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Henry Roach was transported on the Charlotte, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 111 passengers.
Being 335 tons, 105 ft long and 28 ft at the beam, The Charlotte held 88 male and 20 female convicts. Built in 1784 and Skippered by Master Thomas Gilbert, her return to England saw her doing the London - Jamacia run until she was sold to a Quebec merchant in 1818 and was then lost off the coast of Newfoundland that very same year.
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| Primary Source | Ancestry.com. Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. NSW BDM records. |
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Convict Notes
Henry Roach was one of six men (including John Leary, Joseph Morley and Francis Garland) who committed a highway robbery stealing twelve yards of muslin and other goods valued at £5.13s., for which they were sentenced to death at Winchester, Hants, on 3 March 1783. Roach, reprieved to seven years transportation on 21 April, was sent to a Thames hulk and thence, with Morley and Garland, to the Mercury transport on 26 March 1784. He married Elizabeth Holloway in 1790. Married Elizabeth Holloway in 1790.