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Item: 39678
Surname: Edgar
First Name: James
Ship: Mariner 1816
Date: 1823 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle; for refusing to work on Mr. Mudie's farm and for insolence. Punished with 100 lashes

 
Item: 167014
Surname: Edgar
First Name: James
Ship: Mariner 1816
Date: 1816
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents (Ancestry)
Details: Age 15. Tried 29th September 1815 at Glasgow Court of Justiciary and sentenced to 14 years transportation. Servant, native place Glasgow

 
Item: 167015
Surname: Edgar
First Name: James
Ship: Mariner 1816
Date: 1816
Place: -
Source: UK Prison Hulk Registers
Details: Age 19. Tried at Glasgow assizes 30th September and sentenced to 14 years transportation for theft. Admitted to the Justitia Hulk on 13 December 1815 and transferred to the convict ship Mariner for transportation to New South Wales on 6th May 1816

 
Item: 167017
Surname: Edgar
First Name: James
Ship: Mariner 1816
Date: 1824
Place: -
Source: CSI
Details: Shipwright. Assigned convict mechanic whose master was a defaulter in payment for

 
Item: 167018
Surname: Edgar
First Name: James
Ship: Mariner 1816
Date: 1825
Place: Castle Forbes
Source: Colonial Secretarys Correspondence. James Mudie to Magistrate Robert Scott
Details: The bearer James Edgar, one of my bonded men and who has been in my employ snce I first came to this part of the country has conducted himself with so much propriety that I feel very anxious to render him some service for the first few weeks he was with me he was led away by ill advisers, but his conduct for these last two years has fully made up for that, he has been eight years and a half in the country and has about four to serve and I have no doubt if you will sign his peitition I shall be able to obtain him a ticket of leave and I think I can venture to pledge myself he will not discredit your recommendation, and as you are the residence Magistrate in this part of the Colony and Edgar never having been brought before you upon any complaint whatever and as I have every reason to believe him to be honest, sober and industrious, I am inclined to think the Goverment on my explanation will grant him the indulgence asked, and I can assure you I am entirely actuated by his conduct (and I also consider it may be an inducement to others following his example). In parting with this man I lose the best I have got, but I wave that on the man's account.

 
Item: 39677
Surname: Edgar
First Name: James (alias Edward)
Ship: Mariner 1816
Date: 17 August 1818
Place: Newcastle
Source: Colonial Secretarys Correspondence
Details: Carpenter. One of eleven men who piratically carried off two boats. Sentenced to three years in double irons to hard labour at the lime kilns at Newcastle


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