Caroline Bush

Caroline Bush, one of 190 convicts transported on the America, 30 December 1830

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Caroline Bush
Aliases:	Pass
Gender:	f

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1803
Occupation:	Housemaid
Date of Death:	23rd February, 1839
Age:	36 years

Life Span

Female median life span was 59 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to Life

Crime:	Stealing
Convicted at:	Surrey Quarter Session
Sentence term:	Life
Ship:	America
Departure date:	30th December, 1830
Arrival date:	9th May, 1831
Place of arrival	Van Diemen's Land
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 181 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 549 (277). Tasmanian Archives - convict records.
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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Nell Murphy on 25th September, 2018 wrote:

Caroline BUSH was convicted at Surrey, England on 19 July 1830 for stealing - sheets from her lodgings. Previously convicted for stealing a stove. Life sentence. Transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), Australia per the ship ‘America’ arriving there 9 May 1831.

Married woman - husband Edward BUSH at Kent Street Borough.
2 children (ref. Convict record)
Plain cook and housemaid
Aged 28 yrs.
Native place of birth: Barbican, London. (Note: Bush is her married name. Maiden name not recorded on records)

Colony of VDL:
Assigned to various work services.
Several notes of misconduct and punishments.
Ticket of Leave granted.
Passholder status.

Applications for Permission to Marry:
(Note remarriage was approved, if prior permission given by Govt., as it was unlikely people could ever return to England, and a stable society was highly desired.)

30 Sept 1832: Caroline BUSH (per ‘America’) to William STRIKE (per ‘Woodford’). (ref. 45/1/1). Did not proceed.

18 April 1836: Caroline BUSH (per ‘America’) to Daniel PASS (per ‘Lord Lyndoch’). (ref. 52/1/1 pg 148) Deferred.

14 March 1837: Caroline BUSH (per ‘America’) to Daniel PASS (per ‘Lord Lyndoch’). (ref. 52/1/1 pg 150) Approved, if clergy satisfied.

Marriage:
24 April 1837: Marriage of Caroline BUSH, widow to Daniel PASS, bachelor at Church, Parish of Trinity, Hobart. (ref. 36/1/3 no. 3711)

DEATH:
23 Feb 1839: Caroline BUSH/PASS died at Hobart, pulminary consumption. Aged 31 yrs. (ref. 35/1/1 no. 107)

Daniel PASS remarried, in 1839 to Elizabeth GOLDIE.

Convict Changes History

Nell Murphy on 25th September, 2018 made the following changes:

source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 549 (277). Tasmanian Archives - convict records. (prev. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Numbe