Australia
Fremantle
Boyer
Griffith BOYER (1834-1880) born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, son of John, sailed on the Runnymede, a convict ship, to Freemantle in 1856. He was a plate layer by trade and had been sentenced at York to 15 years for manslaughter. He was single, literate and a Protestant. He wrote letters back to his parents, when allowed. One states the following: "I like the Colony very well for I am informed that a man who gets his ticket of leave he may do very well if he is only steady and keeps out of bad company ..... I am sending you a lock of my hair in this letter ... I am working at my own trade of plate-laying in and about the prison yard."
He always claimed to be innocent.
