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Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Elizabeth Watkins was transported on the Platina, departing 22nd Apr 1837 and arriving 22nd Oct 1837 with 113 passengers.
Platina (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/11, Page Number 37 (20) |
| 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
Elizabeth Watkins: Born 1816. Convicted and sentenced in Devon in the Exeter Quarter Sessions for a term of 7 years. One of 113 convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) Australia on the Platina which departed England 22 Apr 1837. Died before 1852 in Van Diemen’s Land (VDL). Married fellow Thomas Browning (either born or baptised 11 Nov 1817 Woodford or Berkeley, Glousteshire, England; died 27 Feb 1867 in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia; buried at Daylesford). Thomas’ grave site has recently been restored and is worth a visit. Thomas, a convict, arrived in VDL on the convict transportation ship George the Third which was wrecked in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel (to the south-east of VDL) in 1835. 134 people lost their lives: 127 of them being convicts. Much information about this wreck is available online. Elizabeth predeceased Thomas who later married Emma Sharpe on 21 Sep 1852 at Portland, Victoria. Emma (nee Sharpe) Browning, Thomas’ widow, remarried, in 1872, George Lawson who died 14 Nov 1900 in Albury, New South Wales, Australia.