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Allowed to pass from Windsor to Wallis Plains
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Reprimanded for being out after hours (Sydney)
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Miner at Newcastle
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Daniel Leary found guilty of robbing Benjamin and intent to commit a rape on his wife Mary Grainger
Source:
Convict Settlement
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Overseer, miners at Newcastle settlement
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Assigned servant George Stone per 'Fortune' permissed to pass from Windsor to Wallis Plains the cattle
Source:
The Evidence Before Commissioner J.T. Bigge
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EVIDENCE OF BENJAMIN GRAINGER,SUPERINTENDENT OF COAL MINES 23 JANUARY, 1820. 1. How long have you been employed in superintending the coal mine at Hunter's River? Seven years and upwards. 2. Did you acquire your knowledge of mining in England? I did, in Staffordshire. 3. Did you sink the colliery at Hunter's River? 1 did about two years and a half ago, 4. Where did you get coals before and how? Down by the sea shore at the bottom of the cliff, by a drift made at the level of the shore, where the seam of coal appeared at the day, [i.e., when the coal seam was exposed].^ 5. Is it the same seam that you are now working? It is. 6. What is the depth of the seam? Three foot and an inch, [hence the name. Yard Seam]. 7. What is the depth of the present shaft? Thirty seven yards. 8. Is there much water in it? There is, but we make a dam for it. and bucket the water into the drift [mine workings] by which it is,carried to the sea. 139 9. Is it the same seam of coal that appears on the coast? It is. 10. Which way does it dip? Southwest from the coast and about half a mile to the southward it appears at its old level. 11. Which way are you now working the seam? About west in the direction of the church. 12. Do you prop up the roof as you proceed? we do at certain distances. 13. What quantity of coal do you raise in a day? We raise twenty tons when all hands, viz., 27 men, A 3 are employed. 14. How much is each hewer required to do? Each hewer gets two ton and a half. 15. Can they finish their task before evening? They can by working hard finish it at noon and formerly they used to go home after that but for the last three or four months they remain at the pit's mouth with nothing to do. 16. Why are they not allowed to go home after they have finished their work? For fear of plundering the houses of those who are at work. 17. The miners are allowed an extra ration? Eight of them are who are hewers [i.e., those who 140 remove the coal from the seam]. 18. Do you think that their healths suffer by coal mining? I think they do on account of the wet and remaining in their wet clothes after they come up from the pit. They suffer also from want of a change of clothes. 19. How far have you worked from the bottom of the pit? About a hundred yards in a south west direction.
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Newcastle district
Source:
Newcastle (Hunter River) Population Book, 1824 - Ancestry
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Residing with his wife, employed as a labourer by Mary Hunt
Surname:
Grainger (Granger)
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Burial 1827 October
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle . Burials p.4
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Age 43: Occupation: Victualler
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Grainger (Granger)
First Name:
Benjamin & Mary
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
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Victualler of Wallis Plains. Witnesses at the marriage of Thomas Prentice and Martha O Donnell
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Granger (Grainger)
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Miner. Paid 5 pounds from Police Fund
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Granger (Grainger)
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Branxton, Anvil Creek
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Granted 50 acres land by Gov. Brisbane 21 April 1825. Allegedly sold to Thomas Hunt who sold to Hughes & Hosking. Wife Mary applied to Gov. Darling in 1828 for the land
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Granger (Grainger)
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Paid 20 pounds from the Police Fund for his work as a miner at Newcastle
Surname:
Granger (Grainger)
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle
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Witness at marriage of Thomas Prentice and MarthaO'Donnell
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Granger (Grainger)
Place:
Church of England, Newcastle
Source:
Church of England Marriage Register Book 1818 - 1825. University of Newcastle
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No. 24. Marriage of Benjamin Granger to Mary Arthursway, both of Newcastle. Witness Thomas Acton. Minister Rev. G.A. Middleton
Surname:
Granger (Grainger)
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Sent to Newcastle to assist in opening of new mine. Overseer
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Granger (Grainger)
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Resigned due to ill health
Surname:
Granger (Grainger)
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Sent to Newcastle to assist in opening of new mines
Surname:
Granger (Grainger)
Source:
Convict Indent. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632. Ancestry
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Benjamin Granger tried at Stafford 27 July 1807 and sentenced to transportation for life
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Granger (Grainger)
Source:
UK Prison Hulk Registers. Ancestry
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Benjamin Granger age 22 tried at Stafford 27 July 1807 and found guilty of horse stealing and sentenced to transportation for life. Admitted to the Captivity Hulk from Stafford 12 September 1808 and transferred to the convict ship Anne on 16 August 1809