Lot 2939

Description

Convict token, Great Britain, cartwheel twopence, 1797, well worn on reverse, obverse shaved and inscribed, 'James Harvey/Engraved/1827.B/Stortford'. Poor.

James Harvey of Bishop's Stortford, age 22, married with one child, was found guilty of housebreaking at Oxford on 7 March 1827 and sentenced to Transportation for life. He arrived at Sydney on the Prince Regent on 27 September 1827. He was assigned to indentured service with William Bowman and in the 1828 Census he is shown as a Bullock Driver for W. Bowman at Bathurst and on the Convict Return of 1837 he is still in the same position. He was granted a second class conditional pardon on 23 May 1846. He married Elizabeth Jane Goodsall in 1842 and they had six children. James died on 3 May 1852 at the age of 47 at Penrith and was buried the next day.