Researchers who have claimed this convict
There is currently one researcher who has claimed David Thompson
- Researcher (Warren Loxley)
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Biographies
1809, 26 April - He was Court-martialled in Belfast at age 16. He was a private in the 72nd Regiment at the time and was charged with desertion highly aggravated by the fact he had deserted before and that he persuaded another boy to desert with him. Sentence was approved by His Majesty and he was sentenced to be transported for life as a felon. Convicts were kept on hulks in the Thames prior to transportation and “Retribution” was probably David’s hulk and home awaiting embarkation.
1809, 10 May - Proceedings of Court Martial laid before the King.
1810, 18 July - He sailed from England on the ship "Indian" captained by Andrew Barclay. “Indian” was a fully rigged convict transport ship of 522 tons. It was a fairly new ship only having been built in 1809
at Whitby as a first class, 2-deck ship. It embarked from the hulk “Retribution” and stopped at Rio de Janeiro where one of the convicts drowned.
1810, 16 December - He arrived in Sydney aged 17. There were 200 male convicts on the ship of whom 8 died on the voyage including the one drowned at Rio de Janeiro. Listed on convict indents as height 5'3", fair and ruddy complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes. His ticket-of-leave application in 1817 indicates that he was immediately assigned to William Cox.
1817, 13 December - Petitioned for ticket-of-leave whilst a servant of William Cox. (Fiche 3181; 4/1853 p331)
His application is as under:-
To His Excellency Lachlan Macquarie Esquire Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His Majestys Territories of New South Wales and its Dependencies.
The Petition of David Thompson Humbly Sheweth
That Your Excellencys Petitioner was condemned to transportation for Life at Belfast in June 1810 and came to the Colony in the ship Indian in December 1810, since which time he has Lived with William Cox Esqur of Clarendon and had conducted himself to the satisfaction of his Master.
That Petitioner begs to be indulged with a Ticket of Leave; and if Your Excellency grant him that indulgence will, as in duty bound, ever Pray.
Leave to recommend Petitioner to His Excellency the Governor
Wm Cox JP
Henry Sutton JP
In the margin of the petition someone had written “CP” which could mean that a Conditional Pardon was intended instead of a Ticket of Leave.
1818, 31 January - He was conditionally pardoned by Governor Lachlan Macquarie when he was aged 25. He was listed as a labourer.
Submitted by Researcher (Warren Loxley) on 31 January 2015
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/2, p.22
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