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Samuel Sherridan was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 30th May 1792 and arriving 7th Oct 1792 with 349 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 180 |
| 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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Old Bailey Online SAMUEL SHERIDAN. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 14th September 1791. Text type Trial account Defendants SAMUEL SHERIDAN Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 14th September 1791 Reference Number t17910914-10 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 321. SAMUEL SHERIDAN was indicted for stealing, on the 9th of August , one wooden cask, value 6 d. and twenty-six pounds of anchovies, value 5 s. 6 d. the property of William Walter Veney . CHARLES CHAWNEY sworn. I am servant to Mr. William Walter Veney , who keeps warehouses at the water side ; on the 9th of August I lost a cask of anchovies; I met the prisoner coming with it up Galley-quay , in the gateway, near two o'clock; he had something tied up in a wrapper; he said he was going to No. 7, Beer-lane; he was stopped on an alarm, and he had a barrel of anchovies, I found a barrel was missing from the warehouse, and that a partition was broke out, and four were gone; I reckoned them in January, not since; none had been sold; I had no suspicion that any were stolen. - JOHNSON sworn. I apprehended the prisoner; I saw Mr. Sheridan the prisoner come with something on his shoulder; I stopped him, he said, damn and blast it, I am going to carry it to No. 7, Beer-lane; I do not know where he came from, I saw him come from the quays, the warehouse is near the quays. HENRY ALLEN sworn. I am a porter, I saw the prisoner in the galley-quay, it was near two o'clock, the door opened into the half story, he was looking out at the door. Prisoner. I often work in the warehouse among the sugars. WILLIAM WELLS sworn. I am quay constable; on the 9th of August I took the prisoner with a cask on his shoulder, and took him to the Compter. (Deposed to.) WILLIAM WALTER VINEY sworn. I am proprietor of those warehouses, I verily believe this cask came out of my warehouse, by the mark upon it, it corresponds with ninety-six that are there; there were an hundred, I lost four, none were sold. PRISONER's DEFENCE. I worked as a labouring man on the quays, those gentleman know me, I had been drinking all that morning, I was very much in liquor; a man offered me sixpence to take it to Seething lane, that was Bill Hay , and I pitched it on the steps of the half story. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the London Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.