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54060
Surname: Porter
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1837 31 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: BB
Details: Charged by assigned servant George Hunter with striking him


54065
Surname: Porter
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1837 31 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: BB
Details: Terrence Drew per 'Bussorah Merchant' assigned servant


61382
Surname: Porter
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: -
Date: 1815 1 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Absconded from Newcastle settlement


130665
Surname: Porter
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: -
Date: 1829 2 June
Place: Mount York
Source: SG
Details: Prisoner of the Crown attached to No1 iron gang. Witness at the trial of Timothy Murphy who was found guilty of the murder of John Monaghan and had attempted to murder Porter with an axe


166766
Surname: Porter
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: -
Date: March 1815
Place: Newcastle
Source: Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly return of Corporal Punishments
Details: Punished with fifty lashes for being absent from government labour


196160
Surname: Porter
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: Duke of Portland 1807
Date: 1807
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632
Details: Dublin Court Martial 20 July 1804. Sentenced to transportation for life


70036
Surname: Porter
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: Duke of Portland 1807......
Date: 1810 13 September
Place: -
Source: CSI
Details: Miner. Sent to join working gang at Coal River


70038
Surname: Porter
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: Duke of Portland 1807......
Date: 1811 6 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: Prisoner at Newcastle. Complained of cruel treatment


79189
Surname: Porter
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: Duke of Portland 1807......
Date: 1850 28 September
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Granted Conditional Pardon 10th August 1850


130666
Surname: Porter
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: Duke of Portland 1807......
Date: 1825 7 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Absconded from Government employment at Newcastle


70037
Surname: Porter
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: Duke of Portland 1807.......
Date: 1811 9 February
Place: -
Source: CSI
Details: Miner at Newcastle. In hospital at Sydney; needed at Newcastle


148811
Surname: Porter
First Name: Cornelius
Ship: -
Date: 1857 23 February
Place: Newcastle
Source: SMH
Details: Miner. Witness at the inquest into the death of Miles Foster


170151
Surname: Porter
First Name: Daniel
Ship: Mangles 1820
Date: 1825
Place: Newcastle
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
Details: Assigned servant to Mr. (?Alexander) Warren


156339
Surname: Porter
First Name: Esther Eliza
Ship: -
Date: 1858 9 February
Place: St. Johns Wollombi
Source: Australian Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records
Details: Marriage of John Sylvester, son of George Sylvester and Harriet Hall to Esther Eliza Porter, daughter of George Driver Porter and Elizabeth Stebbingly


10750
Surname: Porter
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1841
Place: Wollombi
Source: 1841 Census Index
Details: Wollombi, 72


10936
Surname: Porter
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1841
Place: Raymond Terrace
Source: 1841 Census Index
Details: Co. Gloucester, District Raymond Terrace


18504
Surname: Porter
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1845 13 September
Place: Wollombi
Source: MM
Details: -


21222
Surname: Porter
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1846 4 April
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: To be tried at Maitland Quarter Sessions for stealing a plough


22473
Surname: Porter
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1846 4 July
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: On bail. To be tried for felony at Maitland Quarter Sessions


27948
Surname: Porter
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1824 23 January
Place: County of Northumberland, County of Alnwick
Source: Index to map of the country bordering upon the River Hunter... by Henry Dangar (London : Joseph Cross, 1828). p1
Details: Granted 2000 acres of land