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Transportation
Agnes Lauder was transported on the Buffalo, departing 4th May 1833 and arriving 5th Oct 1833 with 183 passengers.
1833 - Voyage. Transported; 179 Female Convicts and 25 Children 1839 - Voyage. On 28th September 1839, the Ship Buffalo left Quebec, Canada, taking 144 prisoners to Van Diemen’s Land and New South Wales, following the Patriot War in Canada in 1837-38. Some of the prisoners were French Canadians patriots and others were American patriots, captured after the Battle of the Windmill. The Ship went first to Van Diemens Land, arriving at Hobart on 11th February 1840, where most of the American prisoners were landed, and then went on to Sydney, arriving on 26th February 1840, where the 58 French speaking prisoners were landed. They were separated mainly because there was hostility between the Americans from Lower Canada and the Canadians from Upper Canada. The prisoners were in the main, literate, idealistic and honest men.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 93 (48) |
| 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
Convict Permissions to Marry. Samuel Judd, Minerva 3, age 36, 7 years, Free, and Agnes Lander, per Buffalo, age 22, 14 years, Bond. Date of permission, 20 Sep 1836, Parramatta, Revd. R. Forrest. -------------------------------------------------- D Wong on 14th June, 2021 wrote: 20/9/1836: Samuel Judd- Permission to marry Agnes Lauder/Lander (Buffalo 1833) - Samuel 36 and now free - Agnes was 22 and on Bond, at Parramatta. 23/11/1836: Married at St. John’s, Parramatta. Children: 1839: Samuel - d 1839. 1841: Mary Elizabeth Agnes then had a Common Law partnership with William Mitchell - they had 2 children: 1846: Rachel Agnes Mitchell 1850: Martha Mitchell. William Mitchell died in 1872. Agnes died in 1875 and was buried at the Kelso Anglican Cemetery. 1877: Samuel Judd died, aged 77, registered at Parramatta, NSW.
NOTE: See William Henry Mitchell's profile page at https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/mitchell/william/109304.
There does not seem to be any record of a Certificate of Freedom for Agnes Lauder/Lander. However, family researchers list her relationship with William Henry Mitchell, per Marquis of Hastings 1828, with whom she had two children. The first, Agnes Rachel, was born on 11 February, 1846, at Moreton Bay, and baptised at Parramatta on 8 March, 1846. Her father was listed as a farmer from Field of Mars. Their second daughter, Martha Jane Mitchell was born at Bowenfels on 10 November, 1850. Family records say William Henry Mitchell died at Bathurst on 17 November, 1872. Three years later, Agnes Lauder Mitchell died, also at Bathurst, on 4 April, 1875.
1837: Muster - she was in the service of E Blake at Parramatta (see New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849). 1840, 25 March: Agnes Lander per Buffalo was granted a Ticket of Leave No.40/777 for the Parramatta District (see New South Wales, Australia, Tickets of Leave, 1810-1869).
1833: On arrival in NSW, Agnes Lauder (called Lander on her Convict Indent) was 19, Protestant and single. She could read but not write and her native place was Dumbarton. Her previous occupation as a veiner (as per her court record) was replaced with "servant of all work". ["Needlewoman" was selected above because neither of her occupations is listed in the choices.] She had a previous conviction for theft and had served 40 days in jail. She was 5'1Âľ" tall with a fair complexion, brown hair and hazel grey eyes (see New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842). 1833: Agnes Lander/Lauder was assigned to Joseph Cooper at Liverpool (see New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834).
Note about Agnes Lauder's employment: In the 1800s, producing embroidered muslin was a multi-step and labour-intensive process. Women (the records never mention men in these roles) specialised in and usually had expertise in only one area of "sprigging" - the ornamenting of the textile fabric with sprigs, the shoots or sprays of a plant. The process is described in "The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing", edited by Seamus Deane, Angela Bourke, Andrew Carpenter and Jonathan Williams (p517). The muslin started as a brownish coloured cloth. It was then "marked off, [and] put into a sort of printing machine" where it was stamped with a pattern. Then it went to a "sewer", who did whatever sewing was necessary, and then to the "veiner" who "ornamented the cloth with coloured lines or streaks suggestive of veins on a plant", and on to the "skilful 'opener'".
1832: Precognition against AGNES LAUDER [my emphasis], William McMillan, Mary Ann Kelso and Andrew Balfour for the crime of theft by housebreaking, habit and repute at Barony, Glasgow. Accused: Agnes Lauder, Age: 19, veiner [of muslin?], Address: Old Wynd, Glasgow, with Widow Niven. Accused: William McMillan, Age: 19, cotton spinner, Address: Dalmarnock Road, Bridgeton, Glasgow, with Thomas Manning, labourer. Accused: Mary Ann Kelso, Age: 16, unemployed, Address: Gallowgate, Glasgow, with James Fife. Accused: Andrew Balfour, Age: 18, gardener, Address: Marlborough Street, Calton, Glasgow, with Mrs Thomson. Victim: James Reid, Barony, Glasgow (see National Records of Scotland; Reference AD14/32/222). —0— 1832, 20 October: Trial papers relating to AGNES LAUDER, William McMillan, Mary Ann Kelso, Andrew Balfour for the crime of theft by housebreaking, habit and repute at Barony, Glasgow. Tried at High Court, Glasgow, 19 Oct 1832. Accused: Agnes Lauder, Verdict: Guilty, Sentence: Transportation - 14 years Previous convictions: theft. Accused: William McMillan, Verdict: Guilty, Sentence: Transportation - 7 years Previous convictions: theft. Accused: Mary Ann Kelso, Verdict: Guilty, Sentence: Transportation - 7 years Previous convictions: theft. Accused: Andrew Balfour, Verdict: Guilty, Sentence: Transportation - 7 years Previous convictions: theft (see National Records of Scotland, Reference JC26/1832/349). --00--