George KING was my great Grandfather's cousin and was baptised on 30th April 1834 in Barton-on Humber, Lincolnshire. My great Grandfather, Leonard King was born in 1843 and the King family continued to live in Barton and I was born there in my grandmother's house.

George King was only 17 when (along with James Wray) he was arrested and tried at Lincoln assizes (in March 1852) for the "highway robbery" of William Brown on 6th December 1851 at Wrawby, Lincs. They were accused of stealing 5 shillings, although they had used violence against the victim, and George "had pressed a stick against this throat." Both George and James were sentenced to 15 years transportation.

They were both transported on the Ramillies and George was given his ticket of leave on 28th May 1856. George was a bootmaker by trade and we know that he settled in Guildford WA. George King's shop (on Meadow St) is still there so I'm told and dates from the early 1860s. George married twice, first to Margaret Gilmore in 1858, and then Ellen Hagan in 1867. When he died in 1905, he left 7 chidren living and had 1 deceased child. I guess it's fairly unusual for the English side of the family to know so much about the "black sheep" but I am in contact with my long lost "cousin" who lives in the Perth area and is George's great great granddaughter.