'Twenty-one year old John Leonard arrived in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, on 8 October 1835, aboard the Aurora. He was transported from Manchester to the antipodean prison island for stealing six pairs of stockings.'
Leonard was pardoned in 1844 (after his original seven-year sentence had been extended), and moved on to the Victorian goldfields.
Source: Ruth Thomas, 'Van Diemen's Land Prisoner and Australian Magazine Captive: The Convict Autobiography of John Leonard', in Australian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2009).
