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Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Monday, 24 December 2018

24th December 1818: John Slater, the final Luddite convict to be deported, arrives in Australia

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'View of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point' by Joseph Lycett , c.1817/1818 On Christmas Eve, Thursday 24th December 1818, the transpo...
Saturday, 5 May 2018

5th May 1818: The Luddite Samuel Caldwell (aka 'Big Sam') arrives in Australia

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'View of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point' by Joseph Lycett , c.1817/1818 On Tuesday 5th May 1818, the transport ship 'Neptune...
Wednesday, 10 January 2018

10th January 1818: The Luddite John Clarke (aka 'Little Sam') arrives in Australia

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'View of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point' by Joseph Lycett , c.1817/1818 On Saturday 10th January 1818, the transport ship 'The...
Tuesday, 29 August 2017

29th August 1817: Charles Mundy updates the Home Office about the informers, Blackburn & Burton

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Burton August 29th: 1817 Dear Sir I have written to Mr. Lockett to ask if there is anything further material in Olivers statement that i...
Monday, 31 July 2017

31st July 1817: Samuel Caldwell convicted of frame-breaking during the 'Loughborough Job' - the final Luddite trial

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On Thursday 31st July 1817, at Leicester Assizes, the Luddite Samuel Caldwell (aka 'Big Sam') pleaded guilty to frame-breaking duri...
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Saturday, 1 April 2017

1st April 1817: The trial of the remaining 'Loughborough Job' Luddites, at Leicester Assizes

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Trial of Thomas Savidge, Joshua Mitchell, Wm. Withers, William Towle, John Amos, John Crowder, and James Watson, the firing a gun at John A...
Monday, 16 January 2017

16th January 1817: James Large & Joseph Allen sentenced to 14 years transportation for frame-breaking at Leicester

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On Thursday 16th January 1817, Joseph Allen & James Large were convicted of frame-breaking at Leicester Quarter Sessions and sentenced t...
Sunday, 31 July 2016

31st July 1816: A pseudonymous writer replies to the Courier about the Ely prisoners affair

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The 31st July 1816 edition of the Bury & Norwich Post carried a letter from a pseudonymous writer 'Eliensis' (latin for 'El...
Tuesday, 26 July 2016

26th July 1816: The London Courier defends the transportation of the Ely prisoners

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An editorial in the 26th July 1816 edition of the London Courier attacked the meeting recently held in Ely which expressed disquiet about t...
Sunday, 24 July 2016

24th July 1816: Bury & Norwich Post editorial about the recent meeting in Ely

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ELY, JULY 22, 1816. We are much concerned to state, that an occurrence which has recently taken place here has occasioned a very conside...
Friday, 22 July 2016

22nd July 1816: Public Meeting in Ely expresses alarm about the fate of transported prisoners

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AT a MEETING of the INHABITANTS of the TOWN of ELY, held at the Club Inn, in Ely, on Monday the 22d day of July, 1816, (t he Magistrates ha...
Friday, 1 July 2016

1st July 1816: The 9 'bread or blood' rioters are moved from Ely to Newgate prison prior to transportation

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On Monday 1st July 1816, the 9 prisoners convicted of various offences and who had been sentenced to transportation  at the Ely Special Com...
Saturday, 25 June 2016

25th June 1816: The Chief Bailiff of Ely complains about the overcrowded Gaol

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Ely June 25th 1816 Sir You will excuse my troubling you with this Letter, merely to say, how necessary it is, that an application should...
Friday, 7 February 2014

7th February 1814: Foster Roach, the last prisoner from the 1812 trials, arrives in Australia

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'View of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point' by Joseph Lycett , c.1817/1818 On Monday 7th February 1814, the transport ship General He...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013

9th October 1813: The 'Earl Spencer' arrives in Australia, bringing Luddites & a Steam Engine

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'Part of the Harbour of Port Jackson, and the country between Sydney and the Blue Mountains, New South Wales', an Aquatint by R Ha...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013

11th June 1813: The Convict Ship 'The Fortune' arrives in Sydney, Australia

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'The entrance of Port Jackson, and part of the town of Sydney, New South Wales' an aquatint by Havell & Son, after Major Jame...
Friday, 22 March 2013

22nd March 1813: Two men sentenced to transportation at Derby Lent Assizes for riot at a Corn Mill

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On Monday 22nd March 1813, two men - Benjamin Beardsley & George Cope - were sentenced by Sir Vicary Gibbs to 7 years transportation aft...
Saturday, 12 January 2013

12th January 1813: Baron Thomson passes sentence on the convicted Luddites

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Ten days after the Special Commission at York had been opened, all the trials were over, and all that was left was for Baron Thomson to pass...
Friday, 24 August 2012

24th August 1812: Convictions at the Chester Summer Assizes

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Some of the less well-known convictions for Luddism took place at the Chester Summer Assizes, on or before Monday 24th August 1812. William ...
Monday, 23 July 2012

23rd July 1812: The result of the Derby and Nottingham Summer Assizes

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The Derby Mercury of Thursday 23rd July 1812 carried the outcomes of both the Derby & Nottingham Summer Assizes. The Nottingham Assizes ...