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Transportation
William Robinson was transported on the John, departing 18th Jul 1827 and arriving 25th Nov 1827 with 189 passengers.
John 1st arrived in Sydney Cove on the 25th November 1827. 185 Male convicts. of which 7 were sent to the hospital, 3 Died. Surgeon Superintendent- Died on the voyage . John - 1836/1837 Voyage. Medical Journal was lost on the homeward passage by the shipwreck of the Ship "Medora' There is an index only.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 232 |
| 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
William Robinson, was born Abt 1805 in Skipton, Yorkshire, UK. He was convicted and sentenced at York on 16 July 1825, for Horse Stealing. He Sentence was at first the Death Penalty, however, this was commuted to Life Imprisonment. He was transported to the Colony of NSW as a Convict, His Convict Ship "John" left Port London on 22 July 1827 with 188 Convicts and arrived at Sydney Cove on 25th November 1827. The following article is a transcript from "The York Courant" published on 26 July 1825:- "JOHN ROBINSON (aged 68) John Robinson (aged 33) and Wm Robinson (aged 19) charged with having stolen a bay mare and a bay gelding the property of Mich. Harper. Mr Jones stated the case to the jury. The prosecutor is a farmer, and lives at Seamer. Several persons were dispatched in various directions, in search of them, amongst who were the prosecutor's son who found by inquiries, that a man had been seen on the road to Guisbrough, with three horses, two of which answered the description of those stolen from his father. Thither (be repaired), where be engaged another person to accompany him in his search. When they had got about 8 miles on the other side of Richmond, on the road to Askrigg, about six o'clock on Monday morning, they came up to the prisoners, who had with them the prosecutor's horses and another, on being asked where they had got those horses, they replied, that three men came up to them on the road, close to the side of a mountain and (ha..) gained with them to take the mare and gelding to Haws, where they were to leave them at the inn, but who the men were, or where the place was, where they received the horses, they could not tell, consequently they were apprehended, and the horses taken from them. The prisoners were seen between Scampston and Yedingham, by a Mr. Welburn, of Yedingham, going in the direction of the prosecutor's field, in the afternoon of Saturday the 18 June, having with them one horse. The prisoners put in written papers, declaring that the account which they had given, relative to the manner in which they became possessed of the horses was true. The jury found them all GUILTY. The prisoners are father and two sons. The father is very infirm, the son John is quite blind and William is subject to fits. His Lordship remarked that it appeared they were, in spite of all their infirmities, enabled to ride at no very slow pace". His Father(John and brother (John) both died on Hulks as prisoners.)
William worked as a Government Servant for Charles Prucell in the Evan District. In the 1828 cencus he was working for John Bayless at Richmond NSW. He died at Colyton NSW at the age of 84 years and is buried at St Mary Magdalene Anglican Cemetery, St Marys NSW