Surname:
Cockross (Cobcroft)
Details:
On lists of runaways; from John Browne at Bathurst on 22 Aug (Reel 6015, 4/3515 p.615; Reel 6063, 4/1784 p.307a)
Surname:
Cockross (Cockcroft)
Details:
Granted Conditional Pardon.
Surname:
Cockross (Cockcroft) (Cobcroft)
Details:
On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per Elizabeth Henrietta
Surname:
Cockross (Cockroft)
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4006]; Microfiche: 642
Details:
John Cockross age 25. Native place Manchester. Occupation house painter. Tried at Cape of Good Hope 28 May 1818. Sentenced to transportation for life.
Source:
Convict Settlement
Details:
To Newcastle Settlement per brig 'Lady Nelson'. Sent for two years
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4006]; Microfiche: 642
Details:
Michael Coogan, clerk from Gloucestershire age 22. Tried at Cape of Good Hope 30 November 1818. Sentenced to transportation for life
Surname:
Coogan (Executed)
Details:
EXECUTION.---On the morning that the Pirates who mutinied on their way to Norfolk Island were to have been tried, it will be recollected, that five of them effected their escape from on board the Phoenix Hulk, and for a long while eluded the vigilance of the Police. During this time they pursued a steady course of crime, till at length they fell one by one into the hands of Justice. Webb, the first taken, and first tried, suffered a few weeks since. McGuiness died in the gaol, of the wounds received at his capture; and yesterday morning closed the worldly career of the remaining three, Quinn, Geary, and Lynch. Their conviction must be fresh in the public mind. Michael Coogan was included in the fatal mandate received on Wednesday last. He was, we are informed, by birth an American, of a very respectable family, had had an excellent education, and beneath a mild and un- assuming demeanour, he carried a bold and daring spirit. The crime for which he suffered, appears to have been an old propensity, for we learn, that holding a creditable situation at the Cape of Good Hope, he forged to an extensive amount, and was in consequence banished to an island adjacent, where, with some more, he seized a vessel; but after getting under weigh, went ashore, was taken, and sent to this colony. At Port Macquarie, where he was employed as Clerk to the Commandant, he also committed himself. On his return to Sydney, he was taken into the Master-Attendant s Office, from which he was dismissed on very strong suspicion of being concerned in another forgery upon the Bank of New South Wales. He next figured as one of the leaders in the attempted piratical seizure of The Liberty, about three months ago, and being taken, was committed for trial. In the interval, circumstances occurred which led to a knowledge of the fact, that he was the principle in the forgery on the Bank of Australia; for this he was tried, and on the evidence of accomplices, convicted. Geary and Lynch were attended by the Rev Mr. Power, and Quin by the Rev. Mr. Therry. Coogan was under the spiritual charge of the Rev. Mr. Cowper. At a few minutes before ten, the procession moved from the cells to the place of execution, where they were employed in devotion for a full hour. Coogan kneeled at the head of his coffin; at his own request his arms were unpinioned; he prayed fervently; at length with a quick firm step, he ascended the ladder, and then addressed a few words to the assembled prisoners in an under tone, acknowledging the justness of his sentence. His whole demeanour was very resigned. Geary, during the interval between his devotional exercises, appeared perfectly cheerful; he spoke a few words, confessing his guilt but denying that the suspicion which had been attached to him, of setting fire to Dr. Elyard s premises at Stone Quarry Creek, was correct. Lynch was alike stout-hearted; he read a paper, in which he alluded to the affair on board The Wellington; cautioned his hearers against evil courses; and adverted to the observations made by himself at the bar, when receiving sentence. He concluded by soliciting the prayers of the multitude for himself and comrades, and professing faith in Christ, invoked the mercy of God. Quinn remained composed while the minister was with him, but left to himself, he relapsed into apparent mental agony, evinced by his voice supplicating divine mercy with a fervency almost convulsive; Having divested themselves of their shoes, at eleven o clock the drop fell, and they were launched into eternity. The sufferings of Coogan were greatly protracted by a scanty length of rope, not giving him a sufficient fall. Geary had a fall of about seven feet, and was out of pain in an instant the others also died easy. The relatives of Quin, between whom and himself the parting was affecting, received his corpse for interment, as also did the friends of the other three unfortunate men.
Details:
On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per Governor Ready
Details:
Convict servant of Mr. Webber. To be victualled from the Stores at Newcastle for 6mths
Details:
Aged 31. Labourer assigned to Australian Agricultural Company
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details:
William Durley admitted to Newcastle gaol from Stroud. Suspected of being illegally at large. Sent to Hyde Park Barracks for identification
Surname:
Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name:
William (Alexander)
Ship:
Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Source:
Hobart Town Gazette
Details:
WILLIAM EDWARDS alias LOOKAYE. It appears that his real name is Alex ander Lookaye : that he came out to this Colony a convict for life in the Ship Atlas, and on his arrival here in October 1819, he was sent to Newcastle for twelve months, for having preferred false charges against the Surgeon Superintendent and master of the ship: that he was received from Newcastle with a bad character on the 21st of February 1821 ; and employed at Head Quarters as an overseer of light works, in consequence of having been hurt on the arm whilst at Newcastle ; but during his overseership he abused the confidence reposed in him ; that he was dismissed in consequence, and put to work in a labouring gang: that he was subsequently a government servant to the late Mr. Solicitor Wylde, from whose service he absconded, and was advertised among the runaways of the 8th December, 1821. It would seem that shortly after this period he effected his escape from hence to Batavia, and that he proceeded from thence to the Isle of France, where he contrived to get introduced to the Chief Justice, and to get appointed a notary public, when he heard of the arrival of Mr. Commissioner Bigge at the Cape of Good Hope. It appears that during the time Mr. Bigge was executing his Commission of Inquiry here, Lookaye was one of the persons from whom he derived much of that erroneous information contained in his report ; and that having contracted an itch for political intrigue, he thought the Cape afforded during the stay of the Commissioner, a fit scene for this purpose. He accordingly left the Isle of France, carrying off with him some valuable MSS belonging to the Chief Justice of that Island, and soon, restored himself to the Commissioner's recollection. It is supposed that the marked, countenance which the Commissioner bestowed on him led to an advantageous matrimonial alliance with a Dutch lady of the Cape, with whom it is said he obtained 12,000 dol. The obnoxious line of conduct the Commissioner pursued towards the Governor General, Lord Charles Somerset, and the representations which he is understood to have forwarded to England against this nobleman, are supposed to have been founded principally on information derived from Lookaye; whose career it appears was suddenly cut short by a private libel which he published concerning his Lordship. For this, by the sentence of a Dutch Court, he has been transported to this Colony for seven years; no great hardship on him, considering that he was already, by virtue of the sentence of a British Court, a prisoner for life. This conviction, and the exposures consequent on it, have, it is said, completely disconcerted the Commissio er of Inquiry. He has been obliged to confess that in listening to this man he acted upon evidence unworthy of credit, and to make a complete recantation of his past conduct; and to complete his chagrin, public fetes have been given to the Governor General on the victory thus gained by him over the Commissioner and, his party, by all the respectable Inhabitants of Cape Town. The strangest part of this business, however, is that Mr. Commissioner denies all connection or acquaintance with him previous to his arrival at the Cape; and, that when the Minerva left that place it was not posiively known, though some vague surmises were afloat on the subject that Edwards alias Lookaye had ever been in this colony.
Surname:
Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name:
William (Alexander)
Ship:
Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Date:
26/27 November 1824
Details:
On list of convicts transported to Port Macquarie per "Sally"; listed as Edwards alias Alexander Loo-KayeRe permission for wife to proceed to Port Macquarie
Surname:
Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name:
William (Alexander)
Ship:
Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Details:
At Port Macquarie. Enclosing letter to Mr Bigge (Reel 6063; 4/1785 p.105)
Surname:
Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name:
William (Alexander)
Ship:
Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Source:
Hobart Town Gazette
Details:
A Notary Public, named Edwards, has lately been transported from the Cape of Good Hope to New South Wales, for a Libel on the Governor, Lord Charles Somerset. But as the Sydney Papers which have reached us, do not contain either particulars of the offence or any comments on the criminal, we shall merely add that he arrived by the Minerva at Sydney; and, on afterwards being banished to Port Macquarie, made two ineffectual attempts at self-destruction
Surname:
Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name:
William (Alexander)
Ship:
Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Source:
The Oriental Herald Volume 4
Details:
Poor Edwards, who has been condemned to seven years' transportation, for a proposed libel, without proof by witnesses of any sort, was sent to Robin Island, a place where convicts are usually sent to. The Minerva convict ship touched lately at Simon's Bay, on her way to New South Wales, on which Edwards was brought to Simon's Bay, to be put on board. Shortly after his arrival, he, in despair, cut bis throat; but being interrupted in the act, he did not accomplish his purpose.
Details:
On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
Details:
Convict servant of Mr. MacQueen to be victualled from the Stores at Newcastle for 6mths
Details:
Aged 32. Ticket of leave holder. labourer employed by Jeremiah Warlters
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Wollombi. Illegally at large. Sent to Hyde Park Barracks
