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Surname: Abbott
First Name: Robert
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1841 11 June
Place: Merton
Source: GG
Details: Apprehended after absconding from J. Bettington
138965
Surname: Abbott
First Name: Robert
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1837
Place: Merton
Source: GRC
Details: Age 25. Assigned to James Brindley Bettington
193762
Surname: Abbott
First Name: Robert
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: May 1829
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4014]; Microfiche: 672
Details: Robert Abbott age 18. Labourer from Suffolk. Tried at Bury 21 March 1828. Sentenced to transportation for life for house breaking. Assigned to J.B. Bettington in Sydney on arrival. Note - died in Parramatta Hospital as reported by his master Mr. Bettington in correspondence dated 1 November 1841
183121
Surname: Archer
First Name: James
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 2 January 1835
Place: Namoi River
Source: The Australian
Details: Correspondence from Sir John Jamieson regarding his assigned servants James Archer and George Biddles who shot two bushrangers John McDonald and Joseph Lynch at his cattle station on the Namoi. Patrick Tye a ticket of leave holder and stockkeeper to Edward Cox favourably mentioned as having apprehended twenty eight bushrangers and also William Thomas per ship Asia 10, assigned servant who assisted in taking the bushrangers......Notwithstanding the local knowledge of McDonald and his gang enabled them to escape the vigilance of the mounted police for a few months, still their existence appears to have been that of wretchedness and fearful alarm for their safety. McDonald and Lynch were absent from my station eight weeks and three days and from their expectation that the mounted police would closely follow their track, their progress down the river must have been rapid and the distance they penetrated into the interior very considerable. They described with terror to William Thomas the great number, gigantic stature (seven ft in height) and ferocity of the native blacks who they said threw the spear from the hand by its centre and at first from such a distance as to penetrate but little deeper than the skin of their horses, but that afterwards they became so bold as to seize and pull round their horses by the tails and added that the weather was so wet during the attack that their fire arms would not go off; for their protection from the above statement and the anxiety with which McDonald and Lynch enquired of William Thomas if he had seen any of their horses return that way especially a grey mare of Crawford s, it may reasonably be inferred that the report is true which Nutty the Namoi chief received from the native blacks viz, that one of the gang of white robbers had been shot by their own party and two tumbled down (killed) by the natives which would account for the destruction of the whole of McDonalds party which never exceeded five.....George Biddles aged 32 per ship Asia (10) under sentence of transportation for 14 years, a native of Leicester and formerly a marine in his Majesty s naval service gave an account.....I landed in the colony on 26 June 1833 and was assigned to the service of Sir John Jamison in March last; I proceeded to Capita, to his new stock run on the Namoi River. Joe Lynch was described by George Biddles as a tall thin man about six feet high, fair hair, and an effeminate voice and apparently about five of six and twenty years of age; he wore a pair of black trousers, buttoned up the front, a fancy coloured shirt, a fustian shooting jacket and a muslin cravat, a pair of half boots, and a straw hat; the shirt and trousers he boasted of having taken from Mr. Robertson. They all called McDonald by name and acknowledged him as their chief; McDonald was about five feet seven inches in height, dark complexion, black hair and whiskers, a scar on his nose and slightly pock marked, stout made, and about six and forty years of age; wore at this time a blue jacket, blue waistcoat, duck trousers, a pair of laced half boots, cut in several places, and a straw hat. Crawford the other bushranger wore a fustian shooting jacket and trousers, half boots, and a straw hat, five feet nine inches in height, of swarthy complexion, stout made, and stooped much with his head forward; about 30 years of age. The fourth bushranger was described as a good looking dark haired man, who stated himself to be a Welshman; he was about five feet eight inches high, wore a fustian jacket, dark waistcoat, slop blue trousers, half boots, an a straw hat; he appeared to be four or five and twenty years of age and seemed to be a quiet backward man, not well satisfied with his situation. The fifth was a short man, five ft five inches.....I (George Biddles) had some conversation with John McDonald during the night; he related the sundry robberies he had committed and boasted the most of all in having wounded a police man who had charge of one of his party whom they captured; he told me he came to this Colony in the same ship as myself the first time she came; he further stated, that he had held the indulgence of a ticket of leave and lost it; I recommended him to give himself up to the law, he said no, I know my doom if taken. I will therefore endeavour to get out of the country which I shall try to do in following the river. He added that the police could not be more than a day or two behind and desired me to tell Sergeant Temple that McDonald and his mob had gone down the river and that they would leave track enough for them. James Archer addressed himself during the night to Lynch and said what a pity it is that a set of fine young fellow like you should be running yourselves to the gallows in this way; McDonald looked at him and replied, gallows is it? the gallows will never catch Mac, when I die, I die by a ball; Lynch then added the rope will never be made that will hang Joe; the following morning they all breakfasted by daylight, having previously sewed up in bags upwards of 3cwt of flour; they examined the five unloaded muskets and returned them to us also a pistol which was out of repair. From their hatred to Patrick Tye, they were going to shoot his stock horse; I begged of them not to shoot the horse in consequence of which they left him with us; but stated that if they had found Patrick Tye at home when they went to his station they would have punished him with 50 lashes each man and then have shot him; they acknowledged they had taken all his arms, clothing and ammunition, destroyed his provisions and turned their horses in to eat his wheat; their hatred and vengeance against Patrick Tye was from his constant pursuit and capture of bushrangers in that quarter; after leaving the hut they went in quest of a mare in charge of a free man named Farley, who was fencing down the river in the employment of Sir John Jamieson; Taylor or Archer made the near cut to where Farley was at work and informed him that the bushrangers were coming. Farley instantly mounted the mare, and attempted to swim the river but the stream swept him off the mare and he was unfortunately drowned. Towards the end of October George West, per ship Claudine an assigned servant to Sir John Jamison that the bushrangers had taken cattle away from attempted to swim the river on his stock horse but the stream running so high he was swept off the horse and drowned; his body was found next day by the black natives. Lieut. Steel the commanding officer of the mounted police, stated that no harm would come to men who shot McDonald or any of his party. James Arched was aged 27 and under sentence of transportation for 14 years; a native of Bishops Storford, Essex and an assigned servant of Sir John Jamison since his arrival in the Colony 1829
193763
Surname: Archer
First Name: James
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: May 1829
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4014]; Microfiche: 672
Details: James Archer age 25. Ploughman and milks. Native place Essex. Tried at Essex Assizes 10 March 1828. Sentenced to 14 years transportation for sheep stealing. Assigned to Sir John Jamieson on arrival
42944
Surname: Ashley
First Name: John
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1838 20 March
Place: Merton
Source: SG
Details: Obtained Ticket of Leave
193765
Surname: Ashley
First Name: John
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: May 1829
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4014]; Microfiche: 672
Details: John Ashley age 22. Ploughs and milks. Native place Norfolk. Tried at Thetford 15 March 1828. Sentenced to transportation for life for picking pockets. Assigned to J.B. Bettington in Sydney on arrival
76632
Surname: Askham
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: Buried 1845 4 November
Place: Merton
Source: CDR
Details: Ticket of leave holder. Burial of; remarks - Hospital Liverpool Plains
117801
Surname: Askham
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1839 12 June
Place: Merton
Source: GG 1839
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave
131057
Surname: Askham
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1837 21 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: GG
Details: Laborer age 43 from Northamptonshire. 5 ft 4 in., Dark sallow compl., brown hair, light brown eyes, large scars on back of left hand, long sharp nose. Absconded from the Hospital at Newcastle 10 June
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Surname: Askham
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1829
Place: -
Source: Convict Indent (Ancestry)
Details: Age 35. Native of Northamptonshire, labourer. Tried for house robbery on 3 March 1828 and sentenced to transportation for life. Unmarried. Dark sallow complexion, long sharp nose. Assigned to J.B. Bettington at Sydney on arrival. Died at the hospital at Tamworth 13 November 1845
193764
Surname: Askham
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: May 1829
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4014]; Microfiche: 672
Details: Thomas Askham age 35. Labourer from Northamptonshire.. Tried 3 March 1828. Sentenced to transportation for life for house robbery. Assigned to J.B. Bettington in Sydney on arrival
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Surname: Askham (Ascham)
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1837
Place: Merton
Source: GRC
Details: Assigned to J.B. Bettington
34888
Surname: Atkins
First Name: William
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1836 March
Place: Merton
Source: SG
Details: Obtained Ticket of Leave
76625
Surname: Atkins
First Name: William
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1836 16 August
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: CDR
Details: Burial of. Remarks - Run over by a dray
193766
Surname: Atkins
First Name: William
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: May 1829
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4014]; Microfiche: 672
Details: William Atkins age 36. Ploughman, shepherd, native place Warwick. Tried at Northampton 1 March 1828. Sentenced to 14 years transportation for stealing an umbrella. Assigned to J.B. Bettington in Sydney on arrival
208719
Surname: Beavis (Bevars)
First Name: William
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 29 December 1860
Place: Maitland gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details: William Beavis, shoemaker from Leeds. Admitted to Maitland gaol from East Maitland. For trial at the Quarter Sessions
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Surname: Bowers
First Name: Richard
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 13 May 1840
Place: Maitland
Source: Application to Marry
Details: Richard Bowers aged 41 arrived per Lord Melville, application to marry Bridget Hayes aged 20 arrived free per 'Mary'
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Surname: Bowers
First Name: Richard
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 22 April 1841
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Gaol Entrance Books. State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2009; Roll: 757 (Ancestry
Details: Ticket of leave holder. Admitted to Newcastle gaol as a debtor.
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Surname: Brown
First Name: James
Ship: Lord Melville 1829
Date: 1829 May
Place: Port Jackson
Source: AO NSW Convict Indents Fiche No. 672
Details: Age 26. Shoemaker's apprentice from Bucks. Tried in Essex and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing tools. Assigned to John Verge at Hunter River on arrival in the colony