Edward Baldwyn was born in 1785 in Bream. He married Anne Williams in 1901 and had five children, one of whom died at the age of nine. He worked as a collier and a smith.
On 16 April 1829, Edward Baldwyn was up before the Quarter Sessions in Gloucester, charged with stealing two deer from the Bathurst estate in Lydney. However, there was not enough evidence to formally charge him with the crime, and the accusation was dismissed.
On 1 July 1831, Edward Baldwyn was up before the Quarter Session in Gloucester charged, along with seven other Foresters, for ‘a riot and a tumult’. Baldwyn was involved in the Forest of Dean Rising of 1831. Further details can be found in books on this site and here.
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Baldwyn pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one month’s hard labour at Littledean House of Correction.
At the age of 46, on 28 March 1832, he was sentenced to death for the theft of one sheep, the property of William Henry Peel, who owned the 1000-acre Estate Ayesmoor near St Briavels. The verdict was based on the suspicions of two witnesses. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life. On 1 May, he was transferred to the prison hulk, the Cumberland, moored at Chatham. He was later transferred to Mary 111, which set sail for New South Wales on 4 September 1832 and arrived at Sydney Cove on 6 January 1833.
Edward Baldwyn died on 19 February 1836 in the General Hospital, Sydney, at the age of 52.