Name: | Robert Fergus |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1827 |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 15 years
Crime: | Firing a haystack |
Convicted at: | York Assizes |
Sentence term: | 15 years |
Ship: | Mermaid |
Departure date: | 30th December, 1850 |
Arrival date: | 13th May, 1851 |
Place of arrival | Western Australia |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 208 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/16, Page Number 397 (200) |
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 Project. |
D Wong on 14th September, 2018 wrote:
14/7/1849 Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire, England:
YORKSHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES
ROBERT FERGUS (20), and ROBERT DIXON (20), were charged with feloniously setting fire to a stack of wheat straw, belonging to Ralph Chipchase, at Hovingham, on the 31st of March last. GUILTY. To be each transported for 15 years.
*Robert Dixon was also on board.*
Robert Fergus was 5’3” tall, dark hair and eyes sallow complexion, single.
Occupation: Mason’s labourer.
7/1/1853: TOL
29/5/1861: CP
D Wong on 14th September, 2018 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1827 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime
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