Article History
Print Publication Details
D. R. Hainsworth, 'Underwood, James (1771 - 1844)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pp 546-547.
Amendments
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| Page | Amendment | Year Published |
|---|---|---|
| 546b | lines 40-41 for contructed read constructed | 2000 |
| 546b | lines 1-15 for (1776?-1844) ... Kable [q.v.]. read (1771-1844), shipbuilder, distiller and merchant, was born on 4 September 1771 at Bermondsey, London, son of Thomas Underwood and his wife Mary, née Forster. Although he is traditionally supposed to have come to New South Wales with the First Fleet, he was sentenced to seven years transportation at Maidstone in 1790 and arrived in Sydney in the Admiral Barrington in October 1791. He learned the trade of boatbuilder, probably briefly under Stephen Todd, formerly a carpenter in the Barwell, who was engaged to build a 34-ton sloop for the Hawkesbury River trade in 1797; he built the Diana in 1798-99 which later became the property of Underwood and his partner Henry Kable [q.v.]. | 1986 |
| 547a | line 55 for £1700 read £6200 | 1986 |
| 547b | line 18 for Soon . . . 1842 read In March 1840 | 1986 |
| 547b | line 27 for 1811 read 1810 | 1986 |
| 547b | line 3 for three- read two- | 1986 |
| 547b | lines 19-20 delete , aged 67, | 1986 |
| 547b | lines 22-23 delete Underwood . . . Kendall. | 1986 |
| 547b | lines 32-33 for Shurwell read Sherwell | 1986 |
| 547b | lines 2-9 for is ... 1791. read was sentenced to death at New Sarum Assizes on 11 March 1786, for killing five sheep. The sentence was commuted to transportation for fourteen years and he arrived in New South Wales on the Charlotte in the First Fleet. | 1979 |
| 547b | lines 33-34 for but ... marriage. read who bore him a son William. | 1979 |
Online Publication Details
D. R. Hainsworth, 'Underwood, James (1771 - 1844)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition, copyright 2006, Australian National University.
