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Joseph Guess was transported on the Lord Lyndoch, departing 30th May 1833 and arriving 18th Oct 1833 with 330 passengers.
1838 Voyage - Lord Lyndoch. Surgeon Superintendence; Doctor Pineo, From the Surgeons Notes; " Total Embarked; 330 Male Convicts. 19 Died on Passage. 8 Died of Scurvy, 11 of Old age and diseases contracted previously to embarked which could not be detected ...... An accident occurred whereby 16 men were dreadfully scolded with boiling tea. many of them from the shoulders down to their knees.. 112 were sent to the Sydney Hospital on arrival "
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 121 (62) |
| 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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August-September 1838 Joseph Guess appears in Entry book, Gaoled for Drunkeness for 7 days in Windsor Gaol Joseph became known as Joseph Guest and had two children with Phoebe Elizabeth Douglas. Joseph Guest 1835-1901 Thomas Guest (1838-1934) Both children were baptised on same day near Tuena on 20 December 1843, where the family resided at Abercrombie River. Joseph was a Miner and Labourer. March-May 1858 Joseph Guest confined for Drunkeness in Bathurst Gaol 3 Feb 1877 • Joseph appears in Prison Entry records, having been brought from Dubbo to Bathurst Gaol for vagrancy Evening News (Sydney, NSW), Saturday 17 March 1877, page 3 BATHURST. March 14. The district coroner held an Inquiry at the gaol on Monday evening last, touching the death of one Joseph Guest, a confinee, who had expired the same morning. From the evidence of the gaoler, the senior warder, and of a fellow prisoner of the deceased, it appeared that Guest was received into prison on the 17th February last by a warrant from Dubbo, committing him to thirty days gaol for vagrancy. His sentence expired on the 3rd instant, but he expressed a wish to remain with a view of being transferred to the Benevolent Asylum. The gaoler promptly procured the necessary order for admittance, but the prisoner was reported to be seriously unwell the very morning he was to start for the Asylum. Guest gradually sank, and expired on Sunday morning at six o'clock. The medical evidence showed that death resulted from diarrhoea, accelerated by the advanced age of the sufferer. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony. Prisoner was sixty-eight years old.
28/7/1832 Northampton Mercury Northamptonshire, England: NORTHAMPTON ASSIZES Wm. Carter, 20, & Joseph Guess, 20, for breaking into the houso of Wm. Carter, sen. at Bradenham, and stealing therefrom a silver watch and other articles. 1843: TOL 31/8/1846: COF 26/8/1848 Bathurst Advocate, NSW: Joseph Guess pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness and was fined five shillings or twenty four hours in the cells. No marriage or death found on NSW BDM.