some background....

Convict Records - Clyde 1863

http://www.convictrecords.com.au/ships/clyde/1863

Ancestry:

Criminal Records

England 1861, Gloucester

George COOPER/Thomas COOPER, Richard ROBERTS/Thomas GWILLIAM - Manslaughter - 15 years

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Gloucestershire Genealogical Database

4 September 1861

All from Coleford

Thomas COOPER - 29, Collier
George COOPER - 23, Collier
Richard ROBERTS - 34, Collier
Thomas GWILLIAM - 31, Quarryman

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1861 Census, Joyford/Coleford

GWILLIAM

James - 80
Elizabeth - 70
Thomas - 31 unmarried, labourer

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Trying to sort out, whether Thomas & George were brothers.....

There is a Thomas COOPER, age 58 single, general labourer, born Coleford on the 1891 Census for Sewdley, glos