African Ancestry Project
This space is dedicated to convicts with African ancestry who were convicted and transported from Barbados to Van Diemens Land and the colony of New South Wales in the first half of the19th century. Due to the historical development of colonial Barbados a few of the profiles within this page may also include people with joint Irish and African Ancestry.
As can be seen on the profiles, all of these convicts had descriptors such as "black" (complexion), "man of colour", and/or "hair black and woolly". They were all convicted in the colony of Barbados, British West Indies. All of the sentences extended were for a term of transportation.
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| Map of Van Diemens Land
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| South Eastern portion of Australia
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An asterisk * has been placed in cases of uncertainty. These are working documents.
| Profile | Birth Year and Place | Place of Trial | Offense | Sentence | Ship of Transportation | Died | Colony last Documented | Map | Traced
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| Robert Armstrong | 1815 Barbados | 13th June 1836 Barbados | Receipt of Stolen Goods | 7 years | Sarah (1837) | after Dec 1849 | Adelaide, South Australia |
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| South Eastern portion of Australia
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| Yes
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| Robert Blue aka "Blue Boy | 1811* Barbados | 13th June 1836 Barbados | Sheep stealing | 14 years | Sarah (1837) | 1849 | Van Diemans Land |
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| Map of Van Diemens Land
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| Yes
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| John Christmas | 1813 Barbados | 11th December Barbados | Housebreaking | 99 years | Eden (1836) | after Dec 1836 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| Joe Frazer | 1816 Barbados | 12th October 1835 Oyer & Terminer & Gaol Delivery in Barbados | Housebreaking | Life | Lord Lyndoch (1836) | after 1836 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| William Grove | 15th December 1836 Barbados | 1817 Barbados | Arson | 7 years | Recovery (1837) | after Dec 1843 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| George Ironmonger | 1817* Barbados | 10th September 1835, Barbados | Stealing clothes | Life | Moffatt (1836) | after Aug 1836 | New South Wales | | No
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| Robert James | 1808 Barbados | 11 Dec 1832, Barbados | Rape | Life | Augusta Jessie (1834) | 1896 | Hobart Tasmania |
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| Yes
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| John (James) Jones | 1800* or 1812* Barbados | 13 December 1836. Barbados | Horse stealing | 10 Years | Recovery (March 1837), Susan (Dec 1837) | 1883 | Pipers Flat New South Wales |
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| South Eastern portion of Australia
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| Yes
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| John Barrington McIntosh | 1805 Demerara, Guyana | 13 June 1836, Barbados, | Larceny | 7 years | Sarah (1837) | after 1837 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| Prince Moody | 1807 Barbados | 8th December 1835 Barbados Gaol Delivery | Burglary | Life | Lord Lyndoch (2) | after Aug 1836 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| Charles Pegg | 1814 Barbados | 11th December 1835 Barbados Gaol Delivery | Stealing 17ibs sugar | 7 years | Eden (1836) | after Dec 1836 | New South Wales | | No
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| Prince William Ptolemy | 1815 Barbados | 10th June 1834 at Barbadoes Session of Peace and Gaol Delivery | Larceny* | 21 years | Susan (1837) | after 1837 | New South Wales | | No
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| Billy Thomas | 1811 Barbados | 9th December 1835 Barbados | Burglary | Life | Sarah | after 1838 | New South Wales | | No
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| James Thomas | 1812 Barbados | Barbadoes Session Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery | Stole $18 | 7 years | Lord Lyndoch | after Aug 1836 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| Alfred (Unknown) | 1814 Barbados | Barbados | Sheep stealing | 7 years | Sarah (1836) | after 1843 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| Scipio Unknown | 1811 Barbados | 13th June 1836 at Barbados | Larceny | 14 years | Sarah | after March 1837 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| Hamlet (Unknown) | 1813 St Philip, Barbados | 13 June 1836, Barbados, | Burglary | 7 years | Sarah (March 1837) Susan (Dec 1837) | after Dec 1837 | New South Wales | | No
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| Harry or Henry* (Unknown) | 1800 Barbados | 11th December 1835 Barbadoes Session Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery | Sheep stealing | 7 years | Lord Lyndoch | Dec 1836 | Van Diemens Land |
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| Yes
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| Joe (Unknown) | 1805* Barbados | 13th June 1836 Barbados | Larceny | 7 years | Sarah 1837 | after April 1837 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| Stephen (Unknown) Brewster | 1813 Barbados | 9th December 1835 Barbados Gaol Delivery | 7 years | Burglary | Lord Lyndoch | after 1842 | Van Diemens Land | | No
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| Christmas Whittaker | 1803 Barbados | 10 December 1834 Barbadoes Session Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery | Felony | 7 years | Lord Lyndoch | Sept 1836 | Van Diemens Land |
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| Yes
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| March 2024 Total: 21
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asterisk * denotes uncertainty
name in brackets (name) denotes name commonly used.
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