Having left London on 7th November 1821 on
the "Shipley" (4), he arrived in Sydney some 124 days later, 11th March
1822. There were 150 males on board at the time of departure with
one person dying en route. The master of the "Shipley" was Lew W. Moncrief
and the surgeon was George S. Rutherford.
Contradicting his age of seventeen a Newcastle
Court report dated Saturday July 14, 1821 stated that:-
"On Wednesday last, at the General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace of this town, Mary Ann Smith and Elizabeth Boucher
alias Smith, for stealing wearing apparel, and ADAM BARLOW, aged fourteen
years, all notorious offenders were sentenced to be transported for seven
years".
Documentation collected in June 1997 from
the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society, Bolbeck Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
revealed the following:-
TRANSPORTATIONS FROM NEWCASTLE QUARTER
SESSIONS OCTOBER 1818 - JANUARY 1831
From accession No. 540/7 Tyne and Wear Archives
Department. Blandford Square Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Extracted by Fred Furness.
Name: Adam Barlow crime: Petit larceny
trans for: Seven Years Date: 11th July, 1821
Also at the Northumberland and Durham Family
History Society another document was obtained which states as follows:- |