4_1825_Asia

The Asia III 1825

Ships

SHIPS - our ancestors’ voyages to somewhere down south.

The 1803 Calcutta voyage of Thomas Peters and Mary Ann Peters (nee Hews) & child

The 1804 Ocean voyage of Thomas Peters and Mary Ann Peters (nee Hews) & child

The 1825 Asia III voyage of William (Snr) Marks

The 1832 Royal Admiral voyage of William Holt

The 1833 Layton voyage of Ann Maria Lamb

The 1838 St George voyage of Alexander Fraser and Margaret Fraser (nee McBean) & children

The 1865 Hannah More voyage of Patrick Joseph Doyle and Maria Bridget Doyle (nee Hand) & children.

Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, convicts going aboard,

Edward William Cooke, 1828, hand-coloured etching.

National Library of Australia: an9058453 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-135934086

…’It was reported on 18th December 1824 at Portsmouth of the detention of many outward bound vessels by contrary winds. Some of the ships had been two months out of the Downs during which they had made repeated ineffectual struggles to clear the Channel but could not get to the westward of Plymouth.’ https://www.jenwilletts.com/convict_ship_asia_1825_3.htm

…’Asia was sheathed in copper in 1822. Repairs were undertaken to the copper sheathing in 1824. Under the command of William Pope and surgeon Thomas Davies, she left Portsmouth, England on 6 January 1825 with 200 male convicts. She arrived in Sydney on 29 April; one convict died during the voyage.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_(1815_ship)

Asia III (3rd convict voyage)

Tons: 492

Captain William L. Pope

Surgeon Thomas Davies

Embarked 200 men

Sailed from Portsmouth 6 January 1825

Voyage 113 days

Deaths 2

Arrived Port Jackson 29 April 1825

Convicts Landed: 197 male convicts (only 1 male Irish convict was transported)

My 3rd great-grandfather William Marks, arrived in Australia aboard the Asia III on the 29 April 1825