Convict Offence C R

[Neil Todd]

so does that mean respite from capital punishment. IE Commuted to life over the seas??

Neil

[Dundee]

Yes it does.  In the criminal registers you will also often see the letter 'R' written under the word 'Death' in the sentence column.  I think that respite from a death sentence pretty much always meant a life sentence instead.

Debra 

[Jaznjjj]

Thank you.  That makes good sense.  I'll make a note of it in my research.  J

[mum mum]

Sorry wrong post
mum mum

[Jaznjjj]

Mum mum, it looks like your last reply maybe should have gone to a different poster?   

[mum mum]

Hi
Probably could have, Lol.
mum mum

[rmod]

CR would definitely stand for capital respite, in so many shipments of convicts the majority were were those under a hanging sentence that was commuted to life.

I have a many times great grandfather who  came out on the Third Fleet as a boy in chains. By the time he had entered his teens he had escaped Sydney and was heading south and eventually ended up in southwestern Victoria.

I have tried to find him in convict records but he used at least 2 names, Lawrence Murphy and Edward Pearson. (most likely both false)

In 1868 he was charged with stealing a sheep carcass from a butcher's shop in Collingwood but appears to not have been convicted. If anybody else knows anything about my dodgy ancestor I am very eager to hear about him. He was living in southern Vic. with the Aborigines at William Buckley's time but unlike Buckley avoided recapture and died as an escaped felon.

[Dundee]

Hi rmod,

It would probably be best to start a new thread if you would like to try and find more info about your man.  Include anything you have already found out about him and the name he was using when transported.

Debra