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Voyage
Transportation
Charles Clargis was transported on the Bencoolen, departing 24th Apr 1819 and arriving 25th Aug 1819 with 153 passengers.
Departed from Cork. 150 Male passengers - no deaths. 123 of the convicts were trans-shipped to Van Diemens Land in the Admiral Cockburn, arriving there in September 1819.
Bencoolen (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Listed as Clayes on the Irish Convict records, also as Clarges, Clayes, Clargess on Tasmanian Convict records. Charles Clargis was 17 years old on arrival, (Tasmanian Records him as 19 years old) he was transported for 'Burglary and robbery'. 16/9/1819: Arrived in VDL per 'Admiral Cockburn'. Charles was 5' 4 1/2" tall, brown hair and eyes. 7/7/1823: Had a TOL - fined for being drunk 8/2/1825: Was a Constable - Neglect of duty - To forfeit his TOL and dismissed from his office. 19/10/1825: COF 24/3/1827 Hobart Town Gazette: Charles Clarges was bound to appear a the Supreme Court for assaulting John Green, overseer of the chain gang - no outcome found. 16/7/1829: Listed as free. 12/12/1838: Permission to marry Hannah Gorman aged 29 and listed as a widow (Arab 1836) 21/3/1839: Married at St Matthews, New Norfolk - no children listed. (From research on Hannah (see her profile page) it looks like they were not living together after a while, she died in 1854 - no other marriage found). 21/12/1876: Charles died aged 83?? at Brickfields Pauper Establishment - of Senilis. Listed as a labourer.