Person:Godfrey White (2)

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Godfrey Freeman White
b.Abt 1837 England
d.1902 Queensland, Australia
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m. 15 Jan 1853
  1. Mary Ann White1853 -
  2. Rhoda Fanny White1857 -
  3. William James White1860 -
  4. Thomas Henry White1864 -
  5. Albert George White1866 -
  6. Lilly Jane White1870 - 1895
  7. Robert Arthur White1873 -
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Name[1] Godfrey Freeman White
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1837 England
Other? 1847 Convicted at the Old Bailey, London, and sentenced to transportation to AustraliaConvict
Immigration? 1849 Arrived in Australia on the ship Hashemy as a convict
Marriage 15 Jan 1853 Queensland, Australiato Mary Ann Maidment
Occupation[2] 1894 listed as "contractor" on daughter's wedding certificate
Death? 1902 Queensland, Australia
Other? city counsillor, BrisbaneElection

Godfrey, you see, was a convict, tried at the Old Bailey in 1847 and exiled to Australia on the ship Hashemy which arrived in June 1849, one of the last ships of that sort. From what I've found so far, he lived fairly tumultuously through the early 1850s, with citations for skipping his area of freedom, public drunkenness, fighting a constable, racing horses through town, etc. etc., and then he became businesslike, and mostly prosperous, although he seems to have gone bankrupt a time or two. Was later elected a city councillor of Brisbane, and at his death he and his family were hailed as among the most-respected members of that community. (Source: W. Jones)

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  1. ↑ Queensland BDM Records, No. 1895/002748.
  2. ↑ Marriage solimnised in the District of Maryborough in the Colony of Queensland, A 19732.
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