Convict Register Details
Midwest WA Heritage Convict Register Details
Convict Registry ID:677
| SURNAME | GREEDY |
|---|---|
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| OTHER NAME | alias Benjamin GRADY/ GRUNDY |
| CONVICT NO | 4918 |
| BIRTH/DEATH | 23.04.1820 Wiveliscombe, Somerset – 06.12.1881 Hospital, Geraldton |
| BRITISH DATA | s/o John GREEDY & Maria, unmarr, (one record states, widowed with 2 children), farm lab, semi lit, Prot; behaviour in separate confinement - good, at public works - indifferent |
| PRE CONVICTION | 30.10.1838 in Wilton Prison for stealing fruit; 10.05.1854 in Wilton Prison, larceny; Bath, Somerset 06.07.1854, with Jesse Wilkins, stealing fowls and a bag from J. B. Webber, 12m (The Bath Chronicle, 06 Jul 1854) |
| CONVICTION | Wells, Somerset 01.08.1856 larceny, prev conv, 10yrs |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | 5ft 10¼ins, light brown hair, light grey eyes, long visage, fair complexion, slight build, pock-marked, contracted top joint right forefinger |
| ARRIVAL | Fremantle – Lord Raglan 01.06.1858 from Portsmouth Prison |
| CERTIFICATES | TL18.06.1861 Toodyay, CP04.04.1864 Champion Bay |
| LOCATION/ EMPLOYMENT | 31.08.1858 CE (SO6 p362) part of a work party on their way to York via Guildford; 19.02.1859 CE; 14.11.1859 Fresh Water Bay; 09.05.1860 - 09.06.1860 CE medical records state that he had tertiary syphilis; 1862 baker, cook for J.L. Horrocks; 1862 self, lab; 1863 ‘The Bowes’, hutkeeper |
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| WA CONVICTIONS | 04 Jul 1867 Geraldton, drink & incapable, fined 5/- or 7d 13 Jan 1868 Geraldton, vagrancy |
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| REFERENCES | Somerset Gaol Registers; SROWA – Convict Register Acc 1156 R8, R21B, R33; Estimates and Convict Lists Acc 128/32; Ticket of Leave Register Acc 1156 R6; Medical Records Acc 1156 M32; Superintendent’s Orders Acc 1156 SO6; Employers of Ticket of Leave Men 1850 - 1890, J.S. Battye; Geraldton Police Charge Book Cons 661/41; Register of Deaths Geraldton Courthouse |
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