Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
Details:
Bricklayer from Dublin. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. To be forwarded to Hyde Park Barracks for identificaton. Stated to have arrived as a free man
Details:
On monthly statement of changes in the convicts at Rooty Hill Station; from Carters Barracks (Reel 6028; 2/8283 p.247)
Source:
Ticket of Leave butts
Details:
Edward Hughes tried City of Dublin 29 October 1822. Sentenced to transportation for life. Granted a Ticket of Leave for Maitland district.. Note - altered to Port Macquarie October 1836. Note - altered to Maitland 8 May 1837
Place:
Newcastle district
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 19
Details:
Assigned servant to James Reid in the district of Newcastle
Source:
Sydney Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 851 Ancestry
Details:
Edward Hughes sent to Sydney gaol from Maitland for hiding and assisting 3 prisoners charged with felony. Sent to a penal settlement for 2 years
Source:
Colonial Secretary Papers. Special bundles
Details:
Ship carpenter. Assigned convict tradesman whose master (E.G. Hazard of George St. Sydney) was a defaulter in payment for
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009]; Microfiche: 650
Details:
Thomas Hughes, aged 27. Native place Kildare. Occupation ship carpenter. Tried at Dublin. Sentenced to transportation for life
Surname:
Johnston (Goodwin)
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 19
Details:
Born c. 1804. Assigned to Joseph Thew in the district of Newcastle
Details:
Labourer. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Sydney under sentence of 12 months hard labour
Surname:
Keegan (Egan) (Eagan)
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Peter Egan per ship Recovery and James Cook per ship Atlas, both stockman in government service, charged with neglect of duty and losing government bullocks...Mr. Dixon, Superintendent states - On Monday night the working bullocks were turned out to graze under the charge of Egan and Cook. Egan has charge of them until midnight when it is Cooks duty to relieve him and bring in the bullocks at daybreak for work. On Tuesday morning it was reported to me that the bullocks were lost. They were not found until yesterday in the afternoon. James Cook states - Egan did not go out with the bullocks on Monday evening. He remained at home all night. About midnight I came into the town for a fire stick and when I returned the bullocks had strayed from the place where I left them. Sentence: Peter Egan 3 months in the gaol gang. James Cook 2 months in the gaol gang
Surname:
Keegan (Egan) (Eagan)
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Peter Egan per ship Recovery and John Coakley both in government service charged with endeavouring to sell a government bed tick and blanket which had been purloined from James Bull assigned servant of Captain John Pike. .....William Cooper states - Yesterday Egan came to me and offered a bed tick for sale; it had the Kings mark on it and I therefore declined the bargain; to the best of my opinion the bed now before the court is that which was offered to me. Chief Constable George Muir states - when the government servants who arrived in the Liverpool Packet on Sunday last landed, I took the numbers of their bedding. The bed tick No. 56 belonged to James Bull who came by the vessel. I was told yesterday by the overseer of the prisoner s barracks, that Coakley had just come down the river bringing a bed with him which he believed to have been stolen. I went and took possession of it. It consisted of a bed No. 56 and a blanket, the corner of the blanket where I suppose the number to have been is cut off. Egan states - I got the bed tick from Coakley and offered it for sale at his request. Coakley states - the late owner of the bed tick and blanket gave them to me up the river in exchange for some tobacco. Sentences: Peter Egan 50 lashes; John Coakley 25 lashes.
Surname:
Keegan (Egan) (Eagan)
First Name:
Peter (Patrick)
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Peter Egan, per Recovery, charged with theft from a fellow prisoner. Nicholas Heally, Acting Overseer of the Prisoners Barracks states - The greater part of the prisoners who arrived last week in the Liverpool Packet were sent up the river yesterday to their respective destinations; one of them before he went away told me he had been robbed in the course of the morning of his bag containing clothes; yesterday about 12 olock I saw Egan going towards the privy with a bag in his hand. I followed him but the place being very dark I did not see anything in his possession after I was inside. I however was certain he had taken a bag there. I therefore directed a Wardsman to keep Guard at the door and not to suffer any person to pass in or out. I went for a constable who returned with me and we went into the Privy accompanied by the wardsman. After some search the wardsman found secreted down different holes a bag and other wearing apparel now produced. The Wardsman at the Barracks states - I was directed by the overseer not to let any person pass into the Privy yesterday whilst he was absent. I obeyed his orders - when he returned with a constable we searched the Privy and found the articles now before the court. Charles Merriott a constable states - I was called on yesterday by the overseer of the prisoners Barracks to search the privy for some stolen articles. I went and found a wardsman keeping the door. We all went in and after a while the wardman with the benefit of a light found the articles before the court. The prisoner in his defence states - I did not take any bag into the privy, it was a shirt which I had borrowed from Davis. Robert Davis states - I lent Egan a shirt to wear yesterday afternoon whilst he washed his own. It was about four oclock I let him have it. Peter Egan sentenced to 50 lashes and hard labour in the gaol gang for six months
Details:
Obtained Ticket of Leave
Surname:
Lanagan (Lanaghan)
Details:
Stockman aged 32. Employed by Jeremiah Warlters
Surname:
Maguire (MacGuire)
Details:
On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle
Surname:
Maguire (MacGuire)
Details:
Runaway from Newcastle. Captured at Brisbane Water
Surname:
Maguire (McGuire)
Details:
Age 24. From Co. Cavan. 5ft 3in. Dark grey eyes, brown hair, pale complexion. Absconded from the road gang at Newcastle
Surname:
Maguire (McGuire)
Source:
State Records NSW. Colonial Secretary Correspondence. Special Bundles, 1794-1825. Series 898
Details:
Assigned to government service. Sentenced by the Commandant to 25 lashes for quitting his gang without leave
Surname:
Maguire (McGuire)
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Richard Kay per Eliza, William Still per Guildford, James McGuire per Recovery and William Courtney per Castle Forbes, all in government service, charged with quitting their gang during working hours without leave. James Gallaghan, the overseer of the road party states...The prisoners quitted their gangs yesterday without eave and came into the town notwithstanding my forbidding them. Sentenced to 25 lashes each
