Media: BOOK - paperback, 196 pages
Author: G. Sewell
Year: 2022
ISBN: 9780859059169
Other: bibliog, index
Publisher: Hesperian Press

The ‘Ramillies’ was barque that was built at Sunderland in Durham, England in 1845, and was initially employed as a convict transport ship for voyages to Western Australia. There were a total of 37 voyages carrying almost 10,000 convicts were sent to the colony, and the ‘Ramillies’ was voyage number 13 of these.

The 1854 voyage took 79 days and arrived in Fremantle on 7 August 1854, with 94 passengers and 277 convicts (1 death recorded on voyage).

Between the two volumes of the ‘Tales of Western Australia’s Convicts: Ramillies’ there are biographies of all 277 convicts from this voyage.

Some of the crimes the men were convicted for included burglary, larceny, firing a stack, counterfeiting coins, uttering forged banknotes, cattle and horse stealing, wounding with intent, arson, firing a pistol at the Queen, receiving stolen goods, manslaughter, embezzlement, sacrilege, pick pocket, court martial, highway robbery … and the list goes on and on.

Glennis Sewell has researched the lives of all 277 convicts aboard the ‘Ramillies’ 1854 voyage, and provides details of when and where they were born, employment, other brushes with the law, when they were pardoned, who they married and any children, and when they died. As well as a bunch of anecdotal details throughout.

A valuable record for anyone with connections to those on the ‘Ramillies’ 1854 or who has an interest in convicts in Western Australia.

CLICK HERE to see a full index of the Ramillies V1 and V2 volumes.

Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
The Voyages of the 'Ramillies'
Convicts in New Zealand
Deaths in the Fremantle Asylum
Escape to South Africa
Irish Prisoners
Scottish Prisoners
Welsh Prisoners
Convict Prisons and Hulks
Ships in which the convicts were transported
Bibliography
Research Tools
Index

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Tales of Western Australia's Convicts: Ramillies 1854 Volume 1