Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
William Greenfield was transported on the England, departing 31st Mar 1832 and arriving 18th Jul 1832 with 200 passengers.
England (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 295 (148) |
| 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
The National Archives. Hulk Records. HO-9-2_4 Hulks at Chatham. Euryalus Received: One from the Retribution, 1 May 1826. William Greenfield, age 10, Burglary. Tried Salop, 15 Mar 1826, Life. How disposed of: VDL per England, 26 Mar 1832. -------------------------------------------------------------- Assizes. Richard Greenfield and William Greenfield, for robbing a store room, at Wellington: Shrewsbury Chronicle, 10 March 1826. On Friday sentence of death was recorded, at Shrewsbury, against Wm. Greenfield, a child only 10 years of age, for burglary. His father, Richard Greenfield, who had trained his child to house breaking, and other abandoned practices, and also frequently boasted that there was no kind of house that his little boy could not break into, was tried with him, as a participator in the offence—they were found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged, and, it is supposed, left for execution. Neither father nor son were much affected. Flemings British Farmers Chronicle, 27 March 1826. At Shrewsbury Assizes, judgment of death was recorded against fourteen criminals, but one only left for execution, Richard Greenfield for burglary at Wellington. Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 27 March 1826. Shrewsbury assizes concluded on Saturday, when sentence of death was passed on Richard Greenfield, for a burglary. The prisoner had sent patterns of different keys to his daughter to get made, with the intention of escaping. Birmingham Journal, 25 March 1826. A reprieve has been received for Richard Greenfield, who, at the late Shrewsbury assizes, had sentence death passed upon him. Staffordshire Advertiser, 1 April 1826.