Albert Whitehouse

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Maureen Withey on 17th March 2026

Police Report. Albert Whitehouse, Thomas Buckler, and Robert Lormer, were brought up having undergone several examinations on a charge of being concerned in fabricating and uttering the forgeries on the Bank of New South Wales. Mr. Henry Allen deposed, that he has a lithographic press at work in Pitt-street, when the prisoner Whitehouse is employed by him in printing, as also the prisoner Buckler, occasionally. He was frequently absent from the printing-office, but not more than an hour and a-half at a time ; the notes could not have been printed at his press without his knowledge ; the notes were printed in the lithographic ink, but he could not say whether the impression was that of a plate or of a stone ; it would require, at least, two days to prepare his press for printing from a plate, and he is never absent that length of time. Being cross-examined by the prisoner Whitehouse, the printer- He admitted that there were other presses besides his in Sydney, viz. at the Commissariat Department, the Surveyor General's Office, and at Mr. Knapp's. The notes must been made at a press, as it requires considerable force to make the impression ; his press could with a force equal to the weight of four tons ; he had seen the prisoner Lormer, who resided with Richardson, in the printing-office, with Whitehouse; but the prisoner, Lormer, accounted for that by saying he was a dealer, and had sold ten packs of cards on that occasion, which Mr. Allen admitted. Richardson said the case was hard as he had taken the notes from a seaman belonging to the Dryade, who had left the country. The Bench then committed the prisoners Lormer and Richardson for trial, intimating that sufficient evidence had not been adduced to commit Whitehouse and Buckler, who must be discharged ; but they would recommend to His Excellency the Governor that they may be removed to a distant part of the colony, where they could not exercise that ingenuity for which, it appears, they had been transported to this colony, and beyond the reach of temptation. Sydney Gazette, 29 June 1833.

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Maureen Withey on 17th March 2026

National Archives. Hulk Records HO-9-7_3 (page 7/47) Hulk Records. Retribution Hulk, Sheerness. Received from Worcester, 30 April 1828. Albert Whitehouse, age 18, Horse Stg, Tried Worcester, 8 March 1828, Life, To NSW 20 June 1828.

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Maureen Withey on 17th March 2026

Assize News. At Worcester Assizes, Albert Whitehouse, aged 18, printer, was found guilty of stealing a mare value £30, and a saddle and bridle, the property of Mr. Henry Harding. The investigation of this case disclosed some most painful circumstances. Mr. Harding, the prosecutor, is a respectable maltster living in Corve-street, Ludlow, the prisoner, it appeared, was occasionally employed by him, and on ?? of October was directed to exercise the mare, the subject of the indictment. On the following morning she was stolen from her pasture, and the saddle and bridle  taken from the stable. Mr. Harding immediately took horse, and proceeded to Birmingham in pursuit, but obtaining no tidings of the mare, he was coming on towards ?? when he learnt at Droitwich, that she had been stopped there, and that the prisoner was in custody. It turned out, that the prisoner having offered to sell the animal to a horse dealer named Walker, living at King's Heath, who had overtaken him on the road, at a price and under circumstances which excited Walker's suspicions,  he very properly caused him to be apprehended. The prisoner showed great, and evidently sincere contrition  throughout the trial, and on the learned Judge asking him what he had to say in his defence, he stated  that distress had driven him to the act. Upon this, Mr Harding entered the witness box, and expressed his belief that the prisoner had really been urged to the act, as he said, by destitution and poverty. His father, Mr. H. mentioned, was formerly a Supervisor of Excise, at Ludlow, but now on the superannuated list, and living at Birmingham.  The prisoner had some time ago married to his displeasure, and he had ever since abandoned him; and he not only refused him the smallest relief, but he, Mr. H. had seen a letter written to the prisoner by his father, in reply to one he had addressed to him for some little aid, in which the cruel parent  told him: — 'That if he thought a guinea would save him from the gallows, that guinea he would not give him! and actually recommended him to commit some crime or other to get himself sent out of the kingdom! We cannot describe the indignant feelings which were manifested by all who heard the recital of this conduct. The learned Judge, with much emotion, told the prisoner that sentence of death must be recorded against him, but he should earnestly recommend his case as deserving a merciful consideration in the proper quarter.  Royal Cornwall Gazette, 29 March 1828. Removal of Convicts. —Yesterday, the following convicts were removed  from Worcester County Gaol; to Sheerness, to be transported for life: Albert Whitehouse, for horse-stealing at Stanton Lacy; ... Worcester Journal, 1 May 1828.

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 11th September 2020

New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842. Name; Albert Whitehouse Ship; Eliza No; 137 - 130 Age; 23 Est birth Year; 1805 Read & Write; Married. Religion; Protestant Native Place; Burton on Trent Calling; Lithographic Printer Offence; Horse Stealing Date of Trial: 10 March 1828 Sentence; Life Height; 5 ft. 7 1/2 Complexion; Ruddy Hair Brown Eyes; Hazel Assigned; Surveyor General Dept. Noted against name; Died at Port Macquarie 14 Nov 1833

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Meryl Naismith on 22nd May 2018

Source of death. I have his burial certificate. He died 14 Nov 1833 in Port Macquarie. He was buried the next day in Port Macquarie.