PENSIONER GUARDS & CONVICT SHIPS Trove Tuesday 22nd Nov 2022

 

Wikipedia has a good summary re Pensioner Guards. Though they were mainly in Western Australia, they were also in some other states.

"The Pensioner Guards were English military personnel who served on convict transportation ships en route to the Swan River Colony between 1850 and 1868, and were given employment and grants of land on arrival.^[2][3] Their initial employment lasted for six months, or the duration of the voyage, whichever was the longer time. After this they became "pensioners" and had to serve 12 days per year as well as whenever called upon.^[4] They paraded annually in Perth at the Pensioner Barracks. Part of their purpose was to fulfil a promise by the British government to send free settlers to the colony to dilute the convicts, and to maintain law and order in the colony.^[5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensioner_Guards

You can click on the articles & images to enlarge or go to the original via the link.

Gate remnant of the pensioner barracks building

Geelong Advertiser and Squatters' Advocate (Vic. : 1845 - 1847), Wednesday 19 August 1846, page 2  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94443083

Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thursday 20 December 1849, page 4  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4770187

Inquirer (Perth, WA : 1840 - 1855), Wednesday 20 March 1850, page 3   http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65740046

Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Wednesday 6 November 1850, page 10  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36267411

Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wednesday 20 August 1851, page 4 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4779894

Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857), Friday 2 April 1852, page 2 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8771146

Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), Saturday 30 July 1898, page 13 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228456634

Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), Saturday 13 January 1923, page 47 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140736706  

300px-HMS_Flying_Fish_(1873) Wikipedia

LIST OF SHIPS NAMED

19 August 1846  The Flying Dutchman, The Maitland, The Canton,

14 Nov 1949    Lord Auckland,  Eden, Sisters, Blenheim, Royal Saxon,

Perseverance, Cadet, Halycon, Maria, Fair Tasmania, Hyderabad, Stately, Australasia, Lady Denison, Emma, Esperanza, Johannes Sarkies

6 Nov 1850      Flying Fish, Eliza, Neptune, Miranda, Punch, Maria Somes, Nile, Deslandez, Amicus,  (with females) St.Vincent, Earl Grey, Punch, Baretto Junior, Duke of Cornwall, …..

Swan, City of Sydney, .. Stirlingshire, Cacique, Sydney Griffiths, Potentate, Undine, Thomas and Joseph, Rory O’More, Cape Horn, Sir John Byng, Sophia, Hirondelle, Margaret and Agnes, Ann Jane, Tamar, Sir William Wallace, Amicus, Pilot, Moodie, Jenny Lind, Hargraves, Ogilvie, Agenoria, Lang, Henry Edward, Maybe, Frances, Marr, Albert Packet, Abson, Rebecca, Simpson, Bentley, Free Trades, Adams

2 April 1852      Mary and Ann, Tom Tough, Conside, Ferdinand, the Mohawk, Alverton, Buckland, Druid, Rio Packet, Mohawk, Emma Prescott, Shamrock, Swan, Raven, Corsair..

LINKS TO FURTHER READING

Pensioner Guard Memorial - Monument Australia

https://monumentaustralia.org.au › colonial › display › 60...

Enrolled Pensioner Guards and Warders

Enrolled Pensioner Force WA – Recognising and researching ...https://enrolledpensionerforcewa.org.au

Click on the image and you can see the name etc.    enrolled pensioner force

World Heritage Australian Convict Sites - The Pensioner Guards were retired  soldiers recruited in England to accompany convicts on their voyages to Western  Australia. The Pensioner Guards were not retained as permanent

Archival Records Pensioner Guards

You may find further details in one of my favourite sites.. Convict Records

The 'Stirlingshire' at anchor • Photograph • State Library of South Australia

PLEASE NOTE: TROVE TUESDAY will not be published next Tuesday owing to family commitments. It will return on December 6th. 

It may be a good time to catch up with anything you have missed.