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Transportation
William Goodwin was transported on the Batavia, departing 30th Sep 1817 and arriving 5th Apr 1818 with 220 passengers.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 388 |
| 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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Old Bailey Online WILLIAM GOODWIN. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 10th July 1816. Text type Trial account Defendants WILLIAM GOODWIN Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 10th July 1816 Reference Number t18160710-60 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 736. WILLIAM GOODWIN was indicted for stealing, on the 5th of June , a silver medal, value 8s. the property of John Bronghton . JOHN BROUGHTON. I went into a booth in the fair, at Tothill Fields . between three and four o'clock in the morning, of the 5th of June; I was quite sober. The prisoner came in after I was there; he caught hold with my ribbon in my medal, and called me a b-r of a guardsman, and asked who authorised me to wear a medal. I told him, persons who knew my deserts, and who had a better right to do so, than he had to call me such a name. Almost directly I discoverd that the medal was gone from the ribbon, I told him to give it me; and he said, he'd be dam'd if he did. It could be only a good whipping, and that he had hait many a time, and did not care for. I offered him five shillings to give me the medal back. He said, very well; give me five shillings, and I'll give it you; but I knew better than that. Then I told him I would give him five shillings if he would come into the next booth; but he would not; so I went and sat down. I told him that I durst not go home without it. He then went out, and came back again, and asked if there was no other reward for it; and I told him there was not, a constable was sent for at this time. WILLIAM BLEADEN, and CATHERINE BOOTH, corroborated the account of the last witness. Prisoner's Defence. I have served his Majesty in the Marines, and wore a medal before ever he did. GUILTY , aged 36. Transported for seven years . Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Justice Abbot.