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Convict Ship Marquis of Wellington 1815 — Free Settler or Felon

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Convict Ship Marquis of Wellington 1815
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A ship-by-ship reference site for the convict transports, compiled from the Historical Records of Australia, the Colonial Secretary's papers, the surgeons' journals and the colonial press, with its sources named on each page. Secondary, but a real reference work rather than a family tree.

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Convict Ship Marquis of Wellington 1815 — Free Settler or Felon Secondary

For “Immigrated” 27 JAN 1815 of John Barber

Embarked : 200 men | Voyage : 148 days | Deaths : 2 | Captain : George Betham. | Surgeon : Thomas Leighton | Military Guard : 46th Regiment ... The Marquis of Wellington departed England on 1 September 1814 and touched at Madeira and Rio de Janeiro where she stayed 3 weeks. They departed Rio on 29 November 1814. ... The ship arrived at Port Jackson 27 January 1815 ... Of the 199 prisoners who arrived in Port Jackson, 48 were under the age of 21. ... The convicts were disembarked on 2nd February 1815.

Field values and voyage narrative in page order; the ellipses stand for omitted sections. Cited for the voyage of the ship on which he arrived, and it confirms the 27 January 1815 arrival date already on this event. The page also records that the ship was formerly the Betsey, launched at Calcutta in 1801, and that the men tried at Middlesex in February 1814 were held on the Captivity hulk from 15 April 1814 and put aboard on 6 August — which is where a Cambridgeshire man sentenced that same February would have spent the intervening months.