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196491
Surname: Evernden
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 20 September 1839
Place: Bathurst
Source: Sydney Herald
Details: On Sunday last, at Bathurst, Thomas Evernden Esq. J.P. formerly of the Buffs, and many years an active Officer commanding the Mounted Police of this Colony
196490
Surname: Evernden (3rd regt) (Buffs)
First Name: Lieutenant Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1833
Place: Bathurst
Source: History of Bathurst and Surroundings by Grace Hendy-Pooley in The Australian Historical Society and Journal, Read before the Society 28 November 1905
Details: In 1833 the Police Magistrate was Thomas Evernden Esq., late of the 3rd regiment or Buffs. It was Lieut. Evernden who had been appointed to command the troop of cavalry that had been raised and equipped from the 3rd regiment by Col. Stewart, then Lieut-Governor. This troop consisted of picked men from the regiment, and were organised to put down the bushrangers, then so troublesome in the western districts. On the 4th November 1825, the first detachment of this troop consisting of one sergeant and seven privates under Lieut. Evernden, left Sydney for Bathurst. In March 1826, a Government and General Order reported that the mounted police identical with the troop of cavalry formed the previous year, had fallen with a party of bush rangers amounting to seven in number, in the district of Bathurst and Maurice Connell who was reported to be one of the most notorious of the gang was killed on the spot by Corporal Brown
102110
Surname: Evernden (Buffs) (3rd Regiment)
First Name: Lieutenant
Ship: -
Date: 1825 28 October
Place: Sydney
Source: Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser
Details: Commander of the horse patrol recently established in Sydney. Embarking on the vessel Amity for Newcastle with 30 soldier to quell bushranging in the district. Their uniform was the same as the Governor's Body Guard