Herman Moll

Herman Joseph Moll (31 January 1838 - 18 December 1882) was a convict transported to Western Australia. He was one of only four such convicts to be elected to the prestigious and respected position of member of a local Education Board. Born in Cologne Germany, the son of Joseph Moll, a tobacco merchant, and Sophia Eick, he went to England where he was a 24 year old "London man of business" when convicted of forging and uttering in 1861. Sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, he was transported to Western Australia on board the York, arriving in December 1862. Herman Moll was described as 5' 9 1/4" having greyish hair and hazel eyes. His face is described as “full”, his complexion “dark” and his build as “middling stout”. At the time,...