These are what's on the transcript as births for William and Hannah:
Richard 26 Sept 1806
Mary 9 Aug 1814 (buried 17 Aug 1814)
Falshaw 14. 4 1816
William 17 April 1825
(John, son of W and H, buried 1832 age 20 -- I can't see a baptism for him)
Clearly there are some large gaps here; I wonder if the family moved away for a while then returned to Desford?
Thanks for that - I hadn't got the death date of John. I haven't got a baptism record either - just an "about 1812" from someone elses tree... So it could be wrong.
Richard Holyland seems to have died while being transported to Tasmania for theft of livestock - he died in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa on the 12 August 1842 aboard the Waterloo.
More about the event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(ship)
The death was recorded in Tasmania records.
I have two trial dates for him:
19 October 1835
17 March 1842
On the first date he was aquitted. On the second, found guilty and held on a Prison Hulk awaiting transportation.
Name Richd Holyland
Age 35
Estimated Birth Year abt 1807
Date Received 13 Apr 1842
Ship Justitia
Place Moored Woolwich
Date Convicted 17 Mar 1842
Place Convicted Leicester
Fulshaw is an odd first name. There was another Fulshaw before the one born in 1816. A previous one shows up born 1747 in Desford. The odd thing is that his mothers maiden name was Fulshaw - Mary FULSHAW (b. 1809 Kirkby Mallory) and married to William HOLYLAND (b. 7th May 1701 Desford). Could the name Fulshaw have come from Mary?
I think there must have been a connection between the Desford and Stoney Stanton Holylands. I have a Selina HOLYLAND (b. 1814 Stoney Stanton d. 1888 Hinckley... although this could be within the "Borough of Hinckley"). Her siblings were all born in Desford, however (with the possible exception of John as we have no baptism record).
As for the dubiousness of the latter Fulshaws - I think the drink and theft of small items was down to desperation. Although comical now, the wave of Holylands that moved from Desford to Leicester must have found themselves living very poor lives in densely crowded slums trying to eek out a living in the same conditions as FWK's.