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Francis Anderson was born in Royston Hertfordshire in 1788 and transported in 1836 for 14 years for stealing barley. Some reports say he was transported for life. This wasn’t his first offence and earlier ones include stealing his sisters’s fowl (1820).
He was sentenced to death commuted to transpiration for life in 1825 for stealing a ewe. This sentence doesn’t appear to have been carried out and in 1830 he was imprisoned in Hertford for six months for perjury.
Six weeks before he was transported in 1836 his cousin Stephen Anderson was transported for 14 years for a different offence.
Francis had married in England and had a daughter Mary who died young. His life in Australia is unclear but apparently when he died in 1868 he left an estate of £12,000 which was still being sorted out (looking for descendants) in 1900. See “The Story of a Fortune” in the Herts & Cambs Reporter 9 Nov 1900
Submitted by Researcher (13883) on 19 May 2025
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/10, p.380
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