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CONVICT HENRY STEVENSON - VAN DIEMEN'S LAND & NORFOLK ISLAND

Henry Stevenson was 13 when convicted at Liverpool Quarter Sessions in April 1836 for stealing a handkerchief. As this was not his first offence he was sentenced to be transported for seven years, arriving at Hobart in May 1837 aboard the "Frances Charlotte" together with 149 other young male convicts.

This rare Convict Department Form No.62 is a summary of his penal record whilst under sentence in Van Diemen's Land. He was punished for 40 minor infringements of prison discipline between July 1837 and January 1843 and further transported to Norfolk Island in December 1845 for four years for a burglary. Between November 1846 and June 1855 he was punished for a further 36 offences. Stevenson received his Ticket-of-Leave on August 26th 1856 (when with good behaviour this would have been due in 1840), and his Pardon on December 25th 1860. In October 1867 (then aged 44) he was convicted for a further period of four years.