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27957
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: John
Ship: Ocean 1818
Date: 1821 16 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On list of prisoners forwarded to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'


89673
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: Levi
Ship: Marquis of Hastings 1826
Date: 1852 24 April
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Granted conditional Pardon


175149
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: Levi
Ship: Marquis of Hastings 1826
Date: 1826
Place: -
Source: State Archives NSW. Convict Indents. microfiche 657
Details: Jewellers Clerk from London age 26. Sentenced to transportation for life. Assigned to the Principal Superintendent of Convicts on arrival. Sent to Norfolk Island for 7 years in 1834


175150
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: Levi
Ship: Marquis of Hastings 1826
Date: 8th March 1825
Place: -
Source: UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books 1802 - 1849
Details: Tried 2 December 1824 and sentenced to transportation for life for burglary. Admitted to the York Hulk on 8th March 1825. Transferred to the Marquis of Hastings on 15 August 1825


178786
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: Mary
Ship: Minstrel 1812
Date: 22 March 1822
Place: Sydney
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: Criminal Court - Mary Abrahams convicted of larceny, sentenced to 3 years transporation


178787
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: Mary
Ship: Minstrel 1812
Date: 20 March 1822
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: Three women were transferred from Sydney to Newcastle on the Elizabeth Henrietta under sentence of transportation on 20 March 1822 - Mary Abrahams Hannah Chappel and Sarah Porter


150137
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: Reginald
Ship: -
Date: 1904 11 July
Place: Old Church of England Cemetery, Sandgate, Newcastle
Source: Cemetery inscriptions in Sydney Branch Genealogical Library 1800 - 1960 at Family Search
Details: Died aged 4 years


131639
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Guildford 1827
Date: 1827
Place: -
Source: AO NSW Convict Indents Fiche No. 664
Details: Butcher age 23 from Southworth. Tried in London 22nd June for Highway robbery and sentenced to Transportation for Life. On arrival assigned to Lieut. Sadler, RN at Hunter River


150136
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 1912 28 June
Place: Old Church of England Cemetery, Sandgate, Newcastle
Source: Cemetery inscriptions in Sydney Branch Genealogical Library 1800 - 1960 at Family Search
Details: Died aged 84 years


30844
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: William
Ship: Hooghley 1828
Date: 1828
Place: Kinross, Newcastle
Source: 1828 Census
Details: Age 14. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Assigned servant of G.T. Graham


140308
Surname: Abrahams
First Name: William
Ship: Hooghley 1828
Date: 1828
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 668
Details: William Abrahams aged 17. Errand boy from Holland. Religion Jewish. Tried in London 7 April 1825. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing a seal skin cape. Assigned to George Thomas Graham at Hunter River on arrival


27958
Surname: Abrahams (alias Pearce)
First Name: Mary (Teresa Elizabeth)
Ship: Minstrel 1812
Date: 1822 20 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: Tried at the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction. To be transported for three years. On list of prisoners forwarded to Newcastle. As Teresa Elizabeth Pearce per Elizabeth Henrietta


122610
Surname: Abram
First Name: James
Ship: Heroine 1833
Date: 1843 15 April
Place: Wollombi
Source: GG
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave


213269
Surname: Abrams (?Abraham)
First Name: Abram
Ship: -
Date: 9 July 1877
Place: Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: Inquest held at the Naval Brigade Hotel on the body of a man named Abram Abrams who was found drowned on the Long Beach at Newcastle. Witnesses Joseph Watts, porter on the Great Northern Railway; Constable Patrick Smith; Dr. Harris; William Kelly, landlord of the Galatea Hotel who testified that deceased was about 47 years of age and was a chemist. His brother kept a chemist shop in Sydney. Verdict - found drowned


5524
Surname: Abray
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1837
Place: Invermein
Source: GRC
Details: Assigned to P. McIntyre


14061
Surname: Abray
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Portland 1832
Date: 1832 9 August
Place: Bulwarra
Source: SG
Details: Millwright, baker and miller. Assigned to Peter McIntyre


138966
Surname: Abray
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Portland 1832
Date: 1837
Place: Invermein
Source: GRC
Details: Age 24. Tried in Norwich. Assigned to Peter McIntyre


163497
Surname: Abray
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Portland 1832
Date: 1 February 1844
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: Application to Marry
Details: Thomas Abray aged 33, arrived per 'Portland' application to marry Jane Ann Booth, a native of the colony. Application refused as female under age)


182972
Surname: Abray
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Portland 1832
Date: 29 May 1833
Place: Invermein
Source: Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details: Thomas Smith per ship Captain Cook, assigned to Peter McIntyre, and Thomas Abray per Portland, assigned to Peter McIntyre, charged with absenting themselves from their stations without leave. Donald McPhee states - I am overseer to Mr. McIntyre; Smith and Abray are employed at a sheep station, the one as a watchman and other as a shepherd; on Sunday last I found them near Segenhoe about two miles from where they ought to have been. Smith had not his flock with him; I found the sheep afterwards about three miles from where I saw the men without any body with them. The prisoners admitted the charge and were sentenced to 30 lashes each


183044
Surname: Abray
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Portland 1832
Date: 26 June 1833
Place: Invermein
Source: Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details: Thomas Abray per ship Portland, assigned to Peter McIntyre, charged with neglect of duty. Donald McPhee, states - I am sheep overseer to Mr. McIntyre and on last Monday week I went to the station where the prisoner is employed as a shepherd for the purpose of counting in his sheep; I found two short; I sent him out to look for them that night and he could not find them; next morning I went again to his station and one of the shepherds had found one of the prisoners sheep with a broken leg; the other was found two days after dead and torn to pieces by the dogs. The prisoner states in his defence - asks the overseer if the sheep found dead were his or the other shepherds to which the overseer replied they were his; his were older sheep than the others and it was the old sheep that were found dead. The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to 75 lashes being his second offence