BEARD, Henry

(1823 - 15/12/1887)

Henry was an expiree, meaning that he was a convict who finished his sentence. He arrived on 03/07/1857 on the Clara. He had a wife and child in England. He married Mary Batty. Mary was later married in 1906 to William Harwick, who had befriended her during her husband's imprisonment. Henry's children were Maria (1860-), Alfred (1862 - 1932), Henry (1873 - 1873), Henry (1874-) and Harriett (1874-). In York, Henry worked as a baker in the 1870s and a lodging housekeeper (1879-). He employed twenty ticket of leave men from 1862 to 1883, including a baker for seven years at York and three labourers at Bunbury in 1871 after receiving his Certificate of Freedom after a second conviction.

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