| Name: | Robert Nicholls |
| Aliases: | none |
| Gender: | m |
| Date of Birth: | 1794 |
| Occupation: | - |
| Date of Death: | - |
| Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to Life
| Crime: | Pocket picking |
| Convicted at: | London Gaol Delivery |
| Sentence term: | Life |
| Ship: | Prince of Orange |
| Departure date: | 1st April, 1822 |
| Arrival date: | 23rd July, 1822 |
| Place of arrival | Van Diemen's Land |
| Passenger manifest | Travelled with 135 other convicts |
| Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 140 |
| 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. |
D Wong on 12th September, 2018 wrote:
Old Bailey:
ROBERT NICHOLLS, ROBERT SMITH, JOHN LOCKYER.
Theft: pocketpicking.
24th October 1821
Verdict Guilty; Guilty; Guilty
Sentence Transportation
ROBERT NICHOLLS, ROBERT SMITH, and JOHN LOCKYER were indicted for stealing, on the 13th of October, one handkerchief, value 5 s., the goods of Edward Pilgrim, from his person.
NICHOLLS’S Defence. The gentleman caught hold of me, and said I was concealing his handkerchief - he felt, and found nothing. I do not know the others.
LOCKYER’S Defence. I was thirty yards off, and do not know the other two.
NICHOLLS - GUILTY. Aged 27
SMITH - GUILTY. Aged 32
LOCKYER - GUILTY. Aged 17
Transported for Life.
All were on board the Prince of Orange.
Robert Nicholls was born C1794 - he had been in custody before - once convicted before for stealing some coton from a shop, 2 months..2nd time for stealing harness - acquitted at Newgate 15 months back.
Conduct Record:
3/1/1823: Repeatedly abswent from his masters premises without leave - 25 lashes.
1/11/1823 Hobart Town Gazette:
Charles Brown & Robert Nicholls, convicts, were charged with conspiring, together with Elijah Major and others, to defraud Mr. John Philip Deane of Hobart Town, by fabricating and uttering as true, one note of hand, for the sum of £25, and one other note of hand for the sum of £50, the notes purporting to bear the mark of James Stynes ; and being found guilty were sentenced to receive 100 lashes, and to be transported to Macquarie Harbour for the term of 5 years.
13/3/1824: Absent/or absconded into the woods - 100 lashes and hard labor 6 months in irons.
1830-1835 Musters: Absconded 1824.
D Wong on 12th September, 2018 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1794 (prev. 0000), gender: m, crime
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