Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
William Adkins was transported on the Grenada, departing 30th Apr 1819 and arriving 21st Oct 1819 with 152 passengers.
Grenada (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 157 (80) Old Bailey online https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18181028-26 Digital panopticon https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18181028-26-defend251 |
| 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
Extract from The Sydney Gazette Sat 30 Dec 1820 Page 3. On the night of the 25th, or early on the morning of the 26th. instant, 13 male prisoners effected their escape from the harbour in a whale-boat, which appears to have been taken from Cockle Bay. … Their names appear in the usual public advertisement of absentees. Extract from Sydney Gazette, Sat 27 Jan 1821, p. 3. PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, Sydney, 16th Dec. 1820. THE under-mentioned Prisoners [thirteen in total] having absented themselves from their respective Employments, and some of them at large with false Certificates, all Constables and others are hereby required to use their utmost Exertions in apprehending and lodging them in Custody. … Names and Descriptions of Prisoners of the Crown, supposed to have made their Escape from the Colony in an open Boat, on the Night of the 25th or early on the morning of the 26th Instant: - … William Atkins [Adkins], aged 27, carpenter, native of Bury St. Edmonds, 5 ft. 9 in. dark ruddy complexion, black hair, hazel eyes, came per ship Grenada; both attached to Prisoners' Barracks, Hyde Park. … There is no record of the boat or the bolters ever being found, believed to have perished at sea.
Death sentence respited to transportation for life.