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Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Peter Penneys was transported on the Tottenham, departing 31st Dec 1817 and arriving 14th Oct 1818 with 201 passengers.
Tottenham (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 7 (5) |
| 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
Original offence: Northumberland Calendar — James Edward and Peter Penney, for a robbery in the house of Jane Weatherburn, of North Shields, Tyne Mercury, 22 July 1817.
BRITISH EXTRACTS DOWN TO OCTOBER. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 7.—The Dromedary, store-ship, Mr. R. Skinner, Master, arrived here on Tuesday (2d inst.), from New Zealand and Port Jackson, with masts, &c. in want of water, after a passage of 140 days. Whilst laying in the river off Port Jackson, on the 10th of February, William White and Peter Perry, two convicts who had been transported for felony, took possession of a boat, and rowed towards the ship, about 12 o'clock at night; and, it being very dark, succeeded in getting on board into the hold undiscovered. They procured a little water the second day, but remained eight days without food, when they worked their way into the bread-room, and took just enough to sustain life. In this situation they remained seventeen weeks and three days, undergoing the greatest hardships, when one of them was observed by a soldier, and shortly after both were discovered, and reported to the Captain of the ship. When they were brought on deck, they were nearly blind from so long a confinement in the hold. Their intention was to have got on shore at Rio Janeiro, at which place they expected the ship would have touched. On their arrival in the Sound, they were placed under confinement ; and having been examined before the Magistrates, were yesterday (Friday the 6th inst.) committed to Exeter, to take their trial for returning from transportation before the expiration of their sentence. " Hobart Town Gazette, 2 Mar 1822. --------------------------------------------------- List of Eleven prisoners transported to Port Macquarie on board H.M. C. Brig Lady Nelson, and their sentences, 30 July 1822. William White, also Long, ran from the Colony returned in the Asia (2) Tried 29 July 1822, remainder of orig. sentence. Trade, Clerk, per Genl. Stuart, Original conviction: Tried at London, 14 Jan 1818, 7 years. Peter Pinneys, ran from the Colony returned in the Asia (2), Tried 29 July 1822, remainder of orig. sentence. Trade, shipwright, per Tottenham, Original conviction, at Newcastle upon Tyne, 9 Aug 1817, 14 years.