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Voyage
Transportation
Charles King was transported on the Sir William Bensley, departing 9th Oct 1816 and arriving 10th Mar 1817 with 201 passengers.
Sir William Bensley (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 298 |
| 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
Old Bailey Online CHARLES KING. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 14th February 1816. Text type Trial account Defendants CHARLES KING Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 14th February 1816 Reference Number t18160214-108 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 284. CHARLES KING was indicted for stealing, on the 19th of January , ten quires of waste paper, value 3s. the property of Thomas Cadell and William Davis . JOHN MITCHELL . I am a warehouse-man to Messrs. Cadell and Davis, who are book-seller s, and have a warehouse in Drury-lane . Whilst I was up stairs at that warehouse, some body came and took this paper off, the window being open; it was imperfect copies of Burne's Justice. BENJAMIN JOHNSON . On the evening of the 19th of January, at about seven o'clock, I was in Drury-lane, near the Wheatsheaf, and I observed the prisoner coming from the Wheatsheaf. with a parcel under his arm; I stopped him, and he had this paper. The Wheatsheaf is a notorious house that thieves use. (Property produced, and sworn to.) GUILTY , aged 21. Transported for Seven years . Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.