Robert Calder

Robert Calder, one of 280 convicts transported on the Norfolk, 04 July 1834

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Robert Calder
Aliases:	Caulder
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1804
Occupation:	Groom
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Male median life span was 51 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to Life

Crime:	Returning from transportation
Convicted at:	York Assizes
Sentence term:	Life
Ship:	Lady Kennaway
Departure date:	27th October, 1834
Arrival date:	13th February, 1835
Place of arrival	Van Diemen's Land
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 314 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 397 (200)
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

Dianne Jones on 28th February, 2021 wrote:

TRADE: Groom and coachman.

NATIVE PLACE: Paisley, Renfrewshire (see https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-7$init=CON31-1-7p295).

Dianne Jones on 28th February, 2021 wrote:

TRIED: 22 March 1834. His native place was Paisley, Renfrewshire.

VDL Conduct Record: “Twice transported before; bad in every respect. Hulk report orderly. Married with one child… Stated this offence, returning from transportation: ‘transported for shop stealing in 1830, sentenced 14 years, sent to Sydney in the ship York. I escaped 1831.’ He refuses to give any information as to his mode of escape from Sydney” (see https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-7$init=CON31-1-7p300).

1846: Listed as having absconded in March 1838! (see New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849; Tasmania Ledger Returns A-R 1846).

1849: Listed as an absentee on the 1849 Muster (see New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849; Tasmania Ledger Returns 1849).

1853, December: Struck off the records (see https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON34-1-5$init=CON34-1-5P307).

Convict Changes History

Dianne Jones on 28th February, 2021 made the following changes:

date of birth: 1804 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation

Dianne Jones on 28th February, 2021 made the following changes:

alias1: Caulder, crime