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Crime
Voyage
Transportation
John Wharton was transported on the Guildford, departing 4th Apr 1822 and arriving 15th Jul 1822 with 192 passengers.
The ‘Guildford’ was built on the River Thames, England in 1810. Used as a Convict Transport ship to Australia - voyages 1812, 1816, 1818, 1820, 1822, 1824, 1827 & 1829. The ship was lost at sea near Singapore in 1831, loosing all aboard.
Guildford (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 165 (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 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
Hulk Records. Sheerness Hulks, Bellerophon. HO-9-7_5 page 26. Received Fourteen prisoners from York, 11 Nov 1821. John Wharton, age 17, Felony, Tried Sheffield, 24 Oct 1821, 7 years, To NSW 29 Mar 1822, per Guildford.
National Archives. ADM 101/31/3. Date: 1822. Medical and surgical journal of the Guildford convict ship by James Mitchell, Surgeon and Superintendent for 9 March to 24 July 1822 during which time the said ship was employed in a voyage to New South Wales. Folios 2-4: John Wharton, aged 17, Convict; disease or hurt, had been suffering for some time from sea sickness, getting weaker daily and with increasing depression of spirits. Put on sick list, 18 April 1822. Died 26 April 1822. In the surgeon's opinion 'his anguish of mind together with his violent sea sickness have combined to produce the fatal catastrophe'.
1821 - Trial; 24 October 1821. Sheffield 1821 - 11 November. Received on board the prison hulk; Bellerophon. Moored; Woolwich Age; 17 years - born about 1804 Transported; Guildford - 29 March 1822 Offence; Felony
SHEFFIELD SESSIONS. At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the West-Riding, held by, adjournment at Sheffield on Wednesday, ... the following prisoners took trials:— … Henry Egley, John Wharton, and Thomas Sunderland, tor stealing quantity of iron from Lloyds Mills, the property of B. Sayle, Esq. and others—To be transported for seven years.— Sheffield Independent, 27 Oct 1821. On Friday the following convicts left York, in order to be delivered on board the hulks at Sheerness, up the River Medway;— William Carnall, John Wharton, Henry Egley, Thomas Sunderland, George Burgin, Samuel Warburton, Henry Wilkinson, John Brown, Thomas Buxton, John Taylor, Joseph Windle, and James Smith, severally to be transported seven years: also John and John Craven, for fourteen years Sheffield Independent, 17 Nov 1821.
UK, Royal Navy Medical Journals, Age; 17 [1805] Surgeon's Notes; This boy has been suffering much for sometime from sea sickness
Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Other Fleets & Ships, P. Name; John Wharton Ship; Guildford - 4 April 1822 Trial; York [West Riding] Quarter Sessions Date; 24 Oct 1821 Sentence; 7 years Noted against name; DIED; on voyage. 26 April 1822 ----------------