User:Hesperian/Notes/Convicts

Convict articles for creation

• William Beresford (convict) - became an editor on the Herald
  • (5076) 1799 M 1 chd ,lit clerk Prot, conv York 1855 forgery 15yrs; arr Edwin fox 21.11.1858 (ticket of Leave)TL24.12.1859 (conditional pardon)CP23.10.1862 Freo
  • I have a Geoffrey Bolton article on him in an Early Days
  • Apparently he gets a mention in "The Literature of Western Australia"
  • Some coverage in "The Brand on His Coat"
• William Pearce - became an editor on the Herald
  • (5142)1825-M Painter butcher, semi lit Prot, conv CCC (central criminal court)1849 burglary Prev conv 15yrs arr Edwin fox 21.11.1858 TL26.05.1859 CP29.01.1862; Perth, worked for self 1859.
    • "Central Criminal Court" = Old Bailey
  • Some coverage in "The Brand on His Coat"
• John Acton Wroth - kept a diary of his time as a convict, which is now of immense historical value
  • (368)1832 St Mary Key unm painter, lit prot conv Ipswich 31.7.1848 forge an order for goods 10yrs arr mermaid 7.5.1851 tl28.11.1851 cp1.1854; perth, granted prmission to marry bridget ellis 1/2yr return 31.12.1853
  • A whole chapter in "The Brand on His Coat"
• Aimable Ciril DU Perouzel -
  • (4840) 17.3.1831 nr St Aubin-du-Perron, nr Countances le Manche Normandy France 10.12.1901 York WA-M 1 Elizabeth Susanne Fauny at JSY, Farmer, lit Prot Conv Guernsey 6.9.1856 burglary & trying to escape several times & Many prev conv 10yrs, arr Lord Raglan 1.6.1858 tl 9.5.1859 cp15.6.1861;York. Son of Charles LE Perouzel & Rogegonde nee Fauny. Wife last heard of at Guernsey 1856. mar Julia Neagle 26.3.1863 Beverley.
  • A whole chapter in "The Brand on His Coat"
• James Everett (convict) - mentioned in article Moondyne Joe
  • (615) 1815-1886 at sea M 3Chn Gardener, Conv Chelmsford 5.3.1849 larceny 7 yrs arr Pyrenees 28.6.1851 tl28.6.1851 Cp 23.4.1853 To LND 19.7.1886 Died on Voyage
  • Sources: "The Brand on His Coat" and both Moondyne Joe books
• Thomas "Satan" Browne - important character in the history of The Old Mill in South Perth
  • No listing under Browne, 22 convicts named Thomas Brown.
  • This website says he was transported in 1863, suggesting the Thomas Henry J. Brown that came on the Lord Dalhousie.
• Denis Cashman - Fenian who kept a diary on the Hougoumont
  • (9685)1842-M 3chn clerk lit RC Conv Dublin 19.2.1867. arr Hougoumont 10.1.1868 FP15.5.1869 Swan. to NSW 21.9.1869 Fenian. Kin Catherine Cashman of Francis St Waterford
  • Diary published under title: "Fenian Diary: Denis B. Cashman on board the Hougoumont, 1867-68"
• John Casey (convict) - ditto
  • (9684) 1844 unm clerk, lit RC conv Cork 14.12.1865 crt martial treson 5yrs arr Hougoumont 10.1.1868 tl13.11.1868 FP 15.5.1869.York; Perth gen svt school teacher. To NSW 21.9.1869 Fenian.

• • Not to be confused with another Fenian named "John Keegan Casey" better known as "Leo Casey", who died in Mountjoy prison

• Lots of other Fenians: e.g Duggan...
• John Gavin (convict), a Parkhurst apprentice who became the first white settler to kill another white settler, and subsequently became the first white settler to be executed. This should be mentioned in Parkhurst apprentices and there should be a biographical article on him.
  • Nice. It would be nice to know what his original offence was, what ship he came out in. I'll have a look in Gill tonight, maybe there's something there. Hesperian 00:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Actually, we can deduce what ship he came out in. It wasn't the Simon Taylor, because he's not listed here. The only other ship to bring out Parkhurst apprentices prior to his death was the Shepherd. QED. Hesperian 00:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
• All other convicts mentioned at this website.
• James Manning (Clerk of Works)

Convict ship articles for creation

Parkhurst apprentice voyages

Ship	Arrival	Number of Parkhurst apprentices
Simon Taylor	August 1842	18
Shepherd	October 1843	28
Halifax	December 1844	18
Cumberland	January 1846	16
Orient	March 1848	51
Ameer	February 1849	50
Mary	October 1849	53

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Convict voyages

Ship	Origin	Arrival	Number of convicts	Articles
Scindian (list)	Portsmouth	1 June 1850	75
Hashemy	Isle of Portland	25 October 1850	100
Mermaid	Portsmouth	13 May 1851	208
Pyrenees	Torbay	28 June 1851	293	John Hislop, Abraham Jennison
Minden	Plymouth	14 October 1851	301
Marion	Portland	2 November 1851	279	Joseph Horrocks, George Sadler
William Jardine	Plymouth	1 August 1852	212	Octavius Ryland, John Warren (convict)
Dudbrook	Plymouth	7 February 1853	228	Joseph Walton
Pyrenees (ship)	Torbay	30 April 1853	293	Moondyne Joe, Robert Mewburn
Robert Small	London	19 August 1853	303	James Lloyd (convict)
Phoebe Dunbar	Kingstown	30 August 1853	285	Daniel Connor
General Godwin	Calcutta	28 March 1854	15
Sea Park	London	5 April 1854	304	Thomas Palmer (convict)
Ramillies	London	7 August 1854	277
Guide	Calcutta	January 9 1855	6
Stag	London	23 May 1855	224	George Brand, James Humphrey
Adelaide	Portland	18 July 1855	259
William Hammond	Plymouth	29 March 1856	249	William Jones (Australian convict), William Boxhal
Runnymede	Plymouth	7 September 1856	248
Clara	London	3 July 1857	262
City of Palaces	Singapore	8 August 1857	4
Nile	Plymouth	1 January 1858	270	Robert Palin, Cornelius Hardy
Caduceus	Bombay	5 February 1858	1
Lord Raglan	Plymouth	1 June 1858	268
Albeura	Calcutta	28 October 1858	11
Edwin Fox	Plymouth	20 November 1858	280	Thomas Bushell
Sultana	Plymouth	19 August 1859	224
Frances	Madras	19 November 1859	1
Palmerston	Portland	11 February 1861	293	William Perrin, Theodore Richards (convict)
Lincelles	Portland	28 January 1862	304
Norwood	Portland	9 June 1862	290
York	Portland	31 December 1862	299	Herman Moll (convict), James Elphinstone Roe
Merchantman	London	14 February 1863	191
Clyde	Portland	29 May 1863	320
Lord Dalhousie	Portland	28 December 1863	270	Henry Wildman
Clara	London	13 April 1864	301
Merchantman	Portland	12 September 1864	257
Racehorse	Portland	10 August 1865	278	John Hubbard (convict)
Vimeira	Portland	22 December 1865	278
Belgravia	Portland	4 July 1866	276
Corona	Portland	22 December 1866	305	Fred Carter (convict)
Norwood	Portland	13 July 1867	253	William Sykes (convict), James Hasleby, Alfred Chopin, William Chopin
Hougoumont	London	9 January 1868	279	John Boyle O'Reilly, James Wilson (Irish Nationalist), Thomas Berwick

Other articles for creation

• The Wild Goose - convict newspaper
• Fenians transported to Western Australia - overview article on transported Fenians
• Fremantle Herald - a newspaper with convict origins (Beresford Pearse and Roe)
• An article on the 1859 escape when five convicts escaped, stole a boat and got as far as Shark Bay before being recaptured.
• House of Commons Select Committee on Transportation
• Something on women in the convict era? Lots of Irish girls came out and married convicts. See The Bride Ships: Experiences of Immigrants Arriving in Western Australia 1849-1889. Rica Erickson, Hesperian Press Carlisle, 1992.
• Any buildings built by convicts, other than Fremantle Prison and Perth Town Hall? Fremantle Arts Centre http://www.fac.org.au/history/
• Rica Erickson Historian and author

Other notes

Convictism in Western Australia

Two things to be added:

• The other colony's responses. Objected to WA becoming a penal colony; SA passed a law requiring people arriving from WA to present a certification that they had never been a convict; colony's later sent a petition asking the UK to cease transporting convicts to WA.
• Transportation of Western Australian criminals to the eastern penal colonies. In 1832 Western Australia passed laws allowing it to transport its criminals to the penal colonies over east. In August that year three WA criminals were transported to Van Diemen's Land. This is mentioned in passing in Diary of Ten Years. I don't know any other details.

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