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Transportation
Ellen Adams was transported on the Tasmania, departing 9th Sep 1844 and arriving 20th Dec 1844 with 192 passengers.
Built 1841 at Sunderland. Wood barque of 502 Tons.
Tasmania (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/14, Page Number 161 (82). Tasmanian Archives - Convicts: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1368120 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Trial; 10 April 1844 Stealing a Coat Status; Married aged 45 years old 1862 - Lunatic Asylun N. Norfolk DIED - 3 September 1872 at Asylum
DM 101/71/11844. Medical journal of the female convict ship Tasmania for 27 September to 27 December 1844 by Thomas Seaton, surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in conveying convicts. (Described at item level). Folios 10-11: Surgeon's general remarks. 191 convicts, 24 children (one of them having died, viz George Douglas embarked on the Tasmania. ... The Surgeon notes that three women were very troublesome and the cause of many disturbances on board; Matilda Phillips, 'evidently deficient in intellect'; Sarah Smith, 'at times very noisy turbulent and abusive: she was too subject to a species of fit nearly allied to epilepsy, which had impaired her memory, but she presumed upon her malady and affected a degree of eccentricity greater than was warrantable'; Ellen Adams, 'the most troublesome and dangerous of the three, who was shrewd and malicious with strong natural abilities but her imagination was affected owing to which she used to fabricate the most unaccountable tales yet narrate them with such an air of plausibility and seeming truth and earnestness as would impose upon any one not aware of her state'. All on board had been vaccinated except four adults; C Watson; J Pollard; M Medlicott; and S Clarke.