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William Collin was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 30th May 1792 and arriving 7th Oct 1792 with 349 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 181 (91); England Criminal Registers, Middlesex, June 1792 (HO46) ] ; List of Transports from Newgate with their ages and occupations” [State Records NSW, 1150_SZ115_0367]. Old Bailey proceedings on-line, 18 Feb 1792. |
| 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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William Collin was reported as being only 13 years old when tried (in fact "not 13" years) and also as 13 on the ship's indent a year later. He'd first been committed to the New Compter Prison in London by Alderman Curtis sitting on the bench. * He was tried on 18th February 1792 before the Recorder at the Old Bailey and sentenced to 7 years transportation for “stealing a shawl of Mrs Bell’s.” (per short description in register). * Transported: May 11 1792. “Delivered on board the Royal Admiral, Gravesend”. * Description (from criminal register): "5ft 9 inches, aged 15, fair complexion, light brown hair, born in the city of London. " [All from England Criminal Registers, Middlesex, June 1792 (HO46) ] BORN 1779 From the Old Bailey court report, he had stolen, on the 1st February 1792, (so he was tried very quickly after): * from the shop of Harry Weedon, a tailor who’d gone out of his shop from about 3pm until 3:45pm — a cotton shawl to the value of 4 shillings and four pocket-handkerchiefs to the value of 3 shillings * out of the house of Margaret Bell —one apron —where he was caught by a servant who saw him go into the house and seized him two minutes later when he came out, just after he dropped a bundle with the stolen things in it. Occupation: Whitesmith [from “List of Transports from Newgate with their ages and occupations” [State Records NSW, 1150_SZ115_0367] No further NSW convict records found for him after arrival, but there are many un-identifiable William Collins’s in the records. His sentence would have expired in February 1799 when he would be aged not then 20 yrs old.