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Transportation
Lewis Balbirnie was transported on the Eliza, departing 22nd Sep 1819 and arriving 21st Jan 1820 with 159 passengers.
The Eliza was a 511-ton (later 538 ton) merchant ship built in British India in 1806. She made five voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia.
Eliza (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 221 (112) |
| 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
Lewis/Aliases of Balbirnie/Balbanie/Balbomie was born in Edinburgh. Ancestry Convict Indents unreadable. Colonial Secretary Index: BALBIRNIE, Lewis. Per "Eliza", 1820 1821 Sep 8: Employed at Grose Farm. On list of all persons victualled from H.M. Magazines (Reel 6016; 4/5781 p.107) 1823 Jan 16: On lists of prisoners transported to Port Macquarie per "Sally" (Reel 6019; 4/3864 pp.28, 382-3) 1824 Feb 5: On list of persons proposed to be sent to Hobart; listed as Balbany (Reel 6012; 4/3510 p.289) 1824 Feb 9, Mar 15: Convict runaway from Port Macquarie forwarded per "Woodlark" to Hobart to serve remainder of sentence at Macquarie Harbour (Reel 6019; 4/3522 pp.13, 15, 26-7) 24/2/1824: Arrived VDL per 'Triton'. Then described as: 20 years old, 5'6" tall, dark brown hair, dark hazel eyes. 11/10/1825: COF 13/10/1825: Listed as a Seaman/Free - departed Hobart per 'Sally' for New Zealand.
Source All departments ADM - Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies Records of Medical and Prisoner of War Departments ADM 101 - Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and predecessors: Medical Journals Convict Ships etc. ADM 101/23/2 - Medical and surgical journal of the Eliza convict ship for 15 September 1819 and the 31... Folio 17: Vaccinated Lewis Balbirnie, Richard Sephton and Edward Bourton, 19 October 1819. Note dated 23 October 1819 that vaccination did not succeed with any of them.