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Spencer Whiteman was transported on the Claudine, departing 19th Aug 1829 and arriving 6th Dec 1829 with 180 passengers.
The 'Claudine' was an East Indiaman built in Calcutta in 1811 from teak wood with a tonnage of 452 tons. In 1820 she ran from London to Hobart Town, Sydney, Batavia and back to England. After leaving Sydney on 10 May 1820 under the command of John Welsh, she discovered the Claudine Reef in the Coral Sea, before making her way past Murray Island in Torres Strait on her way to Batavia. The Claudine made two voyages to Australia as a convict transport. Departing Woolwich 24 August 1821 mastered by John Crabtree with Henry Ryan as ship's surgeon. She arrived in Port Dalrymple, van Diemen's Land after a passage of 113 days via Teneriffe, on 15 December, landing 40 convicts. She then sailed on to Hobart Town and landed the remaining 119 male convicts, one prisoner having died en route . On 24 August 1829 the Claudine departed London, arriving in Sydney on 6 December 1829 after a voyage of 104 days; her Master was William Heathorne, the surgeon William H Trotman. On this voyage she sailed with 180 prisoners and their guard; two prisoners died en route. she then sailed on to Madras on 30 December. The Claudine returned to merchant service and on Monday 21-22 November 1840 under the command of captain Brewer was deliberately beached with another East Indiaman 'Westminster' during a storm off the Kent coast near Margate. This stranding was the subject of a famous engraving by William Henry Bartlett and a pencil and chalk sketch by J.M.W. Turner. The 'Westminster' successfully unloaded 6000 chests of tea into two steamers which delivered it to the East India Docks and was refloated on 7 December. 'Claudine' which was beached onshore unloaded into 200 carts the following day 23rd November and was then refloated on a spring tide after 7 December. Both ships having been dismasted in the storm, were repaired and put back into the trade. The Claudine appears to have been sent to the wreckers in 1849.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 172 |
| 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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SECOND CLASS CONDITIONAL PARDONS – His Excellency the Governor has directed it to be notified, that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorise the issue, in conformity with the provisions of the Act of Parliament 6 Vic, c. 7, of Conditional Pardons of the second class, to the undermentioned individuals, to take effect in the Australian Colonies including New Zealand, but not elsewhere. As new forms and new registers have become necessary to include the conditions of these Pardons, some delay must take place before proper instruments can be issued to the parties. As soon, however, as they have been prepared, and are ready for delivery, a further notice will be issued, apprising the said parties accordingly. Spencer Whiteman, Claudine ; Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Feb 1846. ---------------------------------------------------- The following news reports may relate to this man. -------------------------------------------------- In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION. In the Will of Benjamin Laken, late of Gundagai, in the said colony, labourer, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given, that an application will be made to this Honourable Court, in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, on the expiration of fourteen days after the publication of this Notice, that Probate of the Will of the above-named deceased be granted to Spencer Whiteman, of Gundagai aforesaid, labourer, the sole Legatee named in the said Will. Dated at Yass this twenty-fourth day of May, A.D. 1855. GEO. CIMETIERE ALLMAN, Proctor for the said Spencer Whiteman, Rossi-street, Yass. Goulburn Herald, 2 Jun 1855. One Pound Reward. LOST or STRAYED, from Singleton, on the 5th inst., a BAY MARE, branded OB near shoulder, 3 near thigh. Any person bringing the said mare to Mr. P. Cullen, Innkeeper, Singleton, will receive the above reward. SPENCER WHITEMAN. Singleton, July 18th, 1861. Maitland Mercury, 20 July 1861. --------------------------------------------------- CATTLE STEALING. Spencer Whiteman and Francis Dorrington were indicted for having at Singleton, on the 13th October, 1862, feloniously stolen eleven bulls, eleven cows, eleven oxen, eleven heifers, eleven calves, the property of Frederick Brown. A second count charged the prisoners with receiving. The prisoners pleaded not guilty and were defended by Mr. Faucett. Evidence was then led at some length. It was of a conflicting nature. The jury, not being able to agree, were locked up, and the Court adjourned. Sydney Morning Herald, 9 Mar 1863. ------------------------------------------------- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18694172?searchTerm=Spencer Whiteman Full report of the trial. Extract from the account: Edward Browne, resides in Singleton, knows the prisoners, Whiteman was a drover in witness' employ, Dorrington he thinks resided somewhere near the Wollombi, on the 15th September, 1852, gave Whiteman 203 head of cattle at McIntyre River, between 300 and 400 miles from Singleton, they were to be delivered at Maison Dieu at Singleton, or taken on to Maitland ; he had no authority from witness to sell or dispose of the cattle in any way, he had no written instructions, some of the cattle were witness' , some were in his charge, as agent for Mr John Browne; saw seven or nine of the cattle in October following at the police yards, Singleton, knew two or three ofthem ; one was branded HZ, one FH with a gridiron, and the other JB ; knew them to be branded similar to those sent down; can swear to two-F.H. and gridiron, a red cow, the other a brindle one H.Z. -Cross examined: Could swear to the brands positively, Whiteman had sold lame cattle on the road before this; it was a custom, they were accounted for ; never knew or heard anything against Whiteman's character ; he was very severely hurt in the head about two years ago; he has not yet recovered, that witness is aware of; knows Dorrington for two years, he always had a good character. ------------------------------------------------- At the Maitland Circuit Court, ... and Spencer Whiteman, for cattle stealing, was sentenced to be worked on the roads for five years. Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Mar 1863. -------------------------------------------------- PRISONERS DISCHARGED FROM THE PENAL ESTABLISHMENT, COCKATOO ISLAND,- &c., DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, 1865. Spencer Whiteman, Offence, Cattle stealing; Sentence, Five years roads. Tried 7th March 1863, Maitland Q.S., Discharged 5 September 1865, Sentence Commuted. NSW Police Gazette, and Weekly record of Crime. Oct 4 1865. -------------------------------------------------- The following sales were effected at the Gundagai Land Office during the present week: — Spencer Whiteman, 65 acres, Kimo, County Clarendon. The Gundagai Times, 25 July 1868. --------------------------------------------------- NSW Death Registrations. Spencer Whiteman, Reg No. 3398/1874, Age 71 years, Died Albury, Albury district.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 August 2022), April 1828, trial of WILLIAM BENNETT JAMES FOORD THOMAS MAYNARD THOMAS MILLER WILLIAM PLUMB JOHN SPRAY SPENCER WHITEMAN (t18280410-2). WILLIAM BENNETT, JAMES THOMAS MAYNARD, THOMAS MILLER, WILLIAM PLUMB, JOHN SPRAY, SPENCER WHITEMAN, Royal Offences > tax offences, 10th April 1828. Before Lord Chief Justice Tenterden. 795. WILLIAM BENNETT , JAMES FOORD , THOMAS MAYNARD , THOMAS MILLER , WILLIAM PLUMB , JOHN SPRAY , and SPENCER WHITEMAN , were indicted for that they, and divers other evildisposed persons to the number of three and more (to wit) to the number of seventy, whose names are as yet unknown, heretofore (to wit) on the 23d day of January , at Eastbourne , in the County of Sussex (to wit) at Westminster, in Middlesex, being then and there armed with fire-arms and other ofensive weapons (to wit) with guns, blunderbusses, pistols, bludgeons, bats, clubs, staves, and hedgestakes, unlawfully and feloniously did assemble themselves, and were then and there unlawfully and feloniously assembled in order to be aiding and assisting in the illegal landing, running, and carrying away of certain uncustomed goods, and goods liable to pay certain duties of Customs, which had not then been paid or secured, that is to say, two hundred gallons of foreign brandy, and two hundred gallons of foreign Geneva ; against the Statute. SECOND COUNT, the same as the first, only omitting the words printed in italics, and substituting the following,"were aiding and assisting" in the illegal landing, running, &c. Bennett pleaded GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 20. Foord pleaded GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 43. T. Miller pleaded GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 20. Plumb pleaded GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 25. Spray pleaded GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 28. Whiteman pleaded GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 26. Maynard pleaded GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 40.
ADM 101/17/5/3 Folios 22: Copy of the daily sick book for the Claudine Male Convict Ship. S Whitman, aged 27, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 4 November 1829. Discharged 7 November 1829.
Spencer served 15 years hard labour and was released in 1846
Spencer served 17 years hard labour,and was released 1844
Spencer was involved with the Battle of Sidley Green, he was a smuggler. He left a wife and two daughters behind in England. In later years many Whitemans from Sussex left voluntarily to find a new life in the antipodes.