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Transportation
Edwin Atkins was transported on the Florentia, departing 11th Aug 1830 and arriving 12th Dec 1830 with 201 passengers.
Florentia was a 453-ton merchant ship built at Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1821. Two voyages to Australia transporting convicts - 1827 and 1830.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 456 |
| 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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There is also a photo of Edward Atkins on my blog: https://roslyn-ross.blogspot.com/2011/07/finding-and-facing-absolute-facts-about.html
There is a lot of information on Edward Atkins on my blog - https://roslyn-ross.blogspot.com/2011/07/finding-and-facing-absolute-facts-about.html Which I think is the source for some of the other information posted here. I paid UK researchers to dig as deep as possible and for anyone related to Edward Atkins there is quite a lot of detail on his Gloucestershire family.
Henry Edwin (Edward) Atkins was convicted in 1830 and came to Sydney Cove on the Florentina, he moved to SA around 1838 after he received his certificate of freedom. He met and married Hannah McLeod (from Scotland) they married at the Holy Trinity Church on North Terrace Adelaide in 1843. Hannah died in 1854 and he remarried in Penwortham Church of St Mark to Elizabeth Lewis nee Mashford. Henry Edwin (Edward) Atkins is buried in the Wirrabara cemetery along with his son in law Edward Prentice Puddy and his daughter Emily Puddy nee atkins.
Ancestry Convict Indents: Edwin Atkins was listed as 19 years old on arrival. Born C1811. Native Place: Gloucestershire. Edwin was literate, protestant, single, 5'6¼" tall, ruddy freckled complexion, light brown hair, grey eyes, HExA on right arm, round scar on top of right foot. 9/6/1838: COF
Gloucester Assizes. William Walker, Amy Walker, and Edwin Atkins, were tried for stealing an ewe teg from the grounds of John Bishop. at Cubberley. The prosecutor's sort deposed that he discovered the loss of the teg on the 10th of February; and on the 12th he obtained a search warrant, and proceeded to the house of Walker, situate in the same parish, when he found a quantity of meat cut up and placed in a pan, and as he had previously found the skin of a lamb in the field from which it was missing, he had Walker and his wife apprehended, together with the prisoner Atkins, who happened to be in the house at the time. In cross-examination, he stated that he did not know whether the meat he found in the pan was salted or not; and on being asked whether he could identify the skin, he produced it, and said there were reddle marks upon it; but upon examination by the jury, it was found that there were none. Notwithstanding this discrepancy in the evidence, in consequence of some facts which came to light through other witnesses, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Amy Walker and Edwin Atkins, and Not Guilty against William Walker.-Death Recorded. Oxford Journal, 17 April 1830. -------------------------------------------------- To the hulks at Chatham: for life, John Roach; for fourteen years, Nathan Wilts and James Williams; and for seven years, Edwin Atkins and Joseph Evans. — Cheltenham Journal, 31 May 1830.
I also believe that Edward Atkins came over land to South Australia. I am not sure about the Yass Society theory about W.H. Dutton, but all has to be taken into consideration. Anyway, I went on TROVE this morning to re visit the name Edward Atkins and I do not know why I have not noticed two stories I have just found regarding a person called Edward Atkins before. Thomas Fielding, Joseph Best, and Edward Atkins, were charged with assaulting Thomas Wilson at Mr Reed's station on the Para, on the 30th of last month. The Clerk of the Peace stated that this was so serious a case that he was instructed to request his Worship to send it for trial at the next general gaol delivery. The prisoners were accordingly committed, but allowed to procure bail. The complainants who presented a shocking appearance, is an inmate of the infirmary, and a certificate from the Colonial Surgeon was handed in stating that he was suffering from compound fracture of the jaw. Southern Australian (Adelaide SA 1838-1900) Saturday 18 January 1840 p 4. There is nothing in the above story which links the Edward Atkins above to our Edward Atkins. However, if you read the story below the same names appears and thus the same case. However, this time people’s ages appear and Edward Atkins is listed as “aged 27” Thomas Fielding, aged 29; Joseph Best, aged 25; Edward Atkins, aged 27; violently assaulting and beating Thomas Wilson, in December last, near Adelaide. Southern Australian (Adelaide SA 1838-1844) Thursday 5 March 1840 p 3 Map of the area north of Adelaide where the Little Para river runs. I am not saying that the Edward Atkins above is our Edward Atkins but if you consider his age as 27 in 1840 then the Edward Atkins in the story above was born c 1813. We have two years as a possible year of birth for Edward Atkins c1813 and c1807. The only reason the possible year of his birth is known is because his marriage certificate to his second wife, Elizabeth Lewis nee Mashford, lists his age as 44 in 1857 when he married her.[1] As a result, he had to have been born around the year c1813. However, if the reader studies the obituary it states that Edward Atkins died at the age of 84 in 1891. Thus, he would have had to have been born around the year c1807. As a result, there are two years for his birth which are 1813 and 1807. Be that as it may, I have found that discrepancies in people’s ages back in the 1800s are not uncommon for many reasons. As a result, it can sometimes just add to the confusion when researching a past family member. Thus, all that can be said, at this stage, is that Edward Atkins was born somewhere between the years 1807-1813. However, I prefers the year of c1813 as the year of his birth. This is because Edward Atkins would have had a better idea of how old he was in 1857 when he married a second time. His family may have had to guess his age when he died in 1891. Also the convict Henry Edwin Atkins was born in Cirencester Gloucestershire.[2] Henry Edwin Atkins was baptised on the 23/2/1812[3]. As a result, does the story above relate to our Edward Atkins????? If so was he living along the Para River in 1840??? Another thought has occurred to me. Do we have the wrong Hannah McLeod??? Maybe, the Hannah McLeod who married Edward Atkins in 3/1/1843[4] is not the Hannah McLeod who arrived in South Australia on the 14/5/1840 upon the ship called the Eliza.[5] What if there was another Hannah McLeod who was born in NSW or was a convict and Edward and her met one another interstate??? Just a thought. The station which belonged to Mr Reed was some sort of sheep farm located in Gawler somewhere along the Para River. Southern Australian (Adelaide S.A 1838-1844) Thursday 16th Jan 1840 p 1.
LINKS BETWEEN HENRY EDWIN ATKINS, EDWIN ATKINS AND EDWARD ATKINS. Henry Edwin Atkins and Edwin Atkins, convict: 1. Age – birth year 2. Location - Gloucestershire 3. Edwin Atkins has the initials HE*A tattooed on his wrist. 4. Edwin is from the parish of Cubberly (Coberley) which is close to Charlton Kings where Joseph and Ann Atkins, parents of Henry Edwin Atkins, are recorded in the census. 5. Father of both named Joseph. Edward Atkins and Edwin Atkins 1. Age – birth year. 2. Time-frame in Australia. 3. Profession – both shepherd/blacksmith. 4. Employer connections 5. Description of Edwin fits image of Edward in photograph closely. 6. Origin Gloucestershire. 7. Both could read and write. Henry Edwin Atkins and Edward Atkins 1. Same name of father, Joseph. 2. Edward’s first son called Henry, not Edward. 3. One of Edward’s daughters calls son Edwin Henry 4. Two of Edward’s daughters share names with Henry Edwin’s sisters: Jane and Sarah. One is called Anne, possibly after mother (Hannah) or paternal grandmother. 5. Age – birth year 6. Location – Gloucestershire 7. Maternal name Haines or Haynes. Henry Edwin’s mother is Ann Haines/Haynes. Edward’s son James Haynes Atkins and grandson Haynes Mashford Atkins. 8. Edward’s son is James; Henry’s brother is James. Henry Edwin Atkins, Edwin Atkins and Edward Atkins 1. Origin Gloucestershire. 2. Age – birth year 1811/12. 3. Father named Joseph.
This record is listed as Edwin but in actual fact he is Edward Atkins arrived on Florentina in 1830
Edward was born in Gloucestshire and was born abt 1813, he was a convicted convict and went to NSW. After his sentence finished he moved to South Australia, in the Mid north, he lived in Rocky River, Wirrabara, White Hut, Hutt River He married Hannah McLeod and they had 3 or 4 children, she died in approv 1854 when her daughter Emily was born. Emily married a Puddy, and she was my 4 x great aunty.