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Samuel Fry was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 28th Feb 1800 and arriving 20th Nov 1800 with 305 passengers.
The Royal Admiral was built at Lynn in 1828. Convicts were transported to New South Wales on the Royal Admiral in 1830, 1833, 1835 and to Van Diemen's Land in 1842. 1833 - Ship; Royal Admiral. Commenced fitting as a Convict Transport at Deptford on the 29 March. Surgeon Superintendent [Andrew Henderson] joined on the 3rd April. Guard embarked on the 13th. Sailed on the 17th and anchored in Kingston Barbour near Dublin on the 9th May. 220 convicts embarked on the 16 May 1833 and the ship sailed from Dublin Bay for Sydney on the 4th June and arrived there on the 20 October. Originally embarked with 221 convicts, 5 Died at sea, 1 was Relanded. 11 sick on shore, The convicts were described as 220 such wretchedly debilitated creatures ... Refer to the surgeons journal for full details
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 266 |
| 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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Samuel is only mentioned intermittently in the musters, (probably because of his choices of vocations). 1802.. [Ref AD308] Samuel Fry, Royal Admiral, resident Sydney, with Mr Palmer. 1806.. [Ref A1524] Samuel Fry, Sealing with Kable's Company. 1811.. No Mention at all.. 1814.. [Ref 4265] Samuel Fry, Royal Admiral, Off Stores, Sawyer. 1828 Census.. No Mention
In the colony, Samuel had a very brief affair with Catharine (nèe Malone; Convict, Sugar Cane, 1793) the wife of William Butts (Convict, William and Ann, 1791). This liaison resulted in the birth of a child, named William Fry born 1812. The child later went by the name of a step-father and became William Fry Worthington.
Old Bailey Online transcripts; t17971025-57: SAMUEL FRY and HANNAH, the wife of WILLIAM CORBETT , were indicted, the first for feloniously stealing, on the 27th of September, four live ducks, value 4s. the property of James Hone, and CORBETT for receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen. JAMES HONE sworn. - I keep the Black-Horse at Hampton ; On the 27th of September, I lost four live ducks; I got a warrant to search the house of one Jeffery's, with Cooper, the constable; the prisoner, Corbett, lodged in the house, Fry cohabited with her; in Corbett's room I found two of my ducks at the feet of the bed under a bit of a blanket dead; I apprehended Fry soon after at the same house, and they were taken to Bow-street; Fry said at Bow-street, that he found them; I am sure they were the ducks I had lost the night before. THOMAS COOPER sworn. - I am a constable at Hampton; I apprehended Corbett at Jeffery's; I was present when the ducks were found. RICHARD JEFFERYS sworn. - I am a fisherman; Fry and Corbett lived together at my house, as man and wife, I was not at home when they were apprehended. JOHN HAYNES sworn. - I have been admitted an evidence for the Crown; I went to Mr. Hone's on the 27th of September, at twelve o'clock at night, with Fry, we stole four ducks, Fry killed them, and we divided them in the church-yard, we took them from an out-house; I had two ducks, and Fry had two. Fry's defence. That man has sworn falsely, he said we divided them in the church-yard, we did no such thing. Corbett's defence. I was in bed and asleep with my child at the time, Jefferys knows it; my husband has been abroad five years. Jefferys. She and her girl were both in bed. Fry, GUILTY (Aged 27.) Transported for seven years. Corbett, NOT GUILTY. Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Baron HOTHAM.