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Robert Gibb was transported on the Clorinda, departing 23rd Feb 1835 and arriving 12th May 1835 with 9 passengers.
Barque CLORINDA 184 tons, Capt. Mitchell, arrived VDL on Monday 20 April, 1835 from Mauritius Feb. 23, with a cargo of sugar, coffee, salt, etc. Then arrived Sydney 12/5/1835 with nine prisoners of the Crown. All boarded at Ceylon.
Clorinda (generic)References
| Primary Source | Ancestry Convict Indents. New South Wales, Australia Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849; 1835 Clorinda |
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Convict Notes
1835, 12 May: Robert GIBB per Clorinda was admitted to the Phoenix Hulk and held there until 14 May when he was sent to Hyde Park Barracks (see NSW Convict Records 1810-91; Phoenix Hulk Entrance Records 1833-1837).
1835, 21 April: Robert GIBB per Clorinda was admitted to His M’s Gaol, Hobart Town, “while Clorinda remains in port”. On 25 April 1835, he was discharged and re-embarked on the Clorinda for the final leg of her voyage to Sydney from Ceylon (see Tasmania, Australia, Convict Court and Selected Records, 1800-1899; Register, HM Gaol Record Book - Alphabetical Register of Prisoners Admitted).
1835: Robert GIBB appears on a "Return of Convicts to be banished to New South Wales" from Ceylon. He is listed as having been tried in the Supreme Court and sentenced to 14 years. The Ship's Muster Roll also contains correspondence about Robert Gibb, a prisoner in the Gaol of Colombo, sentenced on the 11th day of August 1830 by the Supreme Court of Indicature, Criminal Jurisdiction, for manslaughter. Gibb was sentenced to 150 lashes on a particular date, followed by another 150 lashes at a later specified date, to be followed by transportation "from these settlements for the term of 14 years to such place as His Excellency the Governor shall appoint, there to be kept at hard labour or otherwise employed or discharged of as by the laws or usage of such place". In the meantime, he was to be employed in hard labour until his transportation (see Australasian Chronicle (New South Wales, Australia Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849; 1835 Clorinda).
Robert Gibb was listed as 27 years old on arrival. Native Place: Northumberland. Occupation: Groom and soldier, artillery. Robert was literate, protestant, single, 5'8" tall, dark complexion, dark brown hair, blue eyes, Scar right eyebrow, breast hairy, forefinger of right hand has been broken, small scar back of right hand, scar inside left thumb, two scars forefinger of same.