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Francis WOODCOCK

He was tried at Shrewsbury, Shropshire on 13 March 1784 for stealing livestock (a sheep) with a value of 25 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 14 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Friendship aged about 48 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as labourer. He died in 1788.

Notes: Report from Dunkirk hulk was “tolerably decent and orderly”.



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