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116523
Surname: Arkinstall
First Name: Abraham
Ship: Bengal Merchant 1836......
Date: 1841 23 February
Place: Wollombi
Source: SG
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave


131697
Surname: Arkinstall
First Name: Abraham
Ship: Bengal Merchant 1836......
Date: 1843 21 January
Place: Wollombi Bench
Source: SMH
Details: Ticket of leave cancelled for breach of agreement


94124
Surname: Arle (Farrell)
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1852 1 September
Place: Dungog
Source: MM
Details: Found not guilty of feloniously entering the dwlling house of Joseph Allen. Immediately apprehended by constables as a runaway convict


28490
Surname: Arlow
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Sir William Bensley 1817
Date: 1820 26 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: Colonial Secretary's Papers. Copies of letters sent within the colony
Details: Labourer tried in Surry 25 October 1815. Tried in Hobart for a colonial crime 7 February 1820 and sentenced to 2 years at Newcastle penal settlement


84690
Surname: Armidale Hospital
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 30 July
Place: Armidale
Source: MM
Details: Meeting to be held at the school house Armidale for the purpose of considering establishing a hospital


47183
Surname: Armington (Hermerding)
First Name: Frederick
Ship: Lady Harewood 1832
Date: 1837
Place: Newcastle
Source: GRC
Details: Assigned to Iron Gang


22569
Surname: Armitage
First Name: Henry
Ship: -
Date: 1846 8 July
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Witness in the trial of John Dick


125647
Surname: Armitage
First Name: Henry
Ship: -
Date: 1844 11 June
Place: From Tamworth
Source: GG
Details: Robbed by a bushranger supposed to be George Crawford alias Wilson at the top of the Crawney Mountain


13186
Surname: Armitage
First Name: J.T.
Ship: -
Date: 1844 26 October
Place: Liverpool Plains
Source: MM
Details: Obtained license to depasture stock beyond the limits of location


83884
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1851 11 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Samuel Clift charged James Armitage under the Masters & Servants Act after Armitage failed to complete sinking a coal shaft. Armitage to return to work


84770
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1851 6 August
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Sentenced to 14 days imprisonment for absconding from work when he failed to complete a contract with Samuel Clift for sinking a coal shaft


97103
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1853 26 January
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Fined 5s or 24 hrs in the cells for drunkenness


112354
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1854 1 March
Place: Four Mile Creek
Source: MM
Details: Witness at the trial of Henry Farmer


186392
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 21 February 1848
Place: West Maitland
Source: West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details: Marriage of James Armitage to Eliza Goodman. Witnesses John and Elizabeth Blackman. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman


4288
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 1842 26 February
Place: Newcastle
Source: HRG
Details: Obtained ticket of leave


12768
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 1844 14 September
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Ticket of Leave cancelled for larceny


47184
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 1837
Place: Newcastle
Source: GRC
Details: Assigned to Australian Agricultural Company


173172
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 1831
Place: -
Source: AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 697
Details: Age 27. Native of Halifax. Married with 2 children. Tried in Leeds 21 October 1830 and sentenced to transportation for 14 years for house breaking. Assigned to the A.A. Company on arrival


180455
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 7 August 1835
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions, Bench Books, 1833-1836 (Ancestry)
Details: James Armitage per Exmouth, John Harrison per Mary assigned to the A.A. Company and Benjamin Anderson per Lady Harewood, all charged with being out after hours....Constable Anthony testified...On Monday night about a quarter before twelve I was on duty at the watch house. I was alarmed by the dogs barking. I saw several men down by the wharf. I went down to see who they were. The three prisoners were part of the people that I saw. I called Anderson to me and desired him to come with me to the watch house. On my going back to see who Armitage was the both ran away. Harris came with me quietly. I sent him home as there was no Magistrate in the town to try the case. William Saunders wards man at the Hospital testified....On Monday night last about half past eight I locked up the prisoner Anderson in his ward . I gave the keys to the night watch man. Thomas Roberts, night watchman at the Upper Hospital testified....About quarter past eight the prisoner Anderson was locked up in his ward by the wardsman. I had the key in my possession all night and the prisoners did not leave to the best of my belief. About daylight on Tuesday morning I let him out of his ward....Anderson discharged for want of evidence. Harris admonished and discharged. Armitage found guilty and sentenced to 25 lashes


205508
Surname: Armitage
First Name: James
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 5 August 1851
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details: James Armitage, miner from Yorkshire. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Sentenced to 14 days hard labour for absenting himself from hired service