Convicts of the Royal Sovereign 1835

The  Royal Sovereign 336 tons departed Portsmouth 29th July 1835 and arrived in Sydney 12 December 1835.

Captain:  Moncrieff

Assistant Surgeon:     Francis Logan

Convicts: 169

Guard: 32 soldiers of 17th and 28th Regiments including Captain Wheeler, Ensign Hilliard, Sergeant Joyce, Corporal John Kelly, Private John Corrigan (died), Private Thomas Macgrath, Private John Lehy

Passengers: 7 women and 8 children

Of 169 Convicts who disembarked at Port Jackson 75 could read and write and 37 could read only.

48 were married in England before transportation

41 of the convicts left children in England.

48 were farm workers – servants and labourers

75 convicted of stealing

28 convicted of housebreaking

33 had prior convictions

144 received tickets of leave or certificates of freedom

Hunter Valley received largest number 39 convicts.  Bathurst received 24 convicts

Follow the links above to find out more about these convicts

George Bailey    William Bailey  Thomas Balkin    Job Barnes   Joe Bean       William Bean    Joseph Bellamy   Thomas Bellamy    Joseph Biddle    Henry Biggs    Robert Blogg   James Sevencroft Blomfield   John Bluford   Michael Bowker    William Braddick    Thomas Bragg    James Broadbent    Jabez Brown    Benjamin Bryant    William Bullpin        Samuel Bunce    Joseph Burrell    James Butcher    George Cawston    William Cawston      John Charlewood    William Clay    William Cocks    William Collins    Israel Cottle    John Couch    Charles Davies    Jonathon Davis    William Davis    John Docking      William Eyres    Frederick Eley    Thomas Ellis    George Filewood    James Filewood    Robert Filling    robert Fitch   George Fitness  James Flower    Robert Fry     Richard Garland    Joseph Giles    William Goldsmith         Thomas Goodwin    William Goss    William Grant    John Green    William Greig    Richard Grose    Joseph Grout    Timothy Guest    Thomas Harley    William Hall    William Harrington    George Harris    John Harris     John Hazel    Joseph Headley ,,,, Richard and Henry Henley  Robert Heyward    John Higgins  William Higgott    John Hoare       John Holloway    Henry Hornblower    John Howard    Thomas Hughes        Frederick Palmer Hulme    John Jackson    Thomas Jenman    John Jennings alias Stadthurst    John Alexander Johnson    Jacob King    Daniel Keefe    Robert Keevil    John Kemp    Thomas Kendall    Edward Kershaw    James King    William King    Samuel Knight    George Knight    John Lake    James Lawson    Richard Lee    James Leverton    John Ludlow    Patrick Mangan    Edward Martin    William Martin    John Mason    John Mayers    Robert Miller    Patrick Millett    Michael Mooney    John Moss    David Murrells    John Neal    George Newman   John Overall  William Palmer    John Parker    James Pedder    William Pluck    Peter Plummer    John Pople    William Powell     John Rawlins    Richard Rawson     James Thomas Richards    John Richards    Henry Robinson       David Rose    Dominick Sampson    Michael Shaw    Thoams Shearman    John Smith    Norman Smith    William Smith    Robert Sowerby    Peter Spencely    John Strickland    John Sullivan    Edward Symonds    William Stainer    Thomas Skuce        William Taylor    James Thompson    Joseph Thompson   Henry Tudor        Samuel Tunstall    Mathew Walker    George Wall    Charles Wallace    William Wallis    Lazarus Wells    Mathew Westlake    George Wharton    William Whittle    John Wicks    John Wilby    Isaac Wilcox    Henry Wilkinson    Frederick Williams    Henry Williams    James Robert Williams      Peter Williams     Joseph Wilmott    Thomas Wilson    James Wyse    Charles Wood    Richard Woolford      George Woollard    William Youngman

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