Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838...
Details:
Departed Sheerness 30th March, arrived Port Jackson 21st July under Captain Campbell. Bringing 270 male prisoners under the superintendence of Dr. Noott RN., The guard consisted of Lieut. Gates 51st regt.,, Lieut. Dear 21st regt., and 29 rank and file with their wives and families
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
Details:
Obtained ticket of Leave
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
Details:
Ticket of leave granted.
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Raymond Terrace charged with assault, misdemeanor and disobedience of orders. Sentenced to 28 days in the cells and at the expiration 2 months on the treadmill and then return to service (Note - two convicts by this name by this vessel)
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838
Place:
Abode Harpers Hill Stockade
Source:
Maitland Burial Register p. 110
Details:
John Barker, prisoner under sentence of 7 years transportation. Drowned at Anvil Creek. Buried 1 September 1838
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838......
Date:
1838 28 August (Burial date)
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838......
Details:
Ticket of leave granted
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Labourer aged 20 from Norfolk. 5' 5 1/4; dark sallow complexion, brown hair, grey eyes, two scars centre of forehead, scar outside (l) eye, three small dark moles (r) side of neck, scar under right jaw, lost top of thumb middle and little fingers of (r) hand, scar insdie and 3 scars back of same hand, Absconded from the Stockade at Harpur's Hill 30th March
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
Source:
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
Details:
Robert Bird age 17 and Robert Greenwood age 20 sentenced to 15 years transportation for stealing, on the 22nd October at St. Mary Newington, 1 mare, the property of John Campbell
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757
Details:
William Bourke and John Harriss admitted to Newcastle gaol from Scone for being drunk and disorderly and having blank cheques in their possession partly filled up and which they refused to given an account of. Tickets of leave recommended to be cancelled
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books - Discharges
Details:
William Bourke admitted to Newcastle Gaol 23 January 1847. Discharged, sentence expired 5 February 1847
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838......
Details:
Ticket of leave granted
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838
Source:
Government Gazette
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838
Source:
State Archives NSW. Gaol Entrance Books, 1818-1930; Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757. (Ancestry)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Paterson. No offence. Returned to government service
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838
Source:
Ticket of Leave Butts. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12202; Item: [4/4167]
Details:
John Brown, tried Lancaster 23 October 1837. Granted a ticket of leave for Paterson on recommendation of Hyde Park Barracks bench
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X641]; Microfiche: 733
Details:
John Brown age 18. Native place Jamaica. Occupation labourer. Tried at Lancaster Quarter Sessions 6 November 1837. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for house robbery
Surname:
Burham (Burnham)
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838......
Details:
Granted Conditional Pardon. Available everwhere save in UK and Ireland and Quebec
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838......
Details:
Ticket of Leave cancelled for drunkenness and disorderly conduct
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838......
Source:
Convict Indents (Ancestry)
Details:
Age 22. Reads and writes. Soldier and labourer from Buckingham. Tried in Quebec (Lower Canada) for desertion on 18 August 1837 and sentenced to transportation for life. Two prior convictions of 6 weeks each. No wiskers. Tattoos D and a flowerpot under left arm. Ruddy complexion, brown hair, grey eyes. Father William Burnham out a prisoner about 14 years.