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5 unusual facts about Ikey Solomon


Ikey Solomon

Hobart, Tasmania's capital, was the enforced home of many of Solomon's old criminal colleagues and customers.

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Lieutenant-Governor Arthur finally agreed to the assignment after Ikey entered into a £1000 bond to guarantee that his wife would not escape from the colony, and a number of local publicans and merchants, including John Pascoe Fawkner, entered into sureties of £100 or £200 each.

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Solomon died on 3 September 1850, and was buried the next day in the Jewish cemetery in Harrington Street, Hobart.

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Ann travelled in the ship Mermaid, arriving at Hobart Town Penal Colony in June 1828.

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He was sent to Richmond gaol, where in 1832 he became a "javelin man", or convict constable.



see also

The Potato Factory

Author Judith Sackville-O'Donnell, who wrote another book on Ikey Solomon, claimed that the book was inaccurate and anti-Semitic.