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Richard Yeo was baptised at St Stephen, near Launceston in 1819 to parents Humphrey and Elizabeth Yeo.
Richard was tried at Bodmin Quarter Sessions on 2 January 1844 for housebreaking and theft. He was found guilty, sentenced to transportation for ten years, and sent to Tasmania the following year.
Richard was transported on the SS Theresa. His arrival in Van Diemen’s Land – as Tasmania was known at the time – on 3 July 1845 is recorded in a set of ‘Founders and Settlers’ records compiled by the University of Tasmania. Records held at the Tasmanian Archives describe him as a single man aged 22, although he was two or three years older.
Did Richard settle in Australia after serving his sentence?
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