Charles Clarence Weston Millson (1800-1874)

Charles Milsom alias Charles Clarence Weston Milson+was a carpenter that lived in Stanford Dingley Berkshire England.He was a participant in the little known 1830 Berkshire Swing Riots.Charles having destroyed a threshing machine at Basildon & Streatley was consequently rounded up with other rioters and he was tried in the court of assize at Reading where he was sentenced to 14 years. He along with many of his fellow rioters found themselves imprisoned on hulks awaiting  transported to Australia or to Van Diemans Land (Tasmania).Charles was to leave behind a wife and child in the process. Although transported as convicts+the question remains historically as to whether they were criminal convicts due to their action or political prisoners because of economical suppression and their actions the process of revolt and revolution? A little bit of overlooked English history that may+ if it had not been thwarted could have developed into something much bigger. Charles himself eventually became a free man in the colony of Australia and went on to marry and have children and live in the region of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.I am one of Charles many descendants.