Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Edward Viccars was transported on the China, departing 3rd Jan 1846 and arriving 16th May 1846 with 200 passengers.
Built 1837 at Hull. Wood ship of 524 Tons.
China (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/15, Page Number 4 |
| 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
"Edward Viccars is my great great great grandfather."
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Convict Notes
BRUTAL ASSAULT AN ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—Thomas Langford, 21, Edward Viccars, 25, Ambrose Hetherington, 29, and Henry Driver, 33, were indicted for assaulting, with intent to murder, Thomas Williams, at Strood, in the city and borough of Rochester.—Thomas Williams, who came into the witness-box on crutches, was accommodated with a chair. He deposed that he was a porter on the Rochester and Gravesend Railway ; on Whit Monday he and a person named Howard left their employ at one o'clock in the morning, and went to the Dolphin public-house, where he saw the prisoners and several other persons, in a room upstairs, drinking. While he was there Langford made a bet with a man named Paget, to dance with Viccars, which was decided in favor of Paget ; there was a little dispute with Viccars and Paget, which ended in the room ; he departed shortly after, leaving some of the prisoners in the house. When he had left the house, Viccars, using some violent language, said he had been waiting for him an hour, and knocked him down ; Driver was standing close to him ; Hetherington struck him with a bludgeon, and again knocked him down, and, while on the ground, Driver kicked him several times ; was insensible a considerable period, and when he recovered found himself in the Dolphin.—John Tuff, superintendent of the Rochester police, deposed that he brought the prisoners to gaol. and, when getting into the van, Hetherington said, -- the man, I hope he will die ; and Langford said to the persons who were standing by, that it was an honor to to them.—Guilty.—Langford, one year hard labor ; Viccars, transported fifteen years; Hetherington and Driver, transported twenty years. Dover Telegraph, 2 Aug 1845. The undermentioned male convicts were on Saturday morning removed from the county gaol, to the Millbank prison: Henry Driver, Ambrose Herrington, and Charles Leach, transported for twenty years; James Austin, William Lee, Thomas Taylor, John Cross, Edward Viccars, Michael McMahon, James Simmons, and Charles Davis, for fifteen years; Edwin Brotherton, James Exton, Robert Spears, and Edward Spicer, for ten years; Fred, George Janes and Henry Flood, for seven years. South Eastern Gazette, 12 Aug 1845.
I remember my auntie telling me that Edward Viccars was involved in a bar room brawl or fight were he allegedly broke someone’s leg and was sent to Norfolk Island.