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182758
Surname: Yates
First Name: Robert
Ship: Camden 1831
Date: 6 March 1833
Place: Invermein
Source: Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details: Daniel Welsh per ship Hercules, assigned to Francis Little; Robert Yates per Camden assigned to Dr. William Bell Carlyle....Doctor Little states that on Thursday morning last I was informed that the peach orchard had been robbed and on going into it I found foot tracks round the tree one of which tracks I traced over the fence and huts at a short distance from the garden. It was joined by a second the track I followed up to the hut where the prisoners live I searched the hut but found nothing in it and on the road when the other track terminated I found two tracks in two opposite directions leading down towards the garden, one of the mens feet appeared larger than the other and one had hob nails and the other not. Yates shoe filled exactly matched the one with the hob nails and the heels of Welsh shoe fitted into a clod of clay that had been kicked off between the garden and the hut he had. The prisoners lived at a sheep station about two miles off and there are but three people including the prisoners residing there.. Jones the overseer had been down. I noticed his track which was quite different. There had been rain during the night and the tracks were plain. Robert Challin, ticket of leave holder states that on Wednesday last the prisoners were in the hut when he went to bed and they were there when he got up. The prisoners deny the charge. The Bench find the prisoners guilty under the strong circumstantial evidence and sentence them to receive twenty five lashes each.


182760
Surname: Yates
First Name: Robert
Ship: Camden 1831
Date: 6 March 1833
Place: Invermein
Source: Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details: Robert Yates per Camden, assigned to Dr. William Bell Carlyle, charged with neglect of duty and disobedience. John Jones, ticket of leave, overseer to Francis Little states that the prisoner came to him last Monday week stating that the watch man was ill about nine oclock in the morning. I went to the mens huts about 1/2 past 11 and found the prisoner putting out wheat. He had been washing. I ordered him and his sheep and prisoner stated he would not go until I found him a man to wash his wheat. I told him I would take him to the Bench. He said I could not do any more to him than had been done before that I might take him then. The prisoner makes no defence but admits the charge. The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to receive twenty five lashes.


147782
Surname: Yeoman
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1824 3 July
Place: County of Northumberland, Parish of Whittingham
Source: Index to map of the country bordering upon the River Hunter... by Henry Dangar (London : Joseph Cross, 1828). p8
Details: Granted 60 acres of land. Annual quit rent 9s


64415
Surname: Young
First Name: Constable Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1830 10 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Dismissed from position of constable for neglect of duty


181087
Surname: Young
First Name: Constable Robert
Ship: -
Date: 10 January 1825
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details: Thomas Kelly per Dorothy, in the service of government, charged with theft at Patrick Rileys house at Newcastle...Catherine Riley states....The prisoner came to my husbands house on Saturday night last. When he was going away I detected him with a quart pot under his arm. He told me he was going for some beer. Ours is a licensed house and we have beer for sale. I gave the prisoner in charge to a constable. Constable Robert Young states..I saw the prisoner with a quart pot in his possession as he was leaving Mrs. Rileys house - she claimed it. He was taken to the watch house. The prisoner admits he took away the pot but alleges in excuse that he was drunk and did not know what he was doing. Sentenced to hard labour in the gaol gang for two months


181929
Surname: Young
First Name: Constable Robert
Ship: -
Date: 21 June 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: Timothy Duffy per ship Countess of Harcourt, in government service, charged with theft....John Thomas states - On Tuesday morning between one and two oclock, I heard a slight noise in the skilling behind my cottage. I got out of bed and going round to the rear I saw a man run into a shed adjoining. I called out for a constable, who lived close by who immediately came to my assistance. He went into the shed and brought out the prisoner who addressed himself to me saying - As there is nothing gone, you may as well let me off - Robert Young, constable states - Yesterday morning I was alarmed by Thomas calling on me for assistance. I got out of bed and hastened to where he was standing; he told me the skilling had been entered and that the man who had done it was in my shed. I went in and brought out Duffy. At the door of the skilling there was a box which had been forced open. It belongs to a woman who occupied the skilling but who at that time was absent on duty at the hospital. The lock of the skilling door had been opened with a false key which I found; inside there was a bundle made up ready to carry away. The prisoner states - I was passing by on my way to my work at the mines; I had occasion to go into the shed and they said I had broke into the skilling. Timothy Duffy sentenced to 3 years extension of his original sentence


182351
Surname: Young
First Name: Constable Robert
Ship: -
Date: 23 January 1827
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: Thomas Welsh in the service of government charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct in barracks. Constable Robert Young states - last night about 1/2 past nine, the watchman at the barracks came to me and reported a disturbance in Room No. 1. I went and opened the door and found Welsh stripped for fighting. I was desired by the overseer of the barracks to remove Welsh to the watch house. He (Welsh) was intoxicated. Chief Constable George Muir stated - Last evening Welsh was absent at the muster and a little after 8 o clock he was brought to me by two constables. He appeared as if he had been drinking in the course of the day. I sent him to the barracks and shortly after he was returned on a charge of disorderly conduct.. No defence. Sentenced to 30 lashes


182372
Surname: Young
First Name: Constable Robert
Ship: -
Date: 7 February 1827
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: Richard Keys, in the service of government charged with conniving at a theft and withholding the property. Thomas Liddle states - I lost a pair of shoes the night before last after locking hours in barracks; they were taken from my feet as I slept. I reported the loss of the shoes and also a handkerchief to the watchman and a search was made in the ward, but to no purpose. I then offered a reward of a dollar for the shoes and handkerchief, and soon after I was told that the shoes had been found by Keys the wards man. I went to him and he took me into the mill room and showed me the shoes now before the Court which were stolen from me; they were secreted under a blanket. As Keys seemed to hesitate about giving them to me without my paying the reward, and I not then having a dollar, I left him and went to Constable Young and told him where my shoes were. Constable Robert Young states - Yesterday evening Liddle told me that Keys had his shoes. I went to Keys who was in bed; I asked him for the shoes which he immediately gave me. He took them from under his pillow. The prisoner states - I never objected to give Liddle his shoes - I found them on cleaning out the ward, secreted under the floor. Richard Keys sentenced: To be logged (?) for 3 months


213254
Surname: Young
First Name: Elizabeth, Joseph, Robert
Ship: Montmorency 1864
Date: November 1864
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Elizabeth Young, general servant age 30 from Piddington, Durham, daughter of John and Elizabeth Thornton; Joseph age 7; Robert age 5. Assisted immigrants by the ship Montmorency. Note - husband of Elizabeth, Joseph Young residing at Wallsend Colliery, Newcastle


162570
Surname: Young
First Name: Martha and Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1 September 1825
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Australian
Details: Notice - Whereas my wife Martha Young has left my house without any reasonable cause and has taken up her abode in a house occupied by robert Stewart at this settlement, this is to caution him, as well as all others from harbourng or receiving the said Martha Young under pain of prosecution


5939
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1831 14 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: R v Young Hooper & Battie
Details: Indicted for the murder of John Mason by strangling him with a rope at Newcastle gaol


5949
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1831 14 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: R v Young Hooper & Battie
Details: Was a scourger for the gaol and came to flog John Mason


5959
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1831 14 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: R v Young Hooper & Battie
Details: Found guilty of manslaughter. Sentenced to 10mths in prison


11269
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1844 13 April
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Hired servant to David Patterson for 6 months . Indicted for stealing 2 shirts and other articles from Patterson. Not guilty.


16862
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1845 24 May
Place: Bolwarra
Source: MM
Details: Accused Patrick Fogarty of stealing his coat


20395
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1846 7 March
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: To be tried at Maitland Circuit Court 11.3.46 for assault with intent


20600
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1846 14 March
Place: Dungog
Source: MM
Details: Charged with assault with intent on Ann Ertherbrook


20603
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1846 14 March
Place: Dungog
Source: MM
Details: Found guilty of common assault upon Ann Etherbrook


50671
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1849 17 January
Place: Nelson's Plains
Source: MM
Details: Appointed to Presbyterian School Board


64666
Surname: Young
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1830 28 September
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Removed from position of scourger in consequence of the verdict of a coroner's inquest being found against him