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Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
John Whitehouse was transported on the Phoenix, departing 31st Oct 1821 and arriving 20th May 1822 with 184 passengers.
Built at Thames, England 1798. 589 tons.
Phoenix (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 118 |
| 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
National Archives. Criminal Petitions. HO 17/62/12 1822 Jan Prisoner name: John Whitehouse. Prisoner age: 18. Court and date of trial: Stafford Summer Assizes 1821. Crime: Horse stealing the property of John Richards. Initial sentence: Death commuted to transportation for life. Annotated (Outcome): Considered by Lord Sidmouth 15 January 1822. Nil. Petitioner(s): John Richards and 56 signatories. Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Young; led astray by another lad named Thomas Glover; respectable connections. Additional Information: On board 'Leviathan'. -------------------------------------------------- Committed to our county gaol, John Whitehouse, for stealing a brown gelding, the property of John Jones, Thomas Glover, for stealing a black mare, the property Edward Pugh, of Leighton, Montomeryshire.... Staffordshire Advertiser, 7 July 1821. Many of the capital convicts received sentence of death at the conclusion of their trials.—Last night John Whitehouse, Thomas Glover, for horse-stealing; James Morris, Matthew Stevenson, John Lumax, Joseph Bentley, and John Cox, for burglary ; and James Adkins, for stealing 40s in a dwelling house; were placed at the bar, when the Judge (Garrow) addressed them in the following terms: “It is a very melancholy conclusion to the labors and duties which have been gone through in this place, to be called upon, in addition to those who have individually had their respective sentences at the conclusion of their trials, to see so large number yet remain to receive theirs ; and the more especially almost every one of you are very young in point of years, yet have been long engaged in the practice of robbing and plundering your neighbours. Some of you have been guilty of robbing one unfortunate man twice. You will do well to put yourselves in a state of preparation for receiving the execution of that sentence, which the law compels me to pass upon you. I have, in a life of long professional practice, seen too much to expect any great efficacy from the exhortations customary these occasions. I shall not, therefore, drag thro’ that ceremony. Your being sentenced to death will probably have more effect on the surrounding audience than any thing that I could say. I shall therefore proceed to pass the dreadful sentence of the law without further preamble.” His Lordship passed sentence of death in the usual terms. Staffordshire Advertiser, 8 Sep 1821.