James Jones

James Jones, one of 305 convicts transported on the Maitland, 19 March 1840

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	James Jones
Aliases:	none
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1811
Occupation:	Indoor servant
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Male median life span was 53 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to 10 years

Crime:	-
Convicted at:	Gloucester Quarter Sessions
Sentence term:	10 years
Ship:	Maitland
Departure date:	19th March, 1840
Arrival date:	14th July, 1840
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 305 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/12, Page Number 163 (83)
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 Project.

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Community Contributions

D Wong on 15th September, 2018 wrote:

** 2 James Jones on this voyage **
The other James Jones was tried at Stafford.

James Jones was 29 years old on arrival in VDL - native place: Gloucestershire.

Transported for ‘Pledging stolen goods’.

James could read, was Protestant, a Widower - no children listed, 5’4” tall, ruddy complexion, brown hair, hazel grey eyes, lost canine tooth on left side of upper jaw, woman inside lower right arm, scar near knuckle of forefinger of right hand, J back of third finger of left hand.

1844: TOL Liverpool
27/7/1849: CP

Convict Changes History

D Wong on 15th September, 2018 made the following changes:

date of birth: 1811 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation