Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
John Graham was transported on the Neptune, departing 18th Mar 1820 and arriving 16th Jul 1820 with 157 passengers.
NeptuneReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 266 |
| 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
Colonial Secretary Papers: GRAHAM, John. Per "Neptune", 1820 1820 Jul 28: On list of convicts disembarked from the "Neptune" and forwarded to Liverpool for distribution (Reel 6007; 4/3502 p.157) 1823 Oct 31: On lists of prisoners transported to Port Macquarie per "Lady Nelson" (Reel 6019; 4/3864 pp.84, 444-5) 14/3/1831: COF
Carlisle Patriot 23 October 1819, page 4. CITY SESSIONS John GRAHAM, jun. of the parish of St. Mary, labourer, (better known by the appellation of Jock Worthy) was next put to the bar, charged with stealing one shirt, the property of John Lambert HORSLEY, of Castle-street, Carlisle. Mr. FAWCETT shortly stated the facts to the Jury. Mrs. HORSLEY hung a shirt to dry in a place adjoining her dwelling house, and when she went about eight in the evening to take it in, the shirt had been carried off. KIRK, the constable, having been employed to discover other stolen linen, found the shirt in question upon the back of GRAHAM, wet, in the Sorceries. The shirt was here produced, and Mrs. HORSLEY swore to it by some peculiar marks with which she was well acquainted. The prisoner, in his defence, denied having stolen the shirt. He said he found it, at night, in Fisher-street, upon the flags wet and covered with dirt. When KIRK demanded the shirt, he gave it up readily, saying that if the shirt was his, he was welcome to it.—He had no one to speak to his character. The Jury instantly found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. HODGSON passed the sentence of the Court. He said, that the offence of which the prisoner (who is a notorious character) had been convicted was of late become very prevalent; and as it was difficult to guard against the stealing of wet linen, it was necessary, for the good of the public, that he should be removed from this neighbourhood. The Court, therefore, sentenced him to seven years' transportation. Prisoner.—I am very much obliged to you, gentlemen. I have been blamed for many things of this kind that I never did. I am much obliged to you all; but I don't think it right, though.