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Transportation
William Hill was transported on the Regalia, departing 14th Mar 1826 and arriving 5th Aug 1826 with 128 passengers.
Sailed from Dublin on 14th March 1826. Arrived Port Jackson Wednesday 5th August 1826.
Regalia (generic)References
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Convict Notes
National Archives. Criminal Petitions. HO 17/50/31. Date 1829 Aug. 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition (4 people from County Antrim) and accompanying letter on behalf of William Hill, engraver convicted at Assizes at Carrickfergus County Antrim, Ireland, in 1825 for forgery on a Scottish bank. Grounds for clemency: previous honest character, first offence committed while drunk, ready to become honest member of society, if freed could use his trade to support himself and his family in New South Wales. Initial sentence: life transportation. Annotated: nil. HO31
William Hill and Peter Sloan, for counterfeiting a Scotch bank note, with intent to defraud certain of his Majesty’s subjects.—Prisoners pleaded Guilty; transportation for life. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 30 July 1825.
William was a native of Belfast, 47 and married, he was a calico printer engraver.