Robert Mills

Robert Mills, one of 305 convicts transported on the Maitland, 19 March 1840

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Robert Mills
Aliases:	none
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1780
Occupation:	Labourer
Date of Death:	1848
Age:	68 years

Life Span

Male median life span was 57 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to 7 years

Crime:	Stealing a handkerchief
Convicted at:	Lancaster Quarter Sessions
Sentence term:	7 years
Ship:	Maitland
Departure date:	19th March, 1840
Arrival date:	14th July, 1840
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 305 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/12, Page Number 165 (84)
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 22nd August, 2018 wrote:

Robert Mills was transported for ‘Stealing a pocket handkerchief”.

Robert was 60 years old on arrival - he could read and write, was 5’6½” tall, sallow and wrinkled complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes, lost a front tooth in lower jaw, scar on right thumb, scar back of forefinger of right hand.

Robert was married with 1 male and 2 female children.

1844: TOL Goulburn.

1848: NSW BDM - Robert Mills died aged 68.

Convict Changes History

D Wong on 22nd August, 2018 made the following changes:

date of birth: 1780 (prev. 0000), date of death: 1848 (prev. 0000), gender: m

D Wong on 22nd August, 2018 made the following changes:

occupation, crime