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Voyage
Transportation
William Wagner was transported on the Palmerston, departing 8th Nov 1860 and arriving 11th Feb 1861 with 296 passengers.
978 ton ship was built at Moulmein, Burma in 1853. On the voyage from Portland, England to the Swan River Colony, Western Australia in 1860/61 the ship also carried passengers, pensioner guards, wives and children as well as soldiers and 296 convicts.
Palmerston (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 332 |
| 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
Most records in WA are listed as "Wegener". ANDREW FOSTER (30), WILLIAM WYNN BRAMWELL (25), FREDERICK HUMPHREYS (46), and WILLIAM WAGNER (45), were indicted for feloniously Forging and uttering on 23d March (1859)an order for the payment of 265l., with intent to defraud. WAGNER was further charged with having been before convicted. JOHN SPITTLE (City policeman). I produce a certificate—(Read: "Central Criminal Court, February, 1852; William Wagner, convicted of forgery. Transported for Ten Years.")—I was present at that trial—Wagner is the person who was then convicted. FOSTER— Ten Years' Penal Servitude. HUMPHREYS— Twenty Years' Penal Servitude. William Wagner was convicted along with Arnold Gerber (arrived per ‘Adelaide’ 1855) for forgery in 1852 – he obviously did not get transported for the first crime. William was 5’9” tall, married with 2 children, brown hair, grey eyes, sallow complexion, Stout. 4/1/1866: TOL 4/9/1871: CP. Champion Bay. 25/1/1873 The Herald, Fremantle: The Bankruptcy Act 1871.IN TIIE SUPREME' COURT OFWESTERN AUSTRALIA. In the matter of William Wegener, of Fremantle, in the Colony of WesternAustralia, Livery stable keeper, Storekeeper, Dealer, and Clapman a Bankrupt. 3/10/1873 The Perth Gazette: FORGERY. William Wegener was indicted for feloniously forging a cheque for £10 10s. purporting to have been drawn by Mr. George Thompson, a merchant at Fremantle. A second count inthe indictment charged the prisoner with uttering the same, knowing it to have been forged. The prisoner was not represented by counsel. The facts of the case are these. On July 14th the prisoner entered the house of a Mrs. Dixon in Perth, and requested her to send a messenger to purchase some articles of clothing for him at a store, at the same time tendering a cheque to pay for the same. The cheque was for £10 10s., purporting to have been drawn by Mr. George Thompson payable to J. Bates at the National Bank. The messenger went to Mr. Shenton's shop, purchased the articles which the prisoner required, tendered the cheque in payment, received the change which, with the goods, she handed to the prisoner, who gave her half a crown for her trouble. The cheque on being presented at the bank at Fremantle proved to be a forgery, and the prisoner was arrested. The prisoner, in his defence, said he had received the cheque from one Horton Bateman in part payment of a debt, to whom he attributed his present position, alleging that Bateman had concocted and put into execution a diabolical scheme to bring about the prisoner's ruin, owing to jealousy. The jury after deliberating for three quarters of an hour found the prisoner guilty, and His Honor sentenced him to 12 years' penal servitude. 16/5/1882: William Wegener died of heart disease at York, WA. No marriage or children found in WA.