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Voyage
Transportation
John Robinson was transported on the Indefatigable, departing 30th Sep 1814 and arriving 26th Apr 1815 with 202 passengers.
The Indefatigable was built at Whitby. She was square-rigged three masted ship of 549 tons and had three decks; a length of 127 ft. and a beam of 31ft. 8ins. (Details of the 1812 sailing are to be found under separate listing for Indefatigable and Minstrel.)
Indefatigable (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 182 |
| 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
Tried at the Old Bailey, 20 April 1814. 433. JOHNÂ ROBINSONÂ was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 16th of March , a pair of sheets value 15 s. of the property of Richard Williams in a living room . RICHARD WILLIAM . I live at 19, Chamber-street, Goodman's-fields . On the 11th of March, the prisoner took a lodging in my house; he said, he was a single man; two other men slept in the room besides him. I found sheets for the bed the prisoner slept in. He took the lodging at three shillings a week; he did not come until the 15th of March to sleep there. He brought in a basket when he came to sleep; he slept at my house that evening: In the morning, about half after six, he went out; my wife went up stairs immediately, and from information I pursued the prisoner, and caught him in Rosemary-lane by the collar; I told him he had robbed me. I found my sheets in his basket These are the sheets; they are mine. They were on the bed that he slept in. They are my sheets. I have kept them separate ever since; they are worth fifteen shillings. GUILTY , aged 46. Transported for Seven Years . First Middlesex jury; before Mr. Common Serjeant.