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Henry "Cabell" labourer, was convicted with his father Henry Cabell and Abraham Carman of a burglary they committed on 1 February 1783 at the dwelling house of Abigail Hambling at Aldburgh, Norfolk, where they "stripped it of every moveable, took the hangings from the bedsteads and even the meat out of the pickle casks".[2] They were sentenced to death at the Norfolk Lent Assizes at Thetford, Norfolk, on 14 March 1783. The trial judge, Baron Eyre, recommended the King's mercy for Henry junior, and his sentence was commuted to transportation for seven years to America. However his father, and Abraham Carman were hanged on 5 April 1783.
Henry junior remained in prison and formed a relationship with prisoner Susannah Holmes who gave birth to Henry's child (named Henry) in the jail early in 1786.
On 29 October 1786, Jacob Preston, Norfolk JP and chairman of quarter sessions sent a petition on behalf of Henry and Susannah, to Lord Suffield, MP for Yarmouth, asking that Henry be transported with Susannah and her child. Lord Suffield in turn wrote to Lord Sydney.[3]
Susannah was received at the Dunkirk hulk at Plymouth on 5 November, but the captain refused to accept the child on the ground that he had no lawful authority to do so. This sparked the famous "mercy-dash" by the prison turnkey, John Simpson, to London with the baby. He later wrote that he travelled with the baby on his lap more than seven hundred miles.[4]Mr Simpson then took Henry to the Dunkirk hulk and he was reunited with Susannah and their baby Henry. The publicity given to Mr Simpson's mercy-dash in the newspapers attracted the attention of Mrs Jackson who donated twenty pounds to buy clothes and other items, and this parcel was loaded onto one of the transport ships, the Alexander. Lady Cadogan give Mr Simpson six guineas, and Lord Chedworth gave Mr Simpson ten pounds.[5]Henry, Susannah and the baby embarked on the Friendship, and they set sail on 11th March 1787.[6]At the Cape of Good Hope Susannah and her son were put on board the Charlotte to make way for livestock.
Henry and Susannah married on Sunday 10th February 1788 in Sydney. They both marked St Phillip's register with a cross. Witnesses were E B Perrott and Samuel Barnes who both signed.[7] Theirs was the third of five weddings conducted by military chaplain, Reverend Richard Johnson that day; the first Christian weddings in Australia.[8]
After they had arrived in New South Wales, they found that the parcel on the Alexander had been plundered on the voyage, and in July 1788 Henry won damages of £15 against the ship's captain. This was the first civil suit heard in New South Wales.
Henry was known as "Henry Kable" in the colony. He was an overseer, member of night watch, constable and eventually Chief Constable. He ran a number of business ventures. He was a well known ship owner and employer in the Australian Sealing and Whaling trades. [9]
He received land grants at Petersham in 1794 and 1795, and built up substantial land holdings.
Aged in his 80s, Henry passed away in 1846 at Windsor, New South Wales and is buried in the St Matthew's Church of England (Anglican) cemetery, Windsor.[10] He was survived by seven of his children and several grandchildren.
Obituary, Hawkesbury Courier (Windsor, NSW), 19 March 1846, p 2:
See also:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158708890/henry-kable https://henrykable-susannahholmes.com/
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I also have all the exact birth dates of their children, except for James Born 1793.
From a researcher, more than 20 years ago, from all the baptism records.
Sylvia Anderson
edited by Sylvia Anderson
Thanks for that information. I checked the book "Damned Rascals? : A Chronicle of Henry & Susannah Kable, 1764-1846" by Kable and Whittaker. An image of his baptism record from Laxfield parish register is on page 19. The entry is: "Henry ye Son of Henry Keable & Dinah his wife was baptised August ye 26th". The authors of the book, Kable and Whittaker state that the year is 1764, but 1764 is not showing in the image in the book (the top of the page of the parish register is not reproduced in the image). Have you got a copy that shows the year is 1762?
Thank you for your comment but I do not have a copy of the record. Perhaps disregard my comment as the 26th of August would not have been his Birthday.
SylviA
Thank you for your comment. Yes, dates and parent's names can often be incorrect.
Sylvia