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The Convict Ships - Charles Bateson
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Master John Thompson; 139 male convicts
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Arrival of the Boyd on 14 August. Captain Thompson. 132 male prisoners having lost 5 on the passage out. The Boyd left Cove of Cork 10th March and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope 24th May and samed from there 11th June. Passengers Captain Cameron, Lieutenants Pike and Wright of the 73rd regt., and 30 non commissioned officers and privates
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Sally'
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per 'Estramina'
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
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General Muster of New South Wales 1823, 1824, 1825
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Convict under sentence of transportation for life. Assigned to Benjamin Singleton
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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James Goff per Batavia and John Cruise alias Crooks per Boyd charged with being out of quarters at unreasonable hours...James Calvert, Chief Constable states...In the course of my duty on Sunday night, I visited the houses of most of the prisoners having information of a robbery and suspecting some of them were concerned in it. At Elizabeth Findlays I found James Goff and at Margaret Roach s I found John Cruise. They were both (the men) absent from their own lodges. Goff and Cruise were ordered to return to Barracks
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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John Crooks in the service of Government charged with being out of barracks at unseasonable hours. The chief constables states - Cruise was reported to me last night for being absent from the muster. I caused a search to be made for himself and he was found lying asleep on the ground drunk. The man is a very disorderly character. Sentenced to the jail gang until further notice.
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle
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Absconded from Newcastle. In custody
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Sentence of death after pleading guilty to burglary and robbery in the house of George Gambling
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Absconded from Newcastle
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Reward offered for his apprehension
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Apprehended in a house in York St. Sydney
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Bushranger. Executed for robbery and rape
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In his trial for the murder of William Alder at Hawkesbury Donovan said that a 'compass had guided him from the Coal River'
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per 'Estramina'
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Simeon Lord of Sydney permitted to employ for the procurement of timber
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per 'Estramina'