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Transportation
Leopold Redpath was transported on the Edwin Fox, departing 24th Aug 1858 and arriving 20th Nov 1858 with 284 passengers.
892 ton ship, built in Calcutta, India in 1853. Transported convicts, pensioner guard, soldiers and their families - from Plymouth, England to Western Australia - 1858. (Had been to Australia previously, in 1856, as a passenger ship.) (Later went on to service in the Crimean War.) Converted to be a passenger ship and carried immigrants to New Zealand. In 1880 converted, again, as a cool storage facility in Picton, New Zealand. Ship was in use until 1950 when abandoned. In 1965 she was bought by the 'Edwin Fox Society' and towed to Shakespeare Bay for restoration and then towed to Picton Harbour, New Zealand for display and is on the National Trust Registry, NZ. She is the second oldest surviving merchant ship.
Edwin FoxReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 283 (143) |
| 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
Leopold Redpath was a clerk of the Great Northern Railway Company who perpetrated a notorious fraud against his employers and was transported to Australia. There are many publications about his crime and life - just google. These were both lengthy trials and may be read in full at: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=def1-231-18570105&div=t18570105-231#highlight And https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=def1-232-18570105&div=t18570105-232#highlight LEOPOLD REDPATH, Deception > forgery, 5th January 1857. Offence: Deception > forgery Verdict: Guilty > no_subcategory LEOPOLD REDPATH was indicted for feloniously forging and uttering a certain deed of transfer of a certain share and interest in the capital stock of the Great Northern Railway Company, purporting to be made by John Morriss, for 312l. 10s., consolidated stock, with intent to defraud. Other COUNTS., varying the manner of stating the charge. MR. SERJEANT BALLANTINE., with MESSRS. BODKIN. and GIFFARD., conducted the Prosecution. GUILTY . LEOPOLD REDPATH, CHARLES JAMES COMYN KENT, Deception > forgery, 5th January 1857. Offence: Deception > forgery Verdict: Guilty > no_subcategory; Not Guilty > unknown Punishment: Transportation LEOPOLD REDPATH . was again indicted, with CHARLES JAMES COMYN KENT , for feloniously forging and uttering a transfer of 1, 000l., B stock and 87l. B stock of the Great Northern Railway Company; their masters, with intent to defraud. REDPATH.— GUILTY .— Transported for Life. KENT.— NOT GUILTY . There were three other indictments against Kent, upon which no evidence being offered, an acquittal was taken: there were also other indictments against Redpath. Leopold was 42 years old on arrival - he was 6' 0" tall, dark brown hair, dark hazel eyes, sallow complexion, middling stout. 1835: Was working as a clerk for P & O and on his own account as a shipbroker. 1840: Bought a house at Blackheath, married Jessie Sherman, had his fist bankruptcy. 1840-1845: Was living apart from Jessie, with lodgings near her in Regent’s Park; his occupation obscure 1846: Became a clerk with the Great Northern Railway - his fraud began in 1848. 1850: Living with Jessie at 2 Park Village West, Regent's Park. 1853: Moved to 27 Chester Terrace, Regent’s Park 1856: Bought a country house at Weybridge; his frauds exposed; flight to Paris; return and arrest; examination at Clerkenwell; second bankruptcy 1857: Tried at the Old Bailey and convicted; imprisonment in Newgate, Millbank and Pentonville 1858: Transferred to Portland; transportation on the Edwin Fox; imprisonment at Fremantle 1861: TOL 1868: CP 1871/2: Left Western Australia and sails to Sydney. 1886: Jessie died in England. 1/5/1891: Leopold died at St Vincent's hospital in Sydney and was buried at Rookwood Cemetery on the 3/5/1891.
TOL obtained in Jan 1861