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Edwin Partridge was transported on the Hougoumont, departing 10th Oct 1867 and arriving 9th Jan 1868 with 281 passengers.
875 ton ship was built at Moulmein in 1852. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/on-this-day-in-history-australias-last-convict-ship-docks.htm ---------------------------- Incorrect Image ....This is a four masted steel hulled Barque in the drawing , im surprised Australian Geo didn't do a bit more research on this .......The Hougoumont was a works ship on the Forth Bridge Project in 1885 ....the one potrayed as a drawing in Aust Geo is the later version of this ship.....the photograph i have attached is the correct and original convict vessel. --00-- 1867 "The hired convict ship Hougoumont, which has been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of a numerous party of convicts to Freemantle, Western Australia, left the Nore on October 1, and proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board 150 convicts from the establishments at Chatham and Millbank. The convicts from the Chatham establishment, at St. Mary's, embarked from the dockyard on board the paddle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakely, and were in charge of a numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all heavily armed. Among the convicts shipped were a party of fifteen Fenians, who were engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, together with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the ship Severn, and some others who have achieved notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian convicts, like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained together in gangs, but it was observed that they were kept apart from the other convicts in a portion of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel also took down a number of convicts from the establishment at Millbank for shipment on board the Hougoumont, in charge of a strong escort and convict guard. On Tuesday, October 8th, the Hougoumont arrived in Portland roads. Shortly before midday ninety convicts were marched down to the Government pier at Portland under a strong escort of the 12th Light Infantry. The party included twenty-three Fenian convicts, among whom it was said, was Moriarty. The Government steamer employed in the breakwater service was used for conveying the convicts on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The convicts were chained together on embarking, and on board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the convicts safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The Governor of the penal settlement at Freemantle, Captain Young, is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native land." Source: Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 19 Dec 1867, p4, English Shipping, available on Trove at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28608271?searchTerm=hougoumont.
HougoumontReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/19, Page Number 240 --0-- Edgar, W. (Bill). (2018). “The precarious voyage of her majesty’s convict ship ‘Nile’ to the Swan River colony, late 1857 – and the unexpected aftermath.” The Great Circle, 40(1), 20–43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26783779 --0-- |
| 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
Trial/2 "Mrs. Letitia Peyton: I am wife of David Peyton, and live in Chapel-street, Stroud. I know Annie Weaver. She is a single woman, about 20 years of age, living with her mother in the same court as I do. Her house is not far from us. I know the prisoner by sight, but I had not seen him before this night. Annie Weaver worked for Mr. Brain, tailor. I recollect Saturday, the 2nd June, being in my house at about a quarter to eleven, and hearing two shots fired. I ran down stairs, and at the kitchen door met Annie Weaver. She made an exclamation of pain, and I took her in. She seemed exhausted, and I noticed a wound in her side. I saw blood running from her side a little behind the arm. She was subsequently removed to her own house. (The dress and stays worn by the injured woman were produced. The stays were much stained on one side with blood). Sarah Ann Hawkes: I am a single woman, and live with my parents, opposite Peyton's house. I have seen Weaver and the prisoner together at Cheltenham and elsewhere; I had seen them together five or six Sundays before. I remember Saturday the 2nd of June. I was stood coming out of the door, and heard some one cry; I had been cleaning. I came out in consequenee of something somebody said. While standing there I saw Partridge come up to the top of the lane and run across the road to Mr. Peyton's gate. I saw Annie Weaver open the gate and go inside the palings. I saw the prisoner give her a good shove, and he called her ‘Annie’. I saw him with a pistol in his hand, and he shot at Annie's side; I did not see how he did it—I was hardly close enough. I heard two shots and saw the flash, and ran home. Stephen Chapman: I live in Chapel Street, Stroud, and know Annie Weaver, who lived about forty yards from me. On the evening of the 2nd of June I heard two shots in succession. I went out, and in a few minutes I found the pistol near the girl's door. It seemed to have been recently fired. Cross-examined: I have said it was about half-past ten. Superintendent Hambidge [Hawbridge], of Stroud, said: I was on duty the night of the 2nd June. I was called shortly before eleven to Chapel-street, and saw Annie Weaver lying on the floor at Mrs. Peyton's, and Mrs. Peyton supporting her. I left her and went after the prisoner. I first searched his house, and then started on the road from Stroud to Cheltenham. About a mile from Stroud I met the prisoner coming towards Stroud. This was about a quarter past twelve. He asked me if I was the inspector. I said ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘I will give myself up. How's Annie?’ I said I could not say; I thought she was very ill. I then told him to get up into my trap, and charged him with shooting Annie Weaver, with intent to murder her. He told me he had dropped one pistol and thrown the other into a hedge on the hill, with everything else he had except his money. At the station I found 7s.10½d. and a small quantity of powder in the pocket of his slop. He said there were two swan or deer shot in each pistol, and remarked that it was no use to escape. (The pistols were produced. They were small pocket pistols of one barrel each.) I picked up one, and found the other in a hedge. I also found steel in a field, and the prisoner said that was what he loaded the pistol with. The pistol I found in the hedge seemed to have been recently discharged, and there was a spent cap on the nipple. I also found some swan shot about the size of peas, wrapped up in paper. I received the clothes produced from Mrs. Peyton. Mrs. Brain: I am a tailor, and live Acre-street, Stroud, and know Annie Weaver. I know the prisoner. I have seen him in Annie Weaver's company. I recollect the night of 2nd June. Annie Weaver was detained rather later than usual at our house that night. I did not hear the shooting, but I went to Mrs. Peyton's and found Annie on the floor, bleeding. I remember the 4th April last. Annie Weaver was at work in our shop. Mr. Motteram objected to this being irrelevant, and the time spoken of too far removed. The Judge suggested emendation of the question. The witness was allowed to state that on that day the prisoner came to their house and told Annie to come out, but she replied, from where she had hidden herself, ‘I can't.’" Contd/3...
NEWSPAPER REPORT OF THE TRIAL: From the Gloucester Journal, 11 August, 1866, p8: “THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT STROUD. Edward Partridge, aged 20, currier, was charged with shooting at Annie Weaving (or Weaver), with intent to murder her, at Stroud, on the 2nd of June. Mr. Stanton opened the case for the prosecution, remarking that the facts were few and simple, but very distressing. Mr. Motteram defended the prisoner. James Thomas Robotham was the first witness. He said: I live in Chapel-street, and knew a person named Annie Weaver. She lived in Peyton's-yard. I remember Saturday, the 2nd June. That evening I was standing at my door at about quarter to eleven, and spoke to a person named Samuel Loveday. While talking to him we heard a woman scream. I had not seen any woman before. We ran up Peyton's-yard, and saw a flash and heard something go off. I saw who fired, but not sufficiently well to distinguish his features. He had white smock and ‘Billy Cock’ on. While the young man was running he turned, after going five or six yards, and fired again. He ran towards the garden. I was following him, and was about to scale the wall, but seeing he had a revolving pistol his hand I stopped. Cross-examined: I did not know Partridge. I saw a person and a flash—no more. I saw no person in advance. Samuel Loveday: I am a porter, living in Castle-street, Stroud. On the evening of the 2nd of June was talking with the last witness, when we heard a female halloe out ‘Murder’, and the report of a pistol. We went in the direction of the sound, about two yards, and saw Partridge. He was standing inside the palings in front Mr. Peyton's house. I do not know him. Just as we got and were stood there he fired a second pistol at Annie Weaver. The prisoner at the bar is the man who fired; he had a smock frock and a coat on his left arm. He then ran round and up the back of the house. I followed him. Cross-examined: I said to Mr. Stanton the girl said ‘Oh dear’, and used a Christian name. Mr. Stanton said he did not hear it. [The witness spoke throughout very indistinctly.] The Judge: I did not hear the name. Cross-examination resumed: I did not see Annie Weaver. Contd/2...
TRIAL: 1866, 10 August: Summer Assizes, Gloucester – found guilty of shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm; 12 years’ penal servitude (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 for Edward Partridge; England; Gloucestershire; 1866; image 15). --0--
JAIL: 1866, 5 June: Admitted to Gloucester Gaol; inmate #3424; semiliterate; currier from Stroud; aged 20; 5’4½” tall, brown hair, hazel eyes, oval face, fresh complexion, no distinguishing marks; Baptist; single; native of Eastington; known to PC Hawbridge, 5 years of previous good character. Charged with “feloniously shooting at and against one Annie Weaving with two pistols loaded with gunpowder and four leaden swan shots with intent to murder the said Annie Weaving at Stroud on the 2nd of June 1866”; committed for trial by R Winterbotham Esq. and JW Hallewell Esq. (Gloucestershire, England, Prison Records, 1728-1914; Registers of Prisoners; The County Gaol; 1865-1871; images 106-7). --0--
OCCUPATION: Leather dresser (is not in the list of options). --0--
CRIME: Grievous bodily harm does not appear in the list of options. --0--