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Henry Warland's Conviction.

warren_david12  (View posts) Posted: 24 May 2009 7:40AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Warland
The account of the times printed in the Dorset County Chronical, July 24,1845 provides this brief description of the Henry Warland (on bail).
The prisoner is a married man, the father of a young child, and a respectable tradesman, carrying on the the business of a plumber and glazier in the town of WIMBORNE MINSTER, DORSET.
The sentence handed down was "that he be transported for the term of his natural life. Sources obtained from Ancestry clearly shows the sentence was for 7 years transportation to van Diemens Land.

Re: Henry Warland's Conviction.

pacowinyard  (View posts) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 8:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Warland
I am currently researching my Grandmother's family - WARLAND
from Weymouth Dorset UK Any information would be most interesting
I know that she had relatives in Australia
I intend visiting Dorset to research parish records etc
Regards
Pat Winyard nee Jones

Re: Henry Warland's Conviction.

warren_david12  (View posts) Posted: 2 Dec 2010 12:28AM GMT
Classification: Query
The life term was later commuted to 7 years.

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