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Voyage
Transportation
Edmund Sworder was transported on the Parkfield, departing 12th May 1839 and arriving 1st Sep 1839 with 242 passengers.
Built Isle of Man 1833. 496 tons. Voyage from Sheerness 15 May 1839 to Port Jackson, New South Wales 1 Sept 1839 - 109 days. (No deaths reported) 240 passengers. 31st Regiment, 6 women & 9 children.
Parkfield (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/12, Page Number 40 |
| 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
NSW Convict Index. Edmund Sworder, per Parkfield, 1839, Ticket of Leave, No 45/1055. district, Port Macquarie; Born, Herts; Trade, Labourer; Tried, Herts ass. Edmund Sworder, per Parkfield, 1839, Conditional Pardon, 10 July 1850, No 50/506.
His Pardon is provided in The Sydney Morning Herald Sep 19, 1850: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12921192?searchTerm=%22edmund%20sworder%22 A letter was sent March 22, 1852 requesting that he be allowed to go back to the UK. This request was denied. I downloaded the file from Ancestory, it has a number 9629 in the left column, and the address: Mr. W Welch, 19 Silver St, Falcon Square. I am directed by viscount? Palmerston to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th, just, requesting that the authorities in New South Wales may be requested to procure a passage to England for Edmund Sworder, a convict whose sentence has expired, the expense of which his friends are willing to defray, and I am to ??? you that your request cannot be complied with.
This Edmund Sworder (there are several) is my husband's first cousin five times removed, being the son of my husband's five-times-great-uncle, another Edmund Sworder. Edmund was convicted of "maliciously wounding with intent to maim" and, according to the original records at the Hertford Assizes and the prison hulk Justitia (where he was held prior to transportation), his sentence was 15 years. Edmund evidently returned to England (his name appears on a list of absolute and conditional pardons, but I don't know which year), as I have his probate record in which he left effects under £600 and named two of his nephews as executors. Edmund was born 8 May 1781 Little Hadham, Hertfordshire into a reasonably wealthy family of Hertfordshire farmers. He died 8 July 1862 in Albury, Hertfordshire, the same village in which he was married to Jane Morris in 1807.