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Voyage
Transportation
William Whatnell was transported on the Pestonjee Bomanjee, departing 8th Oct 1846 and arriving 17th Feb 1847 with 200 passengers.
Built 1835 at Dumbarton, Scotland. Wood barque of 595 Tons.
Pestonjee Bomanjee (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/15, Page Number 126 |
| 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
Conduct Record. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-84$init=CON33-1-84P189 William Whatnell See record for full details. 12 May 1852. Misconduct in passing himself off as man and wife with Mary Hogan, “Arabian”. One month hard labour. (Mary Hogan, per Arabian, was similarly punished.)
16 August, 1862 -- from the Age, p6: "Stealing Boots. — William Whatnell pleaded Not Guilty to a charge of having on Friday, the 8th August inst., stolen from the house of one William Turner, two pair of boots and three odd ones. He was undefended. The prosecutor, a boot maker, living in Chetwynd street, North Melbourne, on the night in question, had left the boots in his shop window, with the house door a little ajar, whilst he was in a back room. He missed the boots on the following morning. Detective Williams arrested the prisoner on the night of the robbery with the boots in his possession, as he could give no satisfactory account of how he came by them. He was found Guilty of receiving, and sentenced to one year's hard labor on the roads." (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155010830)
IN VICTORIA: 20 February, 1862 --- from the Geelong Advertiser, p3: "An ACCOMPLISHED THIEF -- William Whatnell, a well known Melbourne thief, with a number of aliases, was charged on suspicion with being implicated in the late robbery at the Terminus Hotel. Mrs Bedford deposed that the prisoner, with another man, convicted and sentenced for the same offence, were at her hotel on the 4th February. She saw him in the back parlour handling the cash-box, which was subsequently stolen. Matthew Lloyd, of the Shamrock Hotel, deposed that the prisoner slept at the Shamrock on the night of the 8th instant; he was the only lodger in the house. He left the next morning early and soon afterwards it was discovered that a box belonging to a servant girl had been forcibly opened and £24 stolen therefrom. Detective Warren (Melbourne) gave the prisoner a very bad character, and the bench sentenced him to six months' imprisonment under the Vagrancy Act." (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/149720129) --0--
ANOTHER MARRIAGE: 4 April, 1860: William Whatnell, adult, a groom, married Mary Sams, adult, at the Independent Chapel, Tamar Street, Launceston (https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-19p227j2k). Note: No documents have come to light about the first marriage. Elizabeth Blackburn Whatnell received her Certificate of Freedom in 1854. --0--
12 June, 1852: William Whatnell was issued with a Ticket of Leave -- twice revoked over the years for absconding, along with several sentences of hard labour for same. 16 July, 1856: Certificate of Freedom issued (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-84$init=CON33-1-84p189). --0--
MARRIAGE: 5 August, 1851: William Whatnell and Elizabeth Blackburn, per Elizabeth & Henry (1848), were given permission to marry (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON52-1-3p179). Elizabeth held a Ticket of Leave. --0-- 25 August, 1851: William Whatnell, 24 and a hawker, married Elizabeth Blackburn, 25, a spinster, at St George's Church of England, Hobart; registration #1237 (https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-10p114j2k). --0--
TYPO: burglary
IN VDL: 17 February, 1847: On arrival, he was listed as convict #19577, 20, single, Church of England, able to read; native place Stoke Ferry, Norfolk. Stated this offence "burglary, prosecutor John Grange of Braintree", about 2.5km north of Black Notley, Essex. He had a previous conviction for assault (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-84$init=CON33-1-84p189) Family: Father William Sutton, Mother Anna Sutton; brothers Robert, James, and Thomas; sisters Emily, and Ann (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-84$init=CON33-1-84p189). Note: His accomplice in the bruglary, Henry Brown, #19406, died on board the ship during the voyage on 10 February, 1847. See his bio at https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/brown/henry/15210. --0--
NEWSPAPER report of trial: “Ten Years— William Whatnell and Henry Brown for burglary at Black Notley.” (Essex Standard, 14 August 1846, p2) —0—
TRIAL: 30 July, 1846: William Whatnell, 20, semi-literate, was convicted for burglary at Essex County Assizes along with Henry Brown, 18 and illiterate. They were each sentenced to 10 years’ transportation (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 for Henry Brown; England; Essex; 1846). —0—