Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Robert Adlam was transported on the Neptune, departing 30th Nov 1817 and arriving 5th May 1818 with 169 passengers.
NeptuneReferences
| Primary Source | 'The Family Historian' Journal of the Gold Coast Family History Research Group, Vol 1, No 1, December 1995. http://www.rahs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Convict-Women-in-the-Female-Factories-of-New-South-Wales.pdf |
| 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
The following ten prisoners received sentence Death: ... — Robert Adlam, for breaking open the dwelling-house of John Edwards, Horningsham, and stealing a coat, of the value of 5s. ... Charles Mines and Henry Angel are left for execution ; the rest of the prisoners on whom sentence of death passed being reprieved before the Judges left the city. Salisbury and Winchester Journal,28 July 1817
Married Mary Brown, St John's Church Parramatta, 1828. She was transported on the Princess Charlotte in 1827. They were married by Samuel Marsden. Their daughter Eliza was born in 1830. In June 1830 they were charged with receiving stolen goods. He was sentenced to 14 years in Norfolk Island, and she was sentenced to 14 years in Moreton Bay. It appears he received a Ticket of Leave in 1844. In 1842 Mary was in the Parramatta Female factory. She died in 1844. Eliza was sent from the Female Orphan School to live with Robert at the Australian Agricultural Company until he died 4 years later.