Ships transporting the 96th Regiment

Some of these ships carried members of the 96th Regiment  to Australia. Some soldiers Transfered from earlier  Regiments  in Australia and they will be listed on their ships 

We are attempting to place each soldier of the 96th Regiment, who arrived  on board their respective Ship. It does not represent all soldiers only those who may have settled.

We have omitted convicts from these pages as the site is dedicated to the Soldiers.

It is not intended to justify or condone the actions or behaviour of some of the military or the civilian contractors in any form, and should not be taken that way.

Information regarding convicts can be found on the following site :

During 1839 instructions had been received for the 96th Regiment to be held in readiness to embark in detachments for New South Wales, supplying convict guards on different vessels employed on this duty: and as a result the regiment sailed from England in no fewer than 26 different parties as follows:

Claim a Convict 

Soldiers of the 99th  Regiment on board who may have stayed. Some were convicts who later enlisted.

"Surry "

Arrived  16. August . 1834 Victoria

JOHNSTON Francis

"Princess Royal "

Arrived 30 January.1836  Victoria

GUTTERIDGE James

"Barossa"

Left England Jul 4th, 1839 ..Arrived  8th December . 1839

Lt Chambers 17 other ranks

CLINCH Thomas , . CROWHURST Thomas , . CHAMBERS/CHAMBRES

TREAZICKER Leonard

Canton

29th Aug, 1839

Lt Scovell 40 other ranks

 

Nautilus

Sailed from England 5th Sep, 1839 arrived  9 February 1840

Lt de Meuron17 other ranks2

BRUNDLE William

Woodbridge

1st Sep, 1839

Asst. Surg. Murray 17 other ranks

 

Augusta Jesse

7th Oct, 1839

Cptn. Hill 19 other ranks

 

Mangles

21st Oct, 1839

Sgnt. Drake 18 other ranks

 

"Manderin"

7th Feb, 1840

Lt. Nicholson 16 other ranks

 

" Asia "

17th April, 1841 Arrived  5th August . 1841

Lt.-Cln. Cairncross 44 other ranks

 

" Maitland "

27th Feb, 1840  Arrived 15th July 1840

Cptn. Richmond 17 other ranks

 

" King William "

25th Mar, 1840 Arrived  18th August . 1840

Sgnt. Moore 15 men

 

Pekoe

29th May, 1840

Lt. Currer 29 other ranks

 

Eden

22nd June, 1840

Ens. Pierce 30 other ranks

 

Egyptian

24th July, 1840

Lt. Hugonin 29 other ranks

 

Lord Lynedock

14th Aug, 1840

Cptn. Butler 29 other ranks

 

Hindoostan

18th Sep, 1840

Lt. Barclay 30 other ranks

 

Lady Raffles

24th Oct, 1840

Ens. Swetenham 30 other ranks

 

British Sovereign

18th Nov, 1840

Cptn. Jones 30 other ranks

 

Duncan

24th Nov, 1840

Lt. the Hon. J Stourton 41 other ranks

 

Layton

19th Mar, 1841

Qtm. Fox 42 other ranks

 BUCK  Richard George 

Waverley

20th Mar, 1841

Cptn. Bush 41 other ranks

 

Westmoreland

6th May, 1841 not recorded

not recorded

 

David Clarke

6th June, 1841

Ens. Lambert 40 other ranks

 

Lord Goderich14th June, 1841

Brevet Major Robertson 30 other ranks. The ship master was Wm. Mills and the Surgeon Superintendent was Jas. Baird. The first 20 detachments landed in Sydney, New South Wales whilst the remaining six proceeded to Van Diemen's Land and disembarked in Hobart between September 1841 and February 1842.arrived at Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land on the 18th of November 1841.

 

Prince Regent

1st July, 1841

Brevet Major Cheape 39 other ranks

 

Barrossa

13th Aug, 1841

30 non-commissioned officers and men

TREAZICKER Leonard

 

Tortoise

15th Aug, 1841

Major Cumberland 99 other ranks

Some information recorded about the "Tortoise"  Lesley Albertson

HAMPTON Edward

"Egyptian "

Arrived  1843

PARTINGTON James

"Hyberdad "

Arrived   4^th November 1843

Detachment comprising 1 captain, 2 subalterns and 241 privates arrived on 4^th November 1843 Launceston  ship Hyderabad. The detachment under the command of Captain Snodgrass embarked at Gravesend on 29^th June 1843.”

References

Family Members, Military records  ,Pay rolls, Pay Musters, Cemetery Records, Church Records & General Muster Records, Mitchell Library ,Sydney Australia