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Re: 'transported' - William Woodham circa 1830
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 17 December 16 11:54 GMT (UK) »
I have again posted on the other thread.   The chap 'transported' circa 1830 turns out to be a William WOODHOUSE, who married at St Johns C of E Parramatta in December 1829.   Ancestry have transcribed the Application to marry as WOODHAM.  That is a mis-read.  Here is the link to the other thread.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=761088.0

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Re: 'transported' - William Woodham circa 1830
« Reply #19 on: Monday 19 December 16 00:47 GMT (UK) »
At the Lent Assizes 1829, County of Wilts   

William WOODHAM, Larceny, 12 months Imprisonment.   Others on same page received 7 years transportation. 

A sentence of 12 months would NOT result in transportation to any of the penal colonies in the Antipodes.  This was in the era of sailing ships, not steam ships.    In the late 1820s it took around four to five months to get from Plymouth, England to Port Jackson, New South Wales.   

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Re: 'transported' - William Woodham circa 1830
« Reply #20 on: Monday 19 December 16 03:57 GMT (UK) »
I agree, JM, which is why i suggested (reply#13) that possibly the person who supplied the information for the baptism record thought that he may have been transported as, perhaps, he never returned to Easton Royal.

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