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Bengal Merchant 1838
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 757
Details:
Sent to Newcastle gaol from Hyde Park Barracks via Scone. With drawn from Assignee
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Ticket of leave granted.
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Labourer age 33 from Brighton. 5ft 10in. Sallow complexion, brown hair, haze grey eyes, scar on upper part of nose, another on left cheek, small moles on right cheek, six moles on right arm, 3 small moles on back of upper part of left arm. Absconded from James Bowman 25 October.
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
Source:
Convict Indents (Ancestry)
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Age 21, Married. Reads and writes. Labourer from Brighton. Tried CCC 23 October 1837 and sentenced to 10 years transportation for picking pockets. No prior convictions. Sallow complexion, brown hair, hazey grey eyes.
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
Source:
The Scone Advocate 22 February 1921
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Assigned to Dr. Bowman of Muswellbrook. Charged before Edward Denny Day with neglect of duty and harboring a bushranger. William Davies deposes - Prisoner is placed under my care and is employed as a watchman. On the 21st of last month I went to prisoners station and found that he was harboring a bushranger there. I cautioned him against harboring men and that if I found him doing so again I should take him to Court. He replied with an oath that he did not care for all the flogging in the country. He added that any men who came to the station should be welcome to stop as long as they liked and that he was glad to see them. He was grossly insolent at the same time making use of blasmephous language which he is in the habit of doing. On, I think, the 24th prisoner absented himself from his station without leave, and neglected to remove his folds. Guilty of insolence and nelgect of duty and sentenced to 50 lashes. Remanded to Muswellbrook on the charge of harboring a bushranger
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Bengal Merchant 1838...
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
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Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Singleton. Sentenced to 14 days in the cells for insolence
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Died after being shot in the face by James Lane
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
Place:
Fortitude Hulk moored at Chatham
Source:
UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
Details:
Married with 2 children. Character indifferent, had been convicted before.. Reads and writes. Occupation weaver. Age 26. Tried at Salford 23 October 1837 and sentenced to transportation for stealing wearing apparel. Received onto the Fortitude hulk from Salford on 6th December 1837 and transferred to the Bengall Merchant for transportation to NSW on 20 March 1838
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
Source:
State Archives NSW. Convict Indents. Microfiche 733
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Age 26. Reads and writes. Native of Lancashire. Labourer married with 2 sons and a daughter. One prior conviction. ruddy complexion, light hair, grey eyes, cast inward in left eye etc
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Apprehended after absconding from Newcastle stockade
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Groom aged 20 from London. 5'6; pale and freckled compl., light brown hair, chestnut eyes, scar left side of nose, scar inside top of (r) thumb. Absconded from John Lewis 10 October
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Apprehended after absconding from John Lewis
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Apprehended after absconding from G.A. Middleton
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
Place:
Newcastle stockade
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Groom aged 25 from London. 5'6 pale freckled compl., light brown hair, chesnut eyes, scar on left side of nose, etc., Absconded from Newcatle Stockade 4th August (out of irons)
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Absconded from G.A. Middleton 6th June
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Bengal Merchant 1838......
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Bengal Merchant 1838
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
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William Gregory, coachman from Buckinghamshire. Admitted to Newcastle gaol. Sent for trial and sentenced to 2 years hard labour in Parramatta gaol