Source:
Registers of Coroners' Inquests and Magisterial Inquiries (Ancestry)
Details:
Accidentally drowned
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Details:
Ticket of leave holder. Deceased
Source:
AO NSW Principal Superintendent of convicts. Indents. Fiche No. 723
Details:
25 year old groom from Northamptonshire. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for picking pockets. Brother Charles Richards came 7 years previously
Ship:
United Kingdom 1844
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details:
Thomas Richards, farm servant age 19, immigrant on the United Kingdom. Engaged by William Bucknell at Pateson on arrival
Source:
Newcastle Morning Herald
Details:
A gate keeper named Thomas Richards, nearly 70 years of age, was killed at the Hannell street crossing, Wickham by the Maitland passenger train
First Name:
Thomas and Sarah
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Baptisms. p.65
Details:
Moulder. Baptism of daughter Jemima Sarah
First Name:
Thomas and Sarah
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Baptisms p. 54
Details:
Labourer. Baptism of daughter Sarah Matilda Richards
First Name:
Thomas, Harriett, Mary Ann
Source:
NSW Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists (Ancestry)
Details:
Thomas Palmer age 32, farm labourer, native place Cranbrook, Kent, son of John Richards a farm labourer of the same place and Mary Richards his wife. And Harriet Richards wife of Thomas Richards, age 27, native place Cranbrook, daughter of Abraham Wood a carrier of the same place and Mary Prall, his wife. And Mary Ann their daughter who was born on board on 2 March 1838
First Name:
William and Thomas
Details:
Two brothers William and Thomas Richards sentenced to 18 months in Newcastle gaol for abduction of Margaret Sullivan, an unmarried girl of 14, daughter of Catherine Elliott and step daughter of Emanuel Elliott
Source:
Newcastle Morning Herald
Details:
Born at Dowlais, Glamorganshire, South Wales on 17 July 1819. Age age 15 apprenticed to the moulding trade in Dowlais Iron Works where his father was overseer of the Coal and Fuel Works Department. In 1853 he became connected with the Chartist movement. He attended a gathering on Dowlais Mountain and was afterwards dismissed from his work in the iron industry. He was married in Bedwelty in 1840 and afterwards signed with the A.A. Company to join their service at Newcastle NSW and sailed on the Walter Morris arriving on 23 September 1853. He afterwards worked on the Boreholecolliery railway, the Iron Foundry of Archibald Rodgers, the Coal and Copper Company and the Redhead coal Company. In 1868 he joined the Railway Department as a fettler. He died in an accident at the Hannell Street railway crossing at Wickham in 1889
Source:
1841 Census Index
Details:
Ticket of leave cancelled for stealing cattle
Details:
Donated 2/6 to the Irish and Scottish Relief Fund
Details:
Fined 10/- for drunkenness
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Fined 5/- for allowing animals to stray about the streets
Details:
Charged Ellen Lord with failing to teach his daughter the trade of sempstress. Case dismissed
Details:
Tailor residing in West Maitland. Witness in Court when Henry Early was charged with breach of licensing act
Place:
Residence Rose Street, West Maitlnad
Details:
Selling household furniture, mangle, cows etc by auction
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle. Marriages p34
Details:
From Maitland. Witness at the marriage of William Perry and Mary Ann Richardson
