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John Haynes was transported on the Runnymede , departing 11th Jun 1856 and arriving 7th Sep 1856 with 247 passengers.
The original 'Runnymede' was built in London 1825, 389 tons. Sailing of this ship to Australia with convict transportees, including boy convicts 1839/1840 to Van Diemen's Land. (It appears this ship made other sailings to Australia, as a barque with immigrant passengers.) This Runnymede was wrecked near the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal in 1844. n.b. There is another 'Runnymede' ship. Built in Sunderland in 1854, the 720 ton ship Runnymede II - embarked 248 male convicts at Plymouth on 15 June 1856, landing all in Western Australia on 7 September, after a passage of 84 days - the sailing also had soldier families for settlement there. A 284 ton barque Runneymede of Hobart was wrecked at Frenchman's Bay, on 24 December 1878.
Runnymede (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 203 (103) |
| 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
On Tuesday afternoon, five convicts named Williams, Haynes, Stevens, Campbell, and Lacey, working in a quarry gang at Fremantle, made their escape, which, we understand, was not discovered for nearly an hour afterwards, which left little chance of their being recaptured that night. On the following day it was found they had made their way over the hills to the Canning, on coming to which they waded in the water alongside the shore into Melville Water and round that till they got to Point Walter where they found a gig with four oars in her moored in the canal, this they took and were afterwards seen by a fisherman pulling rapidly down the river, and after landing at North Fremantle, where they obtained a water beaker belonging to the gang employed there, they no doubt went over the bar. The men are convicts of the most desperate character; Williams, was one of the convicts concerned in the seizure of the Lady Franklin on her voyage from Norfolk Island to Hobart Town, and Haynes, was also, we believe, for many months at a time in the bush with the natives in the other colonies, and are both most determined men, but all are equally desperate and will stick at nothing. (Perth Gazette 28 Jan 1859, p. 2.) Recapture of the Escaped Convicts. THE schooner Les trois Amis arrived on Tuesday last from Sharks Bay with the Water Police and four out of the five escaped convicts. … On the 14th, when going down the channel between Dirk Hartog's Island and the main, a fire was observed in the same place as where the convicts were first discovered, and on the Police proceeding there four of the fugitives were found, reduced to submission by starvation, and quietly gave themselves up. … (Perth Gazette 4 Mar 1859, p. 2.) … We have some farther information respecting the captured convicts, one of whom has revealed the particulars as to the death of the missing man Lacey, who in the first instance was stated to have died from diarrhoea. As was suspected, from certain expressions let drop during their passage from Shark's Bay to Fremantle, the death resulted from violence on the part of his fellow-absconders. … (Sydney Morning Herald 19 May 1859, p. 3.)