REMNANT OF PAGE FROM SHIP'S REGISTER
1857Small, rectangular, yellowing, single page from ship's register. Remnant of a page cut from a ship's register showing names and details of nine convicts: Joseph Mitchell, James Taylor, Alfred Jarratt, James McCarthy, John Crowder, Richard Hamilton Lindsey, Hugh Moore, Robert West and James Curran. The page is divided into six columns, each with a heading printed in black. Handwritten details of the nine convicts are handwritten in each column in black ink, detailing their name, age, literacy, marital status and description of crime. Handwritten upside-down, in blue pencil, near the bottom left-hand corner of the page, is '538'. On the reverse of the page are the remains of a large, rectangular, pink, Fremantle Prison Library printed label. The label is damaged, and printed across the top in black, is '[…] PRISON LIBRARY/ REGULATIONS'.
This page from a ship's register has evidently been used at an unknown later date to repair a book in the Fremantle Prison Library. Old publications, like Ships' Registers, were often used to repair library books in the Fremantle Prison Library.
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The convicts named on this page are: Joseph Mitchell 6240, James Taylor 6276, Alfred Jarratt 6312, James McCarthy 6322, John Crowder 6322, Richard Hamilton Lindsey 6329, Hugh Moore 6330, Robert West 6344 and James Curran 6353. They were all transported on the ship Clara, which arrived in Fremantle in 1857.
