Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
John Ryde was transported on the St Vincent, departing 28th Dec 1852 and arriving 26th May 1853 with 214 passengers.
St Vincent (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/17, Page Number 625 (315) |
| 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
INVALID/PAUPER: 22 March, 1884: John Ryde per St Vincent was admitted to the New Town Charitable Institute, Hobart. He was discharged after two months, on 22 May. Paupers & Invalids no.: pi1539200; Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1606304; New Town Charitable Institute: POL709-1-20 page 86 (https://stors.tas.gov.au/POL709-1-20$init=POL709-1-20_1884p96). --00--
MARRIAGE: 24 October, 1854: The couple married in Hobart in the Kensington Chapel. He was 40, a labourer, and she was 33, a servant. Service performed by Thomas Ewing, Colonial chaplain. Witnesses: Henry and Margaret Allatt (https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-13p208j2k). --00--
MARRIAGE PERMISSION: 19 September, 1854: John Ryde per St Vincent, and Julia Philips per John William Dare, received permission to marry -- Index number: 61862; Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1264006; Resource: CON52/1/7 Page 406; RGD37/13 : 1854/528 (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON52-1-7p094j2k). --0--
OTHER: 13 November, 1855: He was granted a Conditional Pardon. For more details of his convict life, see (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p159. --00—
VDL: 26 May, 1853: On arrival in VDL, JOHN RYDE, convict #28003, was listed as a farm labourer; transported for 15 years for “robbery and assault”; 2nd conviction – 7 years for burglary, served 3 years 9 months at Woolwich (on the Justitia hulk, according to his Gibraltar record); 39 years old, 5’5¾” tall with dark brown hair, blue eyes and a sallow complexion. He was a widower [with one child], Protestant and literate. Native place: Hatfield, Lincolnshire [sic; note different place to that on his Gibraltar record]. He said he had been transported for “stealing from the person a watch and money” from the prosecutor Mr Brocklesbury at Caster (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON14-1-47$init=CON14-1-47_00196_L). Gibraltar report “very good” (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p159). Family: Brothers Curtis, John and Edward; sisters Sarah and Ann; son John – at his native place (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/ai61862). Proper name: THOMAS KELSEY, according to his Convict Indent (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON14-1-47$init=CON14-1-47_00196_L). This would also explain why his brother’s name was John (see above). --0--
3 February, 1853: He was sent aboard the St Vincent for transportation to VDL (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). --00--
TO GIBRALTAR: 30 January, 1848: RYDE, JOHN #1143, arrived on Gibraltar from Millbank prison, London, per Mount Stewart Elphinstone. He was held on the Europa hulk (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). On Gibraltar, JOHN RYDE was described as 32 years old when convicted, sentenced to 15 years for “robbery and assault”; previous conviction for felony; born in Hatfield, Yorkshire; Church of England; brown hair, light hazel eyes and a fair complexion, 5’5¾” tall; literate; labourer; single; relatives/family – living in Hatfield, Yorkshire (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). --0--
TRIAL: 6 March, 1847: JOHN RYDE, 32, semi-literate, was convicted at the Lincoln County Assizes and sentenced to transportation for 15 years for “robbery with violence, before convicted of felony” (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 for John Ryde; England; Lincolnshire; 1847). --0--
PREVIOUS CONVICTION: 12 April, 1842: At the Louth April Sessions, Lincolnshire, Thomas Kelsey, aged 28, and semi-literate, was tried, convicted and sentenced to transportation for 7 years for “stealing at Laceby about 14½ yards of silk for a gown, six gowns, eight yards of print, a large table cloth and divers other articles of wearing apparel, and one knife, the property of John Riley”. He had been committed to stand trial on 14 March by Magistrate Rev J Gedge (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Thomas Kelsey, Lindsey Gaol, Calendar of Trials, 1831-1863). --00--