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William Gooding was transported on the Hougoumont, departing 10th Oct 1867 and arriving 9th Jan 1868 with 281 passengers.
875 ton ship was built at Moulmein in 1852. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/on-this-day-in-history-australias-last-convict-ship-docks.htm ---------------------------- Incorrect Image ....This is a four masted steel hulled Barque in the drawing , im surprised Australian Geo didn't do a bit more research on this .......The Hougoumont was a works ship on the Forth Bridge Project in 1885 ....the one potrayed as a drawing in Aust Geo is the later version of this ship.....the photograph i have attached is the correct and original convict vessel. --00-- 1867 "The hired convict ship Hougoumont, which has been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of a numerous party of convicts to Freemantle, Western Australia, left the Nore on October 1, and proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board 150 convicts from the establishments at Chatham and Millbank. The convicts from the Chatham establishment, at St. Mary's, embarked from the dockyard on board the paddle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakely, and were in charge of a numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all heavily armed. Among the convicts shipped were a party of fifteen Fenians, who were engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, together with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the ship Severn, and some others who have achieved notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian convicts, like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained together in gangs, but it was observed that they were kept apart from the other convicts in a portion of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel also took down a number of convicts from the establishment at Millbank for shipment on board the Hougoumont, in charge of a strong escort and convict guard. On Tuesday, October 8th, the Hougoumont arrived in Portland roads. Shortly before midday ninety convicts were marched down to the Government pier at Portland under a strong escort of the 12th Light Infantry. The party included twenty-three Fenian convicts, among whom it was said, was Moriarty. The Government steamer employed in the breakwater service was used for conveying the convicts on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The convicts were chained together on embarking, and on board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the convicts safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The Governor of the penal settlement at Freemantle, Captain Young, is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native land." Source: Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 19 Dec 1867, p4, English Shipping, available on Trove at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28608271?searchTerm=hougoumont.
HougoumontReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/19, Page Number 251 (128) |
| 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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LEAVES WA: 1879, 1 August: William Gooding is on a list of “Expirees and Conditional Pardon Holders who have left the Colony”. He sailed from Albany for Melbourne on the SS Otway (Western Australia, Australia, Crew and Passenger Lists, 1852-1930 for Wm Gooding; Albany; 1894; July). --00--
From his FREMANTLE JAIL record: GOODING, William; inmate #9746, arrived 10 Jan 1868 per Hougoumont Date of Birth: 1837 Marital Status: Unmarried Occupation: Bricklayer Literacy: Literate Sentence Place: St Mary, Newington Crime: Pickpocket Sentence Period: 10 years Previous Convictions: Yes Ticket Leave Date: 19 Oct 1871 Certificate of Freedom Date: 1 Jul 1876 Comments: Labourer, general servant, bricklayer. To Victoria, 1 Aug 1879 (https://fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/research/convict-database/). --0—
IN WA: 1868: On arrival in WA, convict #9746 William Gooding was listed as 29, single, literate, Protestant and a bricklayer, sentenced to 10 years for “larceny from the person after previous convictions”. Next of kin – no information. He received his Ticket of Leave on 19 October, 1871; and Certificate of Freedom on 1 July, 1876, from the RM at Albany (Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930; Convict Department Registers, General Register for Nos 9599-10128 (R16)). —0—
1867, late September: Taken from Chatham jail to board the convict ship Hougoumont for transportation: “The hired convict ship Hougoumont, which has been taken up, by the Government for the conveyance of a numerous party of convicts to Freemantle, Western Australia, left the Nore [anchorage] on October 1, and proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board 150 convicts from the establishments at Chatham and Millbank. The convicts from the Chatham establishment, at St. Mary's, embarked from the dockyard on board the paddle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakely, and were in charge of a numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all heavily armed. Among the convicts shipped were a party of fifteen Fenians, who were engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, together with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the ship Severn [only two were on the Hougoumont – Thomas Berwick and Lionel Holdsworth, each sentenced to 20 years for fraud], and some others who have achieved notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian convicts, like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained together in gangs, but it was observed that they were kept apart from the other convicts in a portion of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel also took down a number of convicts from the establishment at Millbank, for shipment on board the Hougoumont, in charge of a strong escort and convict guard. On Tuesday, October 8th, the Hougoumont arrived in Portland roads. Shortly before midday ninety convicts were marched down to the Government pier at Portland under a strong escort of the 12th Light Infantry. The party included twenty-three Fenian convicts, among whom it was said, was Moriarty. The Government steamer employed in the breakwater service was used for conveying the convicts on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The convicts were chained together on embarking, and on board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the convicts safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The Governor of the penal settlement at Freemantle, Captain Young, is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native land.” (Sydney Morning Herald, 19 Dec 1867, p4, at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28608271). --0—
1867, 20 March: He was sent to Chatham Gaol; inmate #8891. His behaviour in Chatham was “good”. Chatham prison, east of London at St Mary’s Island in Kent, was a public works prison for male convicts, and was notorious for riots in the 1860s (https://www.prisonhistory.org). --0—
JAILS: 1866, 22 June: William Gooding was sent from Horsemonger Lane and admitted to Pentonville Prison, Caledonian Road, north London; inmate #3794. His jail record follows: Willm Gooding RECORD TYPE: Register SENTENCE: 10 Years CRIMINAL ADMISSION DATE: 22 Jun 1866 CRIMINAL ADMISSION PLACE: Middlesex, England JAIL: Pentonville Prison SOURCE DESCRIPTION: Pentonville Prison, Middlesex: Register of Prisoners (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Willm Gooding; Pentonville Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1866-1869). By the 1850s, Pentonville and Millbank were places for all male convicts to serve “their probationary term (of 9 months), after which they would be transported or sent to a public works prison. This function continued more or less (notable exceptions including the reception of military prisoners in the 1860s…) until the decision to remove it from the convict prison system in 1885” (https://www.prisonhistory.org). --0—
NEWSPAPER REPORT OF TRIAL: From the South London Press - Saturday 09 June 1866, p10: “THE COST OF STEALING A PAIR OF STOCKINGS. William Gooding (29), bricklayer, and Mary Ann White (26), a woman of the town, were charged with stealing a pair of stockings from James Wornell. Prosecutor it seemed fell in with the female, and whilst talking to her up a court in the Borough was robbed of a pair of new stockings which he had in his coat pocket. The male prisoner was close by at the time, and, on the arrival of Police-constable 147M, dropped the property on the pavement. Both prisoners denied their guilt and all knowledge of one another. Verdict: Guilty. Gooding had previously undergone six and four years’ penal servitude, and was out on a ticket-of-leave, whilst the female had frequently been imprisoned for highway robbery. Sentence: The man to ten, and the woman to seven years’ penal servitude.” (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000213/18660609/138/0010) --00--
TRIAL: 1866, 6 June: Both William Gooding and Mary Anne White were convicted at Newington of “larceny from the person”. He was sentenced to 10 years’ penal servitude, taking into account previous convictions for felony, and Mary Anne to 7 years. Two of William Gooding’s previous felony convictions resulted in four years’ penal servitude in 1858 (for housebreaking), and six years handed down in 1862 (for stealing a book). For the latter, he was transported to Gibraltar. --0--
JAIL & COMMITTAL: 1866, 21 May: William Gooding was admitted to Newington County Gaol, and held on remand, awaiting trial on a charge of “Feloniously stealing a pair of stockings from the person of James Wornell”. Listed as 29, a bricklayer and semi-literate, he and his co-accused Mary Anne White, alias Johnson, 28, were committed to stand trial by W Patridge Esq, Southwark Police Court, on 28 May, 1866 (Surrey, England, Calendar of Prisoners, 1848-1902 for William Gooding; Newington; 1863-1867). Newington County Gaol, also known as Surrey County Gaol and Bridewell, and Horsemonger Lane Gaol, was located on Horsemonger Lane, parish of St Mary, Newington. It closed in 1878. The Sessions House adjoined it in Newington, Southwark (https://www.prisonhistory.org/). --0--