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Crime
Transportation
Catherine Platt was transported on the Tory, departing 17th Mar 1845 and arriving 4th Jul 1845 with 172 passengers.
Built 1842 at Sunderland. Wood barque of 512 Tons. Three (3) sailings transporting convicts to Australia: 1845; 1846/47 & 1848. Passengers on the 1846 voyage are still being listed, on this site. Please note this if searching records.
Tory (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/14, Page Number 254 |
| 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 |
Claims
"Catherine is my 3rd great grandmother"
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Convict Notes
Catherine’s death record shows she died on 30 June 1883 at Ballarat District Hospital aged 68 after 16 days in hospital with cancer of the uterus. It says her father Samuel Steele was a blacksmith and her mother was Charlotte. Her son James Andrew Goodwin aged 36 was the informant and she was survived by him, younger sister Mary Ann aged 34 and older half-sister Elizabeth aged in her 40s
Tasmanian Birth Records. Birth records of Children in Launceston. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD33-1-23/RGD33-1-23-P863 1 May 1847, James Andrew Goodwin, son of James Goodwin, labourer, and Catherine (formerly Platts), resident at Bathurst Street. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD33-1-23/RGD33-1-23-P917 21 June 1849, Mary Ann Goodwin, daughter of James Goodwin, labourer, and Catherine Goodwin, formerly Steel. Catherine was the informant, and the address was Franklin Street. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD33-1-24/RGD33-1-24-P029 12 Sept 1851, William Henry Goodwin, son of James Goodwin, labourer, and Catherine Goodwin, formerly Steel. Catherine was the informant this time, and gave her residence as West Tamar.
Tasmanian Records. Indent: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON15-1-3/CON15-1-3P172 and https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON15-1-3/CON15-1-3P173 Catherine Platt, 5 ft ¾ in. age 33, Laundress, Tried Lanc, M’chester Boro’ Sess, 22 April 1844, 7 years. Native place, Whitehaven. Widow, 2 children, 1 on board. Church of England, can read and write. Relations: 1 B, Samuel, 1 S, Mary. B in Aberdeen. F. of my chd. Richd Jones at Manchester. Offences: Stg shoes, pr (prosecutor) in Manchester. Once 14 days for theft. Conduct Record: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON41-1-6/CON41-1-6P126 No 304. Catherine Platt. See record for details. Description Record: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON19-1-5/CON19-1-5P34 See record for details.
Medical journal of the Tory, convict ship, for 22 February to 10 July 1845 by J Sloan, surgeon superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in a passage to Van Diemen's Land. Folio 4: a list of children admitted on the sick list (names and details follow): Folio 4: Catherine Platt, aged 6; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 20 May 1845, discharged 26 May 1845.
On 29 Oct 1844 Catherine had an illegitimate son named Samuel born in Westminster. Note on the birth record states mother a convict in the Millbank prison. Samuel Platt died 1 Aug 1845 in Hobart Tasmania.
My mother (a great-granddaughter of Catherine’s son James Goodwin) has seven DNA matches with descendants of Elizabeth Ann Platt (daughter of Robert Platt and Catherine Platt nee Steele). Their trees show that Elizabeth was left in England and appears to have been raised as a daughter of a Platt relative. Elizabeth married Robert Lever in England and they migrated to New Zealand.
Catharine was accompanies by her two daughters, Catherine and Elizabeth, who both died on board ship. She was reported as being quarrelsome and discontented. As if any mother losing 2 children on board a convict ship would be happy.
Sent to Tasmania as a widow for stealing shoes, Catharine's 2 daughters died on board ship. In 1846 she married James Goodwin at Campbell Town and had 4 more children, 2 sons died under 1 year. She was reported to be quarrelsome and disconntented but could read and write. She was a laundress, was 5'3/4" tall, with a sallow complxion, grey eyes and brown hair with 2nd. finger of left hand crippled.She obtained her ToL 27/3/49 The family left Tasmania for the Victorian goldfields 16/3/1853 and settled in Creswick.
Catherine was a widow with 2 children who was transported to Tasmania for stealing shoes. She arrived in Launceston 4/7/1845 and married a farmer,James Goodwin 10/8/1846 at Campbell Town.They had 4 children and left Tasmania aboard "Queen of the Netherlands"9/9/1853 heading for the Victorian Goldfields.They settled in Creswick.
Catherine was christened Catherine Steele at Holy Trinity Church, Whitehaven, England on the 24th April 1812, daughter of Samuel Steele & Charlotte nee Saunderson. Sister of Samuel, Mary Ann & Samuel. She married Robert Platt C1828 in Cheshire, England. Known children Richard, Elizabeth & Catherine. Catherine was tried at Lancashire, Manchester Borough Quarter Sessions on 22 April 1844 - crime stealing shoes, & departed England on 17th March 1845 onboard ship 'Tory', arriving in Van Diemen's Land - Hobart Town on 11 July 1845. She had with her a female child age abt 6mths, possibly Catherine. On the 10 August 1846 Catherine married James Goodwin in Campbell Town, Tasmania. Three children were born to this union - James Andrew Goodwin, Mary Ann Goodwin, William Henry Goodwin. Catherine departed Launceston, Tasmania 9 September 1853 - steerage passenger aboard 'Queen of the Netherlands' She died 30 June 1883 West Ballarat, Victoria, Aust and was buried 3 July 1883 in the Ballarat New Cemetery, area OGNK - no monument