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164343
Surname: Hammersley
First Name: George
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 16 May 1818
Place: Jusititia Hulk
Source: UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
Details: Age 21. Tried at Chester Assizes 31 March 1818 and sentenced to transportation for life for burglary. Sent to the Jusitita Hulk on 16th May 1818 and transferred to the Lord Melville convict ship for transportation to New South Wales on 12 June 1818


69971
Surname: Jones
First Name: John
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1821 24 May
Place: -
Source: CSI
Details: On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Snapper'


170663
Surname: Jones
First Name: John
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1825
Place: Newcastle district
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 19
Details: Ran from a Cedar Party at Newcastle


167032
Surname: Jones (alias James)
First Name: John
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 31 May 1824
Place: Newcastle
Source: Colonial Secretary's Correspondence - Commandant Henry Gillman to Colonial Secretary
Details: John Jones Included in a list of 19 convicts transported to Newcastle who appear unaccounted for in the Returns from that Settlement and not in the last General Muster - Sent to Sydney 17th September 1821


170019
Surname: Miller
First Name: William
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1825
Place: Newcastle
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
Details: Free by servitude. Employed by Mr. Winder at or near Newcastle


71000
Surname: Newman (Cadwallader)
First Name: Susan
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1821
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle


108423
Surname: Tarbitten (Tarburton)
First Name: Samuel
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1820 26 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per Elizabeth Henrietta


108424
Surname: Tarbitten (Tarburton)
First Name: Samuel
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 19 January 1824
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court 1823-24
Details: Samuel Tarburton and William Tinkler charged with suspicion of robbery at George Isons house. Sarah Ison states....Yesterday I accompanied my husband to take a walk about the middle of the day, leaving Tarburton in charge of the house. On my return home I discovered the house had been robbed of several articles of wearing apparel.. Constable William Turvey states...About one oclock yesterday I saw Tinkler in the garden at the back of Isons house. He did not appear to have any bundle with him. As Ison is in the habit of occasionally employing him, I thought he was there with his knowledge. Tinkler denied any knowledge of the robbery. Tarburton admitted having charge of the house but was called away for about ten minutes during which time the robbery must have been committed. Sentenced - Tinkler Barracks. Tarburton 50 lashes and sent to the gaol gang. N.B. Corporal punishment not inflicted


108425
Surname: Tarbitten (Tarburton)
First Name: Samuel
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1824 31 May
Place: Co. Northumberland and Durham
Source: CSI
Details: Assigned servant to Alexander Livingstone


180786
Surname: Tarbitten (Tarburton)
First Name: Samuel
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 30 January 1824
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details: Samuel Tarburton, Michael Duffy, John Lee and Thomas Jones all charged with stealing tobacco from on board the colonial schooner Speedwell....George Ison overseer of the Town Gang states...The prisoners were employed on one of the launches loading the Speedwell with coals. William Hide states - I had charge of the Speedwell yesterday in the absence of the Master - Some tobacco and other goods were on the deck. In the course of the afternoon I missed the tobacco. The prisoners before the court were the only persons from the shore at work in the launch that brought the coal. I did not miss the tobacco till they were gone. I went to the launch in which they had been at work and which was moored off for the night and under the head I found part of the tobacco and also the basket. A large proportion of the tobacco was gone. David Goodsir, seaman on the Speedwell states...I saw the basket of tobacco on deck. There is no one else could have taken the tobacco except the men before the court. The prisoners deny any knowledge of the robbery. Sentence: Samuel Tarburton 50 lashes and sent to Port Macquarie for the remainder of his sentence. Michael Duffy 50 lashes and sent to Port Macquarie for the remainder of his sentence. John Lee sentenced to 50 lashes and Thomas Jones sentenced to 50 lashes


68734
Surname: Vernon
First Name: Joseph
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1820 24 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: Convict Settlement
Details: Punished for rioting and fighting during the hours of labour


148188
Surname: Vernon
First Name: Joseph
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1820 14 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per "Elizabeth Henrietta" (Reel 6007; 4/3502 p.77)


148189
Surname: Vernon
First Name: Joseph
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1822 31 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: Deserted from Newcastle. Request that he be returned to Newcastle when apprehended


148190
Surname: Vernon
First Name: Joseph
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1822 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle; listed as per "Eliza" (Reel 6023; 4/1718 p.145)


167243
Surname: Vernon
First Name: Joseph
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: March 1822
Place: Newcastle
Source: Colonial Secretary's Papers. State Records of NSW Special Bundles
Details: James Goff, Joseph Vernon, George Grover, William Humphries punished with 75 lashes for robbery and taking to the bush on 20th January 1822


170476
Surname: Wilkinson
First Name: Isaac
Ship: Lord Melville 1818
Date: 1825
Place: Newcastle
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
Details: Assigned to government service in the district of Newcastle