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Transportation
Joseph Maples was transported on the Indefatigable And Minstrel, departing 9th May 1812 and arriving 19th Oct 1812 with 331 passengers.
The Indefatigable was built at Whitby, England. She was square-rigged three masted ship of 549 tons and had three decks; a length of 127 ft. and a beam of 31ft. 8ins. The Indefatigable sailed from England on 4th June 1812 in company with the Minstrel. The Indefatigable came direct to Hobart, VDL arriving there on 19 October 1812. One prisoner died on the voyage out. Having disembarked the prisoners in Hobart, the Indefatigable arrived in Port Jackson on 6 December 1812, departing there bound for England in January 1813. The Indefatigable returned to Australia with convicts in 1815 (see separate listing).
Indefatigable And Minstrel (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 68 |
| 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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TRIAL OF THE NOTTINGHAM RIOTERS. NOTTINGHAM.-William Carnel, aged 22, and Joseph Maples, aged 16, charged with burglary and frame-breaking, on the night of the 3d of January. After a patient hearing of six hours, the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty for Maples, and Guilty of frame-breaking against Carnel; when his Lordship desired them to reconsider their verdict, and pointed out to them the impropriety of disuniting the burglarious entry into the house from the act of simple felony, occasioned by breaking the frames.—All the alteration, however, which the jury chose to make, was that of uniting Maples with Carnel, and finding them both Guilty of frame breaking only, thus doing away the capital. part of the charge. The verdict being recorded, his Lordship addressed the prisoners in the most solemn and impressive manner, observing. that if the burglarious part of the charge had been found against them, he should have felt himself constrained, for the sake of example, in order to put an end to such disgraceful outrages, to have exercised the full authority of the law -- as it was, he had only power to sentence them to transportation for fourteen years. Sun, 23 March 1812.
At an early hour on Monday morning last, the following persons, convicted of frame-breaking, at the late Assizes, were removed from the county gaol, under the care of Mr. Wright, assisted by Parkes, Atkin, and three other Officers from Bow Street, in order to be put on board the hulks at Woolwich, (viz.) Joseph Maples, William Carnell, Benjamin Hancock, and Joseph Peck, under sentence of transportation for fourteen years; and Gervas Marshall, Robert Poley, and George Green, under sentence of transportation for seven years each. They were escorted by a detachment a detachment of hussars to Leicester, from whence they were to be guarded by the Blues to the place of their destination. —A Petition on behalf of these unfortunate individuals was sent to the Prince Regent last week, praying for mitigation of punishment, which was signed by upwards of four thousand frame-work knitters. Nottingham Journal, 4 April 1812.
Hogarth Town Gazette, 6 May 1826. GOVERNMENT NOTICE. Colonial Secretary's Office, May 2, 1826. CERTIFICATES of Freedom have been issued to the undermentioned Persons during the last Week :— Joseph Maples ..... Indefatigable.
Joseph MAPLES arrived Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) on 19/10/1812 on ship Indefatigable (1) from England. He had been charged at Nottingham Lent Assize on 13 March 1812, for feloniously breaking stocking frames & was given a 14 year sentence of transportation. 04/06/1812 - Conduct record (Source: Libraries Tasmania website, CON31/29 p3) 20/01/1818 - Joseph Marple. Absent from his lodgings at night – to work for Govt. for 1 week in his own time. (Source: Libraries Tasmania website) 1819 - Louisa Atkins (bc1800, arr Sydney in 1814 on the ship Broxbornebury as a convict), aged 19, married Joseph Maples, aged 23, in Hobart on 27 Dec. 1819. (Source: Libraries Tasmania website) Children of Joseph & Louisa MAPLES: • James MAPLES (as ATKINS) baptized 13/06/1818 Hobart, died ? • William MAPLES baptized 1820 Hobart, died ? • Hannah MAPLES baptized 1822 Hobart, died ? • Sarah Ann MAPLES baptized 1827 Hobart, died ? • Louisa MAPLES baptized 1830 Hobart, died ? 15/07/1820 – Joseph Maples. Holding a Ticket of Leave. He was absent from Sunday Muster (Source: Libraries Tasmania website) 15/12/1820 - Joseph Maples. Refusing to pay M A Smith £1 15s for labour. (Source: Libraries Tasmania website) 1822, 18 Sep. – Louisa Atkins was still on a list of prisoners in Van Diemens Land (Source: SRNSW Col Sec Papers, Letters Sent Reel 6009; 4/3506 p298) 26/01/1829 - Joseph Maples. TL Assault & beating Mary Ann Spice – Complete withdrawn. (Source: Libraries Tasmania website) 27/01/1829 - Joseph Maples. TL Assault Elizabeth (?) his wife – to find sureties to keep the peace for 6 months. (Source: Libraries Tasmania website, CON13/1 p14) 1832 - “CAUTION.-; ALL persons are hereby cautioned not to give trust or credit to my wife Louisa Maples, who has absconded from her home and four children without any just cause or provocation, as after this date I will not be responsible for any debts she may contract. JOSEPH MAPLES. Hobart town. July 10, 1832.” (Source: Hobart-town Courier 13/07/1832, p1 also 20 & 27 July) 1835 – “Louisa Maples, an elegant “Nymph of the Pave," was fined 5s. for drunkenness”. (Source: Colonial Times (Tasmania) 07/04/1835, p7) 1837 – “Louisa Maples was remanded on a charge of robbing John Dow.” (Source: Colonial Times (Tasmania) 19/09/1837, p7) 1840 – “Louisa Maples and Mary Badenoch, two regular out-and-outers, were charged with being common prostitutes, and with wandering about the public streets, at 2 o'clock in the morning, behaving in a very unbecoming manner. They were each committed to the Female House of Correction, and there to be kept to hard labor (sic) for one month.” (Source: Colonial Times (Tasmania) 25/02/1840, p7) 1858 - Joseph Maples, aged 63, died in Brighton (Tasmania), funeral held on 6 Sep 1858. (Source: Libraries Tasmania website) Tasmanian BDM: No record of death found for Louisa From the book “Journey to a New Life…” the story of the ships Emu & Broxbornebury by Elizabeth Hook (3rd ed. 2014). I am the author & can be contacted on hookey5609@yahoo.com.au for further info
Married Louisa Ann Atkins, Hobart, 27 Dec, 1819