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Thomas Jones was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 30th May 1792 and arriving 7th Oct 1792 with 349 passengers.
The Royal Admiral was built at Lynn in 1828. Convicts were transported to New South Wales on the Royal Admiral in 1830, 1833, 1835 and to Van Diemen's Land in 1842. 1833 - Ship; Royal Admiral. Commenced fitting as a Convict Transport at Deptford on the 29 March. Surgeon Superintendent [Andrew Henderson] joined on the 3rd April. Guard embarked on the 13th. Sailed on the 17th and anchored in Kingston Barbour near Dublin on the 9th May. 220 convicts embarked on the 16 May 1833 and the ship sailed from Dublin Bay for Sydney on the 4th June and arrived there on the 20 October. Originally embarked with 221 convicts, 5 Died at sea, 1 was Relanded. 11 sick on shore, The convicts were described as 220 such wretchedly debilitated creatures ... Refer to the surgeons journal for full details
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 181 (91) |
| 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 THOMAS JONES. Violent Theft; highway robbery. 29th March 1792. Text type Trial account Defendants THOMAS JONES Offences Violent Theft > Highway robbery Session Date 29th March 1792 Reference Number t17920329-43 Verdicts Guilty > Lesser offence Punishments Transportation 201. THOMAS JONES was indicted for feloniously assaulting Robert Smith , on the king's highway, on the 20th of March , and putting him in fear, and feloniously taking from his person and against his will, one cotton gown, value 20 s. and one linen shift, value 5 s. the goods of Elizabeth Charlotte Town . A second count charging the gown to be the property of John Hanbury . ROBERT SMITH sworn. I am an errand-boy to Elizabeth Charlotte Town . On last Tuesday was a week I was robbed in Cheapside ; it was the 20th of March: I was going from Fenchurch-street to Portugal-street; I got behind a coach in Fenchurch-street and the prisoner got up behind in Lombard-street; we rode as far as the Post-office; the prisoner took my bundle from me almost opposite Milk-street, in Cheapside: he got down in Lombard-street: it was in brown-paper: when I was trying to get down, he said, I should not, and snatched the bundle out of my hand; he did not lay hold of me or strike me, he only snatched it away, and ran down Milk-street; I followed him all the way down; I never lost sight of him; he was taken with the bundle under his arm; he ran against a woman. Purchase, the constable, has the bundle. Prisoner. Was there not two boys with you before I came up? - No. JOHN PURCHASE sworn. I was going towards Honey-lane-market, and I met the prisoner with the bundle under his left arm. WILLIAM AISTROP sworn. I am constable of the ward. ELIZABETH CHARLOTTE TOWN sworn. This gown is not mine, it belongs to Mrs. Hanbury; the shift is my daughter's; that is the gown I delivered to the boy. PRISONER's DEFENCE. I was going up to Piccadilly to my brother's who is a captain of a revenue cutter; fearing I should be too late, I got up behind the coach where this boy was, and the coachman threw his whip over, and a boy threw some mud on the boy that was behind the coach with me; I got down in anger, and the bundle fell; I picked it up, and had not the bundle in my possession a minute and a half before I heard the cry of stop thief! the bundle was picked up by the constable under a woman's feet: I can bring gentlemen to my character: I am a native of the West Indies. I was tosticated in liquor. GUILTY of stealing but not violently . Transported for seven years . Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.