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Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Richard Edwards was transported on the Southworth, departing 21st Sep 1833 and arriving 14th Jan 1834 with 191 passengers.
Southworth (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 223 (113) |
| 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
19/3/1833 South Eastern Gazette Kent, England: RICHARD EDWARDS, 18 ; HENRY BARKER, 24 ; and HENRY STEEBE, 20, indicted for assaulting Mary Westbrook, at St. Paul's, Deptford, and taking from her between 18s and 19s. .....The prisoners in their defence, stated that the young woman dropped the glove__that they picked it up, and found it to contain only 5s 2d. The three had been convicted of felony.__Death recorded. Richard Edwards was listed as 19 years old on arrival in VDL - he was born at Deptford. Richard was 5'3" tall, fair complexio n, brown hair, dark grey eyes, slightly pockpitted, single, E.C. on left are R.E.J.C on right arm, Pot glass pipe hearts and darts on same arm. 6/1/1843: TOL 15/1/1846: CP Founders and Survivors website list this marriage as the above Richard Edwards - however no proof found:- 20/5/1846: Married Mary Ann Smith, aged 24 - Richard was 30, a sawyer - at Glenorchy. 6/10/1846: Tried Hobart QS - Richard Edwards convicted of assaulting, on the 1st day of September last, Mary Ann Edwards (his wife). To be imprisoned in Her Majesty's Gaol at Hobart Town, and kept to hard labor, for two years at H.M. Gaol. 20/8/1852: Steerage passenger, Launceston to Melbourne per 'Yarra Yarra' - Free by Servitude - ship to colony: Southworth.