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104212
Surname: -
First Name: -
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1825 17 November
Place: Sydney
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: Shipping - arrival - On Tuesday arrived from London, the ship Brothers, Captain Mitely (or Mosley), having left London 10th June, Cowes the 20th and Rio de Janeiro 5th September. Passengers, Mr. Dawson and Mr. Armstrong, and 38 mn, women and children, all belonging to the London Australian Agricultural Company. She brings 375 sheep, 2 horses, 5 mares, and 4 cows


27448
Surname: Adams
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1831 5 March
Place: Stroud
Source: Early Days of Port Stephens
Details: Sir Edward returned to Port Stephens on March 5th, with Capt. Moffatt....To his expressed delight he found everything had been quiet and orderly since his departure, although old John Adams, the horse shoer, had been drowned crossing a flooded creek near Stroud and a prisoner named Booth was killed by a falling tree. John Adams death was particularly awful as he was perhaps intoxicated at the time


30311
Surname: Adams
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1829
Place: Carrington
Source: Pure Merinos and Others
Details: Blacksmith employed by Australian Agricultural Company


78389
Surname: Adams
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1826 26 August
Place: -
Source: Australian p2
Details: A man, named John Adams, has been committed to Newcastle Gaol; where he now remains under a sentence of three months endurance, for a breach of contract to the A.A. Company. Mr. Dawson is the committing Magistrate


78435
Surname: Adams
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1827 24 March
Place: Port Stephens
Source: SG
Details: Indented servant of the A.A. Company. Court Case Adams v. Dawson was an action of trespass and false imprisonment brought by John Adams who had been confined in a black hole 8' long x 5 ' wide for the night at Port Stephens before being taken the following day to gaol in Newcastle for 3mths


114783
Surname: Adams
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1831 5 February
Place: Carrington
Source: In the Service of the Company: letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural company: volume 1, December 1829 - June 1832. Letter No 332
Details: Request to retire from employment with the A.A. Company confirmed by Sir Edward Parry.. To quit the Companys Estate 5th March


5982
Surname: Adams
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825 (?)
Date: 1826 June
Place: Port Stephens
Source: Adams v Dawson - SC
Details: Blacksmith. Indented servant of Aust. Agricultural Company and placed under direction of Robert Dawson as agent


5983
Surname: Adams
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825 (?)
Date: 1826 June
Place: Port Stephens
Source: Adams v. Dawson - SC
Details: Sent to gaol for 3 mths at Newcastle for refusing orders by Dawson's nephew, John Grimsey Dawson


5984
Surname: Adams
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825 (?)
Date: 1826 June
Place: Port Stephens
Source: Adams v. Dawson - SC
Details: Sued Robert Dawson for false imprisonment and was awarded 50 pounds


168189
Surname: Adams
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825 (?)
Date: 23 September 1826
Place: Port Stephens
Source: The Australian
Details: John Adams, a free mechanic, articled to the Australian Agricultural Company, was charged, on Thursday, by Mr. Dawson, the manager, with refusing to perform certain work alloted him though not exceeding the terms of his agreement, and also with misbehaviour. The man was sentenced, under the Act of Geo. 4, ch. 96, to be imprisoned in the gaol, as the house of correction, for fifteen days.


166224
Surname: Adams
First Name: John and Mary
Ship: Brothers 1825 (?)
Date: 29 January 1831
Place: Port Stephens
Source: Sydney Monitor
Details: Notice - John Adams of Port Stephens cautioning against harbouring his wife Mary Adams or giving her credit on his account as she had left her family four years previously


202151
Surname: Adams
First Name: John, William, Hannah, Sophia
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1828
Place: Port Stephens
Source: 1828 Census
Details: John aged 53, William, aged 14, Hannah aged 11 and Sophia aged 9, all arrived free on the Brothers in 1825. Employed as servants to the A. A. Company at Port Stephens


30521
Surname: Armstrong (surveyor)
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Pure Merinos and Others
Details: Employed by Australian Agricultural Company as surveyor


168159
Surname: Armstrong (Surveyor)
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1830
Place: Newcastle
Source: University of Newcastle, Living Histories
Details: John Armstrong s map of Newcastle. Plan of the Town of Newcastle New South Wales shewing present actual state with part of the adjoining Country, and the coal works of The Australian Agricultural Company from a Careful Survey in 1830 by Jno. Armstrong. (Courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, N.Z.)


168152
Surname: Armstrong (surveyor)
First Name: John, Elizabeth, William
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1828 (November)
Place: Port Stephens
Source: 1828 Census
Details: John age 33, Superintendent A.A. Company, Elizabeth age 22 (born in the colony), William age 1 1/2 and baby 3 months resident at Port Stephens


30525
Surname: Blackford
First Name: Henry
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Pure Merinos and Others
Details: Butcher. Employed by Australian Agricultural Company


30523
Surname: Dawson
First Name: John Grimsey
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Pure Merinos and Others
Details: Employed as overseer by Australian Agricultural Company


30527
Surname: King
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Pure Merinos and Others
Details: Ploughman. Employed by Austrlian Agricultural Company


60625
Surname: King
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: 1828
Place: Port Stephens
Source: 1828 Census
Details: Came Free. Aged 29 in 1828. Servant employed by A.A. Co


30531
Surname: Simmonds (Simmons)
First Name: John
Ship: Brothers 1825
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Pure Merinos and Others
Details: Groom. Employed by the Australian Agricultural Company