Thomas Clegg (1823 – ?) (Reg. No. 1606)
By Irma Walter, 2020. On 6 March 1851 Thomas Clegg was convicted at Wakefield in Yorkshire, of larceny. Due to…
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Samuel Stanley (c1830 – 1855) (Reg. No. 1075)
By Irma Walter, 2020 Samuel Stanley, aged 22, labourer, single, was received from Millbank Prison on 2 February 1852 and…
Samuel Farrant (1830 – 1921) (Reg. No. 1458)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Samuel Farrant was born at Haverhill in Suffolk to parents James & Susannah on 19 May…
George Butler (c1827 – ? ) (Reg. Nos. 90 and 4612)
By Irma Walter, 2019. George Butler’s story is unusual due to the fact that he was twice transported to Western…
Solomon Burkett (Birkett) (c1804 – 1868) (Reg. No. 19)
By Irma Walter 2020 Solomon Burkett (aged 41) and Samuel Brakes (31) were convicted of burglary at Peterborough, Northampton Quarter…
Mornington Train Tragedy
By Heather Wade, 2020. The accident that occurred on the Mornington line on Saturday, 6 November 1920 remains the rail…
Hyam Lipschitz (c1818 – 1892) (Reg. No. 2658)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Hyam Israel Lipschitz[1] was a Polish Jew living in London when he conspired to defraud the…
William Lambert (1802 – ?) (Reg. No. 1336)
By Irma Walter, 2020. It has proved difficult to find details of William Lambert’s origins and his subsequent life served…
John Goodenough, aliases Williams & Smith (1829 – 1867) (Reg. Nos. as Williams, 4302, and as Smith, 8998)
By Irma Walter, 2020. One of the more notorious convicts sent to Western Australia was John Goodenough, who first arrived…
Hector (or ‘George’ Hector) Fenner (1836 – 1921) (Reg. No.4509)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Early Life Hector Fenner’s convict story is a tale of success in Western Australia after poor…