Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
James Mason was transported on the Richmond, departing 27th Nov 1821 and arriving 30th Apr 1822 with 160 passengers.
Richmond (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 123 (63). Tasmanian Archives - convict conduct record |
| 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
The "F.S." abbreviatation you refer to may even be - T.L. (Ticket of Leave) as misconduct was recorded for people on this status.
On November 24th 1828 in Tasmania he was a "F.S" (free servant?) & found to be possibly drunk and disorderly ("D.& Dis.l")& "fined" (this must have been very close to the time when he was released from his 7 years sentence at last). On 31 January 1832 in Tasmania he refused "to finish a job of reaping according to agreement refusing to go back to his work the sum of £1 to be deducted from the wages now due to him." On 2nd April 1832 he was a "F.S" (free servant?) "violently assaulting Helen Caffray" (or "Caffay")and "on the 19th March fined" about 40? shillings? for this offence.
Thomas Stitchbourne or Stitchborne baptised 9th January 1807 St Leonard, Shoreditch.
Thomas Triffit was actually born in 1797 on Norfolk Island & his farming family moved to Tasmania in about 1807-1808 when they were offered land in Tasmania calling their new settlement there New Norfolk. So James Mason was probably assigned to a farming family of colonists based in New Norfolk,Tasmania.
I am not sure but possibly the nearest birth record is a James Thomas Mason baptised 2 Jun 1803 St Leonards, Shoreditch, Hackney to father James Mason & mother Mary Mason living in Goodmans Gardens. James Mason was convicted in the Old Bailey Courts on 7th July 1819 of Larceny and sentenced to 7 years transportation with two other boys Thomas Stitchbourne & John Taylor (John Taylor was also transported on the ship Speke in 1820 arriving in NSW Australia in 1821).They were all three convicted of stealing lead & copper from an alms house in Hackney and each sentenced to 7 years transportation.They were all three received together on the convict prison hulk ship Bellerophon at Woolwich on the 12th August 1819. I can find no record of Thomas Stitchborne being transported (he may have escaped?). But James Mason was placed on the ship Richmond (Captain's name Kay)in November 1821 arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) in 1822. On his arrival James Mason stated he was a "willow worker?", 18 years of age, native place Shoreditch (in the London Borough of Hackney),5 foot & ? half inches tall, dark (brown?) eyes & dark (brown?) hair. In the 1823 & 1826 Convict Muster Lists it states that James Mason was assigned to Thomas Triffit or Triffet (possibly the Thomas Triffit/Triffet who was was born in 1801 and who died in 1867 in Hamilton, Tasmania ).