea voyage
of about four and a half months. (About the ship: Fifth trip, barque 365 tons.
Built at Ipswich 1811 AEl Class. Master: Wm Ascough. Surgeon: John Inches. Embarked
180 females, relanded 2, 1 died, landed 177 females.) Upon arrival in Australia,
Jane Jones was sent to Bathurst, as the assigned servant of Mr Parker at Dunn's
Plains.
Age on arrival in Australia: 20
Native place: Shropshire
Education: Nil
Religion: Protestant
Trade: Kitchen maid
Physical aspects: 4ft 10-1/2 ins in height; fair to ruddy and freckled complexion;
brown hair; hazel eyes
Identifying marks: 11, two stars, heart, ERW, M'c, anchor on upper arm; small
lump and scar on right wrist; scar back of little finger on left hand.
(from the Indent to Convicts, 1835, NSW State Archives)
In the 1837 Muster, Jane Jones is recorded as working for master John Brown at
Bathurst. Banns for the marriage of Jane Jones ("Mary", 1835, 14 years,
bond, present service Mr Parker, Bathurst), and Isaac Peach, 28 widower, free,
were posted previous to July 1838. Disallowed. Authorities were not apparently
satisfied that Mr Peach was in fact a widower, because he had stated on arrival
that he was married with one child. Jane presumably declared her status as a
spinster despite her previous marriage and whether or not William was still living!
Jane lost no time in finding a replacement prospect as a husband. Women were
scarce in those days, and there were always plenty of men wanting to marry the
eligible females.
In November 1846 the Government Gazette (p1516) listed an unclaimed letter for
Jane Coppock at the Sydney general post office. Jane did not mourn Joseph for
long after he died in January 1866. She married on 23 July 1866 to David White;
on the marriage certificate she is recorded as being a widow, age 53, of Long
Swamp, parents John Randall (gardener) and Elizabeth Owen. David White (labourer
of Long Swamp) is recorded as being a widower, born Scotland, parents David and
Clementine White. Witnesses were Samuel Walsh and Mary Ann Hunt, her daughter.
Jane and David continued to live at Flyer's creek until her death on 17 October
1879 at Long Swamp, Orange, where she may have been at the home of Mary Ann.
Jane died of dropsy (congestive heart failure) having been ill for seven months.
She was 66 years old. The Walsh brothers, her son-in-law James and his brother
Samuel were witnesses at the burial in Orange Cemetery (grave D022). William
Scarr was the informant. He was a friend who later married Mary Jane Hunt, Jane's
grand daughter (the daughter of Mary Ann and Joshua Hunt). Joseph Henry COPPOCK
and Jane RANDALL had the following children:
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