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William Blatherhorn was transported on the Charlotte, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 111 passengers.
Being 335 tons, 105 ft long and 28 ft at the beam, The Charlotte held 88 male and 20 female convicts. Built in 1784 and Skippered by Master Thomas Gilbert, her return to England saw her doing the London - Jamacia run until she was sold to a Quebec merchant in 1818 and was then lost off the coast of Newfoundland that very same year.
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| Primary Source | New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834 New South Wales Convicts embarked 1787 |
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Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868 Detail Source Name William Blatherhorn [William Beans] Age 29 Birth Year Abt 1759 Arrival Year 1788 Arrival State New South Wales Trial Place Exeter Ship Charlotte © 1997-2024 Ancestry Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868 Name William Fisher [William Beans/Blatherhorn] Arrival Year 1788 Arrival State New South Wales Ship Charlotte © 1997-2024 Ancestry Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788 Name William Blatherhorn Vessel Charlotte Fleet First Convicted Date 10 Sep 1783 Voyage Date Feb 1787 Colony New South Wales Place of Conviction Old Bailey, London, England 1783 - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey The trials being finished, the twenty-four capital convicts for returning from transportation, on board the Swift, were called to the bar, in two companies, when Mr. Deputy RECORDER, addressed the following eleven in these words: Christopher Trusty , Abraham Hyam , William Matthews , Thomas Millington , William Blatherhorn , John Murphy , Nathaniel Collier , William Combes , Andrew Dickson , Joseph Pentecross , and George Nash . You the several prisoners at the bar, have been convicted of returning, and being found at large, after the sentence, and within the period of your respective terms of transportation, this is an offence, which in ordinary instances the law punishes with death, and is in your cases attended with peculiar circumstances of aggravation; it is not the offence of a single person quietly endeavouring to elude the laws of his country, and to set himself at large, but the violent combination of numbers to arise on the Captain, to take possession of the ship by violence, and to set themselves at liberty; offences thus aggravated may call for an exemplary and speedy punishment, and the interval allowed you between pronouncing your sentence, and the execution of it may be very limited: You will do well, therefore, immediately to awaken in your hearts those dispositions, which are best calculated to obtain the favour of the Almighty, to turn immediately from an offended and an unforgiving world, to a Being infinitely just, and infinitely merciful, with the recollection however, that his mercy can only be obtained by a just sense of your faults, which is the surest and most sincere ground of true repentance: You will reflect that you will soon appear before one, to whom all hearts are open, and from whom no secrets are hid; at a triburnal that judges from the hidden motives of the heart, and not as human judicatures, from actions and open effects of them! Your repentence and contriction, therefore, must be sincere, with the wish that you may employ the short remains of life, that will be left you to the obtaining everlasting Salvation; the Court pronounces the dreadful sentence of the law upon you; the sentence of the law is, and this Court doth adjudge, that you be respectively hanged by the necks until: your are dead: And may God have mercy upon your souls!