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Transportation
William Means was transported on the Sir Godfrey Webster, departing 4th Aug 1823 and arriving 30th Dec 1823 with 181 passengers.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 98 |
| 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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Old Bailey Online WILLIAM MEANS. WILLIAM SHARBOARD. Theft; theft from a specified place. 9th April 1823 Text type Trial account Defendants WILLIAM MEANS, WILLIAM SHARBOARD Offences Theft > Theft from place Session Date 9th April 1823 Reference Number t18230409-54 Verdicts Guilty, Guilty Punishments Transportation, Miscellaneous Punishment > Fine 538. WILLIAM MEANS and WILLIAM SHARBOARD were indicted for stealing, on the 8th of March , 80 lbs. of lead, value 10 s., the goods of Charles Calvert , John Calvert , John Forster , and Edmund Sexton Pery Calvert , and fixed to a building of theirs . BOUGHEY HEPWORTH . I am in the employ of Messrs. Calvert, who have premises in the Ward of Dowgate. On Saturday, the 8th of March, between five and six o'clock, Mr. Church called on me, saying, some boys were taking some lead off an empty house, in Red Bull Yard . I went with him into a house which commanded a view of the premises. I saw Means cutting away the lead from the gutters in front of the house, and a little boy with him. We went down, and got into the house by the staircase window, and found the sink cut away. I went up stairs, and found the house a complete wreck; the tiles and partitions all torn away; the gutters taken away; the edge of the lead was quite bright; the pipes too were cut away, and gone. There was a window open at the back part of the premises. I found the prisoners down in a place where Mr. Calvert's empty butts were; we took them to the watch-house. On Means we found two steels, two flints and two matches, and a small piece of lead in his pocket, fresh cut - but nothing on the other. I asked what they had done with the lead they had cut away. Sharboard said I should find five pieces down by the cellar flap. We found about 3/4 of a cwt. there. There has been about a ton stolen in all. Sharboard said, they had lived in the house four days, and had had a fire there, made of wood torn from the wainscot. They said they had sold it to a man over the water, at Chain-gate. I have known Sharboard a long time, and believe he has a good character before. WILLIAM CHURCH . I was with Beer - his account is correct. (Property produced and sworn to.) MEAN'S Defence. - I went down the yard, and saw the cellar flap open, walked in, went up, and saw the lead laying in the gutter; I went and told this boy of it, he went in with me, and we cut a bit of it. MEARS - GUILTY . Aged 17. Transported for Seven Years . SHARBOARD - GUILTY . Aged 12. Fined One Shilling and Discharged.