Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
Details:
Marriage of Robert Cross aged 47 and Catherine Thompson aged 29 both from Maitland
Place:
Singleton & West Maitland
Source:
Singleton Pioneer Register p. 27
Details:
Born c. 1786 Hull County Yorkshire, son of William and Mary Cross. Spouse 1. Jane Jackson. Spouse 2. Mary Jane Adamson. See Pioneer Register for details of descendants
Ship:
Surry 1814 (?Broxbornebury 1814)
Details:
Came free. Aged 22 in 1828
Details:
On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
Details:
On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle
Details:
On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per Sally
Surname:
Elston (Ellston)
Details:
Aged 42. Overseer employed by R.C. Dillon
Details:
On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle per 'Lady Nelson'
Date:
1818 June 1824 March
Details:
On monthly returns of prisoners punished at Newcastle
Details:
On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
Details:
On monthly return of convicts assigned in Counties of Northumberland and Durham; assigned to Joseph Thew
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers, State Records of New South Wales. Special Bundles
Details:
Hymes Franks per Surry and John Gleeson per Mangles both sentenced to 50 lashes for cutting their irons at the limeburners
Source:
Sydney Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 851 Ancestry
Details:
Sent to Sydney gaol by Newcastle Magistrate Francis Allman under sentence to a penal settlement
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
John Wilcoxson, John Cooper alias Kershaw, James Davis and Hymy Franks all assigned to government service, runaways from Newcastle were returned there from Sydney. Sentenced to hard labour in the mines until further orders
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Hymy Franks, Edward Fleming and Thomas Hayes charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The Chief Constable states....the prisoners were given in charge to me Isaac Elliott. They appeared to be intoxicated. Fleming is a very troublesome character.....Isaac Elliott states....Yesterday I saw Franks throw a large stone at my dog in the yard. It missed the dog but struck my wife on the knee and cut her severely. I seized Franks and in the scuffle, I may have torn his clothes. Hayes interfered and attempted to rescue Franks. Fleming rushed into my house during the disturbance and carried off the stone. The prisoners admit the correctness of Mr. Elliotts statement. Hymy Franks sentenced to 14 days in the gaol gang. Edward Fleming sentenced to 14 days in the gaol gang. Thomas Hayes sentenced to 7 days in the gaol gang.
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Hymy Franks per Surry, in government service. Charged with having a shirt belonging to a fellow prisoner in his possession for which he could not account. John Duncan stated....I lost a shirt No. 113, the one before the court...James Calvert, Chief Constable stated...I found the shirt no. 113 in possession of Francis Davy, he told me it belonged to Hymy Franks.....Hymy Franks stated in his defence that he got the shirt from a person lately returned to Sydney and gave it to Davy. Hymy Franks sentenced to 25 lashes
Details:
On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per 'Lady Nelson'
Details:
Sawyer assigned to Joseph Broadbent on 6 March to be recalled into Govt. employ
Details:
Labourer aged 42 from Bucks, 5' 5 1/4"; pale complexion, light brown hair, hazel eyes. Absconded from Wollombi Bridge party since 24 December
Source:
Gosford (Brisbane Water) Court of Petty Sessions, Letter Books, 1826 - 1874 (Ancestry)
Details:
Correspondence from Magistrate Jonathan Warner to the Principal Superintendent of Convicts....Sir, I send in charge of Constable Stephen Curran, Thomas Friday (per ship Surry), who was apprehended at Popram Creek on 3 December by Constables Moore, Carroll and Richard Gorman with a false Certificate in his possession. The prisoner acknowledges that he ran away from the Wallambi road party on 24 December 1833 and that he has frequently been at Sydney, Parramatta and Windsor since he absconded.
