Thomas Davidson (1830 -1868) (Reg. No. 6275)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Thomas Davidson, born c1830, was convicted of larceny on 3 January 1861 at the Sleaford Kesteven…
Category: Convict Histories
John Nutt (c1836 – ?) (Reg. No. 4980)
By Irma Walter, 2020. John Nutt had a tough upbringing. The 1841 census shows him at the age of six,…
John Costello (c1828 – 1892) (Reg. No. 4527)
By Irma Walter, 2020. A Terrible Crime Irish soldier John Costello was a jealous husband, who in 1854 killed his…
Henry House (1835 – ?) (Reg. No. 3163)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Henry House was born in 1835 at Meare in Somerset. He was 17 years old when…
George Stone (c1828 – ?) (Reg. No. 677)
By Irma Walter, 2021. [Not to be confused with convicts George Stone (No. 251) or (No. 4123).] It has been…
Britain’s Garrotting Epidemic in the Mid-19th Century.
By Irma Walter, 2020. Reports of the killing on 25 May 2020 of George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis…
Edward Chatterton (1827 – 1897) (Reg. No. 1739)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Edward Chatterton was christened at Prees in Shropshire on 19 August 1827. His parents were Thomas…
‘D’ For Deserter
By Irma Walter, 2021. Prior to 1879 deserters from the British army were forcibly branded after capture, with a permanent…
Thomas Crowde, (c1821 – 1868) (Reg. No. 2310)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Thomas Crowde (aka Crow, Crowed, or Crowd), soldier, was born at Swingfield in Kent in 1821.…
Patrick Clancey (c1826 – 1885) (Reg. No. 3330)
By Irma Walter, 2020. Patrick Clancey (or Clancy), aged 29, came to Western Australia on the Stag, arriving on 23…