Category: Convict Histories

By Irma Walter, 2019. Three men, Edmund Champ, Daniel Steel and James Witt were convicted at Southampton in Hampshire of…

After arriving in Western Australia convicts were able to get medical treatment for their various disorders at the convict hospital…

By Irma Walter, 2020. Convict John Wickey Stable arrived in Western Australia on the Nile on 1 January 1858, aged…

By Irma Walter, 2020. John Anderson Christie was born on 26 May 1818 in Avoch, Scotland, to Alexander Christie, a…

By Irma Walter, 2019. Three men stood in the dock as the judge put on his black cap and pronounced…

By Irma Walter, 2020. A dastardly gang of thieves roamed the district around Peterborough in Cambridgeshire for several years before…

By Irma Walter, 2019. This story is one of persecution by the British justice system, and of dogged persistence on…

By Irma Walter, 2019. On Tuesday, at the Old Men’s Home, Claremont, a unique birthday party, with cake and all,…

By Irma Walter, 2018 (Published 2020) Bernard Wootton (or Wotton, alias McNulty) was convicted in 1854, along with Henry Martin,…

By Irma Walter, 2020. Samuel Dale, single, a labourer aged 34 years, was convicted on 11 May 1857 at Liverpool…