| Name: | Patrick Gibbons |
| Aliases: | none |
| Gender: | m |
| Date of Birth: | 1838 |
| Occupation: | Soldier/groom |
| Date of Death: | 1890 |
| Age: | 52 years |
Life Span
Male median life span was 51 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 14 years
| Crime: | Desertion and striking an officer |
| Convicted at: | General Court Martial Benares |
| Sentence term: | 14 years |
| Ship: | Merchantman |
| Departure date: | 29th June, 1864 |
| Arrival date: | 12th September, 1864 |
| Place of arrival | Western Australia |
| Passenger manifest | Travelled with 260 other convicts |
| Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/19, Page Number 63 (34) |
| 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. |
Anonymous on 21st August, 2012 wrote:
Patrick was 24 when transported. He was single, illiterate and protestant. He worked as a laboiurer, general servant, reaping and a shepherd.
20/12/1868: TOL
9/1/1880: COF
Patrick was a violent man and drank heavily. Always in and out of court, mostly in York, WA, and in and out of goal. He had no proper skills, illiterate and somewhat of a vagrant.
Drunkeness, assaulting the Resident Magistrate, Indecent language, fighting, biting off the lip of another man after an argument etc.
In 1886 he was arrested 4 times for being a loose, idle, drunken and disorderly person. Loitering, no visable means of support etc.
Patrick died in 1890. He came to his death by falling out of a cart, 4 miles from York and being crushed under a wheel. He was drunk.
Eric Harry Daly on 15th January, 2013 wrote:
From The York (WA) Occurance Book. 30 Oct 1877
M. Brady T.L. reported at the station 3:30pm that last night when he was at Harden, Yorks (WA) at Beverley he happened to have a few words with Patrick Gibbons T.L. and that while he was asleep at about 11pm he felt a sharp pang and uppon awakening found his lower lip gone, and saw Gibbons standing in front of him with the piece of his mouth. The whole bottom lip had been bitten off from the chin leaving only the corners.
Anonymous on 18th August, 2012 made the following changes:
date of death 1890-00-00, gender m
Anonymous on 21st August, 2012 made the following changes:
date of birth 1838-00-00
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