First Name:
Ensign Robert
Source:
Maitland Quarter Sessions
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57th regiment. Juror at Maitland Quarter Sessions
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Robbed by bushrangers while driving a dray to his master's farm. Thomas Buckingham found not guilty of the robbery
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Thomas Buckingham acquitted of a charge of highway robbery on Alexander at Maitland
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Committed for trial for robbery from the person
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Found guilty of assaulting and putting in fear William Stitt
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Attempted to escape from Maitland gaol with Patrick McNamara and Patrick Welsh
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Granted Ticket of Leave
Source:
Settler and Convict Lists 1787-1834. Ancestry
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Prisoner for 14 years. Assigned to Henry Dangar at Neotsfield
Ship:
Frederick Griffiths 1846
Source:
State Archives NSW; Kingswood, New South Wales; Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930; Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757
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Robert Alexander, seaman from Glasgow. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Cassilis. Sentenced to 12 months hard labour for robbery. Forwarded to Sydney 6 March 1852
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Place:
Alma Creek, Brookfield, Co. Durham
Source:
Baillier's Post Office Directory p.59
Source:
Bailliers Official Postal Directory p.106
First Name:
Robert L., J.P.,
Place:
William River district
Details:
Elector of the Williams River district supporting John Nowlan of 'Eelar' ini the forthcoming election
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Appointed Magistrate
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Correspondence re the native Tamarind tree called wirralook by the natives and not so prevalent since clearing of the flats
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Reminiscences of R.W. Alison - My fther, Robert Lloyd Alison, left Scotland in 1838. His mother and youngest brother William came over from Paisey to Hull to see him leave in a sailing vessel. Both were drowned on their return journey in the wreck of the Forfarshire Castle, when Grace Darling became famous. He did not hear of the death of his mother for at least twelve months as the voyage took about nine months and a ship only arrived once in a blue moon. He could not make enough money to enable him to go back to Scotland til after the discovery of gold. When he went, on his second trip out he brought a steam threshing machine for wheat, a blood stallion (Lord of the Hills) and a draught (Dundee). When he arrived at Dungog with these there was great excitement among the residents and it was decided to tender hi a banquet which he promptly declined. Not long before he died he told me that one of the actions in his life he was most satisfied with was that of declining that banquet. Anyhow the importations were little use to him. Rust spoilt all the wheat in the district and thre thresher rusted at Cooreei for want of se. Lord of the Hills was the highest priced yearling up to that time in England (1800gns) but he was broken down before my father bought him and did not cost that much, but there were no mares in the district fit to put to him and he was wasted here. He later sold him to Mr. Dines of Singleton for 700 gns. The same might be said of the draught horse which was later sold to Mr. Nolan of Eelah for 300gns. The part of the Myles Estate my father bought he called Cooreei, the aboriginal name for the high hill in the locality
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Subscriber for the Irish Relief Fund
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William Hamilton attempted to sell stolen horse to Allan
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Sentenced to transportation for Life
