Name: Thomas Key
Convicted at: Nottingham Quarter Session
Sentence term: 7
Ship: Lady Nugent
Voyage: 12th Jul 1836
Arrival: 12th Nov 1836
Place of Arrival: Van Diemen's Land
The mugshot 1873-5
Thomas Wood, 60 years old, transported as Key per ship Lady Nugent, F.S. was arraigned at the Supreme Court Hobart between 15-18 July 1873, sentenced to 6 years for housebreaking and larceny. Government contractor T. J. Nevin photographed him at the Hobart Gaol while awating trial, 15-18 July, 1873. The prisoner Thomas Wood or Key was sent to the Port Arthur prison, arriving there on 28 August 1873.
Prisoner WOOD, Thomas alias Key
TMAG Ref: Q15608
Photographer: Thomas J. NEVIN 1873-75
Recto inscription: "164" below image on mount
Verso inscription: "Thomas Wood or Key, Native, Taken at Port Arthur 1874".
Verso inscriptions:
"Thom [torn paper backing] Wood or [Key, obscured by torn paper backing] Native
Taken at Port Arthur 1874"
Photographer Thomas J. Nevin, 1875
TMAG Ref: Q15608
Thomas Wood+s, Supreme Court Trial 1873
Source: 1875. TASMANIA. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.
PENAL DISCIPLINE. REPORT OF COMMISSION.
Laid upon the Table by the Attorney-General, and ordered by the House to be printed, August 10, 1875.
Link:https://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/31035/ha1875pp49.pdf
There are two errors in this document:
Tabled in Parliament as "Penal Discipline Report of Commission." 1875 which listed prisoners tried in the Supreme Court Hobart for the years 1873-1874, the prisoner was called Thomas Wood+s - an "s" was added to his surname - and his ship was incorrectly listed as the "Lord Nugent" when it was in fact the "Lady Nugent". The document shows that Thomas Wood(s) was received at the Hobart Gaol on 29 May 1873 and that his trial date was set for 15 July 1873 after 47 days awaiting trial. His offense was breaking and entering.
Thomas Wood or Key at Port Arthur 1873
Thomas Wood(s) as Key was 59 years old, 5ft 6½ when he arrived at the Port Arthur prison on 28 August 1873, so he was born ca. 1813-1814. He was transferred to the Hobart Gaol in 1875 where he was photographed by T. J. Nevin on being received. He died in 1893, 81 yrs old, at the New Town Charitable Institution.
Archives Office Tasmania
Port Arthur Conduct Register 1872-1876.
Thomas Wood (as Key) or Key, Lady Nugent, Folio 1.
CON94/1/2 Conduct register - Port Arthur - 01 Aug 1873- 30 Sep 1876
Earnings from August 1873 to December 1875 - 1.111.4 [?]
Remarks: "Minimum period 14 January 1878"
CON94/1/2 Conduct register - Port Arthur - 01 Aug 1873- 30 Sep 1876
Hobart Gaol Records 1878-1882
Thomas Wood or Key was discharged from the Hobart Gaol in January 1878. His photograph may have been taken again on discharge but more likely it was reprinted from Nevin's original glass negative held at the Hobart Gaol in the photographer's room. He was soon back in court a year later.
Carte-de-visite photograph of prisoner Thomas Wood or Key
Printed from T. J. Nevin's negative, Hobart Gaol, 1873
NLA Catalogue (incorrect information)
Title from verso: "Thomas Wood or Key, native, taken at Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1874"
Extent: 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.3 x 5.6 cm.
Link: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-142915467
POLICE GAZETTE NOTICES 1878 -1882
Source: Tasmania Reports of Crime for Police, J, Barnard, Gov't printer.
Thomas Wood+s or Key per Lady Nugent was discharged from the Hobart Gaol in the week ending 30 January 1878. He may have been photographed again on discharge, or more likely, a new print from the photographer's original negative was produced. One of those new cdv's may be the very clean one of two held at the TMAG.
Source: Tasmania Reports of Crime for Police, J, Barnard, Gov't printer.
Thomas Woods, per Lady Nugent, 63 years old, was convicted at Bothwell (Tas) and sentenced to 12 months for larceny from a dwelling during the week ending 28 December 1878. Because his sentence was longer than 3 months, he was transferred back to the Hobart Gaol where this offence would have been added to his old rap sheet with his cdv already pasted to it.
Source: Tasmania Reports of Crime for Police, J, Barnard, Gov't printer.
Here is Thomas Wood, now gazetted by police as Wood+s or Key+s per Lady Nugent, 66 years old, 5ft 7½ins tall, discharged from Oatlands (Tas) where he was tried on 8 June 1882, sentenced to 3 months for being idle and disorderly. Remarks show he was lame and disfigured, with scars and a broken nose.
