Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Samuel Thompson was transported on the Speke, departing 5th Aug 1826 and arriving 26th Nov 1826 with 156 passengers.
Speke (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 54 |
| 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
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Samuel Thompson, age 35, per Speke II (1826) Tried Glasgow Scotland, 1826, 14 years for Forged notes. DOB, 1791, Native place, Dublin, Single, Protestant, Farmers man, shoemaker.
Glasgow Circuit Court. Samuel Thomson was next brought up, and charged with tittering some forged bank-notes on the Royal Bank of Scotland, and on the Glasgow Bank, knowing the same to be forged. The prisoner pleaded Guilty, and the Public Prosecutor having restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment, he was addressed from the Bench on the great hazard to which he had exposed his life, which must have been forfeited for this offence, had it not been for the leniency of the Depute Advocate -a leniency, however, which he had uniformly seen him to exercise with great prudence and discrimination. The prisoner was then sentenced to 14 years transportation. Glasgow Herald, 28 April 1826. On Tuesday and Wednesday morning the following persons under sentence of transportation, were sent off from our Jail for England, viz… For Fourteen years: … and Samuel Thompson. Glasgow Herald, 26 May 1826. Hulk Records. HO-9-7_2 (page 41/48) Retribution Hulk at Sheerness. Received from Edinburgh, 7 June 1826. Saml. Thompson, age 35, Uttg forged notes. Tried at Glasgow, 25 April 1826, 14 years, To NSW 31 July 1826.