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Voyage
Transportation
Charles Mountjoy was transported on the Adelaide, departing 16th Apr 1855 and arriving 18th Jul 1855 with 261 passengers.
The 'ADELAIDE’ was built 1832 in Calcutta. Wood ship of 640 Tons. 1849 voyage: Departed London 17 Aug 1849. The convicted persons were then known as 'Exiles' because they had served part of their sentence in England and providing they were of good conduct were to be given a 'Ticket of Leave' or Conditional Pardon upon arrival in Australia. The 'Adelaide' arrived at Hobart, VDL on 29 Nov 1849 and disembarked 40 men. The ship then sailed to Port Phillip, Victoria but was refused entry and so sailed on to Port Jackson, New South Wales arriving there 24 Dec 1849. 1855 voyage: departed Portland, England on 19 April 1855, arriving Fremantle, Western Australia on 18 July 1855. 260 convicts, 1 death. The ship also carried 30 Pensioner Guards and their families.
Adelaide (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 142 |
| 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
Charles Mountjoy and two other men were sentenced for Burglary in 1852. They stole a side of bacon, some cheese and a pair of boots and were each given 10 years transportation [for] goods costing eighteen shillings. Charles received a Ticket of Leave 10 days after he arrived in the Swan River Colony in 1855. He "married above his station" to a free settler's daughter, Harriet Bashford. It was a happy marriage and they had several children, one being my great grandfather David Mountjoy. Charles and Harriet were given a wedding present of a large block of land in the suburb of Midland, a gift from her two older brothers. Charles built them a home and they lived well, supprting themselves from the produce of their land. Recent reserach has shown that Charles Mountjoy's father was actually an Adam Compton. Adam Compton was engaged to Charles' widowed mother Rebecca Mountjoy (nee Cole). There is a record of the banns being cried for these two in the parish of Seagry in January 1832. However, no record of a marriage between them can be found. The next we hear of Rebecca is that a son, Charles, is born in June 1832. No father is named on the baptism record; Rebeccca Mountjoy is listed as the mother, and is also listed as “pauper”, back in her home parish of Draycot Cerne. Rebecca died in 1835, when Charles was three, and we know he was in the Lacock Workhouse in the 1841 Census. From an impoverished and deprived childhood in Wiltshire, Charles thrived in the Swan River Colony and always said that it was the best thing that ever happened to him.