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Voyage
Transportation
Roger Twyfield was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
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Convict Notes
NSW 1828 census. Twifield Roger, aged 81, F.S. Friendship 1788, 7 years, Catholic, Overseer, Residence- Charles Beasley, Cornwallis District, 90 acres 90 acres cleared, 90 acres cultivated.
Roger Twyfield was tried at Shrewsbury, Shropshire on 12 March 1785 for burglary with a value of 10 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Friendship aged about 27 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as labourer. He died in 1842. Report from Dunkirk hulk was “tolerably decent and orderly”.