Thomas Ballard was a basket maker before being sent to Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) as a convict aboard the Lady Castlereagh in 1818. In the 1842 Census he was listed as an agricultural labourer.
'Ballard, Thomas (1796–1887)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/ballard-thomas-27774/text35490, accessed 27 January 2021.
30 September 1887
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia