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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.

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.

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

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

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.