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Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
John Johnson was transported on the Richmond, departing 27th Nov 1821 and arriving 30th Apr 1822 with 160 passengers.
Richmond (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 122 |
| 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
6 Jan 1826 - executed at Hobart for burglary of the home of Francis Barnes
Behaved well in Prison orderly here. Behaved well. Convict Department : Bellerephon, Retribution and Ganymede hulks convict lists, 1821
Tasmania, Australia, Convict Court and Selected Records. Comprehensive register of convicts (CORE SERIES) A - L, 1804-1841 Name; John Johnson - Ship; Richmond - Trial; Leicester Assises - 15 Aug 1821 Very faint in red; EXECUTED No; 171 . Transported for Felony 1826 - New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. No; 171. John Johnston. Ship; Richmond. In Goal Burials in the Parish of Hobart Town in the County of Buckingham in the Year 1826 No; 8 Name; John Johnson When buried; 1826, 6 January Age; No details Ship’s Name; No details Quality or profession. Convict - EXECUTED; for House Breaking By Whom Ceremony was preformed; W Bedford
He was sentenced to death and later reprieved.
Leicester Assizes.— John Johnson (aged 17), for stealing a horse from Stoke upon Trent; Stamford Mercury, 24 Aug 1821. --------------------------------------------------- The following Convicts were removed from the County Gaol Tuesday morning last, put on His Majesty’s hulk the Belleraphon, Sheerness. —-Wm. Page, Joseph Godwin. Thomas Shaw, John Johnson, Thomas Allen, Charles Brown, Samuel Measures, and Thomas Ward, to be transported for life. Joseph Shaw and William Soden, for seven years. Leicester Chronicle, 29 Sept 1821.