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Transportation
Henry Rowe was transported on the Lady Kennaway, departing 27th Oct 1834 and arriving 13th Feb 1835 with 307 passengers.
The 'Lady Kennaway' was built in Calcutta in 1817. A large ship of 584 tons. Transported convicted prisoners to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1834, via Cork, Ireland. Other voyages, to New South Wales, in 1836 and Van Diemen's Land in 1851. Image acknowledgement to Grosvenor Prints. Painted by J.W. Huggins.
Lady KennawayReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 389 (196) https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON18-1-10$init=CON18-1-10p142 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
1840, 17 November: Granted a Ticket of Leave (see Courier (Hobart), 24 Nov 1840, p2; GOVERNMENT NOTICE No. 283). In early April 1841 he was sent to Hobart, and received a Free Certificate No.339/1841 on 26 April the same year (Tasmania, Australia, Convict Court and Selected Records, 1800-1899; Pardons, Leave, Discharge; Register of certificates of freedom granted, 1841-1844). 1867, 26 March: He was convicted in Hobart for larceny under £5 and sentenced to one month’s hard labour (see https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-37$init=CON31-1-37p177). 1895, 1 March: A Henry Rowe, born in England, died from heart disease at Balfour Street, Launceston, aged 73. He was a labourer. The informant was Wm Hills, undertaker of Launceston (see https://stors.tas.gov.au; Resource: RGD35/1/64 no 55). It's possible this was "our" Henry.
1835, 13 April: On arrival in VDL, Henry Rowe, a labourer's boy, was single and 15 years old. His Conduct Report described him in jail (no dates given) as a “bad character” and “several times imprisoned” but his Hulk report describes his behaviour as “good”. Another notation says he received “two dozen lashes on the backside for indecently exposing [himself to] the persons of James Yarrow and Edward Johnson. Since Good”. Between 8 August 1836 and 2 April 1841, he was at Port Arthur where his record is heavy with references to offences including: talking in the cells, gambling on the Sabbath, use of improper language, maliciously wounding the Superintendent’s poultry, having a quantity of boards improperly in his possession, committing a most filthy nuisance, determined idleness, breaking a government spade through negligence and being out after hours. For such offences he was most often put in solitary confinement (most often for 3 days at a time, and at times on just bread and water), but he was also whipped (including 15 stripes on the breech for having missiles secreted in his bedding) and flogged (30 lashes).
1834, 14 April: Henry Rowe was tried at the Quarter Sessions and sentenced to transportation for 7 years for stealing rope from a vessel. He had been before the courts previously – for assault (acquitted “three or four times”) and stealing shoes (acquitted) (see https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-37$init=CON31-1-37p177).
OCCUPATION: Labourer's boy; his native place was Plymouth (see https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON18-1-10$init=CON18-1-10p142).