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Item: 77469
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph
Ship: -
Date: 1815 3 June
Place: Sydney
Source: SG
Details: Together with a man named Dale apprehended for forgery


 
Item: 165443
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph
Ship: -
Date: 24 October 1827
Place: -
Source: The Morning Chronicle (London)
Details: On Saturday afternoon the constables of the town accompanied by Mr. Redfern, prison keeper, proceeded to the house of an engraver, named Joseph Lycett in Bath row, who was suspected of being implicated in the several forgeries of local bank notes which have lately appeared in the neighbourhood. After making some inquiry, the officers went up stairs, accompanied by Lycett, who no doubt alarmed at the consequences likely to result, seized the opportunity of attempting self destruction, by cutting his throat upon the stairs, and rushing into the chamber, endeavoured to throw himself on the bed. He wounded himself severely near the jugular vein and bled profusely. In the room was found a portable copper plate press, with rolls complete; a newly engraved plate of Stourbridge and Bromgrove Bank with a facsimile of the signature, etc. He was immediately conveyed to the Hospital and there is every expectation that he will recover from the effects of the wound. His daughter who was found with him in the house, is in custody.


 
Item: 165445
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph
Ship: -
Date: 13 February 1828
Place: St. Mary's Birmingham, Warwick, England
Source: England Deaths and Burials. Family Search
Details: Burial of Joseph Lycett age 53 on 13 February 1828. Marital status unknown.


 
Item: 165440
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph
Ship: General Hewitt 1814
Date: 1814
Place: -
Source: Discover Collections. State Library of NSW
Details: Joseph Lycett was born in Staffordshire in around 1774 and worked as a professional portrait and miniature painter. Like fellow convict, Francis Greenway, Lycett was convicted of forgery and transported to Australia for a term of fourteen years. In 1815, a year after he arrived in Sydney, he was again convicted of forging bank notes. As punishment, Lycett was sent to the secondary penal colony of Newcastle where he began work as a legitimate artist and designer. In Newcastle, Lycett attracted the patronage of the commandant, Major James Wallis, who had also commanded the General Hewitt the ship on which Lycett was transported. Under Wallis, Lycett was involved in designing Christ Church, Newcastle, and painting its altar piece. The influence of Major Wallis earned Lycett a conditional pardon, and he carved out a successful career, primarily as a landscape painter..............


 
Item: 165441
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph
Ship: General Hewitt 1814
Date: 21 May 1954
Place: -
Source: SMH
Details: Joseph Lycett's two daughters, Mary Ann and Hannah came to Sydney as free settlers. Lycett received an absolute pardon in 1822, returned to England and published his landscapes of Australia, a series of lithographs and copper plates.


 
Item: 165444
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph
Ship: General Hewitt 1814
Date: 1 November 1827
Place: -
Source: Berrow's Worcester Journal. Saturdays Post
Details: We have already mentioned the apprehension of Lycett at Birmingham, charged with forging Provincial Bank Notes. The Shrewsbury Chronicle of yesterday says: 'A man named Lycett was found guilty of forgery at our assizes some years ago, and sentenced to transportation for 14 years. Previously to his banishment, his abilities excited the sympathy of many persons in Shrewsbury and its vicinity. His sketches were admirable; and the rapidity with which he painted upon canvass astonished every person. Mr. Hunt, of Boreatton, and many benevolent gentlemen, gave him orders for painting while he was a prisoner in our county gaol; he executed them. When he went to Botany Bay, he probably had a considerable sum of money. When he arrived there, the governor patronized him. After the expiration of his sentence he returned to England, and published twelve months ago, a work entitled 'Views in Australia'. He has returned, we suppose, to his old practices..


 
Item: 165447
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph
Ship: General Hewitt 1814
Date: -
Place: -
Source: UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
Details: Tried at Shrewsbury on 10th August 1811 and sentenced to 14 years transportation for forging a note. Admitted to the Perseus Hulk 27 August 1812 and transferred to the convict ship 'General Hewitt' early August 1813 for transportation to New South Wales'


 
Item: 165446
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph
Ship: General Hewitt 1814....
Date: -
Place: 1821
Source: Convict Register of Conditional and Absolute Pardons. Ancestry (State Records NSW)
Details: Tried Salop Assizes 10 August 1811 and sentenced to 14 years transportation. Native of Staffordshire, portrait painter. 5ft 6 1/2in, dark ruddy complexion. Granted Absolute Pardon


 
Item: 169035
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph and Mary
Ship: General Hewitt 1814
Date: 1811
Place: Shropshire
Source: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892.
Details: Joseph Lycett tried at summer assizes for having forged bank notes n his possession found guilty. Mary Lycett tried for the same crime found not guilty. Mary Lycett later came to Australia as a free passenger.


 
Item: 165442
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph(?)
Ship: -
Date: 16 April 1828
Place: Bath-row, Birmingham
Source: The Monitor
Details: Forged Notes - Last week the constables of Birmingham proceeded to the house of an engraver named Lycett in Bath row, in that town, to search for forged notes, and in one of the upstairs rooms found a newly prepared 1 pound plate, of the Stourbridge and Bramsgrove Bank, with a fac simsie of the signature, entry, number, and date. Lycett, alarmed at the consequences cut his throat; but he was removed to the hospital, and it is expected he will recover. His daughter, who was found with him in the house, is also in custody.


 
Item: 165448
Surname: Lycett
First Name: Joseph, Hannah and Mary Anne
Ship: Shipley 1822
Date: 1822
Place: Sydney
Source: NSW Departing Crew and Passenger Lists. Ancestry
Details: Joseph Lycett, free by Pardon, and daughters Mary Ann and Hannah who were born in England and came free in the Wanstead and Northampton, returning to England on the vessel 'Shipley'


 
Item: 30394
Surname: Lycett (Lysaght)
First Name: Joseph
Ship: General Hewitt 1814
Date: 1815 8 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per 'Lady Nelson'


 
Item: 30395
Surname: Lycett (Lysaght)
First Name: Joseph
Ship: General Hewitt 1814
Date: 1817 14 November
Place: Port Stephens
Source: CSI
Details: Wounded by natives at Port Stephens


 
Item: 70142
Surname: Lycett (Lysaght)
First Name: Joseph
Ship: General Hewitt 1814
Date: 1815 8 July
Place: -
Source: CSI
Details: To be strictly watched at Newcastle as he was notorious for forgeries



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