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Transportation
John Wilson was transported on the Clyde, departing 27th Apr 1832 and arriving 27th Aug 1832 with 201 passengers.
Clyde (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 316 |
| 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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1832. Description of John Wilson. Height: 5'2+1/2", Complexion: brown, Hair: light brown, Eyes: hazel and small, two pockmarks left side of chin. Source. Detail State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X634]; Microfiche: 700 Source Information Title New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Author Ancestry.com
Some sources for Departure and Arrival. Detail Class: HO 11; Piece: 8 Source Information Title Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868 Author Ancestry.com Detail State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X634]; Microfiche: 700 Source Information Title New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Author Ancestry.com
1832. Departure and Arrival Convict Ship Clyde 1832 Embarked 200 men Voyage 110 days Deaths 1 Surgeon's Journal - No Tons: 490 Master Daniel N. Munro Surgeon Superintendent George Fairfowl The Clyde was built at Greenock in 1819. Convicts were transported to Australia on the Clyde in 1830 (VDL), 1832 (NSW) and 1838 (NSW). Embarkation Many of the convicts were embarked on the vessel from the Hulks on 21st April 1832. Military Guard The Guard consisted of 2 sergeants, 1 corporal and 30 privates of the 4th regiment, 7 soldiers wives and 10 children. Departure The Clyde departed Portsmouth on 9 May 1832. They were in the vicinity of Madeira on 23 May when Captain Munro boarded the Portuguese brig of war, Conde de Villa Ker which was blockading Madeira.[1] Port Jackson The Clyde arrived in Port Jackson on 27 August 1832. One hundred and ninety-nine prisoners were landed on 6th September 1832. A muster was held on board by the Colonial Secretary Alexander McLeay on 29th August 1832. References 1. Sydney Gazette 28 August 1832 2. Bateson, Charles Library of Australian History (1983). The convict ships, 1787-1868 (Australian ed). Library of Australian History, Sydney : pp.350-351
Notes on the Prison Hulk 'Euryalus' From: https://www.ourfamilypast.com/article/topic/6185/haa007-breakout-1-hulk-euryalus The HMS Euryalus, having taken part in the Battle of Trafalgar and briefly serving as Admiral Collingwood’s flagship, was decommissioned in 1825 and converted into a prison hulk for boys on the River Thames at Chatham. In 1847 the ship was moved to Gibralter, and was sold for breaking up in 1860. (1) "At the end of 1825 the boys were transferred to a new prison hulk, the Euryalus, an ex-frigate of the Trafalgar fleet, moored at Chatham. Over the twenty years that these hulks serviced juveniles, about 2,500 boys of fourteen and under passed through them. There were also considerable numbers of older boys both in the juvenile hulks and distributed amongst the other prison hulks. Conditions on the Euryalus were frequently the subject of concern. Certainly by the 1830s if not before, damning comment can be found in the various parliamentary Select Committees. From the Euryalus boys were transported both to New South Wales and to Van Diemen’s Land. The Bellerophon was reserved for juveniles from mid-1824 until the end of 1825 when they were transferred to the Euryalus hulk, said to be ‘specially fitted for them’. In reality the hulk was beset by problems and attendant controversy for much of the decade or so that it was in use. For instance, in 1831 Thomas Wontner launched a blistering attack on the Euryalus in his book, Old Bailey Experience, prosaically pointing out that, ‘If there be any regular and established schools for teaching crime, the ship Euryalus is the place’." (2) In addition, "The hulks, as we have seen, epitomised the great dread of ‘contagion’ and ‘contamination’. In 1835, W. A. Miles received information from the juvenile penal settlement in Van Diemen’s Land, Point Puer, indicating that the boys’ tenure in the Euryalus had aggravated their criminal tendencies: ‘however criminal they might have been before their Commitments, he seriously believes that previous to their Imprisonment in that accursed Hulk... they were comparatively innocent’. (3) In her article, From courthouse to convict-ship to colony: the Euraylus [sic] boys in the 1830s (4), Heather Shore examines interviews of nineteen boys on the Eurylaus who were “transported to Australia in the mid-1830s”. I have not been able to find a complete transcript of this article to read it in it’s entirety, however, from what I have been able to ascertain, our convict boy, Benjamin Naden, was unfortunately not one of those nineteen boys interviewed, so this remarkable opportunity to hear the 'voice' of this young ancestor is not available to me. Shore set out “to explore the experience of penal transportation for a certain group of juvenile offenders in the early nineteenth century”, and stated that, “whilst criminal records offer only a snapshot of a person's life, the various types of record can be combined in order to create a mosaic of lives which are generally thought largely inaccessible to the historian. Thus the stories constructed from the records of these boys lives tells stories of deprivation, poverty, hopelessness and violence, but also of resourcefulness, resistance and occasional humour.” ________________________________________________________________________________________ (1) Wikipedia. “List of British prison hulks” Last modified on 27 April 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_prison_hulks (2) Wonter, T., Old Bailey Experience: Criminal jurisprudence and the Actual Working of our Penal Code of Laws… London, James Fraser, 1831. (3) Miles, W. A., Poverty, Mendicity and Crime, London, Shaw and Sons, 1839. (4) Shore, Heather, “From courthouse to convict-ship to colony: the Euraylus [sic] boys in the 1830s”. Colonial Places, Convict Spaces: penal transportation in global context, c. 1600-1940. Conference which was hosted by The Department of Economic & Social History, University of Leicester. 9-10 December 1999. (5) Shore, Heather, "Transportation, penal ideology and the experience of juvenile offenders in England and Australia in the early nineteenth century," pp. 81-102. Article in Crime, History & Societies VOL. 6, N°2 | 2002 accessed 4 June 2016 https://chs.revues.org/416(link is external)
23 Nov 1829. Chatham, England Imprisoned in hulk Euryalus, awaiting transportation to NSW. Source. Detail Home Office: Convict Prison Hulks: Registers and Letter Books; Class: HO9; Piece: 2 Source Information Title UK, Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849 Author Ancestry.com
21 Oct 1829. Lancashire, England Tried for larceny. Sentenced to transportation for 14 years. The Criminal Register states 'Larceny, before convicted of felony'. One source lists his crime as stealing tobacco, while another says that he stole a silk handkerchief. Sources. Detail Class: HO 27; Piece: 37; Page: 444 Source Information Title England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 Author Ancestry.com Detail State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X634]; Microfiche: 700 Source Information Title New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Author Ancestry.com Title New South Wales, Australia Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849 Author Ancestry.com Publisher Ancestry.com Operations Inc
January 1829. Lancashire, England Tried for Larceny. Sentenced to 4 months imprisonment. Source. Detail Class: HO 27; Piece: 37; Page: 368 Source Information Title England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 Author Ancestry.com
Abt. 1816. Birth. No specific date for birth has been found. Multiple documents list the year of birth as 1816 +/- 4 years. Sources for birth include: Detail Home Office: Convict Prison Hulks: Registers and Letter Books; Class: HO9; Piece: 2 Source Information Title UK, Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849 Author Ancestry.com Detail State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X634]; Microfiche: 700 Source Information Title New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Author Ancestry.com Detail State Archives NSW; Roll: 855 Source Information Title New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930 Author Ancestry.com