Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Edward Taylor was transported on the Indefatigable, departing 30th Sep 1814 and arriving 26th Apr 1815 with 202 passengers.
The Indefatigable was built at Whitby. She was square-rigged three masted ship of 549 tons and had three decks; a length of 127 ft. and a beam of 31ft. 8ins. (Details of the 1812 sailing are to be found under separate listing for Indefatigable and Minstrel.)
Indefatigable (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 181 (92) |
| 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 |
Claims
"Edward TAYLOR is the 4th Great Grandfather of Peter THRUPP."
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Convict Notes
Sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales: Page 362.... [Ref T0160] Taylor, Edward, 36, free by servitude, Indefatigable, 1813, 7 years, Protestant, settler, Castle Hill. [Ref T0161] Taylor, Eleanor, 36, free by servitude, Northampton, 1814, 7 years, Protestant. [Ref T0162] Taylor, Susannah, 12, born in the colony. [Ref T0163] Taylor, Edward, 10, born in the colony. [Ref T0164] Taylor, George, 7, born in the colony. [Ref T0165] Taylor, Henry, 1, born in the colony.
Edward wad tried for theft and shoplifting at the Old Bailey on 15 September 1813: (oldbaileyonline.org) t18130915-68 EDWARD TAYLOR, JOHN TURNER and ANN SMITH were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 1st of September, four waistcoats, value 10 s. and a pair of pantaloons, value 3 s. the property of Edward Willis, privately in his shop . SUSANNAH FEAST. I live in Bull's Head-court, King-street, Peter-street. On the 1st of this month I was near Mr. Willis's shop upon Clerkenwell-green , I saw Edward Taylor and Ann Smith at Mr. Willis's shop door; Ann Smith went into Mr. Willis's shop; I saw her take something out of the window; she gave it to Taylor; he put it under his coat; he ran up the green. I saw no further of that. She then went into the shop again; she took something out of the window, put it into her apron, and then run up the green. I then went and gave information to Mr. Willis; he was in the back parlour. He pursued Ann Smith. I saw her brought back with the property in her apron. That is all I know. EDWARD WILLIS. I keep a clothes-shop upon Clerkenwell-green. On the 1st of September, in consequence of what the little girl told me, I pursued the prisoner, Ann Smith. I overtook her, and brought her back with the four waistcoats in her apron. I did not see the men prisoners until afterwards. These are the waistcoats; they are my property. WILLIAM THISSELTON. Limbrick and I took the woman in custody about five o'clock. After Smith had been before the magistrate Taylor and Turner, at eight o'clock, followed her; as we were conveying her to New prison they asked us to let her have something to drink at the Jolly Cooper. They drank together, and talked together. Limbrick told me these men aNew South Walesered the description that he had of them; he took them in custody. TAYLOR, GUILTY, aged 21. SMITH, GUILTY, aged 27. Of stealing, but not privately in the shop. Transported for Seven Years . TURNER, NOT GUILTY . First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Justice Dampier.
In 1923 Edward married Eleanor Berridge who was transported two months later in December 1814 on the "Northampton". They had five children. Edward died 1874 in Castle Hill, Sydney.