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Thomas Cartwright was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 27th Sep 1834 and arriving 22nd Jan 1835 with 48 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
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"Brother in law of great uncle"
"My 4th great grandfather"
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Convict Notes
Cartwright's Hill in Wagga Wagga was named after Thomas Cartwright and his family, who were the original owners of the land. Thomas Cartwright arrived in New South Wales as a convict on board the transport Royal Admiral, which arrived in Australia in 1834. He spent his early years in Australia in the Yass and Illawarra areas and was given a conditional pardon in 1847. On 26 June 1841 he married Catherine Gormly at the Goondarin School house in the county of Camden by banns and with the consent of the Governor. Catherine's parents, two brothers and one sister were killed in a flood in 1852 at Gundagai. The Cartwrights moved to the Wagga Wagga district in the late 1850s. They worked as shepherds in the area. In September 1859–60, Thomas was arrested and tried for the murder of Catherine during a drunken binge in which he hit her across the head many times with a fire shovel. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 2 years hard labour at Darlinghurst Gaol. [Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartwrights_Hill,_New_South_Wales accessed 13 May 2025]
On 21st June 1841, Thomas married Catherine Gormly at Woolongong, New South Wales. Catherine was the daughter of Patrick Gormly (Irish Convict, 1837, "Calcutta") and Mary Decray. Catherine had travelled with her mother and younger siblings when her father was transported. She had been born in Elphin, Roscommon, Ireland in 1821. Catherine and Thomas had 6 children between 1842 and 1858. Catherine died in 1859.