Thomas Woods (alias Yarwood) was convicted of breaking into the shop of Thomas Woodyer, a tailor and draper, of Waverham, Cheshire, England, stealing a quantity of woollen cloth, of the value of 10 shillings, as well as two one-pound notes and a quantity of silver and copper.
Woods was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was one of 200 convicts transported to Sydney aboard the Indefatigable in October 1814. He was given a ticket of leave in 1827 and an absolute pardon in 1830.
According to family history he died on the New South Wales goldfields. He was clubbed to death by Aboriginals.
'Woods, Thomas (1796–1848)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/woods-thomas-17187/text32156, accessed 7 November 2024.
1796
Waverham,
Cheshire,
England
17 August,
1848
(aged ~ 52)
Bathurst,
New South Wales,
Australia
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