Isaac Watkins

Isaac Watkins, one of 305 convicts transported on the Maitland, 19 March 1840

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Isaac Watkins
Aliases:	none
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1817
Occupation:	Labourer
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Male median life span was 61 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to Life

Crime:	Highway robbery
Convicted at:	Glamorgan Assizes
Sentence term:	Life
Ship:	Maitland
Departure date:	19th March, 1840
Arrival date:	14th July, 1840
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 305 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/12, Page Number 163 (83)
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 Project.

Did you find the person you were looking for?

If Isaac Watkins was the person you were looking for, you may be able to discover more about them by looking at our resources page.

If you have more hunting to do, try a new search or browse the convict records.

Know more about Isaac Watkins?

Contribute to this record

Community Contributions

D Wong on 5th December, 2018 wrote:

16/3/1839 The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian:
(In part) Isaac Watkins, and Richard Hudson, were then charged with demanding money with menaces from William Rees, with intent to steal the same, and were fully committed for trial at the next Quarter Sessions.

17/8/1839 The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian:
REMOVAL OF TRANSPORTS.__On Monday last the following prisoners were removed from our county gaol, to be put on board the Ganymede Hulk, at Woolwich, previous to their being sent out of the country, in pursuance of their respective sentences: -
viz,__For Life: William Watkins, 22, Isaac Watkins, 21, Richard Hudson, 17, and John Thomas, 25, for robbery with violence.

Isaac Watkins, William Watkins and John Thomas were all on board the Maitland 1840.
(Note: 2 John Thomas’s on the Maitland, 2nd one was tried at Lancaster, Liverpool Quarter Sessions).

Isaac Watkins was listed as 23 years old on arrival.
Native Place: Glamorganshire.

Isaac could read, was Protestant, single, 5’4¼” tall, sallow complexion, light brown hair, hazel eyes, scar over left eyebrow, nose broad and cocked, William Watkins, Jane Watkins on upper, Isaac Watkins, R.J.H.J.DJ MJ WJ IxW and anchor inside lower right arm, scar back of middle finger of right hand, M.D, fish, M. Watkins inside lower left arm, scar inside middle finger of left hand, mark of two burns on right leg; Brother to No. 85.

1846: TOL Moreton Bay
29/3/1849: TOL Passport
1851: TOL Moreton Bay.

31/5/1851 Sydney Morning Herald:
Isaac Watkins, per Maitland, for being drunk and disorderly ; Warwick Bench.

No records of Isaac on the QLD BDM.

Convict Changes History

D Wong on 5th December, 2018 made the following changes:

date of birth: 1817 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime