[CONVICT TRANSPORTATION] Henry Day, convicted at the Wallingford General Quarter Sessions, 3 July 1835, of receiving goods under false pretence; sentenced to 7 years transportation.

[Wallingford, Berks. : s.n.], 1835. Transportation order. Folio sheet, 330 x 210 mm, printed recto only, with ms. entries dated 3 July 1835 recording the Court Order that Henry Day be transported for a term of 7 years for the felony of obtaining goods under false pretence; docketed title verso; two original horizontal folds, a couple of archival repairs at top right corner and right edge, otherwise a very well preserved document.

Transportation order for Henry Day of the parish of St. Mary-le-More, Wallingford, Berkshire, who ‘knowingly and designedly by a false pretence obtained from George Palmer of the same parish, Ironmonger, twelve knives, twelve forks and a copper kettle … with an intent to cheat and defraud him of the same’. He was also convicted of similarly taking an umbrella from a linen draper, along with sundry other offences, and was sentenced to 7 years transportation. He was initially held in Reading Gaol, before being transported with 305 other convicts on the Mary Ann, leaving Sheerness on the 6 July 1835, and arriving at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, on 11 November 1835. We have not been able to uncover any details of Henry’s life in Australia.