Category: Convict Histories

By Irma Walter, 2023. The Lord Dalhousie arrived at Fremantle Western Australia on 28 December 1863, with 270 convicts onboard.…

By Irma Walter, 2021 & 2023 George Reeve was born at Winfarthing, Norfolk, in 1826, to parents John Reeve, farm…

By Irma Walter, 2022. Patrick Slattery was born in 1829 at Currow, in County Kerry, Ireland.[1] He was baptised on…

George Bliss was one of a large group of convicts sent to Western Australia convicted of setting fire to hay…

By Irma Walter, 2023. Charles Lyon was born to parents William and Mary Lyon and was christened on 20 October…

James Cuthbert was tried for the crimes of incest and assault in the Dundee Circuit Court of Scotland in April…

By Irma Walter, 2022. Ernest Vantell (alias Vintell, Vandill, Ventall, Vautell) is one of the more intriguing characters among the…

By Irma Walter, 2022. Henry Beard was born at Staffordshire in 1823 to Thomas, an ostler, and his wife Maria…

By Irma Walter, 2022. A copy of a petition was widely circulated in British newspapers in July 1868, pleading the…