James Balding

Summary

James Balding, one of 262 convicts transported on the Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough and Alexander, January 1787
Born
Jan 1755
Conviction Burglary (house breaking)
Departure Dec 1786
Arrival
Jan 1788
Death
Unknown
Personal Information
Name: James Balding
Aliases: William Balding
Gender: Male
Born: 1st Jan 1755
Death: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Occupation: Chimney sweep
Crime
Convicted at: Middlesex Gaol Delivery
Sentence term: 7
Voyage
Departed: 31st Dec 1786
Arrival: 22nd Jan 1788
Place of Arrival: New South Wales

Transportation

Departed: 31st Dec, 1786
Arrived: 22nd Jan, 1788
Passengers: 351

Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough and Alexander

References

Primary SourceOld Bailey. State Archives NSW (Indents: NRS 1150; Item: [SZ115]; Microfiche: 620)& (Cert. of Emancipation, NRS 12208, Archive Roll 601). Ancestry.com Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 9 (6)
Source DescriptionThis record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro
Original SourceGreat Britain. Home Office
Compiled ByState Library of Queensland
Database SourceBritish convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database

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Convict Notes

Contributed by on 8th June 2022

Indents: Conviction: 19 March 1785 Certificate of Freedom dated 18 August 1810 Ship Scarborough

Contributed by on 8th June 2022

Old Bailey Proceedings: 12 January 1785 JAMES BALDING, THOMAS TILL, Theft > housebreaking, 12th January 1785. 252. JAMES, otherwise WILLIAM BALDING , and THOMAS TILL , were indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Elizabeth Marshall about the hour of one in the day, on the 1st day of January last, no person being therein, and feloniously stealing therein, one coat, value 4 s. one waistcoat, value 2 s. two shirts, value 2 s. the property of Robert Graves ; and one cotton gown, value 5 s. the property of the said Elizabeth . The witnesses examined apart at the request of the prisoners. ELIZABETH MARSHALL sworn. I live at Mile-end ; my house was broke open the 1st of January, I went out between twelve and one in the day time, there was nobody at home, the windows and doors were all fast, the street door was upon the latch; I returned about one, and found the street door open; I met two chimney sweeper s coming down the stairs, the inner door had been open, and the lock of the upstairs door broken; I asked them what business they had there; they were the prisoners: I am sure the street door was shut when I went out; I missed my gown the first thing, the next was the coat, and waistcoat, and two shirts; I then found I was robbed; I called out, stop thief, and I run after the prisoners as far as the Globe, and then I lost them. ROBERT GRAVES sworn. I lost a coat, and waistcoat, and two shirts: I left my things at this house. WILLIAM BURRELL sworn. I was walking in Stepney fields, and I heard the woman call stop thief; I saw the prisoner Balding drop these goods from off his shoulder, I pursued and took him, and as I brought him back, he took up the bag, and said the goods were his; I carried them from the place where he dropped them, to the Globe, at Mile-end, and there he heaved them out himself: I took the prisoner Balding, and he was committed. HENRY HOMMESTON sworn. I was at work at Stepney gravel-pits on the 1st of January, and I heard the cry of stop thief; I saw the two prisoners coming along, I ran after them, and caught one of them, which is Thomas Till ; I took him back to the Globe, he came back, and the shortest took up the bundle with these things in it, which he had thrown away, and said that was his property, and then he went, and we told him to shoot the things out of the bag, and he did, and the prosecutrix owned the things. JOHN MACQUIRE sworn. I was coming from the Plough, at Mile-end, I saw the prisoner Balding coming out of the prosecutor's house, with a bag upon his shoulder; the other prisoner was with him, and they ran across the road to Bow-common-lane, this woman came out, and cried out stop thief, and I ran and several others into the field; the prisoner Balding ropped the bag from his shoulder, and they both ran on further; the two young men came from the gravel-pits, and stopped them; and when Balding came back where the bag lay, he took it up and said it was his property; we brought him to the Globe, and he shot out the things that are here. (The gown deposed to by Marshall.) What is the value of it? - Five shillings. (The coat, waistcoat, and shirts deposed to by Graves, and valued at eighteen shillings.) MARY WOOLLETT sworn. I come to speak for Till, I have known him from a child, he worked for my husband, I am a foot dealer; he has been at several gentlemen's houses, I never heard a bad character of him. JAMES, otherwise WILLIAM BALDING, THOMAS TILL , GUILTY , Death . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17850112-48-defend539&div=t17850112-48#highlight 23 February 1785 To be transported to Africa for 7 years https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=o17850223-3-punish578&div=o17850223-3#highlight

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Revisions

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27th Mar 2023source: State Archives NSW (Indents: NRS 1150; Item: [SZ115]; Microfiche: 620)& (Cert. of Emancipation, NRS 12208, Archive Roll 601). Ancestry.com Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 9 (6) (prev.
27th Mar 2023source: Old Bailey. State Archives NSW (Indents: NRS 1150; Item: [SZ115]; Microfiche: 620)& (Cert. of Emancipation, NRS 12208, Archive Roll 601). Ancestry.com Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number
8th Jun 2022alias1: Balding, William (alias) (prev. Balding, William (Alias)), gender: m, crime
Anonymous12th May 2011none
12th May 2011alias1: William Balding (prev. Balding, William (alias))