Name: | John Shaw |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1793 |
Occupation: | Ploughman |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 61 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 7 years
Crime: | Receiving |
Convicted at: | Stafford Quarter Session |
Sentence term: | 7 years |
Ship: | Moffatt |
Departure date: | 4th January, 1834 |
Arrival date: | 9th May, 1834 |
Place of arrival | Van Diemen's Land |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 399 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 269 (136) |
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 Project. |
D Wong on 10th February, 2019 wrote:
12/1/1833 Staffordshire Advertiser Staffordshire, England:
John Shaw, for feloniously receiving 6lbs. weight of brass, the property of John Smith, for 7 years.
John Shaw was 41 years old on arrival in VDL, 5’3½” tall, dark complexion, reddish brown hair and whiskers, light blue eyes.
Married, wife Harriet at Newcastle, 2 or 4 children.
Native Place: Pipe Gate, Shropshire.
1840: Free Certificate.
D Wong on 10th February, 2019 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1793 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime
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