? From the website headed: The convict factor is raised again for Edward ATKINS -
'This was raised some time ago when an Edward/Edwin ATKINS was found in New South Wales convict Muster and later recorded as working at Yas Plains.
Edward ATKINS 1830 Florentia (on convict muster record but not transcribed to ship record) 24 y Gloucester, compared to
Edwin ATKINS 1830 Florentia (transcribed to ship record) 19 y from Yas Plains etc etc
The Certificate of Freedom Report on Edwin/Edward ATKINS says he has
dark grey eyes
sandy hair
a ruddy-freckled complextion
eyebrows meeting
5 ft 7.5 inches tall
tatoo HEA on his right inside wrist'
and appears to be a blacksmith
Just to-recap, Henry Edwin ATKINS christened at Cirencester 23 February 1812
Siblings: **: Charles 1810: Rebecca 1811: (parents: Joseph & Ann)
Joseph ATKINS married an Ann HAINES in 1809 -
1841 census, Cheltenham
Ancestry: ALKINS)
Joseph - 50 Shoemaker
Ann - 50
David - 15
Marian (Mary Ann)
Eliza - 10*** Christened at Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire
Eliza, daughter of Joseph (Shoemaker) and Ann - christened 28 February 1830 aged 5 m - (born 28 September 1829)
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This is the 1851 Census for Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire
Ancestry, spelt as ALBIN
ALBIN
Joseph - 67 - Shoemaker & Chelsea Pensioner, born Glos Cirencester
Anne - 65 - born Glos Cirencester
Mary A - 25 - daughter born Glos Cirencester
Eliza - 20 - daughter, born Birlingham (BIRMINGHAM, Worcestersh)
*** Will check for records on National Archives for Joseph ATKINS, Chelsea Pensioner)
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The Gloucester Prison Records on Ancestry for Gloucestershire
describes Edwin ATKINS
Light brown hair
dark blue eyes
fair complexion
long face
6 small moles on his forehead
6 small moles on right cheek
a small mole near right armpit
3 small moles left arm
2 moles on his back
3 moles on the back of his neck
read and write
blacksmith, Height 5' 7"
(The man also on the same charge was William WALKER aged 42, also from Cubberley, he had dark sandy hair and was 5-6")
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New South Wales Australia Convict Indents
Edwin ATKINS
Civil Gloucester: 7 April 1830
Arrival Sydney Cove,: 17 December 1830
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Ancestry:
Gloucestershire, England, Prison Records,
Against the following Sentence of death has been recorded
Edwin ATKINS, Civil Gloucester, 7 April 1830