Joseph William Whitehouse

Joseph Whitehouse, one of 312 convicts transported on the Rodney, 19 August 1850

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Joseph William Whitehouse
Aliases:	none
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1825
Occupation:	Labourer
Date of Death:	24th March, 1896
Age:	71 years

Life Span

Male median life span was 57 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to 7 years

Crime:	Stealing fowls
Convicted at:	Warwick. Boro of Birmingham Quarter Sessions
Sentence term:	7 years
Ship:	Rodney
Departure date:	19th August, 1850
Arrival date:	28th November, 1850
Place of arrival	Van Diemen's Land
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 315 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/16, Page Number 356
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 Project.

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Community Contributions

D Wong on 25th June, 2017 wrote:

Joseph was 22 years old on arrival, his native place was Birmingham. He was transported for ‘stealing 5 ducks, 3 rabbits and 16 fowls from a malthouse’.

Joseph was 5’3 1/2” tall, reads and writes a little, single,

Mother: Hannah
Brothers: David, John, Frederick - at native place.

21/5/1867: Married Mary Ann Burgess, aged 15 born 1851 and died 5/9/1890 aged 38. Joseph was 35 - at the house of William Watts - registered at Deloraine.
Children:
Maria Ann Whitehouse 1870–1937
Edwin Whitehouse 1872-Unknown
Arthur Whitehouse 1874-1949
Joseph George Whitehouse 1876-1917
David Thomas Whitehouse 1879-Unknown
Albert John Whitehouse 1881-1967
Walter William Whitehouse 1883-Unknown
Oliver Charles Whitehouse 1885-Unknown
Amy Caroline Whitehouse 1887-Unknown
Ada Whitehouse 1890-Unknown

24/3/1896: Joseph died of ‘Cardiac Valvular disease’, at Devon Cottage Hospital, Latrobe, Tas., aged 68, a farmer. Family tree lists Joseph as being born 1825 and 71 when he died.

Convict Changes History

D Wong on 25th June, 2017 made the following changes:

firstname: Joseph William (prev. Joseph), date of birth: 1825 (prev. 0000), date of death: 24th March, 1896 (prev. 0000), gender: m

D Wong on 25th June, 2017 made the following changes:

occupation, crime