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Transportation
Hugh Leslie was transported on the Asia 1, departing 4th Feb 1833 and arriving 27th Jun 1833 with 231 passengers.
Built by A Hall & Co at Aberdeen in 1818. A Brig of 536 tons. (Wikipedia) 1830 - Voyage. Asia from Ireland. Female Convict Ship; Stead; Master, Alexander Nesbit M.D. Surgeon Superintendent. Arrived in Sydney Cove 13 Jan 1830. Mustered - 186. Died on Voyage - 3. Disembarked - 1. Total Embarked - 200
Asia 1 (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 20 |
| 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 |
Claims
"Hugh Gordon LESLIE was my great great grandfather."
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Convict Notes
National Archives. Criminal Petitions. HO 17/14/27 1831 Dec 1 individual petition (the prisoner) on behalf of himself, Hugh Leslie, convicted at Edinburgh High Court for theft (shop breaking). Includes a certificate from Daniel Robert, Cabinet Maker, testifying to his industriousness. There are letters from: James Gordon testifying to Leslie's honesty as a worker and promising to take him as a sailor on a ship bound for the West Indies; Donald Campbell certifying to prisoner's good character; John Anderson, Cabinet Maker, testifying to prisoner's sound character; David Crofur Green to Leslie's mother expressing astonishment at her son's conviction. Grounds for clemency: first offence, mother a respected woman and has 2 relatives in the Navy (both reached the rank of Lieutenant). Initial sentence: 7 years transportation, in Euryalus. AY 1. [Scot].
Convict Index. Hugh Leslie, Asia 1833, ticket of Leave, 38/468. District, Windsor; Tried, Edinburgh CJ. Hugh Leslie, Asia 1833, Certificate of Freedom, 37 Dec 1838. 38/1124. TL 38/468.
John Steele, Thomas Wordsworth, Hugh Leslie, and James Hutchison, pleaded guilty to six acts of housebreaking and theft, Wordsworth to seven acts, Leslie to two acts, and Hutchison to one act of theft, all committed within two months. Steele and Wordsworth were sentenced to 14 years, and Leslie and Hutchison to 7 years transportation. This appeared to be a regular gang of housebreakers; the eldest, however, was only 14 years of age. After sentence was pronounced, Lord Medwyn said he wished said he wished to address a few words of advice to the shopkeepers of Edinburgh. It did appear, if the statements from the declarations of these boys could be relied on, that there was great negligence; for, when they came to a shop not fastened, or where the fastenting was not secure, then they were tempted to commit crimes. It was certainly the duty of shopkeepers, not merely for the protection of their own property, but for the security of the public, to see their premises properly secured, and thereby prevent temptation to crime. Aberdeen Press, 14 Dec 1831. -------------------------------------------------- Hulk Records. HO-9-2_4 page 21/40. Euryalus. Twelve received from Edinburgh, 1st Feb 1832. James Hutchison, age 12, Offence: Theft, tried at Edinburgh, 5 Dec 1831, 7 years, Free Pardon 20 May 1833. Hugh Leslie, age 14, Offence: Theft, tried at Edinburgh, 5 Dec 1831, 7 years, NSW, Asia, 30 Jan 1833. John Steel, age 13, Offence: Theft, tried at Edinburgh, 5 Dec 1831, 14 years, NSW, Clyde, 21 Apr 1832 Thomas Wordsworth, age 11, Offence: Theft, tried at Edinburgh, 5 Dec 1831, 14 years, VDL, Moffatt, 25 Nov 1833. -------------------------------------------------- The prison hulk, the Euryalus, an ex-frigate of the Trafalgar fleet, was moored at Chatham. Over the twenty years that this hulk serviced juveniles, about 2,500 boys of fourteen and under passed through. There were also considerable numbers of older boys both in the juvenile hulk and distributed among the other hulks. From the Euryalus, boys were transported both to New South Wales and to Van Diemen’s Land.