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Transportation
Charles Tilley was transported on the Baring, departing 31st Mar 1815 and arriving 7th Sep 1815 with 302 passengers.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 205 (104) |
| Source Description | This 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 Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Old Bailey Online CHARLES TILLEY. RICHARD JONES. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 11th January 1815. Text type Trial account Defendants CHARLES TILLEY, RICHARD JONES Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 11th January 1815 Reference Number t18150111-143 Verdicts Guilty, Guilty Punishments Transportation 265. CHARLES TILLEY and RICHARD JONES were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 6th of December , four handkerchiefs, value 4 s. the property of William Pile . SUSANNAH PILE . My husband's name is William Pile . I keep a linen draper's shop at Somer's town. On the 6th of December these two boys came into my shop; they told me they wanted to look at some handkerchiefs; they were not so well dressed then as they are now. Tilley pointed to a particular sort of handkerchief: I got up in a chair to reach it down; that handkerchief was above my reach, and when I got down off the chair, he ran out of the shop. Jones staid in the shop; I said to Jones, the other boy has got something that he ought not to have. He replied he was not that kind of a boy; I said, what could he run out of the shop in that ridiculous manner for. He said that was the nature of him; and while I was standing looking at the door, Johnson the officer brought the other boy back, until the officer brought him back I did not know that I had missed any handkerchiefs. The officer searched them, and found two handkerchiefs on each of them. BENJAMIN JOHNSON. On the 6th of December I was at the Seven Dials were a gang of these boys meet and set off from there; I followed Tilley and Jones to Tower-street, Sommer's town; Tilley took off his apron, and Jones put it on him. I knew them, they were going to do what they call work. I saw them both go into Mrs. Pile's shop; and, as Tilley come out, he was tucking something up under his waistcoat. I stopped him; he asked my pardon, he knew me well. I took him into the shop; I searched them, and found two handkerchiefs on each of them; these are the handkerchiefs. They had no money about them, not a farthing. Prosecutrix. They are my handkerchiefs, the are worth a shilling each. TILLEY, GUILTY , aged 13. JONES, GUILTY , aged 14. Transported for Seven Years . First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Common Serjeant.