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    Joseph Tuso: child convict

    Nov 30, 2018 4 minutes

    Traces: Tell us a little about your ancestor, Joseph Tuso. How did he come to be a First Fleet convict aboard the HMS Scarborough?

    Janette Baker: At the age of 14, Joseph was tried and convicted at the Old Bailey on 7 July 1784. The crime was assaulting John Ansell on the King’s Highway, on 26 May.

    Joseph was working with a man who, in the court transcripts, John Ansell described as ‘a great man, a great thief ’. He described my ancestor Joseph as the ‘little thief ’.

    The ‘great thief ’ had knocked John Ansell

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