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Fined 5s for allowing pigs to stray about the street
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Charged Mary Anne Turner with laying excessive impounding damages on his three pigs. Case dismissed
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Fined 5s for allowing pigs to stray about the streets
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Elizabeth Comber applied for maintenance of Stilsby's two children stating that she had been living with him for many years. Stilsby ordered to pay 20s per week for maintenance
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Charged John Stevens with stealing money. Case dismissed when it was found that Stilsby was intoxicated at the time
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From and to Maitland, East Maitland and Morpeth daily
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Mail contractor. 75 pounds
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Offering reward of two hundred pounds for information leading to conviction of person who poisoned three of his horses
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Found not guilty on a charge of perjury that arose when he accused Thomas Kerrigan of assaulting him
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Death of James Stilsby aged in his 80's. Insisted on having his leg amputed when it became swollen and the shock to the system was too great
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
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Marriage of Edward Wall to Eliza Jones. Witnesses James Stilsby and Anne Frances Jones of Maitland. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
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West Maitland Burial Register, 1851 - 1855 p 17
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James Stilsby, son of a cab man, died age 3 years on 19 June 1855. Buried 20 June 1855
Source:
The Newcastle Sun
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Recollections of James Croft in 1921 - I recollect the old trestle bridge. We boys used to wait for the arrival of the mail coach from Maitland, driven by Old Stilsby. He used to have a bugle and when near the Lake road would start to blow, and all the kids (50 or 60 of us) would turn out. Sometimes the coach would get stuck in the sand and the passengers would get out, and we boys, planted behind the trestles would given them a coaled occupation
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Mr. Henry Thomas Bellamy, the surviving cab proprietor of West Maitland, died suddenly at his residence, Victoria street, West Maitland, yesterday morning, while he was in the act of feeding his horse preparatory to his entering on his daily work. He was a son of the late Mr. Thomas Bellamy, who for many years was keeper of livery stables and proprietor of cabs in West Maitland. He was unmarried, a native of Maitland, and was 54 years of age. He had spent the whole of his life in the district. The death of Mr. Bellamy removes the last link with the old cab system in West Maitland. The first cab was introduced into the town by the late Mr. Walter Taylor, and his nephew, Mr. Charles Taylor, of Banfield-street, was the first person to drive that cab. At the time he was only a lad, but he did his work to the satisfaction of his uncle. Mr. Walter Taylor had livery stables in Smythe s Lane, nearly opposite Dimmock s, Ltd., and he succeeded a man named Onions, who had carried on the stables for some years. Later Mr. Taylor had his stables across the road on a site now occupied by the eastern part of the store of Dimmocks, Ltd., and he was followed by Mr. Tobias Miller, Mr. Thomas Bellamy, and finally by Mr. Thomas Judge. Mr. Walter Taylor introduced the first large bus to Maitland, and that was followed by a two-decked bus. For many years up to the eighties small buses, with accommodation for about eight persons, were run by Michael Hamer, John Levette, and Frederick Jones. Hamer s bus was known as The Shamrock, and Jones s as The Invincible. In the forties and fifties there was another old busman in Maitland, named Stilsby and the lane on the west side of the Imperial Hotel was known for many years as Stilbsys Lane, from the fact that his livery stables were located at the end of that lane. Those stables were after wards held by the late Mr. W. C. Mark well, by Mr. Martin Kingsley, and in more recent years by Mr. Alexander Niddrie. It may be of interest to note that the first taxi-car was driven in West Mail land by Mr. Fred Bulte, of Regent-street West Maitland, in April, 1913.
First Name:
James and Elizabeth
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
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Marriage of George Matthew Howard to Alice Gray. Witnesses James and Elizabeth Stilsby. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
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Buried in Glebe Cemetery
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Buried in Glebe Cemetery
Surname:
Stilsby (alias Reade)
Ship:
Alabaster 1855 (came free)
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 757
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Servant from Fermanagh. Sent to Newcastle gail from Maitland. Sentenced to 2 months imprisonment
Surname:
Tucker v. Stilsby
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Defendent's property to be sold by Sherrif
