Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
Details:
Marriage of Thomas Coates to Margaret Purcell both of Maitland
Source:
General Muster of New South Wales 1823, 1824, 1825
Details:
Convict under sentence of 7 years transportation. Assigned to Mr. Wilkinson
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
Details:
Thomas Coates age 18. Butcher. Native place Oldbury. Tried at Warwick 23 March 1824. Sentenced to 14 years transportation. Assigned to Edward Sparke, George St. Sydney on arrival. Note - Norfolk Island
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
Details:
Robert Davidson age 18. Native place London. Tried Horsemonger Lane December 1823. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Sent to Carters Barracks on arrival
Surname:
Davidson (Davis)
Source:
General Muster of New South Wales 1823, 1824, 1825
Details:
Assigned to government employment at Newcastle
Surname:
Davidson (Davis)
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Robert Davis per ship Minerva, in the service of Mr. John Francis Wickham, charged with disobedience of his master s orders and insolence. Mr. Wickham states - Yesterday evening I desired the prisoner to fetch some articles I wanted from Mr. Bouchers warehouse. He went and remaining absent nearly a quarter of an hour, I sent another person in search of him, who returning informed me the prisoner was in the street talking to some men; I went to him and asked him if he knew how long he had been absent on his message - he replied - An hour I suppose - I told him I did not want such insolent replied from him, that he well knew he had been away only about ten minutes; As I walked away I heard several impertinent observations from the group amongst which the prisoner stood and I heard him very distinctly say - Which way does the bull run - He was also insolent to me and my wife on Sunday night. The prisoner denies having used the latter expression, says it was uttered by one of the party with whom he stood. Robert Davis sentenced to 50 lashes
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
Details:
William Denison age 32. Pedlar. Tried in London. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Assigned to Mr. Cobb on arrival
Surname:
Denison (Dennison)
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Samuel Broadhead per Minerva, William Denison per Minerva and Caleb Tandy per Asia in the service of John Cobb charged with absconding from their masters service. Mr. Cobb states...the prisoners absconded from my service some weeks since and were subsequently taken and lodged in Sydney gaol. I should be glad to have them returned to my service. The Chief Constable states ....the prisoners were given into my custody on the 28th inst....they arrived from Sydney in the Government brig Amity. The prisoners being asked if they had any excuse to urge for absconding stated they had no complaints except that the overseer sometimes called them to their work before day break. Sentenced to 50 lashes each and to returned to their master
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
Details:
James Dixon age 22. Errand boy. Tried in London . Sentenced to transportation for life. Assigned to Mrs. Hely on arrival
Source:
In the Service of the Company: letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural company: volume 1, December 1829 - June 1832. Letter 400
Details:
Assigned to Moses Brown. Transferred to the A.A. Company at the request of Moses Brown in exchange for convict Daniel Cohen
Source:
In the Service of the Company: letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural company: volume 1, December 1829 - June 1832 Letter 590
Details:
Assigned to the A.A. Company. Died on 24th March at the Company's Hospital at Carrington after a severe attack of Angina Pectoris
Details:
Tailor aged 29. Tried in Derbyshire. 5'91/2"; light grey eyes, brown hair, pale complexion. Absconded from No 25 road gang. A notorious runaway
Details:
Aged 26. Tried in Derbyshire. Absconded from Hyde Park Barracks
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
Details:
William Earp age 24. Tailor from Derby. Tried 17 March 1824. Sentenced to transportation for life. Assigned to Mr. Pendray in Sydney on arrival
Details:
Died aged 32. Burial Date
Source:
Convict Indents (Ancestry)
Details:
Educated for the bar. Tried in Cape town 4th May 1824 and sentenced to 7 years transportation. Native of North Wales. 5ft 8 3/4 in, hazel eyes, brown hair, rather bald. Brown complexion. Remarkably well behaved on the voyage. Assigned to Port Macquarie on arrival.
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
Details:
William Edwards age 41. Educated for the Bar. Native place North Wales. Tried at Cape Town 4 May 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Remarkably well behaved on the voyage out. Sent to Port Macquarie on arrival
Surname:
Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name:
William (Alexander)
Ship:
Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Source:
Hobart Town Gazette
Details:
WILLIAM EDWARDS alias LOOKAYE. It appears that his real name is Alex ander Lookaye : that he came out to this Colony a convict for life in the Ship Atlas, and on his arrival here in October 1819, he was sent to Newcastle for twelve months, for having preferred false charges against the Surgeon Superintendent and master of the ship: that he was received from Newcastle with a bad character on the 21st of February 1821 ; and employed at Head Quarters as an overseer of light works, in consequence of having been hurt on the arm whilst at Newcastle ; but during his overseership he abused the confidence reposed in him ; that he was dismissed in consequence, and put to work in a labouring gang: that he was subsequently a government servant to the late Mr. Solicitor Wylde, from whose service he absconded, and was advertised among the runaways of the 8th December, 1821. It would seem that shortly after this period he effected his escape from hence to Batavia, and that he proceeded from thence to the Isle of France, where he contrived to get introduced to the Chief Justice, and to get appointed a notary public, when he heard of the arrival of Mr. Commissioner Bigge at the Cape of Good Hope. It appears that during the time Mr. Bigge was executing his Commission of Inquiry here, Lookaye was one of the persons from whom he derived much of that erroneous information contained in his report ; and that having contracted an itch for political intrigue, he thought the Cape afforded during the stay of the Commissioner, a fit scene for this purpose. He accordingly left the Isle of France, carrying off with him some valuable MSS belonging to the Chief Justice of that Island, and soon, restored himself to the Commissioner's recollection. It is supposed that the marked, countenance which the Commissioner bestowed on him led to an advantageous matrimonial alliance with a Dutch lady of the Cape, with whom it is said he obtained 12,000 dol. The obnoxious line of conduct the Commissioner pursued towards the Governor General, Lord Charles Somerset, and the representations which he is understood to have forwarded to England against this nobleman, are supposed to have been founded principally on information derived from Lookaye; whose career it appears was suddenly cut short by a private libel which he published concerning his Lordship. For this, by the sentence of a Dutch Court, he has been transported to this Colony for seven years; no great hardship on him, considering that he was already, by virtue of the sentence of a British Court, a prisoner for life. This conviction, and the exposures consequent on it, have, it is said, completely disconcerted the Commissio er of Inquiry. He has been obliged to confess that in listening to this man he acted upon evidence unworthy of credit, and to make a complete recantation of his past conduct; and to complete his chagrin, public fetes have been given to the Governor General on the victory thus gained by him over the Commissioner and, his party, by all the respectable Inhabitants of Cape Town. The strangest part of this business, however, is that Mr. Commissioner denies all connection or acquaintance with him previous to his arrival at the Cape; and, that when the Minerva left that place it was not posiively known, though some vague surmises were afloat on the subject that Edwards alias Lookaye had ever been in this colony.
Surname:
Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name:
William (Alexander)
Ship:
Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Date:
26/27 November 1824
Details:
On list of convicts transported to Port Macquarie per "Sally"; listed as Edwards alias Alexander Loo-KayeRe permission for wife to proceed to Port Macquarie
Surname:
Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name:
William (Alexander)
Ship:
Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Details:
At Port Macquarie. Enclosing letter to Mr Bigge (Reel 6063; 4/1785 p.105)
