Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Thomas Shelton was transported on the Circassian, departing 4th Nov 1832 and arriving 16th Feb 1833 with 192 passengers.
Circassian (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 445 (223) |
| 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
Thomas Shelton appears to have gone to Papplewick, Nottinghamshire, from Arnold, Nottinghamshire, to commit his crime of stealing oak valued at 2s from Mark Wilkinson. [Notts Archive Office Quarter Sessions Minutes 1/42 2.1.1832 & Nottingham Journal 7.1.1832] Following his conviction, he was initially sent to the convict hulk "Justitia," moored somewhere off Woolwich, where he arrived on 24th February, leaving behind a wife, Anne, and 11 children. He left that ship on 20th August and his movements over the next two months before reaching Plymouth remain unknown. However, the “Circassian,†a 401 ton barque, departed from Plymouth on 14th October 1832 carrying Shelton. It took 125 days to make the journey to Tasmania, under the command of George Douthwaite, where 186 male prisoners, including Shelton, were disembarked at Hobart on 16th February 1833. There is some compelling evidence that seven years of transportation failed to cure Shelton of his criminal ways and he received a second sentence of transportation, this time for life, in 1844.