Henry Perry

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C H on 26th February 2024

Old Bailey Online HENRY PERRY. HENRY JOHNSON. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 14th February 1816. Text type Trial account Defendants HENRY PERRY, HENRY JOHNSON Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 14th February 1816 Reference Number t18160214-93 Verdicts Guilty, Guilty Punishments Transportation 269. HENRY PERRY and HENRY JOHNSON were indicted for stealing, on the 12th of January , one saucepan, value 2s. the property of William Childs . WILLIAM CHILDS . I am an ironmonger , and live at North Horton-street . I was standing in a room adjoining my shop on the evening of the 12th of January, when William Barrett brought the prisoner Perry into the shop, with the saucepan. BENJAMIN JOHNSON . I am an officer. On the evening of the 12th of January, I was in company with Woodroffe and Barrett. We observed the prisoner Perry in company with another, in Soho. Presently the prisoner Johnson came from Comptonstreet, and joined them; they went through different places, trying various shops, until they came to the prosecutor's. They then walked to and fro before the door. Barret, I, and Woodroffe concealed ourselves. The two prisoners stood outside while the other man went in and brought out something like s copper saucepan; but we could not distinctly see, as we were a considerable distance off. Woodroffe followed that man, and the two prisoners stopped behind. We did not take them then, in hopes that the other man might again join them. The two prisoners walked round Park-lane, and through the square to the prosecutor's house again. After being there some time, both prisoners went into the shop; then they came out; I was standing at the square end of the street, and Woodroffe and Barret at the other end. Before I could get up to them, Barret had got Perry, who had chucked a saucepan away, and was fighting with him. I called him by his name, and told him to be quiet. We did not take Johnson until two days after. He made his escape, and I found him at the Wheatsheaf, Drury-lane. As we followed them, it rained dreadfully, and we were wet through. WILLIAM BARRET . I am not an officer. On the 12th of last month, I was in company with Johnson and Woodroffe. Knowing the two prisoners and the other man, we followed them. They made several attempts at a number of shops, and when they came to the prosecutor's, they walked to and fro; the account Johnson has given is perfectly correct. I caught Perry with the saucepan. He made great reresistance, but I took him into the shop. GEORGE WOODROFFE . I went after the man who is not in custody, but could not overtake him. (Property produced and sworn to.) PERRY, GUILTY , aged 18. JOHNSON, GUILTY , aged 20. Transported for seven years . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.

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Ann Gordon on 3rd January 2017

Transported for stealing a copper saucepan. Married Mary Keating "Southworth 111"

Henry Perry (c1798-c1843) On 14th February, 1816 Henry was tried at Middlesex Gaol Delivery and sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing a copper saucepan. He was a groom and stable servant. He arrived 1st October, 1816 aboard the “Mariner” aged 19. N.S.W. State Records show: On 18th October, 1816 he was forwarded to Windsor for distribution. From December, 1821 to January, 1823 he was on a list of Government servants in the employ of Sir John Jamison at Regentville. On 13th September, 1823 he was in Sydney Gaol according to a deposition from constable George Jilks. (Reason unknown) In the 1825 Convict Muster, he had a Ticket of Leave and was a labourer at Wilberforce. In the 1828 Census his age is shown as 30, free, protestant, labourer to Joseph Croyston, Lower Portland. Henry and Mary Keating (an Irish convict who arrived on the ship Southworth 3) were married in the Parish of Richmond by Rev. Henry T. Stiles on 31st March, 1834 with the “consent of the Governor” which meant Mary was still bonded at that time. Henry was “free by servitude”. Henry was 36, Mary was 25. He appears in the 1841 Census as living in North Richmond .Also in the household is a daughter between 2 and 7 years, (Elizabeth, his daughter, would have been around 4 years of age) . His wife was recorded as between 21 and 45 years of age. (Mary would have been around 32.) Henry was Church of England, the females were Roman Catholic. He was a farmer. His description: Five feet one and three quarter inches tall, dark, ruddy complexion, brown hair and blue eyes. It is thought both he and Mary had an accidental death, date unknown. Their daughter Elizabeth was put in the care of the Parsons at Castlereagh.