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Transportation
Claud Barrois was transported on the Baring, departing 30th Nov 1818 and arriving 26th Jun 1819 with 302 passengers.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 131 (67) |
| 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
Assigned to Hume and embarking on the Hume and Hovell expedition Claud was put in charge of the perambulator (surveyors wheel) this measured the distance the party travelled, and became commonly known as "Clauds Wheelbarrow"This device had been borrowed from James Meehan. On the trip home Claud was one of two of the party who were in such poor condition that they had to be carried in a dray, on the last two days of the homeward trip to Gunning"
Northampton Assizes. THE NORTHAMPTON GANG OF ROBBERS.—This town and neighbourhood have been in the utmost state of agitation these several months, in consequence of the many desperate robberies committed nightly. Conjecture attributed the principal performance to some of the low idle fellows who resided at some distance from the town, and it was not till very lately that a person of respectable appearance and occupation was suspected to guide the movements of one of the most formidable bands that ever appeared. The gang attacked houses without caring whether there were numbers or not to protect the property at which they aimed. They wore masks, and acted with all that mysterious and decisive impetuosity which characterises the German story. At last the secret was discovered, and five of the desperate multitude were apprehended. The inhabitants of Northampton were struck with amazement and fear at finding that those very robbers were in the day time the honest, industrious, sober residents of their own town. On Thursday they were brought up for trial. The Court was, as might be expected, crowded to excess; one of the most important of the gang being admitted King's evidence. His name is Hills, his trade that of a barber, and he resided in in Gold-street, Northampton. The names of the men whom the evidence of this accomplice was to affect, are Minards, George, Barrois, and Barwell. The three first were indicted for breaking into the house of George Smith, at Duston Lodge, within a mile and a half of Northampton, and plundering it of all that was valuable in it. The last was indicted for abetting and inducing the others. The first evidence called was Rosamond Smith, a feeble old woman ... ...The prisoners were all found guilty, and sentenced to die. There were several other indictments for robberies under similar circumstances against them, but they were not proceeded upon, the only evidence being that of Hills, the accomplice. This was the only trial of the slightest interest on the Crown side. London Moderator, 15 July 1818.
Colonial SecretaryIndex. BARROIS, Claude. Per "Baring", 1819 1824 Jan 20,23 Employed in William Brown's clearing party. Hamilton Hume requesting that Barrois be assigned to him (Reel 6061; 4/1778 pp.35, 43). Reply, 19 Feb (Reel 6012; 4/3510 p.362) 1824 Mar On return of convicts returned to Government, transferred and assigned to settlers in the District of Appin (Reel 6028; 2/8283 p.55) --------------------------------------------------------------------- NSW !828 Census Index. Claude Barrois, age 32, T.L. per Baring 1819, Life, protestant, Shoemaker to William Broughton, Gn. Plains district. (William Broughton was a settler in Goulbourn Plains district, he had 800 acres of land)