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Transportation
George Young was transported on the Shipley, departing 20th Dec 1816 and arriving 24th Apr 1817 with 125 passengers.
Shipley (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 321 (162) |
| 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
Tasmanian Records. Convict Conduct Record: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON31-1-45/CON31-1-45P348 No 5. George Young. Per Shipley & Ld. Eldon. Tried 8 aug 1816, Life Jan 14 1818. Escaping from Sydney in ship Lord Eldon. Gaol gang until he can be ret’d to Sydney. June 11 1818. Steal’g. Cabbages in L. Alexander’s garden- one month.G. Gang. (Pencilled note - On new book) Conduct Record: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON35-1-1/CON35-1-1P628 No 5. George Young, arrived 1818. Tried 5 Aug 1816, (Bury) Life. Shipley & Lord Eldon. Labourer, 5 ft 6 ½. Age 26, flaxen hair, blue eyes, pock pitted. Native place, London. Description Record: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON23-1-3/CON23-1-3-P158
SUFFOLK SUMMER ASSIZES. CROWN COURT. George Young and George Edwards were each indicted for having jointly and severally uttered two forged notes, purporting to be 5£ Bank England notes, knowing the same to forgery, with intent to defraud Elizabeth Simpson and Mr. Doel . The prosecutrix stated that she was a pawnbroker in Bury St. Edmund’s ; that the prisoners came into her shop on the 4th of May last, and demanded some clothes which had been been pawned 18 months before for 1£. 3s. and produced the note for which they were now indicted, and for which she gave them change.—Mr. Doel, a grocer, in Bury, stated that the prisoners, in the course of the same day, came to his shop, and gave him 5£. note in payment for some goods, which he afterwards found to be forgery. The clerk of the Bank of England proved that both of the notes so uttered the prisoners were forgeries of the same manufacture, and struck from the same plate, bearing also similar dates and signatures.—The prisoner, Young, called a female to prove that she had given him 5£ note in London but she could not identify note.—The Jury, under the direction of Lord Chief Justice Gibbs, who commented on the improbability forged notes so similar coming accidentally into the hands of the prisoners, and upon the protection that it was necessary give the paper of the Bank of England in this commercial country, found both the prisoners guilty and the Judge accordingly passed upon them sentence of death. – they were afterwards reprieved. Cambridge Chronicle, 16 Aug 1816.
National Archives. ADM 101/67/2/1 Diary of the convict ship Shipley for 19 November 1816 to 3 May 1817 by George Clayton, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the ship was employed in carrying convicts, soldiers and passengers from England to New South Wales. Folio 9: 20 January 1817: George Young, convict, aged 26 was attacked last night in bed with violent convulsions, the convulsive motions subsided in a short time leaving him in a state of insanity he slept a little in the night but the greater part he raved and it was necessary to confine him. Folio 15: 1 May 1817: George Young who has had paroxysm of insanity from the first attack but is otherwise in good bodily health was discharged to the hospital.
Hulk Reports. HO-9-8-4 page 34/52. Received from Bury St Edmunds, October 8 1816. George Young, uttering a forged note, tried 8 Aug 1816, Bury St Edmunds, Life, NSW, 3 Dec 1816.
POLICE OFFICE, March 22d, 1819. THE Under-mentioned Convicts, having, on the Night of the 27th of February last, piratically cut-out and carried off the Schooner Young Lachlan from this Port, their Names and Descriptions are now published for general Information. George Young, 5 f. 6½ ins. high, fair complexion, flaxen hair, blue eyes, aged 26, was tried at Bury St. Edmunds in 1816, and was sentenced for life ; is a labourer, and is pock-pitted : he came out in the Shipley, and was landed from the Lord Eldon at Port Dalrymple.