Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Elizabeth Mason was transported on the New Grove, departing 30th Oct 1834 and arriving 27th Mar 1835 with 165 passengers.
385 - 490 ton vessel. The 1834 voyage to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Australia had 165 female transport women, 5 free women and 28 children. Five births during the voyage, 2 babes being stillborn. No deaths of adults. Ship Surgeon, Dr. George Rowe was replaced at Scilly, due to ill health, by David Thomson. Arrived VDL 27 March 1835.
New Grove (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 460 |
| 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
Committed to the County Gaol - Sarah Stevens and Elisabeth Macon, for receiving a silver snuff box and other silver and gold articles. properly of J.L.WInn. knowing the same to have been stolen; Hampshire Chronicle, 26 May 1834 Winchester Assizes.—The following completes the list of the prisoners and their sentences: John Vewer, James Wallis, Charles Russell, and John Williams, all lads, for a burglary, at New Alresford, in the dwelling-house of J. L. Winn; ... Sarah Stevens and Elizabeth Mason, for feloniously receiving property belonging to the above J. L. Winn, 7 yrs. Transportation.. Salisbury Journal, 21 July 1834.
1835 - MARRIAGE PERMISSIONS Mason, Elizabeth. Ship/free: New Grove. Marriage to: Lewis, John. Ship/free: York Permission date: 30 Dec 1835 CON52/1/1 Page 105
A petition to reduce her sentence to gaol time was rejected.
Elizabeth and her mother entered a plea to have her transportation amended to gaol time. Her good character and this being a first offence were given as reasons but the petition was denied
she may be my 3rd great grandmother? after her arrival in Tasmania in 1834,there is a record from 1836 reading she married a John Thomas Lewis who i have traced back to be my 3rd great grandfather.if this is the correct Elizabeth Mason is a relation of the Tate family in Australia