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Voyage
Transportation
Joseph Homer was transported on the Edwin Fox, departing 24th Aug 1858 and arriving 20th Nov 1858 with 284 passengers.
892 ton ship, built in Calcutta, India in 1853. Transported convicts, pensioner guard, soldiers and their families - from Plymouth, England to Western Australia - 1858. (Had been to Australia previously, in 1856, as a passenger ship.) (Later went on to service in the Crimean War.) Converted to be a passenger ship and carried immigrants to New Zealand. In 1880 converted, again, as a cool storage facility in Picton, New Zealand. Ship was in use until 1950 when abandoned. In 1965 she was bought by the 'Edwin Fox Society' and towed to Shakespeare Bay for restoration and then towed to Picton Harbour, New Zealand for display and is on the National Trust Registry, NZ. She is the second oldest surviving merchant ship.
Edwin FoxReferences
| Primary Source | National Archives Kew, London, UK Prison Commission Records, PCOM 2. Ancestry. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 296 |
| 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
Convict Index: aged 26, Birth year 1832 Married with 2 children Trade Miller UK Prison Millbank Cannot read or write Tried 16 March 1857 for Causing bodily injury with intent to murder Received 20 March 1857 Sent to Pentonville Prison 9 June 1857
Married 10 March 1855 Sidlesham Sussex to Ellen Lucas. Ftaher to Charles (1856-1919) and Ellen *1857-1857),