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Voyage
Transportation
William Baker was transported on the Marquis Of Huntley, departing 27th Sep 1827 and arriving 30th Jan 1828 with 165 passengers.
Marquis Of Huntley (generic)References
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Convict Notes
WICKLOW ASSIZES. WILLIAM BAKER. …. indicted upon information taken by C. Lees, Esq., for a rape committed upon Anne Forde, a foundling, aged about ? years; and the prosecution was a special one, by the governors of the Foundling Hospital Dublin. It appeared in evidence, that the prosecutrix ... put to nurse the governors of that Institution with Margaret Lindsay, mother ? Lindsay, of the Murrough, and been withheld by her when she should have been returned to the hospital—that the prisoner, who was brother to said Lindsay’s wife, and was working in an adjoining field went, the ? of July last, into said Lindsay's house on the Murrough to light his pipe, and finding the prosecuirix alone and unprotected, violently assaulted her, and perpetrated the crime for which he was committed. Several ingenious efforts were made the counsel for the prisoner to impeach the testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution ; and the Honorable Judge Burton having, in his charge to the jury, accurately and at great length recapitulated the evidence, the jury retired, and after nearly two hours’ deliberation brought in a verdict of guilty. Saunders’s News-Letter, 29 March 1827.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. William Baker, age on arrival, 25, per Marquis of Huntley (2) 1828, Tried Wicklow, 1827, 7 years, for Rape. DOB 1803, native place, Wicklow. Single. Catholic. Servant farm.