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Voyage
Transportation
Robert Dinsdale was transported on the David Lyon, departing 29th Apr 1830 and arriving 18th Aug 1830 with 221 passengers.
Built in Ipswitch 1819. 476 tons. 1830 Voyage departed Sheerness, UK on 2 May 1830 for Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Australia, arriving 18 Aug 1830 (108 days). 217 to 220 male convicts onboard (a few convicts may be recorded by alias name which alters number). Master of Ship: James Berry Ship's Surgeon: Charles Cameron
David Lyon (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 360 |
| 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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"Robert was my great-great-great grandfather"
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Convict Notes
Marriage Permission.? No. 680. (The number is not very clear) Robert Dinsdale, Free by servitude, and No 358. Isabella Black, per Westmoreland, Date of permission 20 June. Note: If the clergyman be satisfied as to the death of the Man’s former wife, I approve. Possible Marriage? https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD37-1-1/RGD37-1-1P18 29 July 1839 at Hobart, Robert Dinsdale, widower and Isabella Black, widow.
Tasmanian Records. Conduct Record: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON31-1-10/CON31-1-10P20 No 608. Robt. Dinsdale. See record for details. Description Record. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON18-1-2/CON18-1-2P57 Age 25, Groom, carter. See record for full details. List Description: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON23-1-1/CON23-1-1-P118 See record for full details.
York Midsummer Sessions. FELONIES. ROBERT DINSDALE (aged 23), pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging him with having stolen 1 lb of horse hair, the property of Mr. William Richardson, tanner, of Clementhorpe. York Herald, 18 July 1829. Sessions. The first prisoners placed at the bar were Robert Dinsdale, for stealing horse-hair; George Beavor, Thomas Edwards , and John Stanley, for picking pockets on Knavesmire. The learned RECORDER addressed them nearly as follows.—Robert Dinsdale, it seems from your conduct for some  time past, that there is no probability of your ever being reclaimed from your wicked practices,— The Prisoner —Sir,  I was drove to it. The RECORDER. —Three years ago you were implicated In a robbery, and admitted evidence for the crown. On that occasion, you were witness against two other persons ; you had them transported, and were pardoned on that account. From this circumstance  one might have supposed, that you would have been reclaimed at the time, and that your disposition for thieving would have been checked. But you have still been going on in a course of thieving—and you have become such an abandoned character, that there is no probability of your ever being proper subject for this country. ... The Court, therefore, sentences each of you to be transported for the term of seven years This sentence is necessary for the protection the country against your practices, which seem to be established in such a way, that it is not likely you will ever be reclaimed from them. ... Yorkshire Gazette, 25 July 1829.