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Uriah Ando was transported on the Claudine, departing 19th Aug 1829 and arriving 6th Dec 1829 with 180 passengers.
The 'Claudine' was an East Indiaman built in Calcutta in 1811 from teak wood with a tonnage of 452 tons. In 1820 she ran from London to Hobart Town, Sydney, Batavia and back to England. After leaving Sydney on 10 May 1820 under the command of John Welsh, she discovered the Claudine Reef in the Coral Sea, before making her way past Murray Island in Torres Strait on her way to Batavia. The Claudine made two voyages to Australia as a convict transport. Departing Woolwich 24 August 1821 mastered by John Crabtree with Henry Ryan as ship's surgeon. She arrived in Port Dalrymple, van Diemen's Land after a passage of 113 days via Teneriffe, on 15 December, landing 40 convicts. She then sailed on to Hobart Town and landed the remaining 119 male convicts, one prisoner having died en route . On 24 August 1829 the Claudine departed London, arriving in Sydney on 6 December 1829 after a voyage of 104 days; her Master was William Heathorne, the surgeon William H Trotman. On this voyage she sailed with 180 prisoners and their guard; two prisoners died en route. she then sailed on to Madras on 30 December. The Claudine returned to merchant service and on Monday 21-22 November 1840 under the command of captain Brewer was deliberately beached with another East Indiaman 'Westminster' during a storm off the Kent coast near Margate. This stranding was the subject of a famous engraving by William Henry Bartlett and a pencil and chalk sketch by J.M.W. Turner. The 'Westminster' successfully unloaded 6000 chests of tea into two steamers which delivered it to the East India Docks and was refloated on 7 December. 'Claudine' which was beached onshore unloaded into 200 carts the following day 23rd November and was then refloated on a spring tide after 7 December. Both ships having been dismasted in the storm, were repaired and put back into the trade. The Claudine appears to have been sent to the wreckers in 1849.
Claudine (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 173 (89) |
| 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
ADM 101/17/5/3 Folios 21-22: Copy of the daily sick book for the Claudine Male Convict Ship Uriah [Ando?], aged 30, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 7 November 1829. Discharged 25 November 1829
Uriah's wife (nee Eleanor Marsh) married Solomon Whitcomb in Bristol on 22 Aug 1836 - presumably after securing a divorce from Uriah.
Son of Richard & Ann Andow nee Nutt (married 10 Oct 1793 at Street Somerset); baptised 20 May 1798 at Street Somerset; married 8 Apr 1822 at Walton Somerset to Ellen Marsh; death unknown; son George Andow baptised 27 Mar 1822 at Walton Somerset, died about 1860 in China with Royal Marines.
Uriah Ando was convicted along with Joseph Osgood (Sir Charles Forbes 1830 to VDL) for stealing 3 lambs, the property of James Clothier. 6/12/1829 Convict Indent: Age 30. Married with 1 child. Ploughs, reaps, shears, milks. Native of Somersetshire. Tried in Taunton 28 March 1829. Assigned to William Black at Windsor on arrival. Uriah married Eleanor/Ellen Marsh on 8/4/1822 – son George born 27/3/1826 at Walton. Eleanor then ‘took up with’ Solomon Whitcombe. 15/6/1834: Eleanor has an illegitimate daughter, Emily, then Samuel, Joshua and Sarah born C1849. Eleanor is thought to have died as Ellen Whitcombe who was buried 4/10/1859 aged 58. (In 1860 Solomon married Ann Woodborne). 1837: Assigned to G.T. Palmer, Maitland. 1838: TOL Maitland 1840: TOL Maitland 8/2/1841: Was a Constable at Wollombi. 3/6/1842: Ploughman aged 42 from Somersetshire, 5' 7 3/4"; dark ruddy complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes, brown spots upper right eye, scar lower right cheek, scar over right eye and perpendicular one at top of forehead. Absconded from Maitland since last month. 1843: TOL Mudgee 1/10/1848: CP No further mention of him found in Australia – although the date of death listed above is a little dubious.
When Uriah Ando was born in 1800 in Wells, Somerset, his father, Richard, was 40 and his mother, Ann, was 32. He married Anna Hamblin on November 17, 1823, in Somerset. They had seven children in 14 years. He died in June 1865 in Somerset, at the age of 65.