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171497
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 19 May 1839
Place: Brisbane Water
Source: State Records Online Shipping List
Details: John Salomon, emigrant per Mary Hay, employed by John Moore at Brisbane Water on arrival...http://tinyurl.com/lxm24t6


174088
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 13 March 1897
Place: Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: A resident of Newcastle unearthed a valuable book relating to early convict days in Newcastle containing original depositions of the cases heard at the Newcastle Police Office in the year 1829... ..John Moore employed at the coal mines, for insolence and disobedience of orders, was ordered 100 lashes. The disobedience related by the constable was as follows - I went to the mines and the prisoner refused to accomplish his work. I asked who was marking, and the prisoner immediately replied D... and curse the marker. The prisoner persevered in sending up coals out of the pit without these being measured. When the...told him they were not measured he replied, I dont care a damn


176228
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 13 September 1934
Place: Brisbane Water
Source: The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate
Details: Three assigned servants of Mr. John Moore were charged on January 10 1831 with having wantonly and maliciously damaged their masters corn. One convict, for whom his master interceeded received 18 lashes and the other two received 3 dozen lashes each


182575
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 7 October 1839
Place: Brisbane Water
Source: Gosford (Brisbane Water) Court of Petty Sessions Bench Books, 1835 - 1842
Details: Inquest held at the Crooked Billet at Brisbane Water touching on the sudden death of Mark Lownds, labourer, free by servitude. Witnesses William Spears, landlord of the Crooked Billet and employer of Mark Lownds; Sarah Spears, wife of William Spears; James Mallen; John Moore, sawyer, free by servitude; John Smith, assigned servant of William Ward


203477
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 31 January 1863
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Edward Perry, Christopher Fagan, William Matthews, George Priest, Charles Corbett and John Moore, were severally summoned to answer the complaint of suffering either their pigs, goats or horses to stray in public streets and were severally fined 5s. and costs


106372
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Almorah
Date: 1834 10 November
Place: Newcastle
Source: NGE
Details: Blacksmith from Queens Co., Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Sydney goal under sentence of 6 months imprisonment


126495
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Countess of Harcourt 1824
Date: 1840 17 June
Place: Maitland
Source: GG
Details: Ticket of leave cancelled for being absent from muster


179535
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Countess of Harcourt 1824
Date: 13 June 1840
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 136
Details: Stonecutter from London. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. To be sent to a probationary gang 27 June 1840


194722
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Countess of Harcourt 1824
Date: 14 July 1824
Place: Sydney Cove
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
Details: John Moore age 16. Tailor. Tried at Newgate December 1821. Sentenced to transportation for life. Orderly conduct on the voyage out. Reads and writes. Assigned to Carters Barracks on arrival


126633
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Countess of Harcourt 1828
Date: 1840 22 July
Place: Maitland
Source: GG
Details: Ticket of leave cancelled for being absent from muster


196776
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Countess of Harcourt 1828
Date: 1828
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 669
Details: John Moore aged 32. Seaman and labourer from Manchester. Tried 15 January 1827. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for embezzlement. Assigned to Samuel Drew in Sydney on arrival


126619
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Countesss of Harcourt 1828
Date: 1840 15 July
Place: Maitland
Source: GG
Details: Seaman and labourer aged 44 from Manchester. Ruddy complexion, brown hair, brown eyes, tattoos. Ticket of leave holder. Absent from his district


63409
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Hooghley 1825
Date: 1826 16 December
Place: Patterson's Plains
Source: SG
Details: Servant aged 20; native of Roscommmon; 5'5 1/2"; hazel eyes; brown hair; pale complexion. Absconded from S.L. Harris


65707
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Hooghley 1825
Date: 1828
Place: Newcastle
Source: 1828 Census
Details: Barracks


65708
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Hooghley 1825
Date: 1828
Place: Newcastle
Source: 1828 Census
Details: Barracks


182182
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Hooghley 1825
Date: 25 October 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: James Collins per ship Guildford and John Moore per ship Hooghley both in government service, charged with theft at the house of Mr. Patrick Reilly. Mrs. Catherine Reilly states - yesterday the prisoners came to my husband s house to make some purchases at which time I was preparing a set of curtains for the windows; the curtains were lying by the place where I sat; having served the prisoners they partook of some gin which Moore had purchased and then they went away; they had not been gone a minute before I missed one pair of curtains; I lost no time in sending after the prisoners; Collins was found at his house and readily underwent a search. Moore was not found for an hour afterwards. No other persons were in the room for some time, either before or after I missed the curtains except two men belonging to the Mounted Police. This accusation was dismissed by the Magistrates for want of legal proof


126401
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Lady Harewood 1831
Date: 1840 10 June
Place: Invermein
Source: GG
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave


193070
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Lady Harewood 1831
Date: 1831
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 678
Details: John Moore age 28. Butcher, ploughs, reaps, milks and sows. Married with 2 children. Native place Tamworth. Tried at Stafford 29 April 1830. Sentenced to transportation for life for house breaking. Assigned to William Bell Carlysle in Sydney on arrival


54425
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Minerva 1824
Date: 1837 14 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: BB
Details: T/L holder. Ticket recommended to be transferred to Maitland by the Bench


101436
Surname: Moore
First Name: John
Ship: Minerva 1824
Date: 1832
Place: Newcastle
Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
Details: Marriage of John Moore and Charlotte Smith both of Newcastle