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Transportation
Frederick Cannon was transported on the Henry, departing 31st Mar 1823 and arriving 26th Aug 1823 with 161 passengers.
Henry 1825. The ship Henry, Captain Ferrier, arrived at Hobart Town, on the 9th ult. with 79 female prisoners, all whom were landed with the exception of two. There were also on board 25 free women, and 33 children, who came out, at the expence of Government, to join their husbands and parents. Sydney Gazette, 3 Mar 1825.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 17 (10) |
| 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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NSW Convict Index. Frederick Cannon, per Henry, 1823, Certificate of Freedom, 17 Nov 1828, No 28/0944. Renewed CF 29/1046. Mary Rahill, per Forth 1830, Certificate of Freedom, 18 Nov 1836, No 36/1170. Wife of Frederick Cannon, per Henry, 1823, fbs (as stated on his CF) Application to Marry. Frederick Cannon, per Henry 1, age 29, 7 years, Free; and Mary Rahill, per Forth 2, age 29, 7 years, Bond. Date of permission, 23 Jun 1831, Sydney.
Colonial Secretary Index. CANNON, Frederick. Per "Henry", 1823 1823 Aug 29 On list of prisoners landed from the "Henry" and forwarded to Liverpool for distribution (Reel 6011; 4/3509 p.135)
Southwark Sessions.  Frederick Cannon, a lad only 15 years of age, was tried upon an indictment for having stolen nineteen hundred weight of Spanish tare, the property of Mr. John Griffiths, of Fell -street, Wood-street. The prosecutor,  it appeared from the evidence, is an extensive dealer in foreign sacking  and has warehouses in Fell-street, Wood-street, and resides within a few yards of them. On the 1st June last he had lost the key of one of his Warehouses. On that day, it appeared from the evidence, the Prisoner, who had been a short time in his employ, went with a cart to the warehouse, unlocked the door, and was seen to load the cart, as full as it could hold, of Spanish tare, a species of sacking in which Spanish wool is is brought to this country. It being in the middle of the day, no suspicion was excited, and the prisoner went off with the load, which was conveyed by his directions to the shop of Mrs. Farmer of Bermondsey, a dealer in the article, where he represented that he brought the load from his father's, who was a dealer in the same line of business. The prisoner, under this representation, sold the whole load, which was of nearly a ton weight, and received 5£. l0s. for it. This case was proved by a town carman, named Partridge whom the prisoner had hired off the stand, and by the son of Mrs. Farmer, who purchased the property from him. The whole was done in so regular a manner, that not the slightest suspicion was excited. The prisoner disappeared for some time, but was found by the officers Read and Kinsey, in a brothel at Doverstreet, which they were sweeping out. He was brought before the Magistrate as a suspicious character  who could give no satisfactory account of himself, when his apprehension was heard of by the prosecutor. The prisoner made an ingenious defence, said he had incautiously been made the dupe of another person, and he put it to the Jury whether it was probable that he should venture to rob a warehouse in the open day, within a few yards of the owner, with certain detection before him. The prisoner received a good character, as an honest  and clever lad. His father, a respectable tradesman, appeared in his behalf. The Jury immediately found  the prisoner Guilty; and the Court said it was to prevent the father from seeing his son expire on the gallows  that they did not listen to his intercession. They sentenced the prisoner to be transported for seven years Morning Herald, 29 Oct 1821.