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Crime
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Transportation
Henry King was transported on the Lotus, departing 20th Dec 1832 and arriving 16th May 1833 with 216 passengers.
Lotus (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 510 |
| 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 HENRY KING. Theft; simple larceny (from 1827). 29th November 1832. Text type Trial account Defendants HENRY KING Offences Theft > Simple larceny Session Date 29th November 1832 Reference Number t18321129-69 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 70. HENRY KING was indicted for stealing, on the 31st of October , 1 sheet, value 3s. , the goods of Charles Smith . ELIZABETH SMITH . I am the wife of Charles Smith - we live in Rolling Ball-passage ; the prisoner took a room of me, and lodged there one week - he paid 2s. out of 4s. 6d. On the 31st of October I went up for my money, and missed the sheet - I asked what he had done with it - he said he had taken it to his mother, to be washed; I said,"Why did you do that, I told you I washed once in three weeks?" he would not tell me any thing else, but sent me to his mother's, as he said, but found his mother had been dead for years - I have never found my sheet. JOHN RATTRAY (Police-constable F 54.) I was sent for, and took the prisoner - he said he took the sheet to his mother to wash, and offered to give me a note to go for it. Prisoner's Defence. I went out on the Wednesday morning, and returned in the evening - my room door was open; there was no lock on the door, and any one might open it; I was accused of taking the sheet - I said the young woman who lived with me might have taken it; I did not know she was then gone - the officer had time to apprehend her, but he would not. GUILTY . Aged 23. - Transported for Seven Years .
1832 - Australian Convict Transportation Registers Trial; 29 November 1832 Noted against name. DROWNED - 14 Oct 1841 Old Bailey On-Line Born; 1809 - Tried; 29 November 1832. Tried at Old Bailey, London. Accused of simple larceny (stealing, on the 31st of October, 1 sheet, value 3s.). Found guilty. Sentenced to transportation.