Category: Convict Histories

By Irma Walter, 2021. Walter Raison (Raisin) was born at Shimpling, in Suffolk, son of Ambrose Raisin, agricultural labourer, of…

By Irma Walter, 2021. Richard Fraser, born in Scotland c1832, was convicted at a General Court Martial at St George’s,…

By Irma Walter, 2021. Joseph Cole arrived in WA on board the Lord Raglan on 1 June 1858. He was…

By Irma Walter, 2021. John Stubbs (alias William Compton & William Brown)[1], was one of almost 10 000 men who…

By Irma Walter, 2021. Isaac Clements was said to be a respectable-looking young man, but from an early age he…

George Benbow was charged at Staffordshire on 13 October 1862 with larceny at Handsworth, a small town which is now…

By Irma Walter, 2021. John Warburton and John Morris, along with two others, were arrested at Preston in Lancashire on…

By Irma Walter, 2021. On 7 September 1856 George Dunn(e) arrived in Western Australia onboard the Runnymede. This contingent of…

By Irma Walter, 2020. Auguste Wilhelm (aka Baron von Prediger) was born on 5 April 1829 in the Duchy of…

By Irma Walter, 2021. When Charles Kemble’s gang of thieves and receivers was broken up in 1862/63 by a series…