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Thomas Bare was transported on the Ramillies, departing 25th Apr 1854 and arriving 7th Aug 1854 with 280 passengers.
757 ton barque ship Ramillies was built at Sunderland in 1845. There only appears to be one voyage to Australia with convict passengers. She carried the thirteenth of 37 shipments of male convicts for Western Australia. The 1854 voyage took 79 days and the Ramillies arrived in Fremantle on August 7, with 94 passengers and 277 convicts (1 death recorded on voyage). (The passengers comprised 30 Pensioner Guards and their families.)
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 68 |
| 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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Old Bailey: (This is a very long trial, it may be read in full on the Old Bailey website). THOMAS BARE. Killing: murder. 5th January 1852 Verdict Guilty > manslaughter Sentence Transportation Thomas Bare b. 1809 THOMAS BARE was indicted for the wilful murder of Louisa Bare. MESSRS. BODKIN and CLARK conducted the Prosecution. FANNY KNOTT. I live in Ryler-street, Grosvenor-street. The deceased Louisa Bare was my daughter, and the prisoner's wife; she had been married to him twenty years—I remember their living in Vineyard-gardens—I was there about five weeks before my daughter's death—I saw her there—I did not see the prisoner there, but I met him as I was going home—he offered to speak to me, and I told him to go along like a bad man as he was, I had seen my daughter ill-used—he wished to speak to me, and I told him I did not wish to have anything at all to say to him—that was all that passed on that occasion—I saw him again on the Thursday night before my daughter's death; he came to my house, my daughter was not then living with the prisoner—I knew that at the time—he asked me if I had seen the little boy—I told him I had not seen him since the morning he passed the top of the street with him—he asked me if I knew where his wife was—I said I did not—he said he would be revenged on some one; he would do something to some one, but he would not say who—he did not say anything more. JOHN TAYLOR. I am a master tobacco-pipe manufacturer. I have known the prisoner twenty-three years—he worked for me the last work he did—he is a humane and peaceable man. COURT. Q. Do you know anything of this large file? A. We use such at this in pipe-making, for our instruments, and for moulds, and differed articles we work with, but we do not use such files as the smaller one. (James Hillier, William Taylor, of Richmond, William Snell, James Wood, and James Kennerly, all tobacco-pipe makers, gave the prisoner a good character.) GUILTY of manslaughter. Aged 43.— Transported for Life. Thomas Bare was listed as being 46 years old on arrival in WA. He was 5'10" tall, grey-bald hair, light grey eyes, oval face, fair complexion, tolerably stout, third and fourth fingers of left hand off, semi literate. A widower with 2 children. Occupation: Tobacco-pipe-maker. 13/4/1857: TOL 30/8/1862: CP Comments: Self-employed. 1883: Thomas Bare died, aged 76, in Perth, WA.