AUSTRALIA, Private Token Issues. Humphrey Wormleighton, convict, transported 1830. Æ Convict Token (36mm, 23.57 g, 11h). VF.

CNG Feature Auction 124
Lot: 804. Estimated: $ 1 500

World, Bronze

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AUSTRALIA, Private Token Issues. Humphrey Wormleighton, convict, transported 1830. Æ Convict Token (36mm, 23.57 g, 11h). Figure standing facing wearing top hat, holding pipe and cup; Humphrey Wormlaton above, aged 23 across field / when/ this you see/ remember mee/ and have mee/ in your mind/ let the world/ say what they/ will Speak/ of me as/ you find stipillated on a smoothed copper penny. Brown surfaces. Very lightly engraved. VF.

Humphrey Wormleighton (or Wormlaton) was born in 1806 to William and Mary Wormleighton and baptized in Birmingham, England on 18 August. On 13 July 1829, in a trial at the Warwick Quarter Session, Humphrey was convicted of stealing lead and sentenced to 14 years transportation to Australia. The transportation records provide a description: about 5’5”, with hazel eyes and red-brown hair and whiskers. He had several tattoos, including an anchor and fish on his right arm, a mermaid, flower pot, and man’s head on his left arm, a ring on his middle finger, and stars on the back of his left hand and his left forefinger. Traveling aboard the David Lyon, he arrived in Van Dieman’s Land (Tasmania) on 18 August 1830, where he would reside for most of his life. Humphrey married Alfrada Rollings in 1836, with whom he had six children. Humphrey Wormleighton died in Parramatta, New South Wales on 22 November, 1877.

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