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176437
Surname: Barwick
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1842
Place: St. Lukes Church, Scone
Source: The Scone Advocate 25 October 1940
Details: Thomas, son of James Barwick, settler at Thornthwaite, baptised by Rev. Morse at St. Lukes Church


206544
Surname: Beck
First Name: Thomas, Selina, Margart, Nelson Thomas,
Ship: Lady Amherst 1849
Date: May 1849
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Thomas Beck age 50, weaver and framer from Co. Down; Selina age 51, housemaid from Co. Down; Margaret age 22 housemaid, daughter; Nelson Thomas age 10, grandson. Assisted immigrants on the ship Lady Amherst. Note- Two daughters and a son in law named Nelson already in the colony, residing at Wollombi.


114974
Surname: Beckett
First Name: Constable Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1832 25 August
Place: Stroud
Source: In the Service of the Company. Letters of Sir Edward Parry, Volume 2 June 1832 - March 1834 Letter 690
Details: Took custody of two absconding convicts from Richard Merchant


179933
Surname: Beckett
First Name: Constable Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 25 May 1832
Place: Port Stephens
Source: Port Stephens Court of Petty Sessions Bench Books (Ancestry)
Details: Witness at the committal hearing of Nicholas Connor


191049
Surname: Beckett
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Florentia 1828
Date: 1828
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 668
Details: Thomas Beckett, age 33. reads and writes, native place Nottingham. Occupation farmer and grazier. Tried in London 11 January 1827. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for perjury. Assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company on arrival


31071
Surname: Beckett
First Name: Thomas (later Police Constable?)
Ship: Florentia 1828
Date: 1828
Place: Port Stephens
Source: 1828 Census
Details: Labourer assigned to Australian Agricultural Company


139681
Surname: Beckett
First Name: Thomas Cooper
Ship: -
Date: 1886 1 May
Place: Wesleyan Chapel, East Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Marriage of Thomas C., eldest son of Isaac Beckett, Esq., of West Maitland and Amy Honor, sixth daughter of R. Tremain of Sydney on 19th April 1886. Minister Rev. M. Madden


152446
Surname: Beckett
First Name: Thomas Cooper
Ship: -
Date: 1843 1 October
Place: West Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Birth of Thomas Cooper Beckett, son of Isaac and Caroline Sarah Beckett


87977
Surname: Beckinson
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1852 11 February
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Charged with stealing a horse belonging to William Hoy who had given it to him in payment for work. Case dismissed by the bench


165303
Surname: Belcher
First Name: (probably) Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 11 July 1906
Place: High Street West Maitland
Source: Australian Town and country Journal
Details: An old building in High St. West Maitland occupied (in1906) by Mr. Dransfield, seedsman was sold early in July 1906. It was one of the oldest buildings in Maitland being remembered by Major Sloan as being occupied by a shoemaker named Belcher as far back as 1842, while Mr. William Tierney remembers it being in the occupation of Mrs. Collins as a fruit shop in the 1850's. The oldest houses in Maitland were said to be the two brick cottages between the corner of Abbott Street and the Currency Lass Hotel which were erected in 1839


73850
Surname: Belcher
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1846 17 January
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: With Ambrose Smyth challenging others to a pigeon shooting competition


45270
Surname: Belcher
First Name: Thomas C
Ship: -
Date: 1846 1 July
Place: West Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Shoemaker. Charged by John James McNeall with neglecting to insruct his apprentice Charles McNeall in the trade of shoemaking


81944
Surname: Bell (Pierce)
First Name: Thomas (John)
Ship: -
Date: 1851 15 February
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: MM
Details: Committed for trial for horse stealing


99934
Surname: Bell (Pierce)
First Name: Thomas (John)
Ship: -
Date: 1850 7 September
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: MM
Details: Indicted for stealing a horse belonging to Charles Berry. Pleaded not guilty. Case postponed. Allowed bail


205088
Surname: Bell alias Pierce
First Name: Thomas alias John
Ship: Born in the colony
Date: 1 July 1850
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details: Thomas Bell alias John Pierce, born at Illawarra. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Muswellbrook on a charge of horse stealing. To be sent for trial. Forwarded to Darlinghurst gaol 13 March 1851


178683
Surname: Berwick (Bewick)
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Bussorah Merchant 1835
Date: 28 October 1837
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 137
Details: Miner from Dunbar. Admitted to Newcastle gaol. Remanded for sentence


27161
Surname: Bewick
First Name: John (Thomas)
Ship: Bengal Merchant 1835......
Date: 1837
Place: Newcastle
Source: GRC
Details: Assigned to Australian Agricultural Company


75977
Surname: Bewick
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1850 17 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Thomas Bewick cautioning against giving credit to his wife Elizabeth


76217
Surname: Bewick
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1850 27 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Notice in newspaper by his wife Elizabeth refuting that she had left him but that he had deserted her and left his employment


84074
Surname: Bewick
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1851 21 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Unclaimed letter held in the post office, Sydney