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Transportation
James Town was transported on the Eliza, departing 2nd Feb 1831 and arriving 29th May 1831 with 224 passengers.
The Eliza was a 511-ton (later 538 ton) merchant ship built in British India in 1806. She made five voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia.
Eliza (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 4 |
| 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
National Archives. HO 17/54/711831 Jan 25 - 1835 July 31 Prisoner name: John Jacobs, James Town, Edward Camel and Joseph Ring. Prisoner age: Jacobs aged 27 years, Town aged 34 years, Camel aged 24 years, Ring aged 23 years. Prisoner occupation: Labourers. Court and date of trial: Oxford Quarter Sessions, January 1831. Crime: Riot and machine breaking. Destroying a threshing machine at Little Milton on 23 November 1830, the property of James Wells, farmer. Initial sentence: Seven years transportation (all convicts). Gaoler's report: Characters good. Petitioner(s): 111 inhabitants of Stadhampton [Oxfordshire]; 175 inhabitants of Stadhampton; employer and one other; Edward Camel Senior (father of convict Camel) with 10 inhabitants of Stadhampton. Grounds for clemency: Convicts were all honest men; first offence; they did not realise the seriousness of the offence; machine breaking previously punished only by imprisonment, not by transportation. Other papers: Letter from George Eyre of Ewelme, near Wallingford [Oxfordshire] transmitting a petition. Letter from W Ashurst of Waterstock [Oxfordshire] transmitting a petition. Letter from Edward Franklin of [Arutt Farm] confirming that James Town worked for him as a labourer and providing a character reference on his behalf. Additional Information: Convict Camel is in Van Diemen's Land in 1835.
James Town was chr 6 Mar 1796 Chalgrove Oxfordshire. He and Martha Champion has the following children Alfred 1818-1903 Sophia 1821-1899 John 1824-1867 Eliza 1827-1915 Frederick 1929-1903 Eli 1830-1867 I have copies of their baptism records. James married Caroline Moore 29 May 1842 at School House, Waterloo Point Tasmania. Caroline was a convict from Leicester who had arrived on Navarino in 1841. Have copy of marriage certificate. Convicts who had a 7 year sentence or more were able to remarry and so could their spouses. Both the convict and their spouse were to consider themselves as widow/widowers.
Trial held at Oxford England on the 3rd January 1831. Married to Martha Champion at Chalgrove Oxfordshire 30th August 1817 with whom he had at least 6 children.