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Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
William Green was transported on the Lord Eldon, departing 31st Mar 1817 and arriving 30th Sep 1817 with 220 passengers.
Lord Eldon (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 326 |
| 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
Tasmanian Records. Conduct Record. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON31-1-13/CON31-1-13P158 No 42. Wm Green or Jones, per Ld Eldon & Pilot. 1815, 14 years. Feb 7 1818. escaping from Sydney in the ship Pilot- work in Gaol gang until he can be returned. July 6 1818. Concealing himself on board the Wellington with intent to escape from the Colony.- 4 mos Gaol gang. Sept 2 1818. Obtaining unders (?) Rations. To work for Govt 2 months in his own time. Doc https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON13-1-3/CON13-1-3P5 William Green, per Lord Eldon, 1817 (Laneby)- could this be the name of the person he was assigned to?) Cumberland QS, 21 Aug 1816, Life. Native place, Belfast, trade- watch/clock maker. Age 23, 5ft 7, fair ruddy comp, brown hair, hazel eyes.
His description after his second escape from Carlisle: WILLIAM GREEN, an Irishman, by Trade a Watchmaker, under sentence of Transportation for Life; aged 23 Years, rather slender made, about 5ft. 8in. high, fair complexion, light hair and whiskers, pitted with the small pox; had on a long Blue Coat Yellow Waistcoat, and light-coloured Cassimere Breeches. Carlisle Patriot, 7 Dec 1816.
POLICE OFFICE, March 22d, 1819. THE Under-mentioned Convicts, having, on the Night of the 27th of February last, piratically cut-out and carried off the Schooner Young Lachlan from this Port, their Names and Descriptions are now published for general Information. William Green, alias Jones, 5 f. 5¾ ins. high; fresh complexion, light brown hair, grey eyes, slightly pock-pitted, aged 28, is a gunsmith was born at Belfast, and tried at Carlisle in 1815, he arrived at Sydney in the Lord Eldon under sentence of 14 years, and at Hobart Town in the Pilot. Irish convict Database by Peter Mayberry. William Green, age 23, per Lord Eldon (1817), Tried at Cumberland Assizes,1816, sentence Life. Native of Belfast Antrim Co. trade : watch maker clockmaker. At Cumberland Assizes, John Donald, John Pollet, Sarah Armstrong, for burglary, at Loweswater, Margaret Sellear and William Green, for passing forged notes; James Douglas, for feloni ously killing a sheep— were sentenced to Death ; but, with the exception of John Donald, were reprieved. Lancaster Gazette, 7 Sept 1816. William Green managed to escape twice while in England, once while awaiting his trial and then again afterwards. Thursday morning, John Pollet, Wm. Green, Joseph Simpson, Benjamin Little, and Robert Bird, confined in the second and third cells of the gaol in this City, endeavoured to make their escape breaking the hinges of the small door the third cell, and attempting take out a large stone in the wall between the two cells. Morning arrived before they could accomplish their work, and of course, they were detected. Measures have since been taken which will entirely preclude any similar attempt in future. Carlisle Patriot, 22 June 1816. Thursday morning, John Pollett, William Green, Benjamin Little, John Hamilton, Francis McHannah, John O'Neill, and Joseph Bird, all desperate felons under sentence of transportation, broke out of the jail in Carlisle, by knocking down the jailor after he had opened their different cells. Pollett and Bird were afterwards taken behind a hayrick near Blackhill, and conveyed back to prison. The others escaped for the present. Star (London), 10 Dec 1816. In consequence of some information which our gaoler received last week, he had reason to believe that William Green, one of the convicts who made his escape from gaol along with Pollett and others, was under confinement in Carrickfergus gaol; he without delay dispatched John Kirk to Ireland, who immediately identified Green, and an application was made to the Lord Lieutenant for his removal to Carlisle, so that he may be expected to arrive at his old quarters in a few days. Carlisle Patriot, 8 Feb 1817. We informed our readers in our last number that William Green might soon be expected to be lodged in his old quarters in the Gaol, and accordingly John Kirk, the constable, delivered him to the Gaoler on Sunday morning. He has since been examined, but gives a different account of what happened after the escape, from that communicated by O'Neal; and states that Little contrived to steal from Hamilton five guineas, a hat, a handkerchief; and fifteen shillings from himself (Green), when they were concealed in a hayloft in the neighbourhood of Cowthwaite, with which he decamped. Carlisle Patriot 15 Feb 1817.