Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
William Walker was transported on the Mermaid, departing 30th Dec 1850 and arriving 13th May 1851 with 210 passengers.
Mermaid (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/16, Page Number 396 |
| 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
Yorkshire Gazette, 16th Sept 1848. Stokesley. 17 year old William Walker, labourer, late of Huddersfield, was sentenced 8th Sept to two months hard labour at the Northallerton House of Correction for breaking the windows of the receiving officer. The prisoner was an "old" offender, just having been released from one month on the treadmill for an unnamed crime. It them makes a comment about vagrants being numerous in the neighbourhood. Yorkshire Gazette, 6 Jan 1849 Northallerton. 17 year old, William Walker pleaded guilty to stealing a striped cotton shirt, property of John Blakelock of Thirst. The prisoner had only the day before the offence been released from the House of Correction, telling the officers it was his intention to commit a felony and be back with them next day. All these early prison records have labourer not the mattress maker on his convict recors. Sent to Millbank and then to Parkhurst, before being transported on the Mermaid. Was William Walker his real name? Is he the "William Davis alias William Walker" who married Ellen Rush nee Tully in Guildford in 1859, giving his father's name as Thomas Walker, engineer? Possibly illegitimate? If so, he died at the Mt Eliza Depot in September 1901. No details on his death certificate other than his age of 71 years and burial information for East Perth Cemetery, Wesleyan section. Funeral notice, however, identifies him as William Davis, engineer. Ellen died April 1895, Sawyers Valley and is also buried Wesleyan, East Perth Cemetery. The children of this couple were William, Susan, Ellen, Ernest, Walter, Herbert and Emma.