Name: | William Edwards |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1809 |
Occupation: | - |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 51 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 7 years
Crime: | Stealing clothes |
Convicted at: | Middlesex Gaol Delivery |
Sentence term: | 7 years |
Ship: | Proteus |
Departure date: | 12th April, 1831 |
Arrival date: | 3rd August, 1831 |
Place of arrival | Van Diemen's Land |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 111 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 83 (44) |
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. |
Maureen Withey on 14th November, 2019 wrote:
National Archives - Medical Journal by Thomas Logan, Surgeon of Convict Ship Proteus, 6 April - 8 Aug 1831.
ADM 101/62/2/3
William Edwards, aged 22; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsil; put on sick list, 14 June 1831. Discharged 18 June 1831 cured.
Maureen Withey on 14th November, 2019 wrote:
Not a machine Breaker.
Tasmanian Conduct record
https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-11$init=CON31-1-11p118
Convicted at the Old Bailey (online)
WILLIAM EDWARDS, Theft > simple larceny, 15th April 1830.
810. WILLIAM EDWARDS was indicted for stealing, on the 8th of March , 1 coat, value 1l.; 1 pair of trousers, value 15s., and 2 waistcoats, value 8s. , the goods of John Bishop .
SOPHIA BISHOP . I am the wife of John Bishop, and live in John-street, Curtain-road . On the 8th of March I was down stairs and had occasion to go out - as I returned I heard a noise in my front bed-room over head; I knew the street door was open - I went and shut it; I sat down again in my chair, and heard some person going out - I went and saw the prisoner with these clothes under his arm, which had been in a wardrobe up stairs; I took hold of him, and called a neighbour who took him from me.
RICHARD SPURGEON . I live opposite Bishop - I heard her call, and ran and took the prisoner; the things were then on the step of the door.
GUILTY . Aged 21. - Transported for Seven Years .
Maureen Withey on 14th November, 2019 wrote:
Was sick a second time on the voyage on Proteus.
William Edwards, aged 22; sick or hurt, phlegmon; put on sick list, 23 July 1831. Discharged 26 July 1831 sent to hospital.
Maureen Withey on 14th November, 2019 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1809 (prev. 0000), gender: m, crime
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