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Transportation
Charles Billings was transported on the Norfolk, departing 15th Apr 1825 and arriving 18th Aug 1825 with 181 passengers.
1832 Voyage - Norfolk 3 from Ireland. Henniker - Master. William Clifford - Surgeon Superintendent. Total originally embarked; 200. Died on voyage; 5. Arrived in Sydney Cove 9 February 1832
Norfolk (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 254 |
| 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
It is hereby notified to the undermentioned individuals that it is the Lieutenant-Governor's intention to recommend them to the gracious consideration of Her Majesty the Queen for Conditional Pardons available within the limits of the Australian Colonies and New Zealand ... Charles Billings, Norfolk. [The Hobart Town Advertiser 12 Jun 1846 Page 4]
Ticket of Leave - Charles Billing, Norfolk. [Colonial Times 3 Dec 1844 p.3.]
[From Captain Sykes memoirs.] ... I now shifted my lodgings from the Whalers' Return to the New York Tavern in Brisbane-street, kept by Mr. Charlie Billings, an old man-of-warsman who had been brought out to Van Dieman's Land in the early 'twenties, a convict—indeed, a lifer. His history was that as captain of the maintop of H.M.S. India, he, with other seamen on Ieave in London, were walking in the Strand, and, having spent a convivial evening, were singers of songs as they went, that a constable attempted to arrest them, and that, in the meelee, the constable fell with his head on the iron basement of a lamppost and did not move afterwards. Billing and another were the only ones to stay, and endeavour to raise him up. While so occupied they were arrested by other constables and eventually brought to trial on a charge of murder and sentenced to be hanged but the sentence, was commuted to transportation for life. Billing maintained that the policeman was not attacked, but fell and struck his head against the iron base of the lamp post, which caused his death. Billing arrived in Hobartown with 300 more convicts. His good conduct and his being a good seaman brought under notice, and he was made coxswain of the Governor's gig and later obtained a ticket-of-leave and went in the whalers that cruised off the South-west Cape, and became an expert and fearless boatsteerer and harpooner and was in much request among the whaling captains, being always sober and of good conduct. At last, having saved money, he was permitted to hold a license and keep a tavern. This he did for years, and when I boarded with him be was a reliable and much respected citizen. [Morning Bulletin, Saturday 26 January 1924, p. 11] Update. Billing's convict record - Tasmanian Archives Con-31-1-5 p211 states that Billing was transported for life in 1835 for stealing from a person which contradicts what Billing told Sykes, [CJ Ison.]