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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Samuel Bryant assigned servant to Mr. John Smith, for absenting himself from his masters premises without leave and neglect of work...John Smith states....The prisoner is constantly in the habit of absenting himself from his work and also neglecting it despite repeated remonstrances on my part. He is also frequently intoxicated and last week refused to do any work whatever. The prisoner in his defence states that it is impossible to give satisfaction to Mr. Smith and woud be glad to transfer to government service. Sentenced to hard labour in the mines for one month and to be returned to his masters service
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Samuel Bryan, Richard Bevan, William Perry and John Cruise all charged with disorderly conduct and drunkenness on the evening of the 6th instant. William Turvey, constable stated.... I saw the prisoners on Saturday afternoon in the street, they were drunk and fighting with palings, throwing brick bats at each other. John Large states....I took Bryant in charge, he threatened to strike me....Samuel Bryant sentenced to hard labour for 4 weeks this being his 3rd offence; Richard Bevan sentenced to hard labour for 2 weeks; William Perry sentenced to hard labour for 3 weeks being his 2nd offence, John Cruise sentenced to hard labour for one week
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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Samuel Bryant in the service of government charged with drunkenness and riotous behaviour. Chief Constable James Calver stated - On Saturday last I was informed that Bryant was behaving in a very riotous manner at a public house. I went there and found him drunk and quarrelsome. I took him to the watch house and afterwards in consequence of his continuing trouble, I directed a constable to convey him to jail. On Bryants way to the jail he was permitted to call at a house in Macquarie St. to get as he said his blanket, but when desired to leave the house he refused, in my attempting to compel him, he seized a knife and made a cut at me, but a constable present struck him with his staff and I knocked the knife from his hand. He was very abusive to me as also to the constables who came to my assistance but in the end we secured him and lodged him in jail. Sentence - In consequence of frequent complaints against the prisoner for drunkenness and outrageous conduct, he is ordered to be worked in the gaol gang and to be sent to Port Macquarie
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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Samuel Hart, in the service of government, charged with robbing a fellow prisoner...James Croft, keeper of Newcastle gaol states.....I was informed by Samuel Bryant (one of the gaol gang) that a pair of trousers had been stolen from him in consequence of which I was on the alert to discover the thief. Last night as I was looking through the bars of the window of the strong room where the greater part of the gaol gang are confined, I saw Hart altering a pair of trousers; I suspected they belonged to Bryant and on searching for them this morning I found the trousers in the possession of Harts companion; Hart admitted that he had stolen the trousers and given them to his companion to take care of who did not know that they were stolen. Samuel Hart sentenced to 50 lashes
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Samuel Bryant per ship Fortune, in the service of Francis Blower Gibbes, charged with improper and insolent language to F.B. Gibbes and for highly improper gestures before the court. The proceedings in this case are entered at large in the deposition book folio under date of the 18th August 1826. Samuel Bryant sentenced to 50 lashes for the 1st offence and 50 lashes for the 2nd offence
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW. Microfiche 634. (Ancestry)
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Age 31. Tried at Gloucester Assizes 28 March 1812 and sentenced to transportation for life. Occupation shoemaker. 6ft 1in, fair complexion, dark hair.
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Retribution Hulk, Woolwich
Source:
UK Prison Hulk Registers (Ancestry)
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Samuel Bryant age 36 tried at Gloucester 28 March 1812, admitted to the Retribution hulk 18 June 1812. Sent to the convict ship Fortune on9th October 1812 for transportation to New South Wales
Source:
The Cheltenham Chronicle and gloucestershire Advertiser
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Samuel Bryant, aged 30, committed by the Right Hon. Charles Bathurst, charged upon the oath of Thomas Sauunders of Jackaments Bottom, in the parish of Cotes, with stopping him on the highway in the parish of Rodmarton and robbing him in the sum of 10s in October last. Sentence of Death
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Permission to marry
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List of persons praying His Excellencys permission to have their names published in the church in order to their being married - Sydney 4 May 1818......Samuel Bryant, per ship Fortune, permission to marry Jane Long (free)
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Samuel Bryant age 48 arrived per Fortune in 1813, occupation labourer at Clarendon, Windsor
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Samuel Bryant in government service, charged with drunkenness and general disorderly conduct. Mr. George Muir, Chief Constable, states - This morning I met the prisoner in the street drunk and had him taken into custody. He is in the constant habit of getting drunk whenever the means are in his power. Ordered to be sent to Sydney as an incorrigible vagabond, to be disposed of as His Excellency the Governor may please to direct.
Source:
Colonial Secretarys Correspondence. Fiche 3230; 4/1869 p.13
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Petition of Samuel Brian (Bryant).....Petitioner is a Hacannack tanner and currier and arrived in this colony by the ship Fortune, Walker Master. Petitioner is a prisoner under sentence of transportation for the term of natural life and eleven years has nearly elapsed since that awful sentence was pronounces against petitioner; and since his arrival in this colony has been in government employment. Petitioner had the misfortune to be sent to this settlement for three years which sentence is nearly expired. But as it has been the first crime or misdemeanour petitioner has never been charged with since his arrival in this colony, petitioner is therefore emboldened most humbly to throw himself on your Excellencies humanity for the indulgence of a ticket of leave as petitioner can procure a comfortable living by honest industry in this settlement or which any other indulgence your excellency is please to grant.
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On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle per Lady Nelson
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On monthly returns of prisoners punished at Newcastle
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To be transported to Newcastle for 14 years
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Employed on cedar party at Port Stephens
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
Surname:
Collings (Collins)
Details:
Absconded from Newcastle
Surname:
Collings (Collins)
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Absconded from Newcastle settlement
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Aged 41. Free by servitude. Painter & Glazier
