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Transportation
Robert Mansell was transported on the Clyde, departing 27th Apr 1832 and arriving 27th Aug 1832 with 201 passengers.
Clyde (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 324 |
| 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
1834 - Principal Superintendent of Convicts Office, Sydney 15th July 1834. The undermentioned Prisoners having absconded ................. Mansell Robert, Clyde, 32-1834, 21, Northampton, brickmaker, 5 feet 5, ruddy freckled comp. dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, small scar centre of forehead, figure of a bull lower right arm, scar back of left hand, blue ring left middle finger, from Gibraltar Road Party, since 18th July. Second time of absconding.
William Stanley, Robert Mansell, Francis Clay, and Benjamin Giles, were charged with having at Birmingham broken into the dwelling house of John Penny, and stolen thereout an eye-glass, five handkerchiefs, and other goods, his property. The prosecutor, hearing a noise, went upstairs with a sword, and saw Mansell and Stanley there, he struck the latter and knocked him down, and secured them both. He found a hole in the ceiling and roof, between which were two or three bundles containing the articles. John Simms, a constable, saw a man on an empty house adjoining the prosecutor's, and afterwards get down the chimney; he entered the house and apprehended him. Thomas Penny, brother to the prosecutor, apprehended in the same house, in a dry well, the same night, Some of the articles which had been stolen were found on each of the prisoners, except Clay. The jury found them all guilty, death recorded. Aris’ Birmingham Gazette, 8 Aug 1831.