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Frederick Augustus Dodge was transported on the Ramillies, departing 25th Apr 1854 and arriving 7th Aug 1854 with 280 passengers.
757 ton barque ship Ramillies was built at Sunderland in 1845. There only appears to be one voyage to Australia with convict passengers. She carried the thirteenth of 37 shipments of male convicts for Western Australia. The 1854 voyage took 79 days and the Ramillies arrived in Fremantle on August 7, with 94 passengers and 277 convicts (1 death recorded on voyage). (The passengers comprised 30 Pensioner Guards and their families.)
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 72 |
| 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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Convict Notes
8/4/1848: The Monmouthshire Merlin and South Wales Advertiser: BRUTAL AND MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A FEMALE. At the Gloucester Assizes, last week, Frederick Dodge, aged 22, brought up by a writ of habeas corpus from the gaol of Bristol, was indicted for cutting and wounding Sarah Turner, with intent to kill and murder her. Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution in this most brutal case, the prisoner having no counsel-From the evidence it appeared that on Sunday evening, the 13th of February, two men rang the bell at the house of the Rev. Mr. Strickland, in Great George-street, Bristol, which was answered by the prosecutrix, a female servant, who, on going to the door, found two men there, one of whom she believed to be the prisoner, who inquired if Mr. Strickland was at home, as he wished to see him particularly. She said he was not, and asked the men to walk into the kitchen, preceding them, but she had only taken a few steps, when she received a tremendous blow on the back of her head. The poor creature screamed out, "Lord have mercy on me; don't murder me and looking up, she saw one of the men with something in his hands, which were uplifted, and almost immediately she was struck by a second terrible blow, which, probably, would have been followed by a third, had not Ellen Rice, a fellow servant, appeared at the moment, and given an alarm. The ruffians - who had evidently entered the premises prepared to rob, and, if necessary, murder - then made off, and on escaping, were identified by different parties, and Dodge was captured shortly afterwards. The blows were proved to have been inflicted by the prisoner with a mallet, and caused the life of the prosecutrix to be in imminent danger. The prisoner declared his innocence, but the jury found him guilty, and the Judge directed sentence of death to be recorded against him -The prisoner cried out, The Lord will be with me, for I am innocent!" Frederick was 27 years old on arrival in WA. He was 5’7 ½” tall, brown hair, grey eyes, long face, fresh complexion , stout, illiterate. 31/8/1850: TOL 10/5/1860: CP 1863: Painter and glazier at Guildford. 1867: Employed at TOL man. May 1902: Frederick died aged 75 at the Old Men’s Home, Perth. No further marriage or children found on the WA BDM.
Frederick Augustus Dodge was son of Richard and Grace Dodge, baptised August 1826, at St Augustine's the Less, Bristol, Gloucestershire, was a painter, like his father, married Elizabeth Townshend, daughter of George Townshend, plumber and glazier, of Clifton on 14 March 1847, in Bedminster, Somerset, and had a child Alice Amelia Dodge, born and died in 1852.