1838: William Brain
1838: William Brain
William Brain, 21, was tried and convicted at the Warwick August Assizes for housebreaking. He was sentenced to 10 years’ transportation. He appears to have spent a year on the hulks before sailing on the Barossa on 31 July 1839.
In 1843 he married Maria Byrne, a convict who had arrived on the Isabella in July 1840. Brain was granted a ticket of leave in 1844 and was allowed to stay in Newcastle, north of Sydney. He died in Newcastle in 1903, aged 89.
Diameter: 36mm, thickness: 3mm
Token engraved with the stippled image of a man in chains and a ship sailing in the background. In the sky is the sun, moon and several birds. To the man’s right is a rock-like shape, on which is engraved:
Wm
Brain
Token with an ornate stippled border of swirls and flourishes, and stippled text:
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. Wm . BRAIN
Engraved into the lower half of the border are the words:
aut | AGED . 21 | 22 1838
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