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John Shaw was transported on the Hougoumont, departing 10th Oct 1867 and arriving 9th Jan 1868 with 281 passengers.
875 ton ship was built at Moulmein in 1852. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/on-this-day-in-history-australias-last-convict-ship-docks.htm ---------------------------- Incorrect Image ....This is a four masted steel hulled Barque in the drawing , im surprised Australian Geo didn't do a bit more research on this .......The Hougoumont was a works ship on the Forth Bridge Project in 1885 ....the one potrayed as a drawing in Aust Geo is the later version of this ship.....the photograph i have attached is the correct and original convict vessel. --00-- 1867 "The hired convict ship Hougoumont, which has been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of a numerous party of convicts to Freemantle, Western Australia, left the Nore on October 1, and proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board 150 convicts from the establishments at Chatham and Millbank. The convicts from the Chatham establishment, at St. Mary's, embarked from the dockyard on board the paddle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakely, and were in charge of a numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all heavily armed. Among the convicts shipped were a party of fifteen Fenians, who were engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, together with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the ship Severn, and some others who have achieved notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian convicts, like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained together in gangs, but it was observed that they were kept apart from the other convicts in a portion of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel also took down a number of convicts from the establishment at Millbank for shipment on board the Hougoumont, in charge of a strong escort and convict guard. On Tuesday, October 8th, the Hougoumont arrived in Portland roads. Shortly before midday ninety convicts were marched down to the Government pier at Portland under a strong escort of the 12th Light Infantry. The party included twenty-three Fenian convicts, among whom it was said, was Moriarty. The Government steamer employed in the breakwater service was used for conveying the convicts on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The convicts were chained together on embarking, and on board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the convicts safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The Governor of the penal settlement at Freemantle, Captain Young, is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native land." Source: Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 19 Dec 1867, p4, English Shipping, available on Trove at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28608271?searchTerm=hougoumont.
HougoumontReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/19, Page Number 235 (120). --00-- Edgar, W. (Bill). (2018). “The precarious voyage of her majesty’s convict ship ‘Nile’ to the Swan River colony, late 1857 – and the unexpected aftermath.” The Great Circle, 40(1), 20–43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26783779 |
| 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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FOOTNOTE: Year of Birth is taken from official records but day and month are not known. The latter dates have been entered as 01/01 because the site does not allow those fields to be left empty. --00--
BACK IN ENGLAND: 1899: John Shaw appears on a list of “Habitual Criminals”. By this time, he is registered as number 1219/99 John Shaw, alias David Greenhalgh, held in Manchester Prison, #3691; born 1837 at Bradshaw, near Bolton; 5’5¾” tall, fresh complexion, brown hair turning grey, brown eyes, scar back of right wrist, back of right hand, each thumb, first and second fingers contracted. Convicted for burglary at Salford (Bury) on 24 October, 1898; 6 months’ jail. Date of intended liberation: 22 April 1899; address – Bury; occupation – painter; two previous convictions (UK, Registers of Habitual Criminals and Police Gazettes, 1834-1934 for John Shaw; Habitual Criminals Register, 1899). --00--
OFF TO SA: From the WA Police Gazette, No.19, 11 May 1881, p80: 1881, 15 January: John SHAW, expiree, is listed on a "Register of Expirees and Conditional Pardon Holders who have left the Colony". He sailed on the S.S. Rob Roy for Adelaide 15 January. Described as: previously reg. no. 9868, arrived Hougoumont; healthy, aged 43, stout, 5'0¼" tall, black hair, brown eyes, long visage, light complexion, eyebrows meet (https://slwa.wa.gov.au/pdf/battye/police_gazettes/188101_m.pdf). --00--
SHAW, John, inmate #10110, Colonial Other No: 9868 Marital Status: Unmarried Occupation: Painter Sentence Place: Geraldton, Western Australia Crime: Stealing an order for payment of money Sentence Period: 4 years Previous Convictions: Yes Ticket of Leave Date: 8 Nov 1875 Comments: Remission Certificate 31 Oct 1876, Geraldton. Labourer, general servant. To South Australia, 15 Jan 1881 (https://fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/research/convict-database/). --00--
COLONIAL CONVICTION: 1873, 4 June: Tried, convicted and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by the Court of General Sessions, Geraldton, for stealing an order for the payment of money. Admitted to Fremantle Jail, inmate #10110, 38, painter, single, literate, Wesleyan; family – mother, Annie Jackson (60), at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England (Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930; Convict Department, Registers; General Register for Nos 9599-10128 cont. (R16)). --00--
FREMANTLE JAIL RECORD: SHAW, John; inmate #9868, arrived 10 Jan 1868 per Hougoumont Date of Birth: 1835 Marital Status: Unmarried Occupation: House painter Literacy: Literate Crime: Burglary Sentence Period: 7 years Previous Convictions: Yes Ticket of Leave Date: 6 Nov 1869 Comments: Conditional Release 29 May 1871, Vasse. Reconvicted in Western Australia (https://fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/research/convict-database/). --00--
IN WA: 1868, 10 January: On arrival, John SHAW was listed as convict #9868, 30, house painter [note change], single, no children; literate, Protestant; convicted for “burglary after previous conviction”; 7 years’ penal servitude; family – Mrs Rowe, 9 Queen’s Rd West, Chelsea; behaviour in jail in England “fair” [at odds with UK jail records]; 5’5¼” tall, black hair, brown eyes, large visage, not very dark complexion, healthy appearance; marks – eyebrows meet (Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930; Convict Department, Registers, General Register for Nos 9599-10128 cont. (R16)). --00--
EMBARKATION: 1867, 8 October: John Shaw was sent from Portland to board the Hougoumont for WA. “The hired convict ship Hougoumont, which has been taken up, by the Government for the conveyance of a numerous party of convicts to Freemantle, Western Australia, left the Nore on October 1, and proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board 150 convicts from the establishments at Chatham and Millbank. The convicts from the Chatham establishment, at St. Mary's, embarked from the dockyard on board the paddle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakely, and were in charge of a numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all heavily armed. Among the convicts shipped were a party of fifteen Fenians, who were engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, together with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the ship Severn [only two were on the Hougoumont – Thomas Berwick and Lionel Holdsworth, each sentenced to 20 years for fraud], and some others who have achieved notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian convicts, like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained together in gangs, but it was observed that they were kept apart from the other convicts in a portion of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel also took down a number of convicts from the establishment at Millbank, for shipment on board the Hougoumont, in charge of a strong escort and convict guard. On Tuesday, October 8th, the Hougoumont arrived in Portland roads. Shortly before midday ninety convicts were marched down to the Government pier at Portland under a strong escort of the 12th Light Infantry. The party included twenty-three Fenian convicts, among whom it was said, was Moriarty [not the senior Fenian, Captain Moriarty; rather, this was Bartholomew Moriarty, aged 17]. The Government steamer employed in the breakwater service was used for conveying the convicts on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The convicts were chained together on embarking, and on board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the convicts safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The Governor of the penal settlement at Freemantle, Captain Young, is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native land.” (Sydney Morning Herald, 19 Dec 1867, p4, at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28608271). --00--
1867, September: All details as above (England, Criminal Lunatic Asylum Registers, 1820-1876 for John Shaw; Quarterly Returns of Prisoners in Convict Prisons/Lunatic Asylums; 1867, September). --00--
1867, March: All details as above (England, Criminal Lunatic Asylum Registers, 1820-1876 for John Shaw; Quarterly Returns of Prisoners in Convict Prisons/Lunatic Asylums; 1867, March). --0--