Thomas Ellerton (c1828 – 1899) (Reg. Nos. 277 & 1438)
By Irma Walter, 2021. On 21 July 1849, Thomas Ellerton (20), Joseph Brindley (21), Richard Sylvester (21) and Daniel Vickers…
Category: Convict Histories
The Great Manchester Stamp Robbery
By Irma Walter, 2021. On 26 May 1866 a brazen gang of thieves broke into the Manchester Stamp Office warehouse…
Two Absconders Caught at Australind – William Knight & George Bird
By Irma Walter, 2021. William Knight (c1832 – 1865) (Reg. No. 1265) On 11 October 1850 William Knight, single, a…
Richard Price (c1828 -1869?) (Reg. No. 3969)
By Irma Walter, 2021. On 10 August 1853 Richard Price was convicted at the Liverpool Assizes of receiving stolen goods…
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…
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…