Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Thomas Underhill was transported on the Exmouth, departing 3rd Mar 1831 and arriving 28th Jul 1831 with 291 passengers.
Exmouth (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 33 (19) |
| 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
"Thomas Underhill was my paternal 2 x Great Grandfather."
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Convict Notes
1831 - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Exmouth - 1831 Indent No; 191 Name; Thomas Underhill Age; 15 years Native Place; Birmingham Trade or calling; Brass Cock Dresser Offence; Stealing Clothes Trial; Warwick - 27 March 1830 - Life Previous Convictions; 1 month Height; 4 ft. 7 in Assigned; Carters Barracks Remarks; UNCLE; William Hyndes - 7 years ago 1839 - Ticket of Leave; No; 39/2130. Date; 11 November 1839. Allowed to remain in the District of Broulie 1842 - New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry Thomas Underhill. Age: 26 [1816] . Age; 26. Ship; Exmouth. Ticket of Leave. Jane Kirkland. Age; 17. Ship; Susan - Arrived Free. Granted - 29 Jan 1842. Rev George Macfee. Broulie 1847 - CP. No; 47/35. Dated; 10 April 1847. Age; 31 years
The first Underhill to come to Bega. He is a direct ancestor to nearly every Underhill in Australia. Thomas Underhill was a convict who arrived in the colony, at Port Jackson, on the 28th July 1831 aboard the ship "Exmouth". The ship had sailed from Woolwich in England on the 2nd March 1831, a voyage of 148 days. Thomas had been tried and convicted at the Warwick Assizes on the 27th March 1830 and sentenced to transportation for life. He was 15 years old. Following his arrival he was employed as a blacksmith at Cowpastures near Campbelltown. In 1833 he rode overland to Goulburn and then to the Monaro district and on to Twofold Bay and finally to the head of the Kiah River. He was the first white man to travel through the districts in that route. He obtained a job as a blacksmith at the Imlay Brothers shipbuilding business at their whaling station at Snug Cove which is the present site of Eden. He then became a steersman in the Imlay's whaling fleet but eventually moved to Bega to help build the Imlay's station at Tarraganda where they bred horses, cattle and sheep. He was the first to drive a bullock wagon to Dry River and first to plough Pandula Flats where he grew turnips.