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Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
William Haydon 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 297 (149) |
| 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
1834, 9 July: William Haydon, 16, was buried at Port Arthur in the Wesleyan Church cemetery (see https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD34-1-1p166j2k). Note: His age was originally written as 15, but has been changed to 16.
1832: On arrival in VDL, William Haydon was listed as 14, and a "boy" [no trade] (see https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON18-1-6$init=CON18-1-6p140). It's not clear from his VDL Conduct Record when he was sent to Port Puer, on the Tasman Peninsula, but he died there on 9 July 1834. An entry on his Conduct Record says he died "having fell [sic] from the Works at Port Puer". Note: Boys were kept at Point Puer jail between 1834 and 1848. This excerpt from Steve Harris’s article in the Sydney Morning Herald (12 October 2019) sheds some light on the harsh conditions at prison: “In the remotest part of the British Empire, without formal British government approval, instructions or appropriate resourcing, Tasmania’s Point Puer was the first prison built exclusively for boys, and a seminal foundation in the world’s contemporary attitudes and debates around juvenile crime management. While the stated intent was to ‘save’ and transform boys, Puer was a largely unplanned facility on a poorly-chosen site with insufficient resources and facilities to provide adequate accommodation, supervision, moral reformation and trade training and was too exposed to older Port Arthur convicts. Perhaps the harshest verdict was that of Chartist leader John Frost: ‘If I had 12 sons and it was left with me whether they should be transported or hanged, I should at once say to hang them soon rather than allow them to go to Point Puer.’ And the Point Puer punishment was more profound than the years of sentence. Men transported for seven years could spend a year on a probation station and be granted a form of freedom, but boys on the same sentence could not leave Puer until they were at least 16 and deemed literate, skilled and ‘good’. But resources to make them literate and skilled were inadequate and being seen as ‘good’ was a challenge when even minor offences led to a perpetual and hardening cycle of more and more punishments and reinforcement as ‘a bad boy’. Recent studies suggest they also had a higher mortality than those at Port Arthur, or elsewhere in the colony or England, as a result of their impoverished childhoods of disease and poor nutrition, imprisonment, and risks of injury in their labour punishments. Perhaps 15 per cent…died while under sentence and perhaps 40 per cent did not live to 40. Juvenile transportees, if they survived to age 20, had an average lifespan of 55 years, seven less than the average Tasmanian male.” (see https://www.smh.com.au/national/silenced-by-an-evil-system-the-boys-the-empire-sent-to-point-puer-20190925-p52upv.html).
1830, 12 July: William Haydon was convicted for stealing 5 shillings in silver. 1830, 16 September: William Haydon, 14 (estimated year of birth 1816) was received from Worcester aboard the Euryalus prison hulk at Chatham (see UK, Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849). He was sent from the hulk for transportation on 26 March 1832.