Henry Richards

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Margaret Weston on 13th December 2021

Henry Richards, Convict Indent Ship: Waterloo (3), arrived 3 Aug 1833, Arrival Status: Convict; aged 31 years; Education: Reads & Writes; Religion: Protestant; Marriage Status: Widow or Widower; Male Children: 2, Female Children: 2; Native Place: Cumberland [CUL ENG]; Trade or Calling: Veterinary surgeon and huntsman; Offence: Stealing copper boiler, Tried at Middlesex Gaol Delivery [MDX ENG], 14 Feb 1832, Sentence: 7 years, Previous convictions: None; Height: 5 feet 8.5; Complexion: Brown; Eyes: Brown; Hair: Dark brown; Original Remarks: Yes [Biog Item No. 100414448] Convict Indents & Ship Musters 1831 & 1833ABOUT 1837 Ticket of Leave Number: 37/1768 Year: 1837; Allowed to remain in the District of Parramatta; Name: Henry Richards; Place of Trial: Middlesex [MDX ENG],Gaol Delivery, Ship: Waterloo, Year: 18561. HENRY RICHARDS was indicted for stealing, on the 29th of January , 3 candlesticks, value 4s.; 1 gown, value 5s., 1 apron, value 3d.; 1 pair of pinchers, value 3d.; the goods of Phoebe Tripp ; and 1 fixture, i.e., a copper, value 30s., the goods of the said Phoebe Tripp ; against the Statute, &c. MARTHA TRIPP . I am the daughter of Phoebe Tripp ; she is a widow , and lives at Holloway . This copper was taken from her out-house, where it had been fixed; the candlestick, apron, and gown were in the same place - they were all safe the night before, and were missing the next morning; they had taken a pane of glass out of the out-house or wash-house window - a man could get through there; the window would not lift up - I know this gown, apron, candlestick, and copper. ALFRED HARRIS , (Police-constable N 100). On the 29th January I met the prisoner at half-past nine o'clock in the morning, in Upper Holloway, carrying this copper on his shoulder - as I was coming down the road he saw me, and tried to get round a hay-cart; I asked him what he had got, and where he was going - he said he had got a copper, and he was going to get some pin-holes made in it, but he did not care where, as he was going to pay for it; these candlesticks he said he meant to get exchanged for steel ones - I then asked him what was in the bundle under his arm; he said some things he was going to get mangled for his wife; I found these pinchers on him, which he said he had used to take out nails - he said he lived at Finchley, and had done so for eight years, but there was no mangler there, and he was going to take the things to Islington, to get them done. GUILTY . Aged 30. - Transported for Seven Years . Trove: Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 10 November 1857, page 1: On the 9th instant at a quarter past 8am Mr Henry Richards an old colonist, and one of the best vetrinary surgeons in the Southern Hemisphere. He died as he lived, in a firm reliance on the Saviours merits aged 58 years (having arrived in 1833).