ILL-TREATING A WIFE – Ingram Willis charged with ill-treating his wife, 1868
Ingram Willis was born in the village of Barham, Kent in 1837, the son of Ingram Willis* and Thomasin Finnis. By the time of the 1861 Census he was a…
Susannah & Rosie Willis – Charged with Alleged Starvation of a Child – 1885
On 30 Oct 1885 the Kent & Sussex Courier reported that 'Rose Jane Willis and Susannah Willis were acquitted of manslaughter at Dover'. This one simple sentence is the final…
Matthew FAGG (1822-1908) – transported to Tasmania in 1850, for stealing a sheep
Between 1804 and 1853 the British Government transported around 76,000 convicts to the colony of Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania). One of those was Matthew Fagg, a farm labourer…
John Dennis (1805-?) – imprisoned for sheep stealing
John DENNIS (b1805) - According to the 1851 Census John was in Maidstone Prison after stealing a sheep earlier that year from Thomas Hammond's farm in Brabourne. From there he…
Jane GREENLAND’s voyage to Australia (and back!) – 1890
Jane Greenland was born in Dover in 1868, the eldest child of Jacob and Mary Ann Greenland. By the age of 15, she was an orphan. By the age of twenty-two, Jane was on board a ship bound for Australia...