WAINWRIGHT, Phoebe
b. London, 1810
David Scott, 1834; Free.
Single; Servant, actress; 1 child.
The David Scott was an immigrant ship bringing bounty migrants from London. It arrived in Sydney on 25 October 1834. Phoebe was described as a Jewess. She married a shoemaker named Charles Wilson. They had a child who was admitted to the Orphan School while Phoebe was placed on trial, on 4 March 1836, for stealing. She was found not guilty. At Darlinghurst in 1838 she was found guilty of obtaining money by false pretences and sentenced to six months in the Female Factory and then, in 1839, was sent to Van Diemen's Land for three years.
Police Department, Sydney, and Darlinghurst Gaol Entrance Book, 19 May 1835 to 28 February 1837, 4/6436, 4/6448, dated 4 March 1836; CS Letters Received 1839, Police, 4/2469.3, 39/10076, 25 February 1839.
WALFORD, Barnard (Bernard) (Benjamin)
b. Vienna, 1765–1828
Active, 1791; Convict; Sentenced to 7 years, Old Bailey, 1789.
Single; Engraver; 7 children.
Walford arrived in England in 1782. He stole a basket of laundry and was arrested in Petticoat Lane. He was described by his victim as ‘a Jew in a brown coat with a white cape and his hair plaited with a bit of tape’. Walford explained: ‘I am a foreigner. I come from Vienna. I have been in England seven years. I was taught English as a child’. He claimed to have rheumatism. His landlady, who was Jewish, and apparently living with him, said: ‘He will not work. He sits down in a chair and says his limbs fail him’. Walford was sentenced at the Old Bailey on 28 October 1789.
Walford arrived in New South Wales on the Third Fleet by the Active in September 1791 and was sent to Norfolk Island on the Reliance on 13 February 1796. He was allowed to settle on Norfolk Island on the expiration of his sentence and was granted a farm allotment of 40 acres, of which 20 were cultivated. He married Jane Malloy, who already had two children by the time she met Walford. In 1807 Walford and his family were transferred to Van Diemen's Land and given land at New Norfolk. In the 1809 Van Diemen's Land Muster, Walford was shown as the owner of 56 acres of land, one ewe, one goat, six pigs and six children!
Walford was mistakenly listed as ‘Benjamin’ Walford in the 1811 General Muster. He lived between Hobart Town and Browne's River (about three miles from Hobart). Barnard Walford became a baker in Liverpool Street, Hobart Town. In 1820 he handed over his business to his son Bernard (q.v.), while he became the licensee of the Turk's Head Inn (later the King's Head and the Joiners' Arms, which became the King George) in Murray Street. His son continued to hold the licence until 1842.
In 1817 Barnard Walford was brought before the magistrates on a charge of stealing a quantity of notes from William Morgan while he was drunk. Walford was acquitted, but was fined for retailing spirits without a licence. Between 1820 and 1827, Walford was the owner of the Adam and Eve in Liverpool Street and the King George in Murray Street.
On 21 May 1828 Walford wrote to the Lieutenant Governor offering ‘heartfelt thanks for your goodness in being pleased to grant us a Piece of Land as a Burial Field. I feel more thankful that your grant has been approved of by the highest authority of the Church of England resident in these colonies’. Walford promised to send word of the Lieutenant Governor's kindness ‘to our revered and highly respected Priest in England’. Before the year had ended, ‘after a protracted illness’ (Hobart Town Gazette, 27 September 1828), Walford died at the age of sixty-six, and became the first Jew to be buried in the Harrington Street Jewish Cemetery. His tombstone was later removed to the Jewish cemetery at Cornelian Bay.
Some of Walford's children appear to have considered themselves Jews. On 4 January 1838, in Launceston, Benjamin Walford married Sarah Solomon (q.v.), the daughter of Joseph Solomon (q.v.) of Evandale. Bernard Walford jnr (q.v.) applied on his deathbed to be buried as a Jew (16 July 1846), but this request was denied by the Hobart Hebrew Congregation. Walford's family consisted of Ann, born at Norfolk Island, 26 November 1791 (father unknown), Elizabeth, born 3 August 1794 (father unknown), Mary (1798), Bernard (1801), Rebecca (1803), Samuel (1805), Benjamin (Van Diemen's Land, 3 December 1809), Joseph (1812), and Isabella (1814).
OBSP, 1789–90, case 819, p. 964; Convict Indent COD/9; CSO 269, p. 168; List of Settlers on Lady Nelson, 9 November 1817, Piper Papers, vol. 1, p. 84f., A254; Sydney Gazette, 2 June 1810; Hobart Town Gazette, 24 February 1818, 19 June 1819, 2 September 1820, 11 November 1820, 31 March 1821, 28 April 1821, 10 May 1823; Hobart Town Courier, 14 June 1828; CO 201/52, General Muster, p. 2; CS Out 1/108/2633; CSO 1/269/6497; CSO Out 1543.1/530; CSO 1/269-6497, dated 21 May 1828; family history provided by Chris Simmons, UK, and Leslie Walford, Australia.
WALFORD, Benjamin
b. Van Diemen's Land, 1809–1885
The child of Barnard Walford (q.v.) and Jane Walford, Benjamin was born on 12 April 1809 at Launceston, two years after his parents arrival from Norfolk Island, and baptised on 3 December 1809. However, like his brother Bernard (q.v.), Benjamin Walford clearly identified as a Jew. He married twice: His first wife was Sarah Solomon (q.v.), the daughter of Joseph Solomon (q.v.) of Evandale, and they married on 4 January 1838, despite the obvious disapproval of her father.
Walford wrote from Launceston to the Colonial Secretary: ‘I request you will be pleased to forward me a licence for marriage without publication of Banns between Miss Sarah Solomon of Evandale and myself by the Rev. William Browne according to the rites and ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland. I am twenty-one and unmarried. Sarah is nineteen’. Joseph Solomon gave his consent on 4 January 1838, but stipulated in his will that Sarah would not share any of her inheritance until after Benjamin, her husband, was dead. As fate would have it, Sarah died first. Benjamin's second wife, Sarah Joseph, was probably the daughter of Reuben Joseph (q.v.). Benjamin Walford died in Sydney on 9 August 1885 at Glebe Point.
Family information from Chris Simmons (UK) and Leslie Walford (Australia).
WALFORD, Bernard (jnr)
b. Norfolk Island, 1801–1846
Bernard was the second child and first son of Barnard Walford (q.v.) and his wife Jane. In 1845 the ‘young’ Bernard Walford had paid for the placement of a tombstone in the Harrington Street Jewish cemetery on the grave of his father's faithful Jewish friend Michael Lee (q.v.). On 16 July 1846 Bernard Walford, who must have known he was dying, asked for permission to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hobart Town, which his father had obtained as a grant from the government. The synagogue existed by this time, and the board ungraciously refused his last request.
WARSCHAUER, Marcus (MOSES) (Mordecai MOSES)
b. Warsaw, 1777–1860
Moffatt (2), 1836; Convict; Sentenced to 14 years, Old Bailey, 1835.
Married; Dealer and Scripture reader; Height: 164 cm; 8 children.
Dark sallow complexion, brown hair mixed with grey, breast hairy, badly ruptured. Thomas Harris (q.v.), Marcus Warschauer and a non-Jewish printer named Ball were accused of forging Polish bank notes. Warschauer was arrested with a parcel of forged note plates in his possession at the Strand Coffee House. Both Harris and Warschauer were intensely involved in the affairs of the Duke's Place Synagogue. Warschauer was fifty-six years old at the time of his arrest. He had no previous convictions.
The parents of Marcus Warschauer, also known as Mordecai Moses, were Moses and Harriet Moses. The family had migrated to London prior to 1807 and his parents had adopted the English surname of Marsh. Marcus' first wife was Amelia Cohen, who bore five children. One of these was George Moss (q.v.), who migrated to New South Wales in 1831 and became the mainstay of the Sydney Jewish community. Amelia died in London c. 1819. In 1820 Mordecai Moses lived at 1 Harrow Alley, Houndsditch and was ‘a dealer’. Warschauer's second wife was Abigail Barnett (Abigail Moses, q.v.), who followed her husband to Sydney and who brought with her three stepchildren, Alexander (Moses) (q.v.), Catherine Moss (q.v.) and Rosetta Moss (q.v.).
Mordecai Moses was appointed Keeper of the Jews' Burial Ground on application from Mr Michael Phillips (q.v.) to the Colonial Secretary on 24 November 1836. The Colonial Secretary wrote: ‘I have examined the prisoner. He is a native of Poland and has but a very superficial knowledge of the English language—the last sixteen years of his life [has been spent] as a reader in a synagogue. I do not consider the man fit for private assignment’. In other words, Moses was officially exempted from assigned service. Moses was granted an allowance of ten shillings a week by the synagogue from 1 June 1838 to be sexton. (His allowance as ‘acting shamash’ had formerly been six shillings a week.) The Colonial Secretary Alexander McLeay told the Superintendent of Convicts that ‘the former service of assignment of Mordecai Moses had been cancelled accordingly’. In gratitude Mordecai Moses wrote to the synagogue, ‘My mind and my time shall be devoted to our House of God established in this distant clime’. He officiated at the marriage of his son George Moss in March 1840.
In 6 July 1841 Abigail died, and on her tombstone at the cemetery on Devonshire Street was inscribed ‘the wife of an officer of the Sydney Synagogue and sexton of this ground’. She was aged fifty-two. Moses received a conditional pardon on 21 April 1844. In 1842 he had been appointed sexton (shamash) of the York Street congregation and an assistant reader at the synagogue. On 18 February 1850 Marcus Moses was granted a certificate of freedom. When he retired as sexton in 1857 a generous pension of £150 per annum was granted. He died aged eighty-five on 7 October 1860 at his residence Pitt Street, ‘late second reader of the Sydney Synagogue’. The Hebrew inscription on his ‘altar style’ tombstone transferred to Rookwood placed in a prominent position of honour reads that he died on the night of Shimini Atzeret and buried on Simchat Torah 22 Tishri 5621 at the age of eighty-five. The English inscription adds ‘A tribute of respect from the members of the York Street Synagogue to an old and faithful servant’
Abigail Moses was subsequently reinterred at the Rookwood Cemetery.
Moffatt Printed Indent, arrived 30 August 1836, p. 99; OBSP, 1835–36, cases 289–294, pp. 258–95; CS 4/2311, 36/2319, Miscellaneous Persons Out, p. 416, in 4/3682; CF 50/58; S 4/CP, 21 April 1844 in Governors' Despatches, ML, A1295; G. F. J. Bergman, ‘The Bizarre Life of Mordecai Moses’, AJJHS, vol. 8, no. 3 (1977), p. 100f. Sydney Morning Herald 10 October 1860.
WASSERMAN, Joseph
b. Frankfurt am Main, 1819
Duchess of Northumberland (1), 1843; Convict; Sentenced to 10 years, Central Criminal Court, 1842.
Single; Clerk; Height: 170 cm.
Fair complexion, hair brown, brown eyes, large nose, receding chin. Jew. Spoke English with a German accent. Could read and write. Guilty of larceny. Joseph Wasserman stole four gold watches and three gold chains from a shop in Leadenhall Street and was convicted of ‘larceny’. His behaviour on board ship was‘remarkably quiet’. He was listed in the indent as ‘Waserman’.
The Duchess of Northumberland arrived in Hobart Town on 18 January 1843. Wasserman was released from his first stage of probation on the Southport Road Gang on 18 July 1845. He worked as an assigned servant to two shopkeepers in Hobart Town until being assigned to work for Isaac Solomon (q.v.) of Liverpool Street on 11 February 1847. A ticket of leave was issued to Wasserman on 25 January 1848 and a conditional pardon on 27 November 1849. No colonial offences were recorded. He received permission to marry Charlotte Ellis in August 1848. The minister was the Rev. Palmer. Charlotte Ellis had come to the colony as a convict on the Elizabeth and Henry in June 1845.
CON 33/36; CON 52/2; CON 14/19; CON 18/34; CON 52/2; Permission to Marry Book, pp. 403, 349.
WHYLE, Morris (WYLE) (WHYTE)
b. Mecklenburg, 1806
Isabella I (5), 1833; Convict; Sentenced to 14 years, Liverpool, 1833.
Single; Hawker; Height: 162 cm.
Morris Whyle was convicted for receiving three stolen watches and four spoons at Liverpool, together with Asher Simons (q.v.), on 7 January 1833. The indent noted: ‘The High Priest reports his family as very respectable in Germany’. His hulk report was ‘Orderly’.
Whyle arrived in Van Diemen's Land on 14 November 1833. (He was listed in the Indent of the Isabella I as Morris ‘Wyle’.) On 19 February 1834 he was charged with ‘drawing obscene figures upon the kitchen wall’. He was an assigned convict to Mr Bates. He was then declared to be useless to his master and returned to Public Works. On 4 October 1836, while assigned to Mr Bryant, he was charged with suspicion of being an absconder. The charge was found to be untrue. On 24 December 1836 he was charged with being absent without leave. A ticket of leave was granted on 5 November 1839. On 22 March 1841 the ticket of leave was suspended because he was charged with ‘Misconduct’. He received seven days hard labour. Whyle was granted a conditional pardon (no. 269) on 10 March 1842 and a certificate of freedom on 14 January 1847.
On 1 April 1842 Whyle officiated at the Jewish wedding of George Robinson (q.v.) to Sarah Phillips. It was the third Jewish wedding to be held in Launceston. In September 1843 Whyle signed a petition for clemency in favour of Isaac Jacobs (q.v.), who was in gaol for debt. His name also appeared on the Launceston Synagogue petition of May 1843. On 18 June 1844 Arthur Isaac Nathan (Asher Nathan, q.v.) officiated at Launceston's fourth Jewish wedding, when Morris Whyle married Alice Abrahams on 18 June 1844. He was aged thirty-eight and was a dealer and she was thirty-six and the widow of Henry Abrahams (q.v.). The marriage was witnessed by Godfrey Myers (q.v.), in the presence of Benjamin Francis (q.v.). Whyle then officiated at the next Jewish wedding in Launceston on 20 November 1844. On 29 June 1844 the Launceston Examiner reported that Morris Whyle had donated £5 for the Launceston Building Fund. He had become a partner in the Launceston firm Levy and Whyle, which operated from May 1844 to 18 February 1846. The Launceston Examiner (25 April 1846) reported that the entire stock worth £1300 was sold by Benjamin Francis.
Whyle, his wife and her son Henry Abrahams moved to Adelaide, South Australia, shortly after Whyle received his certificate of freedom. On 10 March 1849 the South Australian Register reported that there had been a law suit between Abrahams and Julius Amsberg, both formerly of Hamburg, with which Maurice Whyle, storekeeper at Hindley Street, formerly of Van Diemen's Land, where he was a convict, was involved as a witness. Whyle seems to have changed his name in South Australia and became known as ‘Morris Whyte’. The London Jewish Chronicle reported that he had lent a Torah scroll to the newly formed Adelaide Hebrew Congregation for the High Holydays in 1850 and that he was a member of the congregation's committee.
Alice Whyle, ‘wife of Morris’, died in Adelaide on 7 July 1853 at the age of forty-five. She was described on her tombstone as the mother of Henry Abrahams.
CON 31/47; CON 27/6; MM 33/2; Launceston Examiner, 29 June 1844, 18 February 1846, 28 October 1846; South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, 10 March 1849; Jewish Chronicle (London), 30 May 1851.
WILLIAMS, Henry
b. London, 1809
Champion, 1827; Convict; Sentenced to 7 years, Middlesex, 1827.
Single; Clerk; Height: 158 cm.
Ruddy complexion, brown hair, peculiar raised mark on right forehead. Jew. Could read and write. Henry Williams was sentenced to transportation for ‘privately stealing’. He had stolen a cushion valued at ten shillings from a coach-maker. He had served a previous sentence of six months.
Henry Williams was listed in the 1828 Census as attached to the Engineers' Department in Parramatta. No religion was stated but he was listed as a Jew in the Phoenix entry book when he was admitted to the hulk on 17 May 1833 for being involved in a case of ‘Highway Robbery’. He was sent on to the Hyde Park Barracks on 4 June 1833. A certificate of freedom was issued on 25 September 1834.
Ship Indent 4/4012, p. 245; Phoenix (hulk) Entry Book, 4/6282, no. 383; CF 4/4324, 34/1184.
WILLIAMS, Thomas
b. London, 1812
Bengal Merchant (3), 1836; Convict; Sentenced to 7 years, Old Bailey, 1835.
Single; Footman; Height: 157 cm.
Dark ruddy complexion, pock-pitted, brown hair and brown eyes. Jew. Could read and write. Thomas Williams had served four and three-quarter years in the hulks at Woolwich of an initial seven-year sentence for a previous conviction. He had the mark of a burn on the left side of his neck. He was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court on 6 April 1835 and transported for life for stealing a purse containing five shillings and sixpence from a gardener in a bar. Williams conducted a lengthy and lively defence of his case, arguing and examining witnesses.
Thomas Williams arrived in New South Wales on 9 December 1836, aged twenty-four. A certificate of freedom was issued on 30 March 1844.
Bengal Merchant Printed Indent, p. 126; OBSP, 1834–35, case 1095, p. 1062; CF 4/4390, 44/0466.
Dark yellow complexion, black hair, dark eyes. William Williams was sentenced at Middlesex on 30 October 1816 for ‘privately stealing’. Williams entered a shop on the Strand and stole a pair of boots on display in the window. He ran into the street followed by the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper's son. The thief dropped the boots in the street.
The Lord Eldon arrived in New South Wales on 30 September 1817. On 17 July 1818 Williams (or Abrahams) was sent to Newcastle by the Lady Nelson for ‘running away’. When he returned to Sydney he became an assigned convict servant to Aaron Barnett (q.v.) (who was listed as Erin Barnet). Barnett provided an attestation to Williams' good character in his application to gain a ticket of leave, which was issued on 1 December 1825. In the 1828 Census William Williams was listed as a Jew. He was aged forty-nine and held a ticket of leave. Williams was working as a confectioner at Samuel Cohen's (q.v.) shop at Clarence Terrace, Sydney. On 27 November 1834 Williams wrote from Parramatta asking for a conditional pardon. He admitted that he had been sent to Newcastle for one year. On 16 April 1827 he had been sentenced to spend four hours in the stocks after having been found drunk in the street on the Sabbath Day. The conditional pardon was slow in being issued. It was authorised in December 1837 but not issued until 1839. Williams was listed in the 1837 General Return of Convicts in New South Wales as sixty-seven years old and a resident of Parramatta with a ticket of leave.
The Sydney Morning Herald of 26 January 1843 reported that he had been declared insolvent with debts of £3792 and assets of £3655. He was discharged from bankruptcy on 16 February 1844. He died on 9 November 1856 and was buried by the Sydney Synagogue. He was described as a ‘pensioner’ and was said to be aged seventy-five.
Ship Indent 2/8266, p. 367; 4/4005, p. 361; Governors' Despatches, 1826, ML, A1196, p. 275, and A1217, p. 1005; TL 25/2105; CP 39/164; CS 4/1617.2, p. 270; 4/1717.2, pp. 270–2; CS 4/2296-35/159, 35/256, 35/254.
WILSON, Charles Abraham
b. Kent, 1806–1872
Lion, 1825; Free.
Single; 1 child.
Charles Wilson was a son of (Sarah) Emma Josephson (q.v.) and her first husband, Henry Wilson. His brother was also named Henry Wilson (q.v.). Family tradition says that Charles and Henry were the sons of a soldier killed in the Napoleonic Wars whose name originally had been Isaac Goodman. Goodman is said to have changed his name to Wilson when he converted to Christianity. Wilson's mother's surname had been changed from Mendoza to Moses. Emma Leah Moses (who later married Jacob Josephson) was his mother.
Charles Abraham Wilson appears to have been adopted by his stepfather, Jacob Josephson (q.v.). He was listed in the 1828 Census as twenty-two years of age and a lodger in the Josephson household in Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Wilson married Lydia Affriatt (q.v.) at St John's Church of England in Parramatta in 1835. They had a son, whom they named Charles Abraham Wilson.
Family research by Robert Wilson, Canada.
WILSON, Henry
b. London, 1814–1880
Sir G. Osborne, 1827; Free.
Single; 1 child.
The son of Henry Wilson (né Goodman) and Emma Josephson (q.v.), whose maiden name had been Mendoza (or Moses), Henry had been born in Bishopsgate Street, London, on 9 March 1814. He was the brother of Charles Abraham Wilson (q.v.) and Sarah Emma Wilson (q.v.). The children were adopted by their stepfather, Jacob Josephson (q.v.). Henry Wilson married Sarah Affriatt (q.v.) in Sydney on 4 May 1835, and they had a son, Charles Abraham Wilson (the same name was given to his first cousin, the son of Charles Abraham Wilson and Lydia, née Affriatt, q.v.).
Henry Wilson had the licence to operate the ‘Valley Inn’ in Sydney in the early 1840s.
Sarah Wilson died on 6 August 1910.
Family research by Robert Wilson, Canada.
WILSON, Sarah Emma
b. London, 1800
Thalia, 1823; Free.
Single.
Sarah was the daughter of (Sarah) Emma Josephson (q.v.), and the sister of Charles Abraham Wilson (q.v.) and Henry Wilson (q.v.). She married Barnett Levey (q.v.) in 1825.
WINEBERG, Henry
b. Poland
Free.
Dealer, jeweller.
In 1837 Henry Wineberg was authorised by the Sydney Synagogue to officiate at the wedding of Samuel Cohen and Rachel Nathan (qq.v.) in Port Macquarie. Henry Wineberg became a partner with Aaron Gainsborough (q.v.). The two men worked together in a jewellery business that flourished both in Sydney and in rural New South Wales. On 7 August 1844 the partnership was dissolved following a serious conflict. Wineberg accused Gainsborough of theft and assault. There was an inconclusive trial in Sydney in April 1845. Wineberg held the licence to the Crispin Arms Hotel in Clarence Street, Sydney.
The Cumberland Times reported the aftermath of the trial on 26 April 1845:
Henry Wineberg brought before the Mayor, charged with wilful and gross perjury in having alleged one Aaron Gainsborg to be more of sinner than a Publican, and a capital hand at giving watches escape movements. Wineberg's then rather extraordinary absence of mind and which led to his new presence in body. A Doctor cannot find any traces of the blow he said he had received. Wineberg, who it was stated, required the utmost assistance to get him from his room to a cab and a chair to sit on while in Court, walked quickly away and was over Woolloomooloo Hill and far away, before Gainsbourg had hardly left the dock.
Another view of the event was given in the police report when Wineberg applied for naturalisation in 1845:
Wineberg was connected with a robbery two years ago in Phillip Street when £100 of jewellery was taken … on 11 March he charged Gainsbourg with assault on the Parramatta Rd—the trial was in April—and Wineberg suddenly ‘forgets’ all the charges. Gainsbourg charged him with perjury but Wineberg still affected amnesia and was discharged. A search warrant revealed part of the stolen jewellery in Wineberg's possession.
The Cumberland Times reported that it was decided to ‘postpone’ the naturalisation.
Governors' Despatches, ML, A1237, p. 819, for 1845, A1200, p. 273, 9 March 1846; Sydney Morning Herald, 7 August 1844, 2 May 1845; Cumberland Times, 26 April 1845.
WINFIELD, Ann
b. 1829
Free.
The daughter of Caspar Marks (q.v.) Ann Winfield was buried as a Jew in Sydney in 1846, aged seventeen.
WOLF, Jacob
b. 1798
Emperor Alexander, 1833; Convict.
Labourer; Height: 155 cm.
Dark complexion, small head, dark brown to grey hair and thin on top, small face, brown eyes, long nose, large mouth, short chin, ‘a Jew’. Sentenced at Leeds Quarter Sessions to 14 years transportation for receiving stolen goods. Married. Two children. Gaol report ‘Bad’. Hulk report ‘disorderly’. Stated this offence ‘Buying stolen clothes’. Wife Catherine in London. Surgeon's report ‘quiet and orderly’ and ‘never reported’.
Jacob Wolf arrived at Hobart Town on 12 August 1833. Wolf was sent to Port Arthur on 27 September 1833 and remained there until the end of 1834. His conduct record page is blank.
CON 18/1/6 reports that Wolf came by the England; CON 31/46; CON 27/1/6 no. 1603 reports that he came by the Emperor Alexander and was immediately sent on to Port Arthur.
WOLF, Sarah
Tory (1), 1845; Convict.
Sarah Wolf came to Van Diemen's Land as a convict on the Tory, arriving on 4 July 1845. She received official permission to marry the free settler William Worthy on 9 June 1848.
CON 52/2, p. 349; CON 41/6; CON 15/3; CON 19/5.
WOLFE, Emanuel
Palambam, 1833; Free.
Single; Printer.
Emanuel Wolfe gave his occupation as a printer in the ship's manifest. By 1839 the Sydney Post Office Directory listed him as a dealer in glass and earthenware with a shop and dwelling in Market Street. In 1845 Emanuel Wolfe appeared among the minor donors (fourteen shillings and sixpence) to the Hobart Synagogue.‘E & M Wolfe’ of Hobart Town were the printers of the dedication service for the synagogues in Launceston and Hobart. The congregation paid Wolfe £10 14s for the booklet, which was in unvocalised Hebrew and English, and entitled Dedication of the Hobart Synagogue.
In the 1845 Post Office Directory there was a reference to the printing shop being in Liverpool Street in Hobart Town. However, in the Bibliography of Australia, Ferguson wrote: ‘There is no record of E & M Wolfe being Hobart printers; the pamphlet was probably printed in Sydney’. This was certainly true of the Order of Service Performed at the Consecration of the New Synagogue St John's St Launceston 1846, because it bears the address Lower George Street. The two pamphlets are almost identical, but the complexity of the text and the style of the English translation testifies to the literate influence of Phineas Moss (q.v.) and indicates that the first booklet, at least, was printed in Van Diemen's Land.
A second pamphlet, A Few Thoughts by a Member of the Bar, was published by E & M Wolfe in Hobart Town in 1845.
In 1847 ‘E. Wolfe’ of George Street, Sydney, published a Lecture Delivered at the Sydney Synagogue by W. L. Lindenthal, Teacher of Hebrew and German Languages, Sydney.
Emanuel's brothers, Morris (Moses Wolfe, q.v.) and Henry Wolfe (Wolff, q.v.), were both in Hobart Town in 1846. Emanuel left for Sydney later that year and printed The Rules and Catalogue of the Sydney Jewish Library and Hebraic Association in 1848. His address, Lower George Street, appeared in the booklet.
Australian, 10 January 1835.
WOLFE, Isaac (WOOLF)
b. London, 1804
Medway (1), 1821; Convict; Sentenced to life, Richmond Quarter Sessions, 1820.
Single; Labourer; Height: 150 cm.
Brown hair, hazel eyes, a Jew. Isaac Wolfe was sixteen years old when he was sentenced at Richmond on 13 September 1820.
Isaac Wolfe arrived in Hobart Town on 13 March 1821. Wolfe's long convict dossier began when he was twenty-one years of age. On 5 July 1825, while at the Prisoners' Barracks in Hobart Town, he was sentenced to twenty-five lashes and a period of imprisonment on Maria Island for absenting himself from his work gang and having in his possession a loaf of bread ‘without being able to give a satisfactory account of the same’. By 10 January 1826 he was back on the mainland and assigned to Mr Simpson, when he disobeyed an order of Simpson's and was returned to the Prisoners' Barracks. He was consigned to the Glenorchy Road Party and on 29 November 1826 was placed in the chain gang and given twenty-five lashes for ‘beating and ill using Charles Penroy on Monday morning last’. Two weeks later, on 10 December 1826, he received another twenty-five lashes for having neglected his work on that morning. On 28 January 1828 he was part of the Black Snake Road Party when he was found to be absent from his hut at 12 o'clock on Saturday night, for which he received fifty lashes. On 22 July 1828 he was committed for trial for having stolen a waistcoat at the Prisoners' Barracks, together with five shillings from Angus Kennedy. He was found guilty. By 10 March 1830 he was an assigned servant to Mr H. Robson when he was given thirty lashes for ‘disobedience of orders and insolence’. On 4 April 1834 he held a ticket of leave and was the assigned servant of Mr J. Welsh. The records do not specify his offence but his ticket of leave was cancelled by order of the Lieutenant Governor and he was ordered back to the penitentiary.
By the end of 1834 his ticket of leave had been restored only to be suspended again for four months for being repeatedly absent from the weekly muster. During this period of punishment he was sent to the Westbury Road Party. His ticket of leave had again been restored by the end of 1835. On 21 May 1836 he was sentenced to the treadmill for forty-eight hours for having been absent once again from the muster and from church. A conditional pardon was issued on 3 February 1838. On 16 March 1839 he was committed for trial in Launceston for larceny. The trial was held on 3 April and he was acquitted. He was given a conditional pardon on 4 February 1840. It is a wonder he was still alive following 155 lashes and almost twenty years as a convict.
CON 23/3; CON 31/45, no. 274, p. 102; Colonial Times, 19 August 1834; Hobart Town Courier, 22 August 1834; CP 38/1572; Prisoners Sent from Moreton Bay on 8 January 1840, in 4/6271; Prisoners Sent to Port Macquarie, 18 April 1835, in 4/3899.
WOLFE, John
Free.
Dealer.
John Wolfe was in gaol in Melbourne, having been convicted on 12 October 1842 for ‘refusing to pay lawful wages’. He was to be released in December 1842.
42/9790, in 4/2589.2, 31 December 1842.
WOLFE, Moses (Morris) (Moses WOLFF)
Free.
The brother of Emanuel Wolfe (q.v.) and Henry Wolfe (Wolff, q.v.), Moses Wolfe's signature appeared on the Launceston Synagogue petition of 20 May 1843. In 1844 Moses, or Morris, Wolfe lived in Liverpool Street and owed the Hobart Synagogue eleven shillings for his 1844 membership subscription. He remained a member through 1845 and 1846, renting seat no. 48, and accumulating arrears of £4 10s before being written off as ‘bad’.
WOLFE, Samuel (WULFF)
b. Copenhagen, 1810–1852
Portsea, 1838; Convict; Sentenced to 10 years, Central Criminal Court, 1838.
Watchmaker and jeweller; Height: 155 cm.
Dark, sallow, freckled, dark brown hair, brown eyes, slightly pock-pitted complexion. Hazel eyes. One tooth lost in front and marks of having been bled on arms. Ears pierced. Could read and write. Samuel Wolfe was convicted of ‘unlawful pawning’ on 24 February 1838. He had no previous convictions. Religion ‘Protestant’.
Wolfe arrived in Sydney on 18 December 1838. Moses Lazarus (q.v.) wrote from Hobart Town to Colonial Secretary La Trobe in Melbourne stating that Lazarus hoped to open a jeweller's shop in Collins Street, in the new settlement of Melbourne, and asked for the assigned service of Samuel Wolfe, who, he said, was lately arrived in Hobart Town by the Pyramus. It was noted in the margin that he had arrived in Sydney in December 1838 on the Portsea.
Wolfe received a ticket of leave on 26 September 1843 at Geelong. On 25 April 1845 John Hunter Patterson at McIvor Creek, near Pyalong, engaged Samuel ‘Wulff’ to be a shepherd, and in early May sent him to Melbourne with a pony. Shortly after his arrival, on 19 July 1845, Samuel ‘Wolff’ appeared before the Supreme Court in Melbourne to plead guilty on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences by stealing a pony and attempting to sell it. Wolfe told the court that he was a foreigner and unacquainted with the law and was not aware that he had been guilty of any offence. His Honour Mr Therry said that he had shown considerable ingenuity in the law in the course of his defence. He had disposed of the horse very artfully. He had not sold it but had obtained money for it. He had arrived in the colony in a state of bondage and it was ‘wonderful’ after the chastisement he had endured, which transportation imposed, that he should have again sacrificed that liberty. He was sentenced to six months hard labour and, at the end of the sentence, was to be returned to assigned service.
Samuel ‘Wolf’ died in the Sydney Infirmary on 2 March 1852 and was buried by the Sydney Synagogue.
Ship Indent, X641, p. 196, no. 38-2327; VDL 39/126, Letter from M. Lazarus, on 22 October 1839; 2/8257, p. 307; Port Phillip Patriot, 21 July 1845; VPR, series 30P, Box 4-1-13A-4; TL 43/2275, in 4/4180.
WOLFF, Abraham
Regatta, 1844; Free.
Dealer.
‘Messrs Wolf Senior and Junior’ arrived steerage from London on the Regatta in November 1844. Abraham Wolff became a partner of Henry Horowitz (q.v.) and they worked as shopkeepers in Hobart Town. Their shared premises were at the corner of Harrington and Elizabeth streets, which they rented for £50 per annum. Wolff paid 28 shillings to the Hobart Synagogue in 1844 and rented seat no. 49 in the Hobart Synagogue in 1845–46. (The synagogue ledger spelt his name Wolff). Despite his donation, Henry was not listed in the synagogue's membership list. Abraham Wolff married Julia Phillips, the sister of Solomon Phillips (q.v.).
Hobart Town Courier, 29 May 1845.
WOLFF, Henry (WOLF) (WOLFE) (WOOLF)
b. London, 1823–1859
Isabella Watson, 1842; Free; Sentenced to 7 years, Sydney, 1842.
Single; Dealer; Height: 177 cm; 5 children.
Fresh complexion, dark hair, hazel eyes. Henry Wolff was the son of Mark and Matilda Wolff and a cousin of Wolff Lewis Pyke (q.v.). Mark Wolff was a chiropodist, who lived at 133 Leadenhall Street, London. On 10 February 1842 the Sydney Free Press and Commercial Journal reported that Henry ‘Wolf’ had been convicted of embezzling a sum of money and had been sentenced at the Sydney Quarter Sessions to seven years transportation. He was initially sent to Norfolk Island and then transported to Van Diemen's Land, arriving on 8 March 1842. He said he was the brother of Emanuel Wolfe (q.v.) and Morris (Moses Wolfe, q.v.), who were both in Van Diemen's Land in 1846.
Henry Wolff was granted a ticket of leave on 29 September 1845. On 23 November 1846 Henry Wolff wrote to the Comptroller General, Hobarton: ‘I respectfully beg to elicit your sanction to my marriage with Miss Grace Caspar of 21 Murray Street, a free person. My conduct during my residence in Hobart Town has been too guarded to cause the slightest displeasure. Henry Wolff by the Isabella Watson holding a ticket of leave’. Permission was granted. A copy of the letter is held by the synagogue. The marriage took place on 23 December 1846 (Jewish marriage no. 13) at his residence, 5 Lord's Buildings, Hobart Town. Grace Casper was twenty-one years of age and was the daughter of Ellis and Elizabeth Casper (qq.v.). The bridegroom was twenty-three years old. Henry Wolff was an enthusiastic supporter of the plan to build a Mikveh (ritual bath) in Hobart in the late 1840's.
In the Hobart Town Directory and General Guide, 1847, there is a three-quarter page advertisement for ‘Henry Woolfs Select Academy for Young Gentlemen at 5 Lord's Buildings, Elizabeth Street. Latin, French and Dancing taught (if required). An evening school from half past seven to ten o'clock’. The principal would ‘endeavour by means of kind and parental forbearance and attention to develop those emulative powers which in all children are more or less to be remarked’.
The Wolffs had five children. Edmund was born in Hobart Town on 10 December 1848. Alfred was born in Hamilton on 2 January 1850. On 15 July 1853 Alfred, the three-year-old child of Henry and Grace Wolff, was buried by the Hobart Synagogue. On 17 August 1853 the Hobart Synagogue recorded the birth and subsequent death of Frederick Benjamin Wolff. Matilda Eily (Emily) was born in 1855, and Henry was born in Melbourne in 1859.
Henry and Grace Wolff moved to Melbourne in time for the High Holydays in September 1855. Henry worked in partnership with his father-in-law, Ellis Casper. Henry and two of his children visited England in 1858–59, and arrived back in Melbourne at the time of a diphtheria epidemic. Henry died shortly after his return. He was buried in the Jewish section of the Melbourne General Cemetery at Carlton. His son, named Henry, died at the age of three weeks and was buried beside his father.
Grace married Jacob Silberberg in 1868 and died thirteen years later at the township of Macarthur in Victoria, on 14 October 1881, aged fifty-four.
Edmund Wolff, a law clerk, married Julia Osborne in 1867. Emily married her first cousin, George Levy (son of Sara and Samuel Levy), in 1876.
CON 37/1, p. 55; CON 16/1, p. 202; CON 52/2, p. 396; Sydney Free Press and Commercial Journal, 10 February 1841; Deportation Register 4/4523, p. 104; family research by Helen Andrea Wolff, in First Families 2001 (website).
WOOLF, Aaron
b. Riga, 1793
Layton (1), 1829; Convict; Sentenced to 7 years, Surrey, 1828.
Married; Jeweller and watchmaker; Height: 158 cm; 1 child.
Dark ruddy complexion, pock-pitted, dark black hair to grey, brown eyes, long nose, long double chin. Stout made, slightly pock-pitted. A Jew. Can read and write. Aaron Woolf was convicted for stealing fourteen gold patent watches valued at £143. He had no previous convictions. He was sentenced at Kingston on 27 December 1828.
Woolf arrived in Sydney on the Layton on 9 November 1829 and was assigned to work as a servant to George Barber, Argyle. On 7 December 1830 he was sentenced to seventy-five lashes for ‘disobedience and outrageous conduct’. Described as a ‘dealer’, he was assigned in July 1832 to Daniel Rogers of Sydney. On 30 May 1833 he was sentenced to six months in irons for stealing a gold ring. On 31 December 1833 he received twelve months in irons for robbery. In the Sydney Gaol Recognition Book Woolf was described as 5’4” (162.5 cm), stout, swarthy with black hair and black eyes. On 25 April 1834 he was sentenced to thirty-six lashes for neglect of work. On 14 November 1836 he received twenty-five lashes for neglect of duty. A certificate of freedom was granted on 7 July 1838. His time of freedom was over quickly. On 24 October 1839 he was sentenced to ten years colonial transportation for stealing £18 from William Crane and arrived at Norfolk Island on 5 January 1840. The following month he was sent to gaol for two days for presenting himself at the hospital and pretending to be ill. In September 1843 he was found to have government leather in his possession and his sentence was lengthened. In the following year a small quantity of tobacco was found to be illegally in his possession and three months was added to his sentence.
Woolf's name was listed among the nine Jewish prisoners on Norfolk Island who applied to the Sydney Synagogue for prayer books. In October 1845 Woolf arrived in Van Diemen's Land on the Lady Franklin and was sent, during a six-month probation period, to the work gangs at Impression Bay on the Tasman Peninsula, at Port Macquarie (on Van Diemen's Land's west coast), and at Port Esperance.
On 23 March 1846 Woolf was again issued with a ticket of leave, and a certificate of freedom was issued on 24 October 1846. On 10 November that year the London Rabbinical Court (Beth Din) wrote to the congregation in Hobart Town asking for information about Woolf on behalf of his wife:
a man by the name of Ze'ev the son of Aharon who was for many years transported from here to Sydney. Information has reached us that the said Wolf is now in Hobart Town, a policeman. His wife living here as a respectable woman wishes to know the truth. We therefore hope you will make every enquiry and will oblige us with every particular thereof to relieve the poor Woman from her anxiety.
4/4014, p. 255; CON 33/71 no. 16672; CON 16/3, p. 124; CON 33/71; Norfolk Island Book, 4/2698.1, no. 696; Gaol Recognition Book, 4/6298, no. 1218; Sydney Gazette, 27 September 1832; CF 38/577; Australian, 11 September 1838, p. 4; Letter from London Beth Din, 10 November 5607/1846.
WOOLF, Isaac
b. London, 1804
Mary II, 1822; Convict; Sentenced to life, Old Bailey, 1821.
Single; Errand boy; Height: 156 cm.
Pockmarked complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes (blind in right eye). Isaac Woolf was a pickpocket who was seen stealing from a police officer (by another policeman) in the midst of a crowd going into the East London Theatre. Woolf had stolen eight shillings.
Isaac Woolf was listed on the return of convicts discharged from the establishment in Emu Plains and sent to Port Macquarie on the Sally on 24 June 1823. He was listed in the 1828 Census as a shepherd to J. Macarthur, Voralga, Cookbundoon, and a ‘Protestant’. He was granted a ticket of leave on 19 August 1834. At the General Sessions in Sydney on 17 November 1835, Woolf was convicted and sentenced to seven years colonial transportation for larceny—stealing half a chest of tea—and was sent by the Governor Phillip to Port Macquarie. He was then transferred to Moreton Bay, listed as a Jew. On 31 December 1838 Isaac Woolf was sentenced to twenty-five lashes for having lost several sheep to ‘native dogs’ from a herd he was guarding. On 19 March 1839 he was given fifty lashes for losing three sheep while in charge of the flock at Cooper Plains. Woolf was returned to Sydney on 8 January 1840 and appeared in the list of the ‘Men in Irons’. Woolf was sent to the District of Berrima, where he received his ticket of leave on 14 October 1844. In November 1844 he was allowed to move to Goulburn.
OBSP, 1820–21, case 639, p. 328; Ship Indent 4/4009, p. 47; TL 44/2628, 14 October 1844, in 4/4194; 4/6445 p. 23; Chronological Register of Convicts at Moreton Bay, no. 2618; Prisoners Sent to Port Macquarie 4/3899, pp. 55, 412–13.
WOOLF, Mordecai (James)
b. Whitechapel, 1813
William Miles, 1828; Convict; Sentenced to 7 Years, Old Bailey, 1826.
Single; Silk weaver; Height 145.5 cm.
Fresh complexion, brown hair, brown eyes, slender build. His father Joseph Woolf was a weaver who lived at 11 West Street, Whitechapel. Mordecai was sentenced at the Old Bailey on 6 April 1826 to transportation for ‘larceny’. He had broken into a house in Angle Court, Bartholomew Lane, and stolen three pairs of shoes. Despite his youth he had been in gaol twice before, the first time for housebreaking near the Guildhall and the second for vagrancy.
‘James’ Woolf arrived in Van Diemen's Land on 29 July 1828. He was a defiant prisoner. On 9 July 1832 he was given a six-week gaol term with hard labour for being found in Launceston without a pass. By November 1833 he was free by servitude. On 5 June 1837 he was brought before the Supreme Court in Hobart Town for having stolen a pair of stockings, and was sentenced to seven years in gaol, with three years of that sentence to be spent with the Grass Tree Hill Road Party. Woolf promptly absconded and was apprehended in a disorderly house in Goulburn Street. Because of this lapse, on 8 February 1838 his sentence was extended by a further three years and he was sent to Port Arthur for ‘severe discipline’.
By this time Woolf was described as 169 cm tall, with a dark complexion, ‘thick’ whiskers, and ‘a proud visage’. He had an aquiline nose, dark brown hair and a large mouth. He had a tattoo on the inside of his left arm of a soldier and a female with cup in hand. A round mark representing the world was tattooed on the back of his left hand. His behaviour at Port Arthur was so unruly that he was sent to Norfolk Island. He was listed among the nine Jewish prisoners at Norfolk Island who needed spiritual help from the Sydney Jewish congregation. Before prayer books could be dispatched Woolf had helped to organise a desperate attempt to escape from the island prison and joined a group of eight prisoners who seized a large six-oared whale boat and escaped. After three months of suffering they eventually reached Twofold Bay on the New South Wales coast, where they were promptly arrested by the captain of a local customs boat. They were sent to Sydney and, on 20 July 1840, were charged with absconding and with stealing a pair of white trousers. The seven escapees were tried and all but one received the death sentence for absconding. The court was lenient with Woolf. It was said that he had saved one of the crew from being murdered when the brig had been seized by the mutineers. He was therefore sentenced to be sent back to Norfolk Island, having been convicted of piracy, to serve a total of four years on the island with two years in chains. He was returned to Hobart Town in 1844, where he was listed as owing the Hobart Synagogue a pledge of seven shillings and sixpence, which (of course) remained unpaid.
At the Hobart Supreme Court on 22 January 1845 Woolf and five others were tried for ‘robbery and putting in bodily fear’. The judge believed that ‘Woolf was especially culpable inasmuch as his life had been spared before on conviction of piracy, but his Honour had no doubt under the present lenient administration their lives might be spared and they would be sent to Norfolk Island’. Woolf told his own heroic version of what happened next in the course of a petition for mercy. He had arrived on Norfolk Island in February 1845 on the Lady Franklin. Late in the evening of 12 April one of the government whale boats was wrecked on the reef and Woolf swam out to rescue some of the people in the water. He saved the convict storekeeper. He found the body of the chief constable and brought it back and four days later swam out to a whaler's boat beyond the reef with a rope and rescued the wreck. As a reward Woolf was sent back to Van Diemen's Land and to Port Arthur, where he was named as ‘one of the most notorious prisoners at Port Arthur’ in the 1848 Comptroller-General of Convicts' Report.
According to a note at the Tasmanian Archives, James Woolf of Norfolk Island married Sarah Jones on 22 October 1849. The witnesses at the wedding were Aaron and Jessie Price.
OBSP, 1826, case 588; CON 35/1; CON 34/2, no. 842; CON 44/3; HRA, series 1, vol. 22, p. 378; A Tale of Norfolk Island, Anon, Tract, 1845; CON 44/3, Petitions 1844; Hobart Town Courier, 8 February 1835, 30 January 1845, 23 February 1838, 28 June 1839; Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 1842; CON 31/45, no. 841; I. Brand, Escape from Port Arthur; VDL Papers, ML, A1059.4; 1843 Recognition Book 4/5297, no. 1535.
WOOLFE, Michael (WOOLF)
b. London, 1825–1875
John Barry (5), 1839; Convict; Sentenced to 7 years, Old Bailey, 1838.
Single; Jeweller, errand boy; Height: 159 cm.
Dark pale complexion, freckled, brown hair, hazel eyes. No previous conviction. Jew. Michael Woolfe stole £200 worth of jewellery from his stepfather's and mother's shop in Oxford Street. He had been living away from home. His mother had attempted to set him up in a jewellery business when he was thirteen years old. The wife of a jeweller, a Mrs Ghost, seems to be partly responsible for Woolfe's thefts. She was given a sentence of fourteen years transportation, while he was sentenced to seven years with a recommendation for mercy. The John Barry's documents recorded that he was thirteen. However, the Old Bailey account gave his age as seventeen. Michael Woolfe was sentenced on 14 May 1838.
Michael Woolfe arrived in Van Diemen's Land on 22 March 1839. Woolfe received a certificate of freedom on 15 February 1846. In 1866 a Michael ‘Wolff’ married Theresa Emma Waddlow in Melbourne.
OBSP, 1838, case 1309, p. 119; John Barry Printed Indent, p. 52; CF 46/0187.
WOOLFE, Samuel (WOLFE)
b. London, 1798
Ocean (2), 1818; Convict; Sentenced to 7 years, Old Bailey, 1817.
Single; Pen-cutter and quill manufacturer; Height: 166 cm.
Florid complexion, black hair, dark eyes. Woolfe was caught stealing an overcoat from a stage coach and sentenced at the London Gaol Delivery on 15 January 1817.
Woolfe arrived in New South Wales on 10 January 1818 and was granted a certificate of freedom on 15 January 1824.
OBSP, 1816–17, case 174, p. 71; Ship Indent 4/4005, p. 413; CF 4/4423, 029/1726.
WORMS, Henry
b. Frankfurt am Main, 1768
Medina, 1825; Convict; Sentenced to 14 years, Old Bailey, 1825.
Widower; Manufacturer and confectioner; Height: 161 cm; 8 children (in England).
Dark brown hair to grey, brown eyes, high temple, crooked teeth in upper mouth. Jew. Henry Worms was transported for receiving stolen goods. At the Fox and Peacock public house John Moriarty ordered a pint of porter and disappeared with the pewter pot. The landlord followed Moriarty and checked at the marine store shop of Henry Worms and heard the two men negotiating to acquire the stolen pot. A constable was summoned who searched the store and found Worms and his young son melting the pewter down. Henry Worms aged fifty-seven was sentenced to be transported for fourteen years. His son, Morris, aged fourteen was respited. Moriarty was sentenced to three months in prison. Henry Worms had been in gaol before. His behaviour was reported to be ‘Orderly’.
Henry Worms arrived in Van Diemen's Land on 19 September 1825. On 25 June 1826 he was accused of profaning the Sabbath day by offering for sale cakes and lollypops at his house in Elizabeth Street. The complaint was dismissed. On 20 September 1826, as an assigned servant, he was absent from the Sunday muster and compulsory church service and was severely reprimanded. By 10 August 1830 Henry Worms held a ticket of leave. He was arraigned on a charge of assaulting James Gregory with the intent to commit an unnatural crime. He was confined to the police barracks, where he was found to be drunk. He was punished with ten days on the treadmill. On 7 June 1831 he was again drunk, and was sentenced to fifteen days on the treadmill. The Colonial Times then reported that Henry Worms, ‘a Jew’, who owned a pawnbroking shop and was a money lender in Hobart Town, was involved in the trial of Thomas Woolett, who had stolen a watch and had attempted to sell it to Worms. Henry's dossier ends abruptly with the word ‘RUN’.
OBSP 13 January 1825, case 381. CON 31/45; CON 23/3, no. 662; MM33/1; Colonial Times, 15 June 1831.
WORTHY, Henry (JONES)
b. Bath, 1822
Hyderabad, 1845; Convict; Sentenced to 7 years, Somerset–Bath Quarter Sessions, 1844.
Single; Servant and groom; Height: 156 cm.
Fresh complexion, brown hair, brown eyes, hazel eyes, large nose. ‘Jew’. Could read and write. Henry Worthy had been convicted before as a pickpocket. He was transported for stealing two fowls and two rabbits.
Worthy arrived at Norfolk Island on the Hyderabad on 20 February 1845. The first part of his sentence was spent at the penal colony there. Minor offences were recorded in his dossier. He was then sent to Van Diemen's Land, arriving on 1 May 1847, and was sent to the Port Arthur prison. He received his ticket of leave on 5 December 1848. A certificate of freedom was issued on 19 October 1852. He was tried at the Launceston Quarter Sessions on 12 February 1866 when he was accused of housebreaking and was acquitted. At the Police Court in Hobart on 4 June 1873 he was convicted of being ‘idle and disorderly’ and sentenced to three months imprisonment.
CON 33/86, Police, no. 20029; CON 14/29, p. 252.