Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Charles Bessell was transported on the Andromeda, departing 16th Oct 1826 and arriving 23rd Feb 1827 with 147 passengers.
Also, same day, from Cork, whence she sailed May 25th, the ship Andromeda, 401 tons, Benjamin Gales master, with 173 female prisoners; Henry Kelsawl, Esq., Surgeon-superintendant. Passengers — Fourteen free females, viz. Mary Manning, Martha Morron, Margaret Mahon, Margaret Sheedy, Mary Ann Nixon alias Welsh, Catherine Kiernan, Mary Cassock, Catherine Stanton, Johanna Neville, Mary Lyons alias Hynes, Maria Moran, Catherine O'Donnel, Margaret Kennedy, and Mary Sullivan, and twenty-six children; also twenty-three children belonging to the prisoners. Sydney Monitor, 20 Sept 1834.
Andromeda (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 101 (52) |
| 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 |
Claims
"An uncle on my mother's side."
Photos
No photos have been added for Charles Bessell.
Convict Notes
Found Guilty, but not Sentenced: William Compton, for uttering counterfeit com; Charles Bessell. Richard Groves, William Evans, and John Denner, for breaking open a cellar and Stealing two dozen bottles of wine. Dorset County Chronicle, 10 Aug 1826. The following prisoners against whom sentence of death was recorded at Gloucester Assizes, have since been ordered to be transported for life:—Thomas James, Charles Bessell, Richard Groves, John Denner, William Evans, William Chivers, and Thomas Willard, for burglaries; James Turner and Thomas Pegler, for highway robbery; G. Price, for housebreaking; J. Jones, for horse-stealing; William Harris, for sheep-stealing; and G. King and John Watkins, for stealing above the value of 40s. in a house. ... Dorset County Chronicle, 31 Aug 1826.
Sentenced to hang but transported for life. Pardoned in 1845.
Stole wine