First Name:
Henry or James
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 19
Details:
Assigned to Joseph Thew in the district of Newcastle
Details:
Sentenced to transportation for life for robbing a dwelling (shepherd's hut) belonging to R.B. Dawson
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Free by servitude. Died aged 35. Buried at Glebe Cemetery
Source:
Newcastle Chronicle
Details:
Insolvency proceedings
Source:
Newcastle Chronicle
Details:
Insolvent estate of James Lewis of Wallsend, special meeting held at East Maitland
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835.....
Details:
Assigned to James Bowman. Aged 22
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835.....
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland charged with being illegally at large. Sentenced to 14 days in the cells and return to govt. service
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835.......
Details:
Groom age 23 from Pembrokeshire. 5ft 4 in, fair ruddy complexion, brown hair, chestnut eyes, cast inward in left eye, eyebrows partially meeting, scar right cheek, mole right side of neck, Absconded from J. Bowman 30th October 1837
Source:
State Records NSW. Colonial Secretary's Correpondence. Special Bundles, 1794-1825. Series 898
Details:
Assigned to Duncan Sinclair. Sentenced by the Pattersons Plains Bench to 100 lashes for mutinous conduct and inciting his fellow prisoners to misbehaviour
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Assigned to Duncan Sinclair. Sentenced to 2 years at Port Macquarie for theft
Ship:
Marquis of Huntley 1826
Details:
Labourer aged 23. Assigned to Australian Agricultural Company
Ship:
Marquis of Huntley 1826
Ship:
Marquis of Huntley 1826
Source:
Application to Marry
Details:
James Lewis age 35 arrived per 'Marquis of Huntley', application to marry Catherine McLaren age 24 (free)
Ship:
Marquis of Huntley 1826
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4011]; Microfiche: 661
Details:
James Lewis age 21. Poulterer from London. Tried London 7 April 1825. Sentenced to transportation for life for robbery. Assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company on arrival
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Unclaimed letter held General Post Office, Sydney