John Baglin was born in 1799 in English Bicknor where he worked as a collier. On 9 April 1827, at the age of 28, he was convicted with Thomas James for the theft of a sheep owned by Richard Bennett and sentenced to death commuted to transportation for life. After a spell on the hulk, the Justitia, he was transferred to the Florentia which set sail for New South Wales on 15 September 1827 and arrived on 3 January 1828. He received a conditional pardon in November 1848.
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I have research John Baglin’s life in Australia (originally I was hoping he was my ancestor John Thomas Baglin who married in Hobart Tasmania in 1839).
John Baglin worked at one time, transporting goods over the Blue Mountains to Mudgee for William Blackman. He was indicted in 1847 for stealing some ale, but was acquitted
Sydney Morning Herald Monday 21st June 1847
News from the Interior. Bathurst Quarter Sessions
MISDEMEANOR.
John Baglin, free by servitude, was indicted fur stealing sixteen gallons of rum, and eight or ten gallons of ale, the property of Mr. William Blackman, of Mudgee. Mr. Holroyd appeared for the defendant. It appeared that the prisoner was a carrier between Mudgee and Sydney, and had been employed by Blackman to bring him a load of ¿ouila from Sydney, and amongst other articles a hogshead of rum and three hogsheads of Wright’s ale ; that on delivery of the goods at Mudgee, Blackman complained that there was a deficiency in the quantity of rum and ale, when compared with the invoice received from his agent in Sydney, and that the rum had been reduced in strength, and adulterated with dirty water. The prisoner had taken out a summons against Blackman for the amount due for carraige of the goods from Sydney, before the criminal proceedings were instituted. There was no proof whatever adduced as to the state in which the goods had been delivered to the carrier ; and the Jury, after an absence of about ten minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty.
He died in Mudgee in 1852 of DT and there was an inquest into his death. His death record is incorrectly list as BAGNALL
Thanks Carol for adding to John’s story.