Name: | William Griffiths |
Aliases: | Griffiths, Thomas (alias) |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1800 |
Occupation: | Groom |
Date of Death: | 1868 |
Age: | 68 years |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to Life
Crime: | Highway robbery |
Convicted at: | Lancaster Assizes |
Sentence term: | Life |
Ship: | Mangles |
Departure date: | July, 1824 |
Arrival date: | 27th October, 1824 |
Place of arrival | New South Wales |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 190 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 161 (82) |
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. |
Peter Hinds on 10th September, 2017 wrote:
James Griffiths was sent from Darlinghust Gaol on 28 October 1836 to the iron gangs of Berrima (see The Campbelltown Convicts).
Maureen Withey on 8th June, 2020 wrote:
National Archives. Ref: HO 17/9/25
1 individual petition (Edward Ducker, Sheriff of Chester) on behalf of William Griffiths, convicted at the Lancaster Summer Assizes in 1823, for highway robbery. There are 2 certificates of character one from H B Housman, surgeon of Liverpool who employed Griffiths for 3 years and another from Roger Mercer Cockerill and Edward Edmunds of Oswestry in Salop, employers of the prisoner 6 years previous and a covering letter from William Massey, magistrate, City of Chester. Grounds for clemency: previous good character as stated by all his employers, has a wife and child in great distress and this was his first offence. Initial sentence: life [transportation?]. Annotated: ‘Nil, 22 Dec 1823’. AK 25.
Date: 1823 Nov 19.
Kath Burgess on 8th June, 2015 made the following changes:
alias1: Griffiths, Thomas (alias) (prev. Griffiths, Thomas (Alias)), date of birth: 1800 (prev. 0000), date of death: 1868 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime
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