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Mathew Walker Convicted of stealing money in Yorkshire in January 1835 and sentenced to transportation for 7 years. Assigned to Aspinall Brown & Co. Bathurst.

George Wall Convicted of stealing cidar in Bridgwater, Somerset. Considered a bad character as had been transported before. Assigned to Goat Island.

Ticket of Leave issued for Invermein 1840

Charles Wallace

Publican convicted of stealing an umbrella. Assigned House of Correction, Sydney. Married Jane Christy 1842.

 

William Wallis

Born  in London. Gardener's labourer convicted of stealing mutton. Certificate of Freedom issued in 1842.

 

Lazarus Wells Convicted of horse stealing. Assigned to Hamilton Hume, Yass. Ticket of leave issued for the district of Yass in 1848 and cancelled in 1857 for being absent from his district. Ticket later restored.

Mathew Westlake 25 year old draper convicted of stealing money.

 

George Wharton

Shoemaker convicted of stealing shoes. Transported before. Served six years in Bermuda. To be kept at labour on public roads. Possibly died 1839

 

William Whittle

Seaman convicted of smuggling. Ticket of Leave for district of Wellington 1841. Applied to marry Elizabeth Hunt 1844.

 

John Wicks

Farm servant aged 30 convicted of sheep stealing at the Surry Quarter Sessions in February 1835. Assigned to Thomas T. Bloomfield, Liverpool.

 

John Wilby

Farm servant and butcher from Norfolk convicted of stealing poultry. He had sandy whiskers,  and was bald. A Ticket of Leave was issued for the district of Port Phillip

 

Isaac Wilcox

42 year old father of five from Whatley, Frome convicted of receiving one hundred weight and half of hay belonging to William Sheppart knowing it to be stolen. The hay had been stolen by John Wilcox and Job Humphries.

Isaac Wilcox suffered from scurvy on the passage out. He was assigned to J. McDonald, Windsor on arrival. He was issued with a ticket of leave in 1841 and applied to marry Margaret Painter in 1843.

 

Henry Wilkinson

Fifteen year old carpenter's boy from Plymouth convicted of stealing a watch and chain. No previous convictions. Assigned to Thomas Icely, Bathurst.

 

Frederick Williams - Sentence of death recorded for robbing Rev. Hawkins at Kington St. Michael, Wiltshire. Find out more about Frederick Williams at Bitton Families

 

Henry Williams

Bricklayer's labourer from Buckinghamshire convicted of stealing bacon. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Ticket of Leave issued for Windsor altered to Bathurst

 

 

James Robert Williams

Carvers composition maker from London Convicted of robbing his master and sentenced to 14 years transportation. Application to marry Margaret Hunter in 1842 in Campbelltown.

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Peter Williams

Carvers composition maker born Gloucestershire. Assigned C.T. Smith, Illawarra.

Particular marks: dark carroty whiskers, small raised mole back left side of neck , scar back of left thumb, blue ring middle finger left hand

 

Joseph Wilmott

Joseph Wilmott was born in Hanham, Gloucestershire, England. One of eight children born to Sylvia Brown and Samuel Wilmott, he was christened on 24th February, 1811 in Hanham. His brothers and sisters were William, Ann, Sarah, Hannah and Robert.

In 1835 Joseph was found guilty of stealing one hundred pounds weight of bacon valued at forty shillings, one hundred pounds weight of pork valued at forty shillings and ten  pounds weight of mutton valued at four shillings from the house of the Rev. Thomas Hawkins in the Parish of Kington Saint Michael in the County of Wiltshire. He was also indicted for unlawfully and maliciously stabbing, cutting, and wounding William Hatherill, to prevent his lawful apprehension. Joseph was found guilty and sentence of death was passed upon him by Mr. Justice Patteson. Frederick Williams his accomplice had a sentence of death recorded against him for aiding and abetting Joseph. Their trial took place at the Wiltshire Assizes on 7th March, 1835. Joseph's sentence was commuted to transportation for life.

(Rev. Hawkins died in March 1836) -

 

Joseph was assigned to work for the Australian Agricultural company in their coal mines at Newcastle.

He obtained his Ticket of Leave and Certificate of Freedom and in 1839 or 1840 started a relationship with widow Mary Rice (nee Murphy) who had arrived on the Caroline' in 1833.

Mary was 26 years old and had a daughter Catherine born to her first husband, convict Patrick Rice.  When Patrick died in Newcastle Hospital in 1839 Mary was left in Newcastle with an infant daughter to raise.

By 1845 when he married Mary Rice Josephwas no longer working in the coal mines but had turned to timber getting. Sawyers and timber cutters at this time often travelled up the Hunter and Paterson Rivers to fell the valuable cedar trees. 

On the 9th June, 1856, Joseph made his Will leaving his property including horses, cattle, land and house at Shepherd's Hill, Newcastle to his wife and four sons.  His four daughters were to inherit only if their mother and all four brothers pre-deceased them.

Joseph died aged 42 years, in Newcastle N.S.W. on 7th July 1856 due to heart disease. He was buried in the Church of England burial ground on 10th July, 1856.

Thomas Wilson

Cheesmonger aged 24.

Crime; Stealing hats

Trial: Middlesex session of Peace 18.5.1835

Sentence 7 years

Previous convictions: none

Height: 5’5 ½”

Complexion: Brown

Hair: light brown

Eyes: Chestnut

Particular marks: Front teeth irregular , scar inside left eye, scar left side of upper lip.

Assigned to Australian Agricultural company in  Newcastle.

 

James Wyse

62 years old. Convicted of horse stealing and sentenced to transportation for life. Assigned to J.M. Grey, Illawarra

 

Charles Wood - Bushranger

Native place: Norfolk

Trade or calling: Brickmakers labourer

Crime: Housebreaking

Tried: Norfolk assizes 28.3.1835

Sentence: 7 years

Previous convictions: none

Height: 5/ 6”

Complexion: dark sallow

Hair; Brown

Eyes: Grey

Particular marks: Eyebrows meeting, mole right side of neck, small mole right cheek, 3 warts back of forefinger right hand

 

 

Richard Woolford

21 year old farm servant convicted of poaching.

Ticket of leave issued in 1840 and cancelled in 1841 for stealing lead.

 

George Woollard

Twenty years old. Convicted of stealing harness in June 1835. No prior convictions. Assigned to Thomas Moore at Liverpool in 1837

 

William Youngman

Farm servant and shepherd from Suffolk sentenced to 14 years for housebreaking. Ticket of leave issued for district of Bathurst.

 
 

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