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William Charles Wilkes, convict Queenslander
About the convict
...the name of Mr. Wilkes would ever be identified with the great triumph, the Separation of Moreton Bay from New South Wales.
Brisbane Courier, 16 May 1873, p.3
Mr. Wilkes had a fluent and spirited pen, and many old readers of the "Courier" will remember his keen and pungent paragraphs in the weekly notes of the late fifties and early sixties.
The Queenslander, 29 August 1914, p.29

Role: | Editor of the Moreton Bay Courier and Separationist |
Born: | c.1816 |
Convicted: | 14 February 1833 at Middlesex Gaol Delivery (Old Bailey - London) |
Crime: | Stealing in dwelling-house |
Sentence: | Transportation for life |
Ship: | Neva |
Transported: | Arrived in New South Wales on 21 November 1833 |
Died: | Sydney on 21 November 1873. Buried in Camperdown Cemetery |
Notes: | Conditional Pardon issued on 1 February 1848 |
Further reading
Obituary for William Charles Wilkes
Retrospective biography for William C. Wilkes
Biography for William Charles Wilk[e]s