John Warburton (5092) and John Morris (4909)
By Irma Walter, 2021. John Warburton and John Morris, along with two others, were arrested at Preston in Lancashire on…
Category: Convict Histories
George Dunne (1829 -?) (Reg. No. 4173)
By Irma Walter, 2021. On 7 September 1856 George Dunn(e) arrived in Western Australia onboard the Runnymede. This contingent of…
Auguste Wilhelm, Convict (1829 – 1864) (Reg. No. 6159)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Auguste Wilhelm (aka Baron von Prediger) was born on 5 April 1829 in the Duchy of…
‘A Desperate Gang of Thieves’ – Charles Kemble and Others.
By Irma Walter, 2021. When Charles Kemble’s gang of thieves and receivers was broken up in 1862/63 by a series…
William Carmichael (1827 – ?) (Reg. No. 5460)
By Irma Walter, 2021. William Carmichael was a clerk and a soldier in the 76th Foot Regiment at Fredericktown in…
William Brown alias Hartley Bowen (c1836 – 1904?) (Reg. No. 9097)
By Irma Walter, 2021. William Brown, aged 28, was convicted at Clerkenwell on 4 January 1864 for receiving stolen goods,…
John Fisher (1826? – 1884) (Reg. No. 7104)
By Irma Walter, 2021. It seems likely that John Fisher was older than records show. The 1861 census has him…
Michael Corbett (1837 – 1881) (Reg. No. 4781)
By Irma Walter, 2021. Just imagine two small boys, their heads barely visible above the dock at the Central Criminal…
‘The Bolters’ – Robbery Under Arms
By Irma Walter, 2021. On Tuesday 27 January 1859 five convicts absconded from a quarry near Fremantle. Their names were…
Three Convict Escapees to India – George Sparrow, Thomas Greenwood & Alexander Menzies
By Irma Walter, 2021. In September 1865 three ticket-of-leave men George Sparrow, Alexander Menzies and Thomas Greenwood made headlines in…