Name: | William Horton |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1804 |
Occupation: | Bootmaker |
Date of Death: | 14th October, 1879 |
Age: | 75 years |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 7 years
Crime: | House robbery |
Convicted at: | Stafford Assizes |
Sentence term: | 7 years |
Ship: | Norfolk |
Departure date: | 15th April, 1825 |
Arrival date: | 18th August, 1825 |
Place of arrival | New South Wales |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 180 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 259 (131) |
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. |
Susan Zeitunian on 18th January, 2018 wrote:
William Horton was convicted and transported with his brother Henry Horton, who was born about 1806 and received a life sentence.
D Wong on 31st January, 2018 wrote:
Henry Horton (aged 16,) and William Horton (18,) brothers, youths of notorious bad character, were indicted for breaking into the house of Mr. Hemphrey Evett, (the coach-proprietor,) at Handsworth, near Birmingham, and stealing four hams, Etc.
Police officers search the house where the prisoners lived, in Birmingham, and found two hams, ine in a bed-chamber and the other in a tub at the back door. - Guilty of stealing under 40s.
William Horton, sentenced to transportation for 7 years.
Henry Horton was again arraigned, under another indictment, for assaulting Richard Rowe on the King’s Highway, putting him in bodily fear, and stealing from his person two £30 promissory notes, a promissory note 13l.5s., twelve one-pound promissory notes, a pocket book, etc.
Guilty - judgement of death recorded.
(The father of the Hortons is now confined in Warwick gaol, being charged with four different robberies; and the lads themselves are well known offenders.
9/8/1831: COF
27/8/1832: COF renewed.
Susan Zeitunian on 18th January, 2018 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1804 (prev. 0000), date of death: 14th October, 1879 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime
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