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Robert Jones was transported on the Isabella, departing 3rd Apr 1818 and arriving 14th Sep 1818 with 234 passengers.
The Isabella was built in London in 1818. She was owned by William Wiseman, Patrick Chalmers and James Wallace. The Isabella transported convicts to Australia in 1818 (NSW), 1822 (NSW), 1823 (NSW), 1832 (NSW), 1833 (VDL) and 1842 (VDL).
Isabella (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 17 (10) |
| 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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Old Bailey Online ROBERT JONES. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 3rd December 1817. Text type Trial account Defendants ROBERT JONES Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 3rd December 1817 Reference Number t18171203-108 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 105. ROBERT JONES was indicted for stealing, on the 27th of November , one sack, value 2s., 6d., and four busheis of oats, value 15s. , the goods of William Reynolds . SECOND COUNT, the same, only stating the sack to be the property of John Bryant , jun. WILLIAM BROWN. I am servant to Mr. Reynolds, who is a corn-chandler , and lives in St. John-street . On the 27th of November, about five o'clock in the evening, two waggons stood at our door; one of them was unloading - I was informed that a sack had been taken out of the second waggon - I found the prisoner at the watch-house, with the sack of oats which had been taken out of the waggon. I knew it to be my master's. WILLIAM SALES. I drove the waggon to Mr. Reynolds's door, about five o'clock in the evening - A few minutes after I found the tail of the waggon untied, and a sack taken out - I saw the prisoner at the watch-house with it - I knew the sack. THOMAS THOMPSON. I am an officer. On the 27th of November I was standing at the corner of Charterhouse-lane, in St. John-street, with Forbes. The prisoner ran across the road with the sack of oats on his shoulder, about twelve yards from Mr. Reynolds's; he came from that way. I followed him towards the square, and stopped him - I asked him what he had got? he said it was a sack of oats which he bought from Mr. Williams, of St. John-street. I said I knew no such person - He could not tell me whethere it was a shop or a private house-there is no such person. JOHN FORBES. I was with Thompson. He has spoken correctly. (Sack sworn to.) Prisoner's Defence. I sent a man to buy me a sack of corn - I went to look for him, met him, and he gave it to me. GUILTY . Aged 26. Transported for Seven Years . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.