For more on Henry Cohen click on: http://genealogy.meta-studies.net/ZDocs/HCohen/HP000.html

Merchant Tailor, native of London
Convict 33/3400 convicted in 1833 for "feloniously for the sake of wicked lucre and gain did receive and have of a certain evil disposed person two promisory notes... stolen from a post office letter".
Transported for 14 years on the Lloyd, arriving in Australia in Sydney on 18 December 1833.
Description: five feet one and a half inches, of ruddy fair complexion with blue eyes, brown and bald, of hairy breast.

For the trial transcript click on: http://genealogy.meta-studies.net/ZDocs/HCohen/HP077-81.html

For copies of correspondence in relation to efforts to assign him to private service, to James Simmons, and his ultimate pardon see http://genealogy.meta-studies.net/ZDocs/LHC/LHC_TOC.html

Hebrew name “Hirsh”65

At time of marriage of daughter Jane, living at Kent St South, Sydney.132

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Note from Phillip Kirby:

Henry Cohen’s marriage record:
GSM 126/24 (Great Synagogue London)
20 December 1809
Henry Cohen Hebrew name Hirsh father’s Hebrew name Nathan KZ –Elizabeth Simmons Hebrew name Yettla-father’s Hebrew name Nathan son in law of Pais LM ( Lemon Man or Lamm)
 
 

BTH: Date assumed from age at time of death, and evidence given in the biography by Philip C Cohen. This has been endorsed as correct from his Conditional Pardon which stated 1790 to be the year of his birth.

I cannot verify the name/existence of his father or brother.

TRIAL: 1833 He was said to have received two stolen promisory notes. It was the third time stolen notes had been traced to his possession. He was found guilty and was transported for 14 years. He spent some time in the hulks before arriving in Sydney in the Lloyds on 18 December 1833. On the passenger list he is shown as a Protestant. He was then assigned to Major Innes at Port Macquarie where he arrived early in January 1834 on board the brig Gov Phillip.

Barbara Falk shows him as having the middle name of Simeon - but it does not appear anywhere else, and is perhaps an error. On 21 December 1833 his family arrived in Sydney aboard The Brothers. They travelled in cabin class. Full details of this list in biography by Phillip C Cohen.

In February 1840 he received a ticket of leave restricted to the District of Port Macquarie. In 1841 he applied for a Conditional Pardon which was refused, but this was finally granted on 8th August 1843. (Tkt of leave 40/356, Reel 935, Shelf 4/4137)

In the convict records he was described as a tailor, although at the time of the trial and arrest he was running a large business, he must have worked as a regular tailor at some time. This is confirmed by the fact that in the general remarks of his description he was said to have a scar ball on his left thumb, and a scar on the back of same.

For a discussion of the names and number of children see Philip Cohen's work.

Death NSW Reg no

George Rigal has evidence of an insurance policy taken out by him in London.


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email from Phillip Kiry to Tel Johns, 2 Nov 2006, copied to Jim Falk, Title “Cohen-Solomon”

Dear John,
Re: ELIAS SOLOMON AND HENRY COHEN
 
I do not know if the following are all those individuals related to JAMES SIMMONS and his lines but I suspect they are based on my current research.
 
1778 Elias Solomon diamond polisher- Love Court Petticoat Lane
 
Henry Cohen 1813-1814 5 York Buildings Kent St Rd dealer in glass, earthenware and rags
1821 Henry Cohen 3 Rosemary Lane clothes salesman
1822 Henry Cohen 4 Sharps Buildings clothes salesman
Nb The 4 Sharps Buildings is also the same address for Abraham and Isaac Harris from 1818 1831 slop sellers
1824 Henry Cohen 111 Edgeware Rd clothes salesman
 
Regards
Phillip

BTH: Date assumed from age at time of death, and evidence given in the biography by Philip C Cohen. This has been endorsed as correct from his Conditional Pardon which stated 1790 to be the year of his birth.

I cannot verify the name/existence of his father or brother.

TRIAL: 1833 He was said to have received two stolen promisory notes. It was the third time stolen notes had been traced to his possession. He was found guilty and was transported for 14 years. He spent some time in the hulks before arriving in Sydney in the Lloyds on 18 December 1833. On the passenger list he is shown as a Protestant. He was then assigned to Major Innes at Port Macquarie where he arrived early in January 1834 on board the brig Gov Phillip.

Barbara Falk shows him as having the middle name of Simeon - but it does not appear anywhere else, and is perhaps an error. On 21 December 1833 his family arrived in Sydney aboard The Brothers. They travelled in cabin class. Full details of this list in biography by Phillip C Cohen.

In February 1840 he received a ticket of leave restricted to the District of Port Macquarie. In 1841 he applied for a Conditional Pardon which was refused, but this was finally granted on 8th August 1843. (Tkt of leave 40/356, Reel 935, Shelf 4/4137)

In the convict records he was described as a tailor, although at the time of the trial and arrest he was running a large business, he must have worked as a regular tailor at some time. This is confirmed by the fact that in the general remarks of his description he was said to have a scar ball on his left thumb, and a scar on the back of same.

For a discussion of the names and number of children see Philip Cohen's work.

Death NSW Reg no

George Rigal has evidence of an insurance policy taken out by him in London.