Ralph Booth

Ralph Booth, one of 144 convicts transported on the Adamant, 26 March 1821

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Ralph Booth
Aliases:	none
Gender:	-

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	-
Occupation:	-
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Median life span was 58 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to 14 years

Crime:	-
Convicted at:	Chester Quarter Sessions
Sentence term:	14 years
Ship:	Adamant
Departure date:	26th March, 1821
Arrival date:	8th September, 1821
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 143 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 10
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 Project.

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Community Contributions

Maureen Withey on 22nd December, 2019 wrote:

Adamant: Surgeon’s Log: National Archives ADM 101/1/2/1
Folio 1: 19th March 1821; received eighty convicts from the Justitia, No sick.
Folios 4 and 6: Ralph Booth, aged 21, convict, taken ill off Woolwich; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 29 March 1821, discharged 31 March 1821.

Maureen Withey on 22nd December, 2019 wrote:

Adamant: Surgeon’s Log: National Archives ADM 101/1/2/1
Folio 5: 3rd April 1821; struck one iron off John Job cook’s mate and handcuffed James Henwright, William Smith and Ralph Booth for swearing and threatening to strike one of the prisoners who I appointed to [help?] in the prison, also Charles Gaugh (boy) for stealing.