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Thomas Purfleet was transported on the Lord Lyndoch, departing 30th May 1833 and arriving 18th Oct 1833 with 330 passengers.
1838 Voyage - Lord Lyndoch. Surgeon Superintendence; Doctor Pineo, From the Surgeons Notes; " Total Embarked; 330 Male Convicts. 19 Died on Passage. 8 Died of Scurvy, 11 of Old age and diseases contracted previously to embarked which could not be detected ...... An accident occurred whereby 16 men were dreadfully scolded with boiling tea. many of them from the shoulders down to their knees.. 112 were sent to the Sydney Hospital on arrival "
Lord Lyndoch (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 128 |
| 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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National Archives. HO-9-2_4. Page 22/48. Euryalus Hulk, at Chatham. Twenty Received from Newgate, 21 Apr 1832. Thomas Purfleet, age 14, Stg a kettle, Tried Middlesex, 5 April 1832, 7 years. NSW per Lord Lyndock, 24 May 1833 ------------------------------------------------------- Tried at the Old Bailey, 5 Apr 1832. 1016. THOMASÂ PURFLEETÂ was indicted for stealing, on the 24th of September , 1 tea-kettle, value 2s. , the goods of Thomas Capps . THOMAS CAPPS . I am a pawnbroker , and live in Old-street-road . On the 24th of September I lost a tea-kettle, which the officer produced the same evening; I cannot say at what the officer produced the same evening; I cannot say at what time it was taken. GEORGE KEMP (Police-constable, N 82.) On the 24th of September, about ten o'clock at night, I was in Boot-street, and saw the prisoner in company with several notorious thieves, with something under his jacket - he gave it to another boy, and made off; I stopped the boy, and took it from him - it was this kettle; I took the prisoner afterwards; they were about five minutes' walk from the prosecutor's.(Property produced and sworn to.) GUILTY . Aged 14. - Transported for Seven Years .