Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Robert Pollett was transported on the Equestrian, departing 27th Aug 1852 and arriving 16th Dec 1852 with 295 passengers.
Built 1842 at Hull. Wood ship of 801 Tons.
Equestrian (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/17, Page Number 509 (257) |
| 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
Alias Hilton Australia Marriage Index 1788-1950 Death Certificate 12766
Convicted: 31 December 1849
Birth dates of 1830, 1835 listed. Robert Pollett was transported for 'Stealing a pair of boots'. He was 22 years old on arrival in VDL, 5'8½" tall, dark complexion, black hair, no whiskers, dark eyes, Native Place: Manchester, scar upper lip, single. 29/11/1853: TOL 5/6/1855: TOL Revoked 12/6/1855: TOL 15/7/1856: Married Abbigail Lambert at St. Joseph's, Hobart - he was 26, a gardener, she was 22 a servant. 24/12/1856: COF, Hobart. 31/8/1888: Held 300 shares in the Twilight Extended Gold Mining Company, Launceston. 9/2/1890: Robert Pollett, aged 55 years, a Miner, accientally killed by fall of a tree - registered at Portland, Tasmania. 15/2/1890 The Tasmanian, Launceston: GEORGE'S BAY, Feb. 11. A man named Robert Pollett, aged 60, was killed on Sunday night by a dead wattle tree falling on the tent in which he was sleeping. He was employed in cutting a track past the falls at Upper George's River. Two other men wero sleeping in the same tent, but they escaped uninjured.
In the 1851 census, Robert Pollett was a prisoner in Portland Convict Prison. http://www.opcdorset.org/PortlandFiles/PortlandCensus/1851PortlandPrison.htm
Reported in the Nottinghamshire Guardian on 28th February 1850: “REMOVAL OF CONVICTS. On the 18th instant, Robert Pollett, Charles Stafford, William Cooper, George Johnson, and Samuel Cliff, each sentenced to seven years’ transportation, were removed by Mr. Jackson from the County Jail to Millbank Prison.”