Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Foster Anderson was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 27th Sep 1834 and arriving 22nd Jan 1835 with 48 passengers.
The Royal Admiral was built at Lynn in 1828. Convicts were transported to New South Wales on the Royal Admiral in 1830, 1833, 1835 and to Van Diemen's Land in 1842. 1833 - Ship; Royal Admiral. Commenced fitting as a Convict Transport at Deptford on the 29 March. Surgeon Superintendent [Andrew Henderson] joined on the 3rd April. Guard embarked on the 13th. Sailed on the 17th and anchored in Kingston Barbour near Dublin on the 9th May. 220 convicts embarked on the 16 May 1833 and the ship sailed from Dublin Bay for Sydney on the 4th June and arrived there on the 20 October. Originally embarked with 221 convicts, 5 Died at sea, 1 was Relanded. 11 sick on shore, The convicts were described as 220 such wretchedly debilitated creatures ... Refer to the surgeons journal for full details
Royal Admiral (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convicts NSW Gov Records. |
Claims
No one has claimed Foster Anderson yet.
Photos
No photos have been added for Foster Anderson.
Convict Notes
Foster Anderson was transported for stealing yarn. He was the son of Foster Anderson and Elizabeth “Sarah” Anderson nee Brownlee who was transported on the ‘Caroline 1833’. Foster was 16 years old on arrival, he was literate, 5’5” tall, brown complexion, a little pockpitted, brown hair, grey eyes, several scars on his hands. 7/7/1838: A son Robert is born to Foster Anderson (Royal Admiral 1835) & Susan Craig (Margaret 1837) in the Female Prison Parramatta. October 1839: Permission to marry Mary Nash was granted. 3/1/1840 The Sydney Morning Herald: CONVICT DISCIPLINE- About two months since, an extensive system of robbery upon Mr. Hebble-white's premises was discovered, and three persons were apprehended as being connected with it. One of them named Foster Anderson, an assigned servant to one of Mr. Hebblewhite's neighbours, was allowed to become approver, and upon the other prisoners being committed, Anderson was ordered to be detained in Hyde Park Barracks until the trial. The trial took place yesterday, when the Crown Prosecutor declined examining Anderson; but as his name was on the back of the information, he was called for the prisoners. When he was called, everybody thought there was some mistake, for the gentle man that got into the witness box, was dressed in a fashionably cut, olive brown coat, with buttons of a most extraordinary degree of polish-his white shirt was nicely plaited - his double-breasted waistcoat had the smallest possible number of cut buttons, in order that the Largest possible quantity of the shirt plaits might be exhibited-his white trousers were very nicely strapped over his quasi Wellingtons, and his whole air was particularly "swellish." Some months ago, the Governor received a dispatch from the Secretary of State, ordering that all convicts should wear a distinguishing badge-how the order has been attended to, the above anecdote will explain. By the bye, as the New Year has Just commenced, perhaps the olive coat is to be the distinguishing badge. 18/10/1840: COF – trade, Tailor. 9/12/1840: Married Mary Nash, arrived free per ‘Duchess of Northumberland’ 1836. Mary was a bounty migrant. They had 9 children. 11/6/1846 Sydney Morning Herald: Publican’s Licenses: Foster Anderson, Red Cow, Redfern 12/4/1847 Sydney Morning Herald: Applications for WINE AND BEER LICENSES: Foster Anderson, Redfern. 21/12/1850: MR. FOSTER ANDERSON, of the Hand and Heart Hotel, Botany Road. 1/8/1855 Sydney Morning Herald: FUNERAL.—The Friends of Mr. Foster Anderson are invited to attend the funeral of his deceased wife, Mary. To move from his residence, Botany-road, THIS (Wednesday) AFTERNOON, at a quarter to 3 o'clock. JAMES CURTIS,undertaker. Hunter-street, 1st August, 1855. After Mary, died in 1855 and he married Sarah Rorke in 1856. By her he had two more children. 6/4/1860: Foster died in Waterloo Estate, Camperdown from chronic dysentry after an illness of two months, he was buried on 9 April 1860. His Occupation was listed as Market gardener at Waterloo Estate, NSW.
Born Monaghan Ireland. Convicted of stealing Yarn.