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Date Posted: 21:03:35 08/17/11 Wed
Author: Adam Neira
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Subject: "John Farthing" d.1832 Hobart Town
In reply to: Adam Neira 's message, ""John Farthing" d.1832 Hobart Town" on 21:14:31 09/21/03 Sun

J.F. was actually Jewish from the Davidic families. He was descended patrilineally via Solomon from King David. I have extremely detailed geneological records about him from 1815 to 1832. The Y Chromosome Haplotype DNA test in 2003 confirmed male lineage, Ashkenazic heritage. His family was originally from Poland and left circa 1796 after the Third Partition by Catherine the "Great". He stole a bolt of cloth from a tailor�s shop in Dec. 1815 in central London. He was tried at the Old Bailey and sentenced to transportation for life to Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land. He was one of the first thirty thousand white arrivals in Australia. He was highly recommended in the Captain's Ledger on the transport ship Almorah. Upon disembarking he was made an overseer, a position reserved for less than 1% of convicts. A few years later he owned a bakery in Hobart Town. He managed to wed Mary Russell in 1823 when the ratio of men to women in the colony was 12:1. They had four children and he died in 1832.

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Re: "John Farthing" d.1832 Hobart Town -- Peter, 21:14:49 04/03/17 Mon