Date:
Arrived in Port Jackson 20 November 1800
Source:
The Convict Ships, 1787 - 1868 by Charles Bateson, pp. 169-170
Details:
The gaol fever was also carried aboard the Royal Admiral, which sailed from England on May 23, 1800, but it raged less malignantly. She had embarked 300 convicts, 48 fewer than on her previous voyage, when Philip had considered her overcrowded, and 43 of her prisoners died on the passage. The Royal Admiral also carried 11 missionaries, having been chartered to convey them, after delivering her convicts, to the South Sea Islands. The surgeon was Samuel Turner, who previously had been surgeon of the missionary ship Duff, but he became ill of the fever and died on June 2. On June 23 a reported plot to seize the ship threw the missionaries into something very like a panic. Dividing themselves into watches, they stood guard in the steerage from 8 p.m. until 7 a.m. each night. But no rising took place. Four strange sail were sighted on August 4. The Royal Admiral's decks were cleared for action as she made all sail, and about five o'clock the boom of gunfire could be heard - a novelty, though doubtless an unpleasant one, for the convicts crowded in the stifling prison. The commodore of the convoy, Captain Rowley Bulteel, in the Belliqueux, 64, and the East Indiaman Dorsetshire compelled the French 40-gun frigate La Concorde to strike, while after a running fight lasting several hours another French frigate, the Medee, surrendered to the East Indiamen Bombay Castle and Exeter. Next day fifty-nine prisoners from La Concorde were transferred to the Royal Admiral, and were soon complaining that the convicts had robbed them. On August 12 the Royal Admiral arrived at Rio de Janeiro, after a passage of 81 days from England. Twenty-three convicts had died, and there were a further five deaths by August 25. In addition to Surgeon Turner, four seamen, a convict's wife and a convict's child had also died, bringing the total death-roll to 35 persons. The Royal Admiral did not sail from Rio until September 15, and when she reached Port Jackson on November 20, after a passage from England of 181 days, the deaths among the prisoners had risen to 43. Almost all the survivors required medical treatment. The state in which the convicts had been embarked alone had been responsible for the large number of deaths and the great amount of sickness. On March 10, 1801, Governor King reported that the prisoners were still very weak, and later still, on October 30, 1802, he declared that many remained in a state of debility and would never recover the strength of men.
Place:
Newcastle district
Source:
General Muster of New South Wales 1823, 1824, 1825
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Conditional Pardon holder. Employed by Mr. Dangar
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per Lady Nelson
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle (7 years) per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
Source:
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
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Sentenced to 7 years transportation for feloniously stealing, on the 3rd June 1799, two silver tablespoons value 15s, the property of Alexander McNeale. Age 27
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Had been returned from Coal River to Sydney 'he being a free man'
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Suspected of theft and sent to Newcastle
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To be sent to Sydney from Newcastle and not to return unless he committed a further misdemeanor
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On detachment duty at Newcastle. Proceeding to Sydney on the'Lady Nelson'
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Sent to Newcastle as a prisoner
Date:
1st to 30 April 1812
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly Return of Corporal Punishments
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Sentenced to 25 lashes for fraud
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Runaway from Newcastle
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Sent to Newcastle as a prisoner per 'Estramina' . Listed as Fanling
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On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
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On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle
Source:
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
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Age 22. Sentenced to transportation for 7 years for feloniously stealing, on the 27 January, a pair of linen sheets, value 3s, the property of John Elger. Witness at trial heard that Fitzwilliam had just returned from transportation when he committed this crime
Date:
1st to 28th February 1823
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly return of Corporal Punishments
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Sentenced to 25 lashes for neglect of government work
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Five prisoners who had absconded from His Majesty s settlement at Hunters River, but since apprehended, were yesterday brought before a Bench of Magistrates, all charged with having stolen provisions and other necessaries prior to their escape. The names of the above prisoners are Fitzwilliam, Fitzgerald, McMahon, McCardle, and Thompson. The above persons were sentenced as follows: John Fitzwilliam and Charles McMahon as ringleaders, to receive 250 lashes each; Fitzwilliam to be fined 6 months to commence when a fine under which he now labours shall expire; and the others 200 lashes each; the whole to be returned to Newcastle.
Source:
Convict Settlement
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Punished for repeatedly refusing to do his govt. work
Source:
Convict Settlement
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Punished for repeatedly refusing to do his govt. work and absenting himself from the overseer
