Robert Belfast

Robert Belfast was born on 24 July 1770 in Bangor, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
He was born to a poor family who starved all the time. He got into stealing at the age of 13. His family moved to Exeter, Devon.
In 1787, at the age of 16, he was caught stealing in Sidmouth. He was sentenced to death but was put on the Scarborough in the First Fleet to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
On the voyage, he was taught the ways of the Audax Brotherhood by Edward Portman who was hanged for mutiny with Bradley Waterford on 3 June 1787 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Belfast took this opportunity to escape but he failed and was killed.