| Name: | William Beresford |
| Aliases: | William De La Poer Beresford |
| Gender: | m |
| Date of Birth: | 1799 |
| Occupation: | - |
| Date of Death: | 19th May, 1880 |
| Age: | 81 years |
Life Span
Male median life span was 60 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to Life
| Crime: | Forgery |
| Convicted at: | Yorkshire, York Assizes |
| Sentence term: | Life |
| Ship: | Edwin Fox |
| Departure date: | 24th August, 1858 |
| Arrival date: | 20th November, 1858 |
| Place of arrival | Western Australia |
| Passenger manifest | Travelled with 283 other convicts |
| Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 298 |
| Source description: | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project. |
Kathleen Flynn on 9th July, 2019 wrote:
He was a Clergyman in Ireland of Inniscarra Parish 1826-56,mostly absentee rector of St.Senan’s. Defrocked by the Archbishop of Dublin 1856. His life sentence was commuted in 1862. he was one of the founders of The Herald, Fremantle 1867. He wrote a noteworthy column in that newspaper under the nom de plume ‘An Old Sandalwood Cutter’.
Kathleen Flynn on 9th July, 2019 made the following changes:
alias1: William De La Poer Beresford, date of birth: 1799 (prev. 0000), date of death: 19th May, 1880 (prev. 0000), gender: m, crime
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