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Crime
Transportation
William May Broad was transported on the Hebe, departing 27th Jul 1820 and arriving 31st Dec 1820 with 160 passengers.
Hebe (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 353 (178) |
| 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 Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Cornwall Lent Assizes. William May Broad was indicted , for stealing: divers articles of shop goods, and for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Mr. John Allen Prvun? at West Looe in the County of Cornwall.— He has before been capitally indicted for house breaking and was tried at Bodmin Summer Assize 1816, under the name of William Thorne, which is his real name, when he received sentence of Death, but through the intercession of the Rev. J. Rowe, the Chaplain of the goal it was commuted to one year's imprisonment only ; since which he has been tried at the Session for the County, and imprisoned. He had been residing at Plymouth for some time, where he was known among his associates by the came of the Jolly young Farmer, and is supposed to have lived by theft for these many years. Royal Cornwall Gazette, 1 April 1820. --------------------------------------------------------------- The earlier Case, referred to above: Cornwall Assizes. ... and William Thorn, charged with breaking and entering into the dwelling-house of William Mason. Royal Cornwall Gazette, 10 Aug 1816
Inquest on 30 Mar 1822, on the body of William Maybrow. He was killed 27 March by a group of four black natives who went to his hut, and then he left the hut with two of them and his sheep. The other man in the hut was wounded in the head by the other two natives. Maybrow's body was later found about a quarter of a mile away near the river.
Colonial Secretary Index. MAYBROW, William. Per "Hebe", 1820 1822 Mar 30 Hut keeper at Mr Lawson's station known as "Dirty Swamp". Inquest on body of held at Bathurst (Reel 6021; 4/1819 pp.449-54) 1822 Apr 10 Killed by natives (Reel 6065; 4/1798 p.135) 1823 May On list of convicts employed by William Lawson (Reel 6058; 4/1771 p.312b)