Henry Thomas WALTON

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Shepherd - employed by Stephen Parker of Beverley

1850's and 1860's listed as a Farmer & Pastoralist

Although not officially classed as convicts ... boys called the Parkhurst Boys were sent to Western Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Victoria and even to Norfolk Island.

They had been rehabilitated at Parkhurst Prison and were transported under a similar arrangement to the exiles who began to arrive a few years later. The aim was to apprentice them to local settlers. In the ten years between 1842 and 1852 just under 1499 boys aged from twelve to eighteen were transported to Australia and New Zealand from Britain's Parkhurst Prison.

Parkhurst was designed especially for boys and was built on the Isle of Wight. On December 26, 1838, Robert Woollcombe, the prison governor, arrived at Parkhurst with a team of taskmasters and thefirst 102 boys.The prison was enlarged and extended during its time as a juvenile prison and until that time on March 30, 1864, the boys did much of the work as part of their training in carpentry, stonework and ironwork. In all, 4088 boys passed through the Parkhurst system. Ironically, 1838 also saw a British Parliamentary Committee handed down a report claiming that transportation was no deterrent for crime and with free settlers in Australia beginning to object to the arrival of convicts, new practices were put in place at Parkhurst.

It was to train its boys and elevate them to a higher standard than those held in other prisons such as Millbank and Pentonville.

Unsuitable boys were returned to the other prisons or transported as ordinary convicts and before it closed in 1864, a total of 133 boys were disposed of in that manner - 12 in its first year, 1839, and its largest group of 79 being transported in 1844. Those boys were not regarded as Parkhurst boys or juvenile immigrants and were not included in the 1499 mentioned above. The juvenile migrant scheme was based on the idea that although no Australian colony other than Tasmania would accept more convicts, they would be glad to receive trained labour.

Thirty of the first group were earmarked for transportation to Auckland in New Zealand while it was decided to send the apprentices to either Western Australia or New Zealand. Boys in the other twogroups were still considered to be of good enough character to be sent to a colony without convicts and the Port Phillip settlement in Victoria was suggested, but if not, they should go to Tasmania as apprentices and not transportees. On 20 August 1842 the «i»Simon Taylor«/i» arrived in Western Australia carrying the first batch of juvenile immigrants from Parkhurst. It was the first of nine ships which carried 332 of the 334 boys destined for Western Australia. In the same period, ten ships carried 527 boys to Tasmania, two ships carried 123 boys to New Zealand, and six ships carried 515 boys to Victoria.

The last group of boys sent out to the colonies arrived in 1852. However, a lone boy also arrived in Western Australia in 1852 and another in 1861, but the prison records do not say why they were sent.

Shepherd, employed by Stephen Parker, Beverley and Pingelly. Farmer 1850s & pastoralist 1860s.

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