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Peter Campbell was transported on the Edwin Fox, departing 24th Aug 1858 and arriving 20th Nov 1858 with 284 passengers.
892 ton ship, built in Calcutta, India in 1853. Transported convicts, pensioner guard, soldiers and their families - from Plymouth, England to Western Australia - 1858. (Had been to Australia previously, in 1856, as a passenger ship.) (Later went on to service in the Crimean War.) Converted to be a passenger ship and carried immigrants to New Zealand. In 1880 converted, again, as a cool storage facility in Picton, New Zealand. Ship was in use until 1950 when abandoned. In 1965 she was bought by the 'Edwin Fox Society' and towed to Shakespeare Bay for restoration and then towed to Picton Harbour, New Zealand for display and is on the National Trust Registry, NZ. She is the second oldest surviving merchant ship.
Edwin FoxReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 284 |
| 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
[Peter Campbell received a Ticket of Leave on 12 August 1859 for testifying against John Williams in the murder of Stephen Lacey. He received a Conditional Pardon on 20 September 1860. - CHRIS ISON]
On Tuesday afternoon, five convicts named Williams, Haynes, Stevens, Campbell, and Lacey, working in a quarry gang at Fremantle, made their escape, which, we understand, was not discovered for nearly an hour afterwards, which left little chance of their being recaptured that night. On the following day it was found they had made their way over the hills to the Canning, on coming to which they waded in the water alongside the shore into Melville Water and round that till they got to Point Walter where they found a gig with four oars in her moored in the canal, this they took and were afterwards seen by a fisherman pulling rapidly down the river, and after landing at North Fremantle, where they obtained a water beaker belonging to the gang employed there, they no doubt went over the bar. The men are convicts of the most desperate character; Williams, was one of the convicts concerned in the seizure of the Lady Franklin on her voyage from Norfolk Island to Hobart Town, and Haynes, was also, we believe, for many months at a time in the bush with the natives in the other colonies, and are both most determined men, but all are equally desperate and will stick at nothing. (Perth Gazette 28 Jan 1859, p. 2.) Recapture of the Escaped Convicts. THE schooner Les trois Amis arrived on Tuesday last from Sharks Bay with the Water Police and four out of the five escaped convicts. … On the 14th, when going down the channel between Dirk Hartog's Island and the main, a fire was observed in the same place as where the convicts were first discovered, and on the Police proceeding there four of the fugitives were found, reduced to submission by starvation, and quietly gave themselves up. … (Perth Gazette 4 Mar 1859, p. 2.) … We have some farther information respecting the captured convicts, one of whom has revealed the particulars as to the death of the missing man Lacey, who in the first instance was stated to have died from diarrhoea. As was suspected, from certain expressions let drop during their passage from Shark's Bay to Fremantle, the death resulted from violence on the part of his fellow-absconders. … (Sydney Morning Herald 19 May 1859, p. 3.) [John Williams was ultimately tried and found guilty of murdering Stephen Lacey at Shark Bay. CHRIS ISON]
Peter Campbell was 30 years old, married with 1 child, 6'0 3/4" tall, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, middling stout, PC on right thumb, anchor on left thumb. 12/8/1859: TOL 20/9/1860: CP
2nd mate of 'James L. Bogart' who near Liverpool in January 1857 killed a black crewman John Christie or Chrystie in near-riot on board, well reported in British press