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William Buckley (convict)
William Buckley (178030 January 1856) was an English convict who was transported to Australia, escaped, was given up for dead and lived in an Aboriginal community for many years.
Buckley's improbable survival is believed by many Australians to be the source of the vernacular phrase "you've got Buckley's or none" (or simply "you've got Buckley's"), which means "no chance", or "it's as good as impossible". The ''Macquarie Dictionary'' supports this theory, although the ANU Australian National Dictionary Centre tends to support a second theory:〔(Frederick Ludowyk, Australian National Dictionary Centre, ''Ozwords'' October 2000 )〕 that the expression was a pun on the name of a now defunct Melbourne department store chain, Buckley & Nunn.〔''The Macquarie Dictionary'', Fourth Edition (2005), p. 192.〕
==Early life==
Buckley was born in Marton, Cheshire, England, to Eliza Buckley, Buckley had two sisters and one brother. Around the age of six he was brought up by his mother's father in Macclesfield. In the book ''The life and adventures of William Buckley'',〔Morgan, J. (1852). ''The life and adventures of William Buckley''. United States: Kessinger Legacy Reprints.〕 his place of birth is however given as Macclesfield.
He was apprenticed to a bricklayer, Mr. Robert Wyatt, but left to enlist in the King's Foot Regiment. He was soon transferred to the King's Own Regiment. In 1799, his regiment went to the Netherlands to fight against Napoleon, under the command of the Duke of York where he injured his hand. Later, in London, Buckley was convicted of knowingly receiving a bolt of stolen cloth; he insisted he was carrying it for a woman and did not know it was stolen. He was sentenced to transportation to New South Wales for 14 years.
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