Convict Register Details
Midwest WA Heritage Convict Register Details
Convict Registry ID:2487
| SURNAME | PAYNE |
|---|---|
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry |
| OTHER NAME | PAINE |
| CONVICT NO | 4654 |
| BIRTH/DEATH | 1833 Devon – 17.08.1909 Dongara |
| BRITISH DATA | s/o James John PAINE and wife Elizabeth nee KERSLAKE; marr; farm lab, semi lit, Prot; behaviour in Pentonville Prison (separate confinement) - good, at public works - very good, on voyage - good Children – Caroline PAINE; Emma PAINE |
| PRE CONVICTION | 6 other charges against him |
| CONVICTION | Exeter, Devon 01.01.1856 ‘part of a gang of depredators in the area’; seven charges in all, one of which was sheep stealing from Henry Godfrey of Countess Weir, he stored the stolen sheep carcases at his house in Trew’s Weir, prev conv, 15yrs (Woolmer’s Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 15 Dec 1855) |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | 5ft 5½ins, dark brown hair, grey eyes, oval visage, sallow complexion, middling stout, lost upper front tooth |
| ARRIVAL | Fremantle – Nile 01.01.1858 from Chatham Prison |
| CERTIFICATES | TL18.10.1859, CP18.05.1861 Toodyay (10.09.1862 Perth) |
| LOCATION/ EMPLOYMENT | 01.04.1858 Mount Eliza Depot; Rose Cottage, Payne’s Flat, Dongara; alias John WILLIAMS |
| FAMILY | Marr2. – as (alias John Williams) Frances Ann BRACKEN (c1842 Ireland - 1916 Arrino; arr. 1860 per Escort) 31.12.1861 York
Children: Henry PAINE: b.1862 York; Emma Mary PAINE: 05.07.1863 Dongadling near York - 18.06 1951 West Perth, marr Edward BANNELL 20.12.1876 Irwin River; Julia Jane PAINE: 06.03.1865 Northam - 17.10.1942 Perth; John Nicholas PAINE: 1866 Northam, marr Mary Ann KILMURRAY 25.06.1890 Dongara; Elizabeth Eliza PAINE: 1870 Irwin River - 06.12.1955 Bickley, marr William Benjamin SWEETMAN 1887 Fremantle; Thomas PAINE: 10.04.1873 Irwin - 01.08 1941 Geraldton, marr Mary JONES 06.08.1895 Dongara; Mary Matilda PAINE: 24.08.1875 Irwin - 02.08.1956 Rivervale, marr Walter James FINLAYSON 30.08. 1899 Guildford; Annie Frances PAINE: 1878 Irwin River - 27.01.1956 Mt Lawley, marr Henry James MONEY 01.11.1897; John Frank PAINE: b.1880 Dongara - died Dongara |
| WA CONVICTIONS | Mar 1886 Dongara, (alias John Williams) drunk & disorderly by fighting, fined 10/- & costs |
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| REFERENCES | SROWA – Convict Register Acc 1156 R8, R21B, R32; Estimates and Convict Lists Acc 128/32; Dongara Police Charge Book Cons417/22 p115; WAGS Convict Links Vol 27, No3 p7 & 8 |
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