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Transportation
William Whitla was transported on the Sophia, departing 15th Sep 1828 and arriving 17th Jan 1829 with 194 passengers.
Sophia (generic)References
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Convict Notes
William John Whitlan, for knowingly having in his in his possession a forged Bank Ireland note. — The prisoner pleaded Guilty; 14 years’ transportation. [This is the same person who was charged with stealing, last summer, two bank post bills, for £100 each, from the trunk of Mr. Trotter, who had lodgings at the time in the house of the prisoner’s father, at Ardglass. This depraved young man had been educated, a surgeon, by his father, who is a respectable retired Presbyterian Clergyman. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 31 March 1828.
The following convicts passed through Belfast on Monday, on their way to the hulks at Kingstown, near Dublin:- Sentence of death recorded, but commuted to transportation- James Hamill, Hugh M'Cann, John M'Ginley, Michael Sheals, William Martin, Robert Harper, James Thompson, John Flemming. -Fourteen years' transportation - Arthur Kinney, Thomas M'Gibbon, William Whitla, Philip Nugent.- Seven years' transportation-Arthur M'Conville, William Mc'Bride, Patrick Burns, Thomas Wallace, Robert Campbell William Whiteford, Alexander O'Boyce, Wm. Stockman, John McBride, Andrew Conry, John Dougan, James Graham, Archibald M'Neill. County or the Town of Carrickfergus- Seven years' transportation-James M'Illroy. Belfast News-Letter, 9 May 1828.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. William Whitla, alias Whitley, Whitlam, age on arrival, 24, per Sophia, 1829, Tried in Antrim, 1828, 14 years, for Forged notes. DOB, 1805, Native place, Antrim Co. Single. Protestant. Trade, Surgeon.