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Apprehended after absconding from the service of Col. Dumaresq
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta' for 7 years
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On monthly returns of prisoners punished at Newcastle
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On list of runaways from Port Macquarie forwarded to Newcastle per 'Sally'
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Upholsterer assigned to Col Dumaresq
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Upholsterer from Liverpool. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Invermein. To be detained as an approver
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Age 40. Assigned to the gaol at Newcastle
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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 Government service at Newcastle
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Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
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Upholsterer from Liverpool. Admitted to Newcastle gaol 4 February 1835. An approver. Forwarded to Hyde Park Barracks for disposal
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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John Cooper per Hindostan, in government service, charged with being out of quarters at unreasonable hours and abusing a constable in the execution of his duty. William Turvey a constable states a little after midnight this morning I met Cooper in the street, he was intoxicated. I hailed him to stop, but he refused and gave me much abuse. I however succeeded in conveying to the watch house. The prisoner states - I met with an acquaintance yesterday evening just come to the settlement. He took me to a public house and treated me to some liquor it made me intoxicated. On my way home I lay down in the grass and fell asleep. I did not know how late it was when I awoke. When the constable stopped me I was on my way home. I did not like to be prevented and might have said what he says I did. Turvey has a spite against me and therefore stopped me. John Cooper sentenced to one week solitary confinement
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Cooper (Kershaw)
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Or Kershaw. Absconded from the service of Col. Dumaresq
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Cooper (Kershaw)
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Upholsterer aged 38 from Preston. Pale sallow compl., brown hair, grey eyes. Absconded from Col Dumaresq 16 April. 2nd time absconding
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Cooper (Kershaw)
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Sydney Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 851 Ancestry
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Sent to Sydney gaol by Magistrate Francis Allman. Tried at the Criminal Court 14th July for piratically stealing a vessel. Acquitted
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Cooper (Kershaw)
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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John Wilcoxson, John Cooper alias Kershaw, James Davis and Hymy Franks all assigned to government service, runaways from Newcastle were returned there from Sydney. Sentenced to hard labour in the mines until further orders