COAL RIVER HISTORY

Convict and farmer.  Born circa 1800.  Convicted at Warwick on 31^st March 1821 for "sheep stealing" and sentenced to transportation for life.  Arrived in Van Diemen's Land per Lord Hungerford on 26^th December 1821.  Jorgen Jorgensen reported that natives had "chased Joseph Barlow" in the Oatlands District in 1829.¹  Barlow was awarded a ticket of leave some time prior to September 1834.  On 9^th September 1834 Barlow was charged with stealing one cow and one steer, both belonging to Mr. Michael Lackey.  Committed for trial by Charles Schaw, magistrate at Richmond, the charge was discharged by proclamation on 3^rd October 1834.  Deprived of his ticket of leave, Barlow was sent to Port Arthur for five years.  At Port Arthur he was twice sent into solitary confinement for "smoking contrary to orders."  On 13^th July 1841 Barlow was awarded his ticket of leave.  Recommended for a conditional pardon on 29^th April 1845, Barlow was conditionally pardoned on 15^th January 1846.² 

Barlow married Elizabeth Walker at Richmond in 1847.  He was leasing 135 acres of Campania Estate in 1858.  Barlow owned a house located at the corners of Torrens and Henry Streets, (Redcoat's Cottage), which he sold to Roderick Reynolds, the schoolmaster, on 29^th October 1859.  On the transfer of title documents, Barlow was described as being "late of Campania near Richmond… and now of Woodlands, Lower Jerusalem."  Barlow sold the property for £100.  Barlow was leasing George Stokell's 830-acre property at Lower Jerusalem in 1867.  Died 29^th January 1867 aged 67 years, and buried in St. Luke's Cemetery, Richmond.

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¹ N.J.B. Plomley (ed.), Jorgen Jorgensen and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, p.89.
² AOT CON 31/1 p.120, no.479.

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