Convict Register Details
Midwest WA Heritage Convict Register Details
Convict Registry ID:713
| SURNAME | HALEY |
|---|---|
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac |
| OTHER NAME | |
| CONVICT NO | 3581 |
| BIRTH/DEATH | 1817 Bierley, Yorkshire – 15.06.1883 Geraldton Hospital (The Daily News, 20 Jul 1883), (Police Gazette 1885, p185 – incorrectly records Isaac's death as inquest held in Bunbury, died of natural causes, 27.10.1885 – Jacob Haley) |
| BRITISH DATA | s/o William HALEY & his wife Esther nee WOODHEAD, marr 1 chd, blacksmith, semi lit, Prot; behaviour in separate confinement - good, in Portland Prison - very good, on voyage - very good |
| PRE CONVICTION | Bradford 29.06.1842 stealing a pair of screw socks and a gimlet, 6m (The Bradford Observer, 07 Jul 1842) |
| CONVICTION | Bradford, Yorkshire 10.12.1853 with his brother Jacob Haley [3582], Zaccheus Illingworth and Joseph Bowler, as member of a gang of 5, shop breaking & stealing 12 parasols, 20 shawls, 12 fur boas, 30 handkerchiefs & other articles property of James Clay, 15yrs (The Bradford Observer, 15 Dec 1853) |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | 5ft 7ins, dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, middling stout, two scars, right forefinger |
| ARRIVAL | Arrived Fremantle – Adelaide 18.07.1855 from Portland Prison |
| CERTIFICATES | TL08.12.1857, CP25.08.1860 |
| LOCATION/ EMPLOYMENT | SO401.08.1855 (p180) CE to receive extra rations while employed in the smith’s shop; SO420.09.1855 (p220) CE granted permission to visit with TL man James Tordoff [1272]; 18.02.1857 Mount Eliza; SO513.04.1857 (p349) CE to received extra rations while a striker; SO612.11.1857 CE (p124) granted permission with an interview with TL man George Wilmott; Dec 1859 Wheal Fortune Mine letter regarding his CP; Aug 1860 General Post Office, Perth, an unclaimed letter; ^1864 - 1872 employed 4 TL men at Gwalla as blacksmith, lab & striker, ^1866 applied for town lot Northampton, ^1872 Geraldton in business with his brother Jacob Haley [3582] as blacksmith; ^owned considerable property until ‘misfortune overtook him’ |
| FAMILY | Marr/ common-law wife – Bridget MALONEY 01.01.1861
Children: Esther HALEY: b.1862 Waneranooka, marr Henry SNOWDEN 1887 Greenough; Alice HALEY: b.1864 Gwalla Mine; Abraham HALEY: 1867 Northampton; Elizabeth HALEY 1871 Geraldton – 1940, marr Sampson TETLOW 1890 England; Joseph HALEY: b.1873 Geraldton; William HALEY: 1876 Geraldton - 1877, aged 11m |
| WA CONVICTIONS | 22 Feb 1868 Geraldton (as Isaac Healy), drunk & making use of obscene language, fined £1 16 Oct 1868 Geraldton (as Isaac Healey) drunk & disorderly in the public street, 12hrs *May 1883 (p93) Guildford, alias John HARVEY, drunk, 7d |
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| REFERENCES | SROWA – Convict Register Acc 1156 R18, R21B; Convict Description Register Acc 128/42; Superintendent’s Orders Acc 1156 SO4/SO5/SO7; ᴿᴰConvict Establishment Receipts & Discharges Acc 1156 R&D 9B; Comptroller General Letterbook Acc 1156 C11/1930; WA Government Gazette 1860/33 p3; Geraldton Police Charge Book Cons 661/41; *WA Police Gazette; ^Erickson, R: Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre1829 – 1888, p1315; Register of Deaths Geraldton Courthouse |
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