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Transportation
Arthur Binstead was transported on the Eliza, departing 2nd Feb 1831 and arriving 29th May 1831 with 224 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.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 6 |
| 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
DESTROYING THRESHING MACHINES. Edward Goble. George Townshend, Arthur Binstead, John Triggs, Charles Burge, George Binstead, William Snow, and Thomas Boxall, convicted of destroying a threshing machine at Bosham. the properly of Edward Beimel.— Each Seven Years' Transportation. Sussex Advertiser, 10 Jan 1831.
Arthur and his son George, both sawyers, were involved in the "Swing Riots"; a widespread uprising in 1830 by agricultural workers in southern and eastern England, in protest at agricultural mechanisation and harsh working conditions. It began with the destruction of threshing machines and by early December had spread through the whole of southern England and East Anglia. As well as attacking the popularly hated threshing machines, which displaced workers, the protesters rioted over low wages and required tithes, destroying workhouses and tithe barns associated with their oppression. They also burned haystacks and maimed cows. The rioters directed their anger at the three targets identified as causing their misery: the tithe system, requiring payments to support the established Anglican Church; the Poor Law guardians, who were thought to abuse their power over the poor; and the rich tenant farmers who had been progressively lowering workers' wages while introducing agricultural machinery. For their participation, father and son were tried and sentenced to 14 years transportation to Tasmania. They arrived in Tasmania on the "Eliza" on 29th May 1831. Arthur and son George worked as sawyers in Tasmania and received their free pardon in April 1837. The responsibility for the rest of the family fell to the eldest son John who in 1832 was convicted of stealing, and sentenced to death. This was later commuted to transportation to NSW for life. The North Mundham parish authorities gathered enough money to allow Arthur's wife Maria and her 3 remaining children to go to Tasmania in about 1834 to rejoin her husband and son. The 3 children were Arthur 15, William A 13 and Charlotte 10. Once free, in 1837, the family including wife Maria and the young children, went to NSW to join John where they ran a carting business. Arthur, wife Maria, son Arthur, and son-in-law John Burgess(Charlotte's husband) moved north to Brisbane; there they established the first sawmill on the banks of the Brisbane River, on the site where Queen’s Wharf is today. Arthur had bought land there as early as 1843. The family prospered. Arthur sadly died in 1851 and it is stated that he was buried at St John’s Church in Brisbane. Son George and wife Elizabeth (nee Trotman) moved instead to Fitzroy in Victoria with her family. George's mother Maria was with them when she died in 1857.
Arthur was born in Eartham, West Sussex, England