Just a 'quick' article from the West Briton, which doesn't fall into any category other than "Interesting". (At least, I hope it's of interest!) .............................. WEST BRITON AND CORNWALL ADVERTISER - 31 July 1857 REMOVAL OF AN EXTRAORDINARY BATCH OF CONVICTS - . On Monday week, notice was given at Lloyds, that her Majesty's Government required a ship immediately to convey 400 male convicts from England to Freemantle, Western Australia. Perhaps a more remarkable set of convicts never left this country at one time than will go out in this ship. Amongst the 400 will be found Sir John Dean Paul, Strahan and Bates, the fraudulent bankers; Robson, the Crystal Palace forger; Redpath, who committed the forgeries on the Great Northern Railway Company; and Agar and the railway guard, who committed the gold robbery on the South-Western Railway; the notorious bank forger barrister, Saward, alias Jem the Penman, the putter-up of all the great robberies in the metropolis for the last twenty years, also goes out in this ship, which will leave England on the 24th proimo, embarking the convicts at Deptford, the Little Nore, Portsmouth, Portland and Plymouth. ................................ Julia M. West Briton Transcriptions, 1836-1856 at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad St. Austell Area History and Genealogy at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell

I always suspected there was 'class' in W.A.!!!!!!! Pat Perth, Western Australia. On 9/07/2013 10:04 AM, Julia Mosman wrote: > Just a 'quick' article from the West Briton, which doesn't fall into any category other than "Interesting". (At least, I hope it's of interest!) > > .............................. > WEST BRITON AND CORNWALL ADVERTISER - 31 July 1857 > REMOVAL OF AN EXTRAORDINARY BATCH OF CONVICTS - > . > > On Monday week, notice was given at Lloyds, that her Majesty's Government required a ship immediately to convey 400 male convicts from England to Freemantle, Western Australia. Perhaps a more remarkable set of convicts never left this country at one time than will go out in this ship. Amongst the 400 will be found Sir John Dean Paul, Strahan and Bates, the fraudulent bankers; Robson, the Crystal Palace forger; Redpath, who committed the forgeries on the Great Northern Railway Company; and Agar and the railway guard, who committed the gold robbery on the South-Western Railway; the notorious bank forger barrister, Saward, alias Jem the Penman, the putter-up of all the great robberies in the metropolis for the last twenty years, also goes out in this ship, which will leave England on the 24th proimo, embarking the convicts at Deptford, the Little Nore, Portsmouth, Portland and Plymouth. > ................................ > > > > > Julia M. > > West Briton Transcriptions, 1836-1856 at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad > St. Austell Area History and Genealogy at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell > > > ------------------------------- > Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

At 12:25 PM 9/07/2013, Pat wrote: >I always suspected there was 'class' in W.A.!!!!!!! Ha ha! Maybe many of them were transferred on to Tasmania? From thence, tickets of leave allowed them to set themselves up in Victoria as bankers, forgers, etc. Bushrangers, perhaps? Now I know why everything fell apart here in that severe depression of 1893 :-| Graham Melbourne

At 12:04 PM 9/07/2013, you wrote: >Just a 'quick' article from the West Briton, which doesn't fall into >any category other than "Interesting". (At least, I hope it's of interest!) I should think so, Julia. It makes one wonder if the forgers, banker and robbers got together after serving their time, to do it all over again? Cheers Graham Melbourne (where there were no convicts, except after their tickets of leave =-O) Oz

On 9 Jul 2013, at 12:04 PM, Julia Mosman wrote: > Just a 'quick' article from the West Briton, which doesn't fall > into any category other than "Interesting". (At least, I hope it's > of interest!) > > .............................. > WEST BRITON AND CORNWALL ADVERTISER - 31 July 1857 > REMOVAL OF AN EXTRAORDINARY BATCH OF CONVICTS - > . > > On Monday week, notice was given at Lloyds, that her Majesty's > Government required a ship immediately to convey 400 male convicts > from England to Freemantle, Western Australia. Perhaps a more > remarkable set of convicts never left this country at one time than > will go out in this ship. Amongst the 400 will be found Sir John > Dean Paul, Strahan and Bates, the fraudulent bankers; Robson, the > Crystal Palace forger; Redpath, who committed the forgeries on the > Great Northern Railway Company; and Agar and the railway guard, who > committed the gold robbery on the South-Western Railway; the > notorious bank forger barrister, Saward, alias Jem the Penman, the > putter-up of all the great robberies in the metropolis for the last > twenty years, also goes out in this ship, which will leave England > on the 24th proimo, embarking the convicts at Deptford, the Little > Nore, Portsmouth, Portland and Plymouth. There have been a couple of references lately to "Freemantle" as a city in Western Australia. This means that although the West Briton writers are wrong, they are at least consistent! The city in question has always been called FREMANTLE: it was named after the captain of one of the first pair of British vessels to arrive there with free settlers on board. (It only became a convict settlement later.) FREEMANTLE is the country seat near Southampton of a certain member of the gentry, and entirely unconnected with the town in Western Australia. This can be verified by googling both names. Andrew Rodger rodgera@audioio.com