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Item: 42160

Surname: Fox

First Name: Mathew

Ship: Daphne 1819

Date: 1824 July

Place: Newcastle

Source: CSI

Details: On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle

 

Item: 129285

Surname: Fox

First Name: Mathew (Matthew)

Ship: Daphne 1819

Date: 1823 22 August

Place: Newcastle district

Source: Archives Office of NSW. Colonial Secretary: Misc records (4/4570D)pp1-88

Details: On list of assigned convicts who are not mechanics. Assigned to John Earl

 

Item: 181781

Surname: Fox

First Name: Matthew

Ship: -

Date: 10 April 1826

Place: Newcastle

Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)

Details: Matthew Fox, in government service, charged with drunkenness and being out of barracks at unreasonable hours. The Chief Constable states - Last night between the hours of nine and ten I found the prisoner lying in the street. He was drunk. His absence from the evening muster at the barracks had been reported to me and I was searching for him. Sentenced to work in the gaol gang

 

Item: 182006

Surname: Fox

First Name: Matthew

Ship: -

Date: 31 July 1826

Place: Newcastle

Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)

Details: Matthew Fox, in government service, charged with drunkenness and making an improper use of two commissariat bags....Chief Constable George Muir states - Last night a little after nine, I discovered the prisoner lying near Mr. Cheers house in a state of beastly intoxication. I had received previous information from Mr. Cheers that he had good reason to believe that Fox had taken away an axe from his house upon which I sent a constable to search Foxes quarters and there the two commissariat bags were found; they had been removed from the Superintendents paling. Constable Peter Riley states - I was last night directed by the chief constable to search the prisoner s lodgings for an axe which had been taken from Cheers. I found at his lodgings two bags bearing the Kings mark. I brought them away - they are those now before the court. The prisoner states in his defence - I took the bags from the superintendents paling to fetch grass for the government horses which I work at the mine; I admit having been drunk last night and throw myself on the mercy of the court. Matthew Fox sentenced to 50 lashes

 

Item: 42157

Surname: Fox

First Name: Matthew

Ship: Daphne 1819

Date: 1823 28 October

Place: Newcastle

Source: CSI

Details: Convict servant of John Earl. To be victualled from the stores at Newcastle for 6mths

 

Item: 42159

Surname: Fox

First Name: Matthew

Ship: Daphne 1819

Date: July 1824

Place: Newcastle

Source: State Records NSW. Colonial Secretary's Correpondence. Special Bundles, 1794-1825. Series 898

Details: Assigned to Alexander McLeod. Sentenced by E.C. Close to 50 lashes for absenting himself from his master's farm

 

Item: 182226

Surname: Fox

First Name: Matthew

Ship: Daphne 1819

Date: 6 November 1826

Place: Newcastle

Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)

Details: Matthew Fox, per ship Daphne, in government service, charged with drunkenness and absenting himself from his duty. Mr. James Crofts, keeper of H.M. Gaol, states - On Saturday evening the prisoner who is one of the water carriers at the gaol was absent. I went in search of him and found him drinking at Cheers House; I reported it to the Chief Constable, requesting him to put Fox in the watch house. The prisoner did not return to the gaol before yesterday and his face was then much cut and bleeding. The prisoner makes no defence. Sentenced to 50 lashes

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