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Francis Thornton Alderson was transported on the Lord Lyndoch, departing 30th May 1833 and arriving 18th Oct 1833 with 330 passengers.
1838 Voyage - Lord Lyndoch. Surgeon Superintendence; Doctor Pineo, From the Surgeons Notes; " Total Embarked; 330 Male Convicts. 19 Died on Passage. 8 Died of Scurvy, 11 of Old age and diseases contracted previously to embarked which could not be detected ...... An accident occurred whereby 16 men were dreadfully scolded with boiling tea. many of them from the shoulders down to their knees.. 112 were sent to the Sydney Hospital on arrival "
Lord Lyndoch (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 132 |
| 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
SOUTHWARK SESSIONS, Jan. Francis Thomas Alderson was charged with robbing his employer, Mr. Sheriff Humphery, of ? pounds cheese, the 10th of August. It appeared that the prisoner had been foreman in the prosecutor’s service about 3 years. the day named in the indictment a cart containing cheeses, was unloaded at the prosecutor’s wharf, when one the cheeses was clandestinely abstracted. Inquiries were instituted, but no idea could be formed the person who had stolen it. At length, about ? o’clock in the evening, the cheese was found by one of the workmen, named May, concealed in one the prosecutor’s warehouses, who immediately gave information ofthe discovery to Mr. Jager. was instructed by him to watch in the warehouse to see who should fetch the cheese, when having been there ? Hour, the prisoner came, and coolly walking off with it, gave it to dashing female who met him. The cheese was produced, and identified as the property of the prosecutor. The Jury, after long consultation, found the prisoner Guilty. The Recorder addressed the prisoner at great length on the character of the offence of which he had been convicted, and deferred passing judgment upon him. London Courier, 3 Jan 1833.
NSW Convict Index. Francis T. Alderson, per Lord Lynedock 1833, Certificate of Freedom, 27 Feb 1840. No 40/0401. TL 38/712.
National Archives. HO-9-9_5 Woolwich Hulks, Justitia. Page 39/51. Received 23 February 1833. Frans. Thornton Alderson, age 38, Felony, Tried Southwark Sessions ? Jany 1833, 7 years, Transportation 20 May 1833.
"Southwark Sessions, Jan. 2 [1833-01-02] Francis Thomas [Thornton] ALDERSON was charged with robbing his employer, Mr Sheriff HUMPHERY, of … pounds cheese" London Courier and Evening Gazette London, England 1833-01-03. NSW Death Record 113 of 1844 aged 39 Married Elizabeth DUFF 12/06/1826 St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Surrey, England from Parish records