Rees family, Parkend (General)

by dsteel , Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 03:55 (2539 days ago) @ gsdunn

The mother of this William Henry REES would have a few stories to tell. She was Hannah STEEL and when she was aged 20, her father and my great great great grandfather, Thomas STEEL, was in trouble with the authorities. In 1826, at Gloucester quarter sessions, he was accused of stealing timber from the forest (the vicar of Newland called it a "stick"), was found guilty and sentenced to seven years transportation. He was taken to the prison hulk "Justitia" and there he stayed until after much correspondence and many petitions he was finally pardoned in 1832.