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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Diary by Robert Espie of the Treatment and Regulation of 97 Female Convicts and 23 Children, Together with 21 Free Women Passengers and 49 of their Children, Embarked on board the Lord Sidmouth at Woolwich in September 1822 for Passage to Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales |
| Date | 22 Aug 1822 - 1 Mar 1823 |
| Document Type | Personal Account |
| Reference | ADM 101/44/10 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | Admiralty and Predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and Predecessors: Medical Journals |
| Description | Manuscript journal of John Will Bower, Surgeon on board the ship "Lord Sidmouth". Includes a list of regulations, diary of events and details of selected individual cases, including three deaths. |
| Series Description | A selection of journals returned to the bodies responsible for superintending naval medical services by the surgeons of HM ships, some hospitals, naval brigades and shore parties. There are also journals from convict ships and emigrant ships, for which naval surgeons were provided. The journals contain an account of the treatment of medical and surgical cases, and usually a copy of the daily sick list, statistical abstracts of the incidence of diseases, and general comments on the health and activities of the ship's company. |
| Biographical Note / History | Fleet Temporary Memorandum 215 of 1990 terminated the requirement for ships' medical officers to compile journals. |
| Theme(s) | Journey Conditions; Ships and Shipping Lines; Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations; Motives for Emigration |
| Country (from) | Great Britain |
| Country (to) | Australia |
| Ports | Hobart, Tasmania, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; London, England; Rio di Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nationality | English; European |
| Ships | Lord Sidmouth |
| Keywords | insanity, dysentery, diarrhoea, death, seizures, religion, Christianity, missionaries, health and sickness, diet, vomiting, seasickness, female emigration, transportation, child migration, violence |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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