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Nailer. Free. Died aged 62. Buried in Glebe Cemetery
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William Dark per 'Florentia' assigned servant
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Assigned a convict nailor in February 1834
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Subscription for the family of the late Arnold Fisk
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Signed Petition to the Governor requesting that Maitland prison cells be built on the north side of Wallis Creek
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Abode West Maitland
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Maitland Burial Register p 135
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Andrew Dawson, free, occupation nailor, died aged 62 on 15 April 1839. Buried 17 April 1839
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Maitland Marriage Register p. 153
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Marriage of Andrew Scott, alias Thomas Purdy to Ellen R. (or Eleanor) Dillon on 11 May 1835. Witnesses Andrew Dawson of Maitland and Winifred Jones of Maitland
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Application to marry
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Aged 37. Free. Application to marry Mary Morrison
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Granted Absolute Pardon
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Blacksmith or nailer. Re his assignment to Francis Irvine
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Rude, George F.E. Protest and Punishment: The Story of the Social and Political Protesters Transported to Australia, 1788-1868. p. 196
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James Cleland and Andrew Dawson were the subject of a letter sent to the Colonial Secretary by Captain Irvine of elderslee in April 1822 requesting that they be assigned to him as blacksmiths/ locksmiths/ on 3 grounds - 1. superior skill and the high cost of labour of that kind; 2nd they were in the number of political convicts who were men of industrious habits and fair moral character and it was expected that they would set a good example; 3rd because they wanted to settle with their families away from the city. Dawson had already applied for his wife and family to be sent out. Dawson went to Sydney to work as a blacksmith for a year for William Dumaresq until June 1828 when at Dumaresq's suggestion he went to Newcastle as Principal Overseer of Gangs.
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Application to Marry - refused
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Andrew Dawson per Speke application to marry Janet Morrison per Earl of Liverpool, not allowed the female being already married
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Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 137
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Nailer from Aberdeen. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Debtor
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HOUSE of COMMONS, MARCH. 18. Mr. Wallace, inquired of the Lord Advocate for Scotland if any thing had been done by his Majestys Government on behalf of the eighteen unfortunate men who had been convicted in Scotland in the year 1820, of what was called in those times treasonable practices, whose names were as follow:—John Barr, Wm. Clarkson, James. Clelland, Andrew Dawson, Robert Gray, Alexander Latimer, Thomas McCulloch, Thomas McFarlane, John McMillan, Benjamin Moir, Allan Murchie, Thomas Pike, William Smith, David Thomson, Andrew White, and James Wright. The Lord Advocate was happy to inform the Hon. Member for Greenock, that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to pardon the whole of these men, and instructions to that effect had been sent to New South Wales.
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Tolbooth, Stirling, Scotland
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Trials for High Treason, in Scotland: Under a Special Commission By Charles John Green
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Lord President.—Andrew Hardie, John Baird, James Clelland, Thomas McCulloch, Benjamin Moir, Allan Murchie, Alexander Latimer, Alexander Johnstone, Andrew White, David Thomson, James White, William Clackson or Clarkson, Thomas Pike or Pink, Robert Gray, Alexander Hart, John Barr, William Smith, Thomas McFarlane, John Anderson, William Crawford, John McMillan, and Andrew Dawson,-you present the melancholy spectacle of two-and-twenty subjects of this country who have forfeited their lives to its justice; a spectacle, I believe, unexampled in the history of this country, such, at least, as I never witnessed, and I trust in God never shall witness again. The crime of which you have been convicted is the crime of High Treason, a crime the highest known to the law, and the highest, I may venture to say, which can be known to a reflecting mind; because, in fact, whatever may be the motive which a man has in view who engages in the crime of High Treason, we all must be aware, that the crime, whether ultimately successful or not in its progress— if progress it has-must produce unutterable misery and confusion. It is impossible that Treason can make any progress towards success, without deluging the country in which it takes place in blood and slaughter, in plunder and devastation. All countries, therefore, and all laws, have considered the crime of High Treason as the deepest which any subject can possibly commit. At the same time I am well aware, that, from the delusion which has been practised against you, and from the principles, perhaps, which some of you have imbibed, you may view this in a different light, and that you may consider yourselves, not as the victims of justice, but as martyrs for liberty. Some of you, for any thing I know, may even glory in your suffering; but remember this, that sentence of death is now to be passed on you all,—and remember, that whatever may be your opinion as to the moral guilt of the crime of which you have been convicted, that all of you, at least, are miserable sinners. All of you have vices and sins to answer for at the throne of God, and die when you may, or for whatever cause, those sins must be answered for; and, therefore, whatever may be your opinion of the guilt of this crime of which you have been convicted, remember that you still have the sins which beset human nature to answer for at the throne of God: and I entreat and conjure you all, to look into your own breasts,—to recall the actions of your past lives,—and to pray to God to give you that repentance which leadeth unto life, and for which, alas! the best of us have too much occasion. Remember that repentance alone is not sufficient; remember that you have to appear before a God who is not only possessed of infinite mercy, but of justice; that both must be satisfied by us miserable sinners before we can hope for mercy at his throne; and as we ourselves, alas! have nothing to offer, have nothing to plead in mitigation of punishment from that justice, which must be satisfied as well as his mercy, let me entreat you to have recourse to that Redeemer, who stands as a Mediator between our God and us, through whom alone we can all hope for mercy. It only remains for me now to pronounce against one and all of you the last awful sentence of the law. In regard to you, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, I can hold out little or no hopes of mercy. You were selected for trial as the leaders of that band in which you were associated. You were convicted after a full and fair trial; and it is utterly impossible to suppose, considering the convulsions into which this country was thrown, that the Crown must not feel a necessity of making some terrible examples; and, as you were the leaders, 1 am afraid that example must be given by you. With regard to the rest of you, I hope and trust that mercy may be extended to the most, if not tb all of you; but it is not to this Court that mercy belongs, and we cannot guarantee it. It depends upon the mercy of the Crown alone; a mercy which is never exercised capriciously, and never ought to be exercised capriciously. The ministers of the Crown, standing in the elevated situation which they hold, are bound to take into view the interests of the whole community, and not to extend mercy to individual cases, merely for the sake of mercy, if the interests of the country should in fact demand your punishment, I hope and trust, however, that the contrary may be the case; but let me warn you all, in the mean time, to avail yourselves of the short time that is granted to you to prepare for the worst. The worst may come upon some of you, and I hope and trust you will be prepared for it; and, at all events, you will not live in future the worse men that you have prepared to die. The sentence of the law is,—That you, and each of you, be taken to the place from whence you came, and that you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there be hung by the neck until you are dead, and afterwards your head severed from your body, and your body divided into four quarters, to be disposed of as his Majesty may direct; and may God, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your souls. I have only to intimate now, that a warrant will be signed by the Court for your execution, on Friday, the eighth day of September. [The Prisoners were then taken from the Bar.
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4007]; Microfiche: 646
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Age 38. Native place Stirlingshire. Tried at Stirling 25 August 1820 and sentenced to transportation for life
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UK Prison Hulk Registers. Ancestry
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Andrew Dawson, age 38, one of sixteen men received on to the Bellerophon hulk at Woolwich from Edinburgh on 11 October 1820. Transferred to the convict ship Speke for transportation to NSW on 9 December 1820
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General Muster 1822
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Employed as government overseer at Sydney
