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Transportation
John Hyatt was transported on the Andromeda, departing 13th Nov 1832 and arriving 11th Mar 1833 with 189 passengers.
Also, same day, from Cork, whence she sailed May 25th, the ship Andromeda, 401 tons, Benjamin Gales master, with 173 female prisoners; Henry Kelsawl, Esq., Surgeon-superintendant. Passengers — Fourteen free females, viz. Mary Manning, Martha Morron, Margaret Mahon, Margaret Sheedy, Mary Ann Nixon alias Welsh, Catherine Kiernan, Mary Cassock, Catherine Stanton, Johanna Neville, Mary Lyons alias Hynes, Maria Moran, Catherine O'Donnel, Margaret Kennedy, and Mary Sullivan, and twenty-six children; also twenty-three children belonging to the prisoners. Sydney Monitor, 20 Sept 1834.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 459 (230) |
| 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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Thomas Hyde, (named as Hide in the account above) also convicted for the same crime, at Worcester Assizes on the 3 March, 1832, was transported for life on the Georgiana to VDL.
Commitments, Convictions, &c. Committed to our County Gaol - … John Hyatt, charged with assaulting Wm. Knight, and robbing him of a watch and other articles, at Bredon. Worcester Herald 5 May 1832.
WORCESTERSHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES, 1932. CROWN COURT.-BEFORE MR. JUSTICE BOSANQUET. MONDAY, JULY 23. Wyatt, John, aged 28, waterman, an ill-favoured morose looking fellow, was the first prisoner arraigned, a true bill having been found against him at the last Assizes, charging him capitally, with having, in company with two other men named Johns and Hide, violently assaulted and put in hodily fear, at the parish of Bredon, in this county, William Knight, and forcibly taken from his person, a watch and various other articles, his property. This offence was committed in the night between Saturday, the 24th, and Sunday, the 25th September last. The prosecutor, who then lived at Bredon's Hardwicke, but now is residing at forthampton, had been attending Tewkesbury market, and was on his way home between 12 and 1 in the morning, when about a mile from the town, on the Mitton road, he was attacked by three men, who knocked him down, and after treating him with great violence, so as to render him almost insensible, they took his bundle from him and made off; they had, however, gone away but a short time, and before he had well recovered his reason, when they again returned to him, once more felled him to the ground, and two of them held him down whilst the other cut his watch from his fob; they then again made off. Knight immediately made his way back to Tewkesbury as well as he could, and gave information of what had happened to the constable. In a day or two after, Hide was taken into custody, and at the last Worcester Assizes was tried and convicted as one of the perpetrators of the crime, and sentenced to transportation for life. Johns still remains at large, but Hyatt was apprehended in Worcester about six weeks since, and detained for trial at the present Assizes. The prosecutor, Knight, now positively identified the prisoner as one of the robbers, and other evidence was adduced which rendered his guilt conclusive. To shew the degree of brutality with which Knight was treated, the clothes he wore at the time were produced in Court, and large blood stains were still perceptible in various parts of them; it was also stated by the constable who the next morning examined the two places at which the robbery was committed, that as much as a pint of blood was observable at each. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, found him guilty. The Learned Judge, in passing sentence, told the prisoner that had he been able to ascertain the exact part he took in the transaction, and it had appeared that his was the actual hand by which the brutal treatment was inflicted on the prosecutor, he should have felt it his duty to have left him to suffer the severest penalty of the law; however, as this was not shewn, he should adjudge him to undergo the same penalty as had been awarded to one of his partners in the offence, viz. transportation for life. The prisoner, on leaving the bar, exclaimed with great audacity, "Thank you, my Lord."