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Transportation
Samuel Allen was transported on the Batavia, departing 30th Sep 1817 and arriving 5th Apr 1818 with 220 passengers.
Batavia (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 387 (195) |
| 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
Attestation We hereby certify that Samuel Allen who came by the ship Batavia which arrived in the years one thousand eight hundred and eighteen has not been convicted of any crime or misdemeanour in this colony, but is to our certain belief, an honest, sober and industrious character, having served faithfully Sir John Jamison residing in the district of Evan, from the nineteenth day of October on thousand eight hundred and eighteen to this 19th day of October 1824. signed: ??, Resident Magistrate; Henry Fulton, Chaplain of district; Jno Jamison, Master. Lancaster QS, 22 March 1817, Fourteen years. 1828 NSW Census Index. Samuel Allen, age 43, TL, per London Batavia, 1818, 14 years, protestant, Carter to J. Barker, Sussex St, Sydney.
NSW Convict Index. Samuel Allen, per Batavia, 1818, Ticket of Leave, No 24/460; District: Parramatta; Born Cheshire 1784; Trade, Farming man; Tried, Lancs QS. Samuel Allen, per Batavia, 1818, Certificate of Freedom, 10 May 1831. No 31/0446. TL 460/1394.
Colonial Secretary Index. ALLEN, Samuel. Per "Batavia", 1818 1818 Apr 14 On list of convicts disembarked from the "Batavia" and forwarded to Parramatta for distribution (Reel 6006; 4/3498 p.151) 1824 Aug 31 On list of Government servants in the employ of Sir John Jamison; from Oct 1818 to Aug 1824 (Reel 6061; 4/1780 p.257a) 1824 Oct 19 Servant of Sir John Jamison of Evan; attestation as to his character for a ticket of leave (Reel 6027; 4/1716.1 p.265)
Lancaster Assizes. Mary Jones (45) Wm. Fisher (2?) Wm. Shaw (31) John Whitehead (42) Wm. Woolstencroft ?? John Rice (.51) and Samuel Allen (15) pleaded Guilty of having forged Bank notes in their possession, knowing them to be such, and were sentenced to fourteen years transportation. … Jas. Jelley, for uttering forged notes, at Manchester.—Acquitted. Lancaster Gazette, 29 Mar 1817. At Chester Assizes, last week, Joseph Allen, aged 35, a respectable farmer, from Crowton, in Cheshire, was found guilty of uttering forged Bank of England notes, and immediately received sentence of death, the learned Judge (Sir W. Garrow) exhorting him to prepare for that fate which inevitably awaited him.— He had paid £140 in bad notes to seven  different persons; and in his defence he said he had received the whole from one Jelley and others, at Manchester.— Jelley, our readers will recollect, was acquitted at our last Assizes, of uttering notes; and Samuel Allen (brother of the above, as we understand) pleaded, at the same Assizes, guilty of having forged notes in his possession  and was sentenced to fourteen years transportation. Lancaster Gazette, 26 April 1817. (His brother, Joseph Allen was executed at Cheshire)
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Ship; Lucy Davison Indent No; 53 Name; Mary Ann Marshall Noted against name; COHABETED with John Fletcher expected in the Surry 1832 - New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, Nol 222. Samuel Allan. Age; 50. Ship; Batavia - 14 years. Free Mary Ann Marshall. Age; 33. Ship; Lucy Davidson. 14 years. Bond Granted - 7 July 1832. 1832 - Australia, Marriage Index, Name: Mary A Marshall Date: 1832 - Cobbitty, Narellan, New South Wales Spouse: Samuel Allen Volume Number: V