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Arrival in Tasmania: Information from Laurie Joyce:-
"Robert Coad was tried at Cornwall on the 14th October 1834 and given 14 years (length of sentence) for stealing 9/6d. from a Mine, once for Stealing coals 4 months. Single,
Gaol report Very bad Convicted before
Hulk report Good
Robert was described as a ploughman, 5 feet 5 1/2 inches tall, aged 23 years, fresh complexion, large round head, brown hair, oval visage, high forhead, dark brown eyebrows, grey eyes, medium nose and mouth, large chin and stoutly made (OT CON 18/21).

Notes for ROBERT COAD:

Comment - Robert was called '23' when he was described on arrival in 1835 (born in 1812). The hard life of being a convict for 10 years aged him to '28' in 1845. When he died in 1863 he was '48' - Victoria speeded up his ageing by 2 years.

Robert's age is listed as 48 years. An inquest was held after Robert's death. His son was the informant and was living at Chinaman's Flat. Robert is said to have lived in Victoria for 10 years and 18 years in Tasmania before that.

Death Cause; in the inquest, Robert died the day after he fell from his dray after a wheel was stuck in a rut and he was thrown off the cart. 19th April 1863 PROCEEDINGS of Inquest held Upon the body of Robert Coad at Dead Bullock Gully in the district of Maryborough.

DEPOSITION OF WITNESS - Henry????.....

On his oath saith as follows: I am a laborer and was in the employ of deceased----------on ?? day afternoon last-about half past five o'clock I was sitting with him on his dray which was loaded with stones- Deceased was driving- on the road about six miles from here the off wheel of the dray got into a rut and deceased fell off the dray and the wheel passed over his body. The weight stone on the dray would be about 30 cwt. Immediately after the accident deceased asked to be taken home and said" I'm done" I took him home. Dr Benson saw him. He died yesterday morning about 11 0'clock from the injuries caused by the dray passing over him

His Henry + Ir Mark

CORONERS INQUEST - DEPOSITION OF WITNESS : John Robinson Benson

On his oath saith as follows: I am legally qualified to practice medicine in this... and Investigation at Maryborough.

On Saturday night last at about nine o'clock I was requested to visit deceased. I went to his tent and found....broken on the left side and the collar bone on the right side. He was perfectly sensible and sober. He told me that he was riding home on his dray which was loaded with stones and that he fell off and the dray passed over his body and caused the injuries of which he died. There is no doubt the loaded dray passing over the body caused the accident. I saw him once after the first time and saw his case was a hopeless one. He died shortly after I saw him the second time of the effects pro... by the injuries to the chest

Notes for PRUDENCE BURROWS:

John, son of Robert, born in Tasmania

His mother is recorded as having come on the City of Hobart. A mine record reports John as having had an accident in a mine around this period. A further two sisters were born, Emma in St Arnaud, 1858 and Selina at White Hills in 1861.

In 1863 John reported the accident of his father who died when he fell from a cart loaded with stones which passed over him. He was possibly then living at Chinaman's Flat.

John was married to Sarah Swinton in 1876 and had a son, John Robert who only lived for a short time. Sarah also died. In 1887 at the Presbeterian Manse in Maryborough he was married to Elizabeth Enderby nee Burns. He was listed as a miner at St Arnaud. Alfred was born in Alma or Alma St, Maryborough in 1888.
Before 1900 John and his family moved to Chiltern where he worked on the gold mines.
He died in 1926 at Beechworth Asylum and is buried in the cemetery in that town. His son, Alfred, had a headstone put on his site in the 1950's.

From on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 Ancestors of Robert Coad 1 William Coad b: Abt. 1730 d: unknown wed Abt. 1752 to Jemima Unknown b: Abt. 1730 m: d: unknown son - John Coad b: 24 February 1753 d: unknown, wed 8 June 1776 in Parish of Kea to Jane Burrows children 1. Mary Coad b: 29 December 1776 d: unknown children 2. John Coad b: 1 July 1777 d: unknown children 3. Richard Coad b: 6 June 1779 d: unknown children 4. Charles Coad b: 2 March 1783 Bapt. Parish of Kea d: unknown 4. Charles Coad b: 2 March 1783 wed m: 21 March 1811 in Kea Parish, Truro , Cornwall to Hannah Pearce b: 8 January 1788 Bapt. Parish of Perranarworthal d: unknown Son Robert Coad departed from Portsmouth, 20 Nov 1834 on the Waterloo and arrived at Hobart 03 Mar 1835. 4.1 Robert Coad b: 3 November 1811 Parish of Kea, Truro, Cornwall d: 13 April 1863 in Chinaman's Flat, Victoria 4538 wed m: 14 June 1843 in St Matthews Church,New Norfolk, Tasmania to Prudence Burrows b: 9 September 1821 New Norfolk, Tasmania. Baptised 28th March,1830 d: March 1895 in St Arnaud, Victoria

Robert Coad 3 Nov 1811 - 13 April 1863 born in Cornwall and died in Chinaman's Flat, Victoria, wed 14 June 1843 in St Matthews Church, New Norfolk, Tasmania to Prudence Burrows 9 September 1821 - March 1895, born in New Norfolk, Tasmania, baptised 28 March 1830, died in St Arnaud, Victoria.