Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Frederic William Walkling was transported on the Portsea, departing 24th Jul 1838 and arriving 18th Dec 1838 with 240 passengers.
Portsea (generic)References
| Primary Source | England & Wales Criminal Registers (HO 27/56; Page 93). UK Prison Hulk Registers HO9/15. Ancestry. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/11, Page Number 302 |
| 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 |
Claims
"I am related to the shopkeeper wronged in this matter. The convicted person Mr FW Walkling set up"
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Convict Notes
Removed from our County Gaol to the York Hulk, Gosport, pursuant to their sentences of transportation:—Benjamin Atkins, Joshua Atkins,Thomas Archer, Henry Berry, Charles Carpenter. Jonathan Carrington, Checkley, George Dutfield, Henry Goodman, Damon Hester, William Jordan, William Lichfield. Wm. Manley, Rufus Patience, Samuel Moorby, Frederick Wm. Walkling, and Henry Wheeler.
This person was a once-trusted employee in a Draper's shop owned by a relative of mine in Maidenhead, Berks. (may now be Oxon?). I have researched the trial of Frederic W, found that his family raised a Petition seeking to get him NOT transported, but it was rejected. Frederic had married just days before being arrested for the theft, being caught red-handed and trying to trade nearby in the stolen drapery. He never returned to England, while his new wife eventaully re-married.
10/3/1838 Berkshire Chronicle Berkshire, England: OXFORD CIRCUIT—Friday, March 2 THE QUEEN V. WILLIAM FREDERICK WALKLING. The prisoner was indicted for embezzling a large quantity of goods, the property of his master, J. S. Plumbe. Mr. sergeant Ludlow and Mr. Cooper conducted the prosecution ; and Mr. Walesby and Mr. Maclean defended the prisoner. The facts were very simple. The prosecutor is a draper and mercer in Henley, and the prisoner had been in his employment for several years. In last autumn he quitted his service, married, and set up a shop in the same line as his master, nearly opposite. The prosecutor, who had missed several articles of his property, procured a search warrant, but previously desired the prisoner to allow his house to be searched privately, which he refused to do at first, but subsequently assented to, stipulating, however, that he should have time to prepare his wife, and to prevent her from being alarmed. As his conduct appeared to be suspicious, Mr. Plumbe proceeded to make the search before that time had elapsed, and found the prisoner and his wife secreting silk and other similar goods in a coalhouse. These goods the prosecutor identified, and the prisoner begged for pardon and mercy. The prosecutor found altogether from 250l. to 300l. worth of property in the prisoner's shop. Mr. Walesby, on the authority of the foregoing case, submitted that the prisoner should be allowed to make his own statement before his counsel addressed the jury. Mr. Baron Gurney hesitated, and wrote a note to Mr. Baron Alderson, and have received an answer, said that he should allow it to be done at these assizes as it had been done before, but not to be drawn into a precedent. The statement was then read by the prisoner, containing a long account of transactions which did not touch the actual charge. Mr. Walesby addressed the jury, and the learned Judge summed up the evidence. The Jury found the prisoner gilty, and he was sentenced to 14 years' transportation. Listed as William Frederick Walking on Ancestry Convict Indents: Frederick was 36 year old on arrival. Native Place: Oxfordshire. Frederick was literate, married, no children listed - 5'4" tall, sallow complexion, light brown hair, hazel grey eyes, lost two front upper teeth, nearly bald on crown, breast hair, mole on upper part of right side of same. 1841??: TOL - Listed as 'Walking' on NSW Gov. Convict Records. 30/4/1852: COF
A petition was raised by his parents and other worthies in Henley-on-Thames (copy held) seeking clemency, in view of his weakly disposition and good family connections, but the sentence was not varied. My interest is that the goods stolen were taken from the shop of my distant relative, he having long-standing connections in the town due to having been a Mayor and a Magistrate at various times. We wish still to find out what happened to Walkling after his Ticket of Leave was attained in May 1844, for he did not return to England.
England Criminal Register: Named Fred Will Walkling, aged 36, Well educated, Offence Larceny by Servant Prison Hulk ship York moored at Gosport, Received 12 March 1838, aged 36, Named Fred Wm Walkling, Offence Stealing Linen, Married, can read & write, Trade Draper Transportation Registers: Named Frederic William Walkling, Convicted 28 February 1838, Sentence 14 years Probable Christening 12 April 1801 at Cumnor, Berkshire, England, Parents: Thomas Walkling & Elizabeth (FHL Film No. 1279456)