Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Ticket of leave cancelled for disorderly conduct. Sent to Hyde Park Barracks
Place:
On board the 'Asia'
Source:
Medical Journal of the Asia Convict ship by surgeon James McTernan
Details:
Age 47. Taken ill at sea. Haemoptysis. Put on sick list 4 January, Discharged 11 January 1828, cured
First Name:
Peter Johnson
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
First Name:
Peter Johnson
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 669
Details:
Peter Hamilton alias Johnson, aged 48. Tailor from Co. Antrim. Widower with three children. Tried in London 16 July 1827. Sentenced to transportation for life for passing base coin. Assigned to Simeon Lord at Botany Bay on arrival. Description - small blue mark above left wrist. Bayonet wound on back of left hand. Ball wound on fore part leg. large scars on left side.
Details:
Ticket of leave cancelled for drunk and disorderly conduct
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 669
Details:
William Harris aged 17. Sweep boy. Tried in London 12 July 1827. Sentenced to transportation for life for stealing a watch. Assigned to John Stanton at Castle Hill on arrival
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books - Discharges
Details:
William Harris admitted to Newcastle gaol 28 December 1839. To be sent to other stations. Discharged to Sydney gaol 1 January 1840
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 669
Details:
Age 19. Reads and writes. Shoemaker from London. Tried 17 February 1825 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for breaking into a shop. Assigned to William Dun at Patterson's Plains on arrival
Details:
Granted Certificate of Freedom
Details:
Assigned to the A.A. Company
Surname:
Herring alias Jones
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 669
Details:
William Herring aged 23. Butcher from Kent. Tried in London 25 August 1827. Sentenced to transportation for life for highway robbery. Assigned to Dr. Harris at South Creek on arrival
Details:
Shoemaker aged 23. Assigned to H.W. Radford
Details:
Aged 32. Assigned to George Turner
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Source:
Newcastle Bench Books. AONSW Reel 2722
Details:
Assigned as a fireman at the light house. Made a complaint against harbour master Mr. Jackson for keeping him employed at private work in the daytime whilst he was required to keep the light burning at night. Case investigated and found to be groundless
Source:
Rev. Threlkeld s Journal. p. 287
Details:
One of Rev. Threlkeld s seven disorderly men. Trade shoemaker. Assigned to Rev. Threlkeld May 1837. Under sentence of transportation for Life. Punished for disorderly conduct in June. Implicated in disorderly conduct and robbery in July
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 669
Details:
Age 24. Reads and writes. Married with 2 children. Shoemaker from Yorkshire. Tried 3 August 1827 and sentenced to transportation for life for highway robbery. Assigned to Dr. Radford at Hunter River on arrival
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
Details:
Waterman from Leeds. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from the Police Office. Returned to government for re-assignement. Temporarily assigned to the Custom house at Newcastle 3 April 1837
