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Transportation
George Platt was transported on the Pitt, departing 31st May 1791 and arriving 14th Feb 1792 with 406 passengers.
Built Thames, England 1780. 775 tons. Rig type: S.
PittReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 164 |
| 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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George Platt, a soldier of the Coldstream Regiment, was convicted twice on the same day, 8th December 1790, at the Old Bailey, London (Central Criminal Court, Middlesex): JAMES TEMPLEMAN and GEORGE PLATT (Old Bailey Online Reference Number t17901208-28 https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t17901208-28 ) GEORGE PLATT and PHILIP ROBERTS (Old Bailey Online Reference Number t17901208-35 https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17901208-35-person446&div=t17901208-35#highlight ) Found guilty of the crime Violent Theft: highway robbery, sentenced to death which was commuted to Transportation for Life. Arrived Sydney on the ''Pitt'' 14 Feb 1792. Received a Conditional Pardon some time before 1801. NSW Corps records: His occupation when he enlisted on 22 November 1800 was listed as shoemaker; Rank private, Hunters River in 1801, Cabramatta in 1805, Rank Corporal in 1808; Transfer in 1810. Transfer from 102nd Regiment to 73rd Regiment ; Enlisted 25 Mar 1810 Rank: Corporal, Place: Sydney, for 7 years; Duty Began: 1810, Duty Ended: 1814, Military Company: 2, 7, First Place of Duty: Georges River, Sydney 1810-1811. Transferred to 46th Regiment, 25 Mar 1814. Born: 1767c, Born at St George, London, Middlesex; Original Remarks: Reduced to Private; On Discharge [1821?] aged 54 and had served 1800-1821 in Regiments, 102nd, 73rd, 46th, 48th. Marriage to Mary Holden on 14 October 1811 at St Johns, Parramatta, by banns by Samuel Marsden; George signed, Mary marked with a cross; witnesses: Lydia Hommerson, (marked X) and George Smith, signed. Mary was 'Mary ux William Oden' convicted 22 Apr 1805 at West Riding Yorkshire Quarter Sessions, sentenced 7 years, and had arrived on the 'William Pitt' in April 1806. It appears that his wife Mary had separated from George sometime before 1824: Mary Platt started living with William Skinn and his family at Bankstown. 27 January 1824 George Platt sent a memorial to Governor Brisbane, asking for a grant of land: Out pensioner from 48th Regiment, of the Royal Hospital Chelsea Sep 12 1821. In the 1828 census George Platt (age 68, protestant, 'came free' Pitt 1792) was overseer at George's Hall, the 372 acre property of David Johnston on the George's River, in the parish of Bankstown, district of Liverpool. Death 1830 age 64: Buried 27 Jul 1830 at Liverpool, Burial registered at St Luke's Liverpool. Sources: Old Bailey Online Australian records on Ancestry.com Biographical Database of Australia: Biographic Report of George PLATT: https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/biographical-report/10011456501?f=george&l=platt&ol=&i=3&s=&p=
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 02 March 2020), December 1790, trial of JAMES TEMPLEMAN GEORGE PLATT (t17901208-28). Both men were soldiers in the Guards, and were sentenced to death for highway robbery. They extorted money by threatening to charge man with an unnatural crime if he did not give them money.