William Box

   General Notes:

General Notes:

First conviction - housebreaking 1840, released 1843.Convicted at Wiltshire Assizes 13.8.1844 for highway robbery.
Sentenced to 7 years in Milbank prison.
Sentence "life commutation" probably meant death commuted to life imprisonment.
Transported to Norfolk Island on "Hyderabad" leaving "Downs" 21.10.1844
Arrived Norfolk Island 20.2.1845
Transported to Hobart on "Pestonjee Bomanjee" arriving on 8.4.1847
Assigned to work at Sorell until granted ticket of leave on 27.2.1855.
In 1857 William Box is recorded as working on the construction of Government House, Hobart.
He received a conditional pardon on 20.4.1858. William Box joined the Tasmanian police force and served as a warder at Port Arthur.
Between 1868 and 1871 William and Ann Box and family moved to Kempsey , NSW.
In 1871 William and Ann Box moved to a farm on the Macleay R. near Kempsey
In 1874/5 The Box family moved to Raleigh renting a farm from the McAteer estate.
William Box later operated a ferry over the south arm of the Bellinger near Urunga. He remained in this occupation until his death in 1888. Ann Box died in Glebe NSW in 1885.

William married Ann Eliza Evans. (Ann Eliza Evans was born between 1830-1831 in Manchester, England and died in 1885 in Glebe, New South Wales.)