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Transportation
Thomas Wilson was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 4th Jun 1833 and arriving 26th Oct 1833 with 226 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
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Convict Notes
COUNTY OF ANTRIM ASSIZES. The following cases were omitted in our last number :Thomas Wilson, for a burglary in the house of Mr. Richard Thomson, of Belfast, in April last - Pleaded Guilty.-It was intimated to his Lordship that, in consequence of theĀ prisoner having given up the money stolen, an application would be made by the prosecutor for a mitigation of punishment. This would have been. done in Court but owing to the severeĀ illness of Mr. Thomson. Belfast News-Letter, 27 July 1832
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Thomas Wilson, age on arrival, 19, per Royal Admiral (2) 1833, Tried 1832, at Antrim, Life for Burglary. DOB, 1814, native place, Antrim. Single, Protestant, Carpenters boy.