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Departed London 1st September. Arrived Port Jackson 17th January. Captain Smith. Surgeon Superintendent Dr. Dickson, R.N. 160 male convicts. Guard consisted of a detachment of 30 men of the 64rd regt., under orders of Lieut. Aubin. Four Commissariat clerks came passengers
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
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Age 21. Reads. Seaman from Clifton. Tried in Somerset 18 August 1827 and sentenced to transportation for life for house breaking. Assigned to T.P. Macqueen on arrival
First Name:
Lieutenant Phillip
Ship:
Vittoria 1829 (came free)
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In command of a detachment of 63rd regiment on convict ship Vittoria
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Carpenter aged 21 from Cornwall. Hazel eyes, brown hair, ruddy freckled compl., Absconded from John Eales
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
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Age 21.Native of Cornwall. Carpenter's Apprentice. Tried 15 July 1828 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing books.. Assigned to John Eales at Hunter River on arrival
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
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Age 18. Clothier's apprentice, native of Portugal. Tried in Somerset 29 March 1829 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing buttons. Assigned to Thomas Potter Macqueen on arrival
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
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Labourer from Yorkshire. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland under sentence of 14 days in the cells. Returned to his district 5th April
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
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Aged 33. Married with 2 children. Ploughman and milks, native of Yorkshire. Tried in Leeds 21 April 1828 and sentenced to transportation for 7 years for stealing harness. Assigned to R.A. Rodd at Newcastle on arrival
Source:
Application to Marry
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Joseph Bitton age 42, arrived per Vittoria, application to marry Mary Cox aged 26 arrived per Persian (VDL)
Source:
Application to Marry
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Joseph Bilton per Vittoria application to marry Mary Cox per Persian. Permission refused as Bilton stated on arrival that he was married with two children
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
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Age 34. Reads and writes, Married with 2 children. Excise officer and ploughman from Aberdeen. Tried in Edinburgh 5 July 1828 and sentenced to 5 years transportation for uttering forged permits. Assigned to James Adair at Patterson Plains on arrival
Source:
Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia: With Descriptions.. By Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Details:
This day I sent off one of the men (Stephen Bombelli) with a despatch for the government at Sydney, giving an account of our journey thus far, and stating my intention of descending the Nammoy in the boats. Bombelli was mounted on horseback, armed with a pistol, and provided with food for twelve days, being sufficient to enable him to carry the despatch to Pewen Bewen (Puen Buen), and to return to the depot, which I had arranged to establish here
Source:
Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia: With Descriptions.. By Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
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Reaching, at length, the open plains beyond Brush Hill, I once more traced the line of that water course, which may truly be said to have saved our lives, when we first providentially fell in with it, just as the men were beginning to sink, overcome by extreme and long continued thirst. To us, it had afforded then the happiest of camps, after such a deliverance; and now, we were to witness in the same spot, a scene of death. Having struck into the old track of the carts as we approached the place, we foundthe pistol of Bombelli within a foot of the track. This was surprising, for although Mr. Finch had informed me, that Bombelli lost it in the grass, after adjusting some harness, (a fatal loss, poor fellow, to him), it is seldom that any article so dropped, escapes the quick sighted natives, to whom the surface of the earth is, in fact, as legible as a newspaper, so accustomed are they to read in any traces left thereon, the events of the day. For the lost pistol, Burnett, who had charge of the arms, carefully sought, as he felt a commendable and soldier like desire, to carry back to Sydney, in good order, our full complement of fire arms. A lonely cart and two dead bodies covered by the remanis of Mr. Finch'e s equipment, no marked the spot where we had formerly encamped. the two bullocks were no longer.....The bodies were now in the most offensive state of putrefaction, and already so much decayed, that we could not even distinguish the persons except by the smaller frame of Bombelli. The body of the bullock driver lay under the cart, where he had been accustomed to sleep; that of Bombelli about four feet from it. No dress appeared to have been on either, besides the shirts, and one side of each skull was so shattered that fragments lay about on removing the remains into a grave. It seemed most probably that the natives had stolen upon them when asleep. Having interred the bodies, we loaded the cart with such articles as still remained serviceable and yoking it to thrree of the horses which the men had brought we returned towards the camp.
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We are sorry to learn, that the Major has not succeeded in attaining the object of his expedition. His return is expected today. The streams the Major fell in with do not run to the North West, but into the Darling. The natives were hostile. They killed two of the Major's party and plundered his stores. In the month of November last, the Major left Sydney, and accompanied by a sufficient number of assistants, proceeded on his long and precarious journey. At Segenhoe the estate of Mr. Sempill, he received from the latter gentleman the loan of a very useful man of the name of Bombelli, who went along with the party and in three or four weeks returned to Segenhoe, on his way to Darlington with despatches for the Government. In returning from the Major, Bombelli met with Mr. Surveyor Finch who was going to the appointed depot with a ton of flour. Having delivered his despatches at Sydney, and returned to Segenhoe, Mr. Sempill immediately forwarded him on. After travelling one hundred and fifty miles, he overtook Mr. finch and party, who were greatly in want of water. Mr. F. having a day or two before passed a place where water was plentiful and it being only about nine miles behind them, determined on going back to it for a supply, leaving Bomelli and the bullock driver in charge of the drays. Early on the following morning Mr. Finch returned when to his indiscribable horror he found them both stretched on the ground, mangled corpses, having been murdered by the Blacks, who had decamped with the whole of his flour. Mr. Finch hurried with all possible speed after Major Mitchell whom he overtook far in the interior
Source:
UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books
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Notorious Birmingham thief. Convicted before
Source:
Uk Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books
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Age 19. Convicted of stealing a watch at Moothall Quarter Sessions 18 January 1828. Received onto the Justitia Hulk on 11th April and transferred to the Vittoria on 8th August 1828 for transportation to New South Wales
Surname:
Bombelli (Bombellia)
Source:
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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Blacksmith. Transferred from service of H.C. Sempill to accompany Sir Thomas Livingstone's expedition
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
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Age 21. Native of Newcastle, England, Cook, baker. Tried in Norfolk 19 January 1828 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing a watch. Assigned to Thomas Potter Macqueen on arrival. Two prior convictions. 5ft 1 3/4in, sallow complexion, black hair, warts or raised marks in a perpendicular direction on right side of neck. Killed by the native blacks on Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell's expedition in 1831
