Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
John Foster was transported on the Bangalore, departing 1st Jan 1850 and arriving 30th Apr 1850 with 302 passengers.
Built 1843 at Jersey. Wood barque of 877 Tons.
Bangalore (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/16, Page Number 153 (78) |
| 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
c1826: Stated aged 23, in 1849 Quarterly list in prisons and on hulks. 22-Aug-1846: Indicted for housebreaking and stealing a watch. Sentence 10 years transportation. New Seaford, England. 30-Sep-1849: Detained on the Prison Hulk, Stirling Castle, at Portsmouth. [Great Britain Home Office & Australian Joint Copying Project & National Library of Australia & Library of New South Wales & Great Britain Public Record Office., "Quarterly list in prisons and on hulks, 1849, (File 99-101. AJCP Reel No: 5206)", Stirling Castle Convict Hulk at Portsmouth, Page 37.] 1850: Ticket of Leave District: Moreton Bay; Tried: Lincoln. [NSW Archives: Ticket of leave butts, NRS-12202 Series Date Range 31-03-1827 to 13-12-1875, [4/4223; Reel 964] ] 15-May-1850: Sentenced to 7 days solitary confinement for drunkenness. First Brisbane Gaol, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [Newspaper: The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 - 1861), Page 2-3. - 25 May 1850] 13-Aug-1851: Ticket of Leave cancelled for being absent from District. Illegally at large. The undermentioned prisoners of the Crown being absent from their Districts, are illegally at large :- John Foster, Bangalore, 28, Canterbury, stonemason, 5 feet 4 inches, fair ruddy comp., brown hair, brown eyes, lost a front tooth centre of lower jaw, raised mole inside right elbow joint; from ticket of leave, Moreton Bay, since June, 1851. [New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), [No. 93], Page 1351. - 15 August 1851]