James Metcalf

James Metcalf, one of 100 convicts transported on the Asia, 19 November 1827

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	James Metcalf
Aliases:	Metcalfe
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1805
Occupation:	Farm servant
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Male median life span was 51 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to Life

Crime:	Highway robbery
Convicted at:	York Assizes
Sentence term:	Life
Ship:	Asia 1
Departure date:	19th November, 1827
Arrival date:	13th March, 1828
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 101 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 307 (155)
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 Project.

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Community Contributions

D Wong on 21st June, 2021 wrote:

James Metcalf
Onboard Asia 1 19th November, 1827 arriving at New South Wales

28/7/1827 Yorkshire Gazette Yorkshire, England:
YORKSHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES.
James Metcalfe, (Aged 23) for robbing Geo. Barrow, on the highway, at Thornton-in-Lonsdale, of a woollen coat, and other articles.

James Metcalf/e was listed as 22 years old on arrival.

Native Place: Yorkshire.

James was illiterate, single, 5’7½” tall, fair ruddy complexion, fair hair, brown eyes, small scar of cut at corner right eye, near the temple.

Assigned to Col. Wall??? for his farm at Prospect.

13/11/1840: TOL Goulburn.

Convict Changes History

D Wong on 21st June, 2021 made the following changes:

alias1: Metcalfe, date of birth: 1805 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime