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Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Jane Watt was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 30th May 1792 and arriving 7th Oct 1792 with 349 passengers.
The Royal Admiral was built at Lynn in 1828. Convicts were transported to New South Wales on the Royal Admiral in 1830, 1833, 1835 and to Van Diemen's Land in 1842. 1833 - Ship; Royal Admiral. Commenced fitting as a Convict Transport at Deptford on the 29 March. Surgeon Superintendent [Andrew Henderson] joined on the 3rd April. Guard embarked on the 13th. Sailed on the 17th and anchored in Kingston Barbour near Dublin on the 9th May. 220 convicts embarked on the 16 May 1833 and the ship sailed from Dublin Bay for Sydney on the 4th June and arrived there on the 20 October. Originally embarked with 221 convicts, 5 Died at sea, 1 was Relanded. 11 sick on shore, The convicts were described as 220 such wretchedly debilitated creatures ... Refer to the surgeons journal for full details
Royal Admiral (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 187 (94) Stamford Mercury - Friday 02 September 1791 p 3 Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 17 May 1792 page 2: |
| 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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Jane Watt per convict ship "Royal Admiral" was sentenced to death in August 1791 and then respited with transportation for life, sent on "Royal Admiral" departing May 1792, arriving October 1792. Her conviction in August 1791 had been for stealing in a dwelling house, and transported for this: Stamford Mercury - Friday 02 September 1791 p 3 "At Stafford, six prisoners were capitally convicted, viz, Jane Watt for stealing in a dwelling house, no person being therein" However Jane Watt had already been in Stafford gaol for some seven years, and had escaped about the beginning of 1791, being at liberty for only ten days, in which time she committed the burglary. Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 17 May 1792 page 2: “Friday, 54 transports, of whom five were women, were removed from Newgate on board a Lighter, to be conveyed to the Royal Admiral, lying at Gravesend, and bound for Botany Bay. “It is hoped the above transports may be useful hands in the whale fishery of New South Wales. “Mary Haddock, an active lass of only sixteen years, who was capitally convicted at the last Stafford assizes for horse-stealing, under the name of James Barrow, has had her sentence mitigated to a seven years visit to Botany Bay. And Jane Watts, for a burglary near Enville, accompanies her on the same voyage, for life. This woman, about 15 months since, escaped from the gaol, where she had resided near 7 years, but was re-taken in course of ten days, during which time she effected the burglary above mentioned.”