WILLIAM HUDGELL

ID No 746

1792 - 1851

Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire

Parents: William Hudgell and Mary Edridge

Williams extensive life of Crime

   William's life of crime started from a very young age, in 1804 at the age of we he was tried for stealing a parcel but was acquitted.

In 1825 he was tried for stealing a rabbit and 2/- and was proved guilty and sentenced to transportation but this never occurred.

In October 1830 he was charged again for stealing two hurdles and several other pieces of wood for this he served 3 years and 4 months at the bridewell and was whipped.

Finally in 1835 at the age of 43 he was convicted of larceny and transported to VDL for life.

Arriving in Tasmania on the ship Elphinstone in mid 1836.

Within 6 months in December of that year he was in trouble again for absconding  from Glenarchy road party and was sentences to six months hard labour in chains.

Three years later in 1839 he served 10 days solitary confinement on bread and water for being drunk and disorderly in charge of a team of horses.

In 1840 he was absent without leave under suspicion of robbery and harbouring for which he got 6 months hard labour.

He was given his Ticket of Leave in 1849.

He was married to May Hopkins (or at least she was his common-law wife who died just before his last crime in Hertfordshire in 1835.