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Transportation
Charles Whitehurst was transported on the Minden, departing 16th Jul 1851 and arriving 14th Oct 1851 with 302 passengers.
Minden (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/17, Page Number 155 (80) |
| 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
"Charles Whitehurst is my great, great, great grandfather on my father's mothers side of the family"
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Convict Notes
Marriage for Ann Buckley and Egerton Whitehurst widower a blacksmith at St Mary Astbury dated 7/Sept/1820. - Cheshire Parish Records.
I wonder if this Egerton Whitehurst was related to Charles? On Thursday evening about seven o'clock, Egerton Whitehurst, blacksmith, well known old inhabitant of Congleton, put a period to his life (as it is feared) while under the influence of liquor, by drowning himself in the Macclesfield Canal, immediately behind the Wharf Inn, in Congleton. The unfortunate man had been drinking almost incessantly for several days, and was frequently heard to say that he should for himself.” After sitting very short time in the Wharf Inn, it appears that (without any intimation at that time, or he would, of course, have been watched) he went straight to the water, where he was found about half an hour after, quite cold and stiff. Whitehurst, though has come to so miserable an end, owing to intemperance and imprudence, was the representative, in Congleton, of very respectable family ; the celebrated mechanic of that name, who went to Derby, being his great uncle.—Verdict, Found drowned. Staffordshire Advertiser, 7 Dec 1844.
Charles was born in Congleton, Cheshire, England, the son of Egerton Whitehurst and Ann (nee Buckley) and was baptised on the 9th October 1825. He had a brother, Egerton, and a sister, Elizabeth, both older than him. Little is known as yet of his early years but he married Susannah (-?) and a daughter, Ann, was born in 1845. Papers at the Cheshire CRO show that he was tried in 1849 at Knutsford Quarter Sessions on a charge of larceny but was acquitted; however he was convicted on three separate charges of false pretences against Robert Sheldon and his employers. The Quarter Sessions order book shows that he was sentenced to one week's hard labour for the first offence and to transportation for seven years for the second and third offences. Quarterly returns for March 1850 to June 1851 show that he was aboard the convict hulk Justitia at Woolwich, Kent, when his age was given as 23 years. The September 1851 return lists him as being transferred to the Minden on 4th July 1851. The Minden arrived in Fremantle on 14th October 1851 and all convicts were given their ticket of leave before setting foot on land. Charles was sent to work for Dr Galbraith for some time. With his earnings he eventually was able to repay his passage costs in full and he obtained his conditional pardon on 31st December 1853. Whilst in and around the Perth area he met Ellen Sarah Davies who had arrived in WA on the Mary on 26th March 1852 as a domestic servant. No marriage certificate has been found to this day for the union of Charles and Ellen Sarah, however two girls were born at Guildford - Emily Amelia, baptised 5th February 1854 (of whom nothing is known), and Anne Elizabeth, born 1st August 1854 and baptised 1st October 1854; a third child, Robert Charles, was baptised in Perth on 26th May 1856. After this date the family moved north to the Champion Bay area (now Geraldton), six more children were born to Charles and Ellen and a study of the relevant birth certificates shows the family movements: Charles Eddington b.30.01.1858 at Port Gregory (Convict area and mines) Ellen Sarah b.03.02.1860 at Northampton Emmanuel b.30.01.1862 at Greenough Flats John b.19.03.1864 at Northampton Mary Anne b.15.12.1865 at Walkaway James Davis b.03.06.1868 at Greenough (he was known as James John)
Charles died on 20th May 1889 at Dalby's Gully, Geraldton, Western Australia aged 64 years. (Darby's Gully is now known as Dolby's Gully). Western australia Death Registration Number 263 in Year 1889. He was buried in Geraldton Apex Park Pioneer Cemetery. Find A Grave Memorial ID 273165424.