Darby Furie (c1833 – ?) (Reg. No. 4649)
By Irma Walter, 2020. A Scotsman, Darby Furie (or ‘Fury’) was arrested with his partner-in-crime Theodore Dowd (alias ‘Peter Dowd’…
Category: Convict Histories
Michael Cawthorne (c1821 – ?) (Reg. No. 4868)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Michael Cawthorne (Cawthorn), aged 35 years, was described as ‘a middle-aged man, dark, and of repulsive…
Simon Staines (c1821 – ?) (Reg. No. 2750)
By Irma Walter, 2021. Simon Staines was convicted of larceny on 20 March 1850. It was reported that Simon Staines…
Michael Mullins (1833 – ?) (Reg. No. 1029)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Michael Mullins was convicted on 19 August 1850 in the Central Criminal Court, London, of robbery…
John McGibbon (1819 – ?) (Reg. No. 1425)
By Irma Walter, 2020. On 20 May 1850 John McGibbon, aged 32, a respectable businessman of Hull, was found guilty…
Edward Eggleston (or Iggleston, Igglesden, etc.) (c1838 – 1898) (Reg. No. 2971)
By Irma Walter, 2020. On 1 January 1850 Edward Igglesden and Thomas Moore were found guilty of lamb stealing in…
James Abram (or Ibram, alias Ashcroft) (c1819 – ?) (Reg. No. 1678) [Note: Not to be confused with James Abraham, Reg. No.1323.]
By Irma Walter, 2020. At the Liverpool Boro’ Sessions in December 1849, James Abram, (alias Ashcroft), aged 28, was found…
Thomas Mainwaring (alias John Buchanan) and James Henry (or Harcourt) Dixon – Convicts
By Irma Walter, 2020. The lives of these two convicts are linked by the fact that they were both husbands…