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Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
William Durham was transported on the Guildford, departing 31st Jul 1811 and arriving 18th Jan 1812 with 214 passengers.
The ‘Guildford’ was built on the River Thames, England in 1810. Used as a Convict Transport ship to Australia - voyages 1812, 1816, 1818, 1820, 1822, 1824, 1827 & 1829. The ship was lost at sea near Singapore in 1831, loosing all aboard.
Guildford (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 45(24) |
| 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
Joel Lovell, William Durham, and James Hall were transported for robbing Mr. Francis Winbou on the highway. All were on board the Guildford. William Durham: 5/6/1815: CP 1815: Married Mary Broughton nee Lynch (Mary was born in the colony in 1796 and died 1866). They had 4 children. 1822 Census: Windsor/Hawkesbury: Durham, William, conditional pardon, Guildford, life, butcher, Windsor Durham, Mary, 27, born in the colony, wife of W. Durham, Windsor 2 un-named children of above. March 1827: William Durham died after a fall from his horse: 13/3/1827 The Australian, Sydney: A fatal accident befel Mr. William Durham, a butcher, living at Windsor, on Monday last. He was riding a race with another down the "Big Hill", leaving Bathurst, on his way home - his horse threw him - he sustained a severe contusion on the head, and became immediately insensible - he died in six hours after. The deceased was very generally known in the Colony, and much respected. A widow, who is in an advanced state of pregnancy, and three children, are left to deplore the untimely fate of a husband and parent. 15/3/1827 Sydney Gazette: The funeral took place at Windsor on Friday the 9th of March inst. conducted by Mr. John Richards, undertaker, who has recently purchased the mournful equipage of his calling; and the solemnity rendered to the scene by these means, gave the spectacle a more truly awful appearance. A pall has seldom been employed at Windsor, because it has hitherto been attended with the expense of a journey to Sydney to procure it. The funeral was respectably attended; and a vast concourse of persons followed the body to the place of interment; the scene of the mother and children taking a farewell view of the coffin, while yet peeping into the grave, was truly affecting. Mrs. Durham has three children, and is far advanced in pregnancy; but we are happy to add, that she will be supported under her affliction, with a fortune of 4000 pounds, as rumour pretty confidently asserts. 1828: Mary married James Hale, 38, free by servitude, 'Mariner 1816', who was then an innkeeper at Windsor.