Henry Huggett (1830 – ?) (Reg. No. 3491)
By Irma Walter 2020 Henry Huggett was sentenced at Rochester in Kent on 27 December 1851 for larceny. He was…
Category: Convict Histories
William Ganfield (1830 – 1897) (Reg. No. 5170)
By Irma Walter 2020 William Ganfield was born in 1830 at Wedmore, Somerset.[1] His parents were William Ganfield and Elizabeth…
Thomas Thomas (1813 – 1873) (Reg. No. 1571)
By Irma Walter, 2019. In nineteenth century Britain any form of deviant sexual behaviour was considered to be an ‘unspeakable…
George Garment (1815 – 1862) (Reg. No. 1292)
By Irma Walter, 2020. George Garment and his twin sister Marion were christened at the village of Wyke Regis near…
Edmund Champ (1830 – 1853) (Reg. No. 1763)
By Irma Walter, 2019. Three men, Edmund Champ, Daniel Steel and James Witt were convicted at Southampton in Hampshire of…
Frederick McDiarmid (1834 – ?) (Reg. No. 4797)
After arriving in Western Australia convicts were able to get medical treatment for their various disorders at the convict hospital…
John Wickey Stable (1801 – 1866) (Reg. No. 4618)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Convict John Wickey Stable arrived in Western Australia on the Nile on 1 January 1858, aged…
John Anderson Christie (1818 – 1883) (Reg. No. 5711)
By Irma Walter, 2020. John Anderson Christie was born on 26 May 1818 in Avoch, Scotland, to Alexander Christie, a…
Murder on the High Seas – Miles & Seymour
By Irma Walter, 2019. Three men stood in the dock as the judge put on his black cap and pronounced…
The Huntingdon Burglars – Titman, Moss & Woothardt
By Irma Walter, 2020. A dastardly gang of thieves roamed the district around Peterborough in Cambridgeshire for several years before…