Ship:
Lady Feversham 1830
Details:
Age 24. Assigned to George Blaxland
Ship:
Lady Feversham 1830
Source:
State Archives NSW. Convict Indents. Microfiche 676
Details:
Age 21. Native of Lincolnshire. Ploughman. Tried 1 August 1829 and sentenced to transportation for life for horse stealing. Assigned to John Blaxland at Bush farm on arrival.
Ship:
Lady Feversham 1830
Source:
Criminal Petitions HO 17/54/17. National Archives, Kew
Details:
Prisoner name: Joseph Holt. Prisoner age: 20. Prisoner occupation: Servant. Court and date of trial: Lincoln Summer Assizes 1829. Crime: Horse stealing. Stealing one horse from Mr Spinks of Scampton, Lincolnshire. Initial sentence: Death recorded and commuted to transportation for life. Gaoler s report: Not known. Petitioner(s): Joseph Holt Senior, the prisoner s father, a labourer of Skirbeck near Boston, Lincolnshire. Grounds for clemency: Aged only 19 years; is of very weak intellect; first offence. Other papers: A character for the father. A character for the petitioner s family.