Category: Convict Histories

By Irma Walter, 2025. When looking through the description of crimes committed by those transported to Western Australia between 1850…

By Irma Walter, 2024. At the time of the 1841 Census, Edmund Sedgwick was aged 11, living with his parents,…

Following a conviction of larceny at Bridlington, Yorkshire, on 15 October 1850, Thomas Delaney (or Delany) was sentenced to ten…

By Irma Walter, 2024. Western Australia was the last of the colonies to accept convicts from Britain, with the first…

By Irma Walter, 2024. Charles Wright was born c1832. His mother’s name was Mary Wright and they lived in the…

By Irma Walter, 2024. Richard McKew’s career of crime began at an early age. In 1848, Richard McKew, (14), and…

By Irma Walter, 2023. Eli Way was born at Northwood on the Isle of Wight, to parents William Way and…

By Irma Walter, 2024. A break-in took place at Finmere, in the far north-east of Oxfordshire on the night of…

By Irma Walter, 2023. John Rowland Jones was born on 22 April, 1841, at Llanbeblig, Caernarfonshire in Wales. His parents…

By Irma Walter, 2023. The invention of photography in the 19th century proved to be of value to police and…