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George Carpenter was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 28th Feb 1800 and arriving 20th Nov 1800 with 305 passengers.
The Royal Admiral was built at Lynn in 1828. Convicts were transported to New South Wales on the Royal Admiral in 1830, 1833, 1835 and to Van Diemen's Land in 1842. 1833 - Ship; Royal Admiral. Commenced fitting as a Convict Transport at Deptford on the 29 March. Surgeon Superintendent [Andrew Henderson] joined on the 3rd April. Guard embarked on the 13th. Sailed on the 17th and anchored in Kingston Barbour near Dublin on the 9th May. 220 convicts embarked on the 16 May 1833 and the ship sailed from Dublin Bay for Sydney on the 4th June and arrived there on the 20 October. Originally embarked with 221 convicts, 5 Died at sea, 1 was Relanded. 11 sick on shore, The convicts were described as 220 such wretchedly debilitated creatures ... Refer to the surgeons journal for full details
Royal Admiral (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 266; England and Wales Criminal registers, Middlesex HO26. |
| 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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https://www.londonlives.org/static/WalkerCharlotte1806.jsp George lived with Charlotte Walker whose criminal life is described at the above web address. A small passage, from that web address, pertaining to George is copied below: " Her 'husband' was George Carpenter, a shoemaker, who had arrived in Sydney on 20 Nov 1800 on the ship Royal Admiral (2) and was freed from servitude in Jan 1805. 6 In the 1805-6 census, or muster,7 Charlotte had been given a ticket of leave, and was living with George Carpenter, being described in Marsden’s Female Muster of 1806 as a concubine, ie not married. It is not clear from the sparse records when she started living with him. They appear to have been living in the Brickfields area when she died, aged about 52. It seems that, with the shortage of women in the colony, Charlotte was able to find a skilled craftsman to live with. He was 14 years her junior, so her final years were probably more comfortable than her final decade in London, in the company of her ‘toy-boy’."
1805 to 1808. Employed by W Palmer. 1811 - Certificate of Freedom. No; 22/459? George Carpenter. Westminster - Jan 1798. 7 years. When time expired; Date of Certificate Jan 1805. 28 Jan 1811 1813 - Possible Burial Record George Carpenter. Age; 45. Burial; 28 Jun 1813
George Carpenter was sentenced at Middlesex Sessions in January 1798 to transportation for seven years for the crime of 'petit larceny'. He had been committed to Newgate Gaol, and was not tried by jail delivery (e.g. to the Old Bailey) but before the Justices Commission and its chairman, William Mainwaring. He was tried at a place recorded as “S.P.W”, [since the Chairman was sitting this was most likely to have been the Sessions House at Clerkenwell Green]. Information: per England &Wales Criminal Registers for Middlesex Sessions, 1798. The criminal register described him as: “35 (i.e. years of age), 5ft 5 in, fair complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes, Parish of St James Westminster, a Shoemaker.” "Delivered on board Royal Admiral, 1st (? or 7th) April 1800. " This means he did not go to the hulks beforehand, but was sent straight from Newgate to the ship. He sat on board ship for eight weeks until Royal Admiral sailed on 23 May 1800.