1840's Tasmanian CONVICT Francis KNOWLES Transportee SENTENCE REMISSION Document

Description

UNIQUE document autographed (officially signed) by
Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS
(16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) SEEN in last Image
On 29 April 1829, he was
knighted by George IV
and the same year awarded
the first Gold Medal
of the Société de Géographie of France.
On 25 January 1836, he was made
Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order
and a
Knight of the Greek Order of the Redeemer
.
1837:
Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land
Franklin was appointed Lieutenant Governor of
Van Diemen's Land in 1837
, serving untill 1843.
He is remembered by a significant landmark in the
centre of Hobart
—a statue of him dominates the park known as Franklin Square, which was the site of the original Government House.
On the plinth below the statue appears
Tennyson's epitaph
:
Not here! The white north hath thy bones and thou
Heroic sailor soul
Art passing on thine happier voyage now
Toward no earthly pole
This RARE (
UNIQUE?
) genuine and
HISTORIC document
should be of enormous interest to some people with the surname
KNOWLES
who would likely live in Tasmania.
Some Tasmanian ("Double Header") family with that name had an ancestor FRANCIS KNOWLES that was sentenced to transportation to Van Diemen's Land (UNRESEARCHED)
Tasmania (Formerly Van Diemen's Land)
Named
for Anthony
van Diemen
, governor general of the Dutch East Indies, the island was discovered and
named
in 1642 by Abel J. Tasman, a celebrated navigator under
Van Diemen's
command.
The first British settlers in the early 19th century retained the name.
This document of sentence remission effectively
PARDONED Convict Francis Knowles
for good behavior and he became a free man
PARDONED for his (unknown) crime & sentence around 1840 while Tasmania was still an independent NATION then known as
Van Diemen's Land
SIZE = 32.5 cm by 20 cm contained in an old matt board that measures 410 mm by 290 mm plus double-sided glass FRAME
SIGNED by
Sir John Franklin while
Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land
AUTHENTICATED beyond any reasonable question BY the OFFICIAL SEAL
of Van Diemen's Land
applied in red sealing wax
Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic. Franklin also served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1837 to 1843. He disappeared on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and
the entire crew died of starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning, and scurvy.
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