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Surname: Black Harry (Indigenous)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1861
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Weekly Mercury 30 November 1895
Details: The most sensational case tried at the Maitland Circuit Court in September 1861 was that of an aborigine known as Black Harry who had in a short but desperate and inhuman career of crime committed a series of diabolical murders and outrages and robberies to no end. He was the terror of the district between Merriwa and Gunnedah during his reign but at length after cunningly eluding his pursuers he was captured by Mr. John Humpries a squatter residing on his station called Borah and lodged in the Gunedah lockup. Harry was a native of the McIntyre River tribe of aborigines about 5ft 7in and said not to be bad looking. He spoke English well and was very intelligent. The story of his crimes and capture may be interesting. It appears that a shepherd named Richard Mills was living un Gundabri station, Halls Creek with his wife and two children, the latter aged nine and five years. On the 16th July Mills legt his hut and was away shepherding all day. Black Harry, who was engaged on the same station, came to the place about 11 oclock that morning and he and the boy went out into the bush to look for possums taking with them a tomahawk . The blackfellow caught some possums and the boy lit a fire on which they were roasted. While the boy was sitting down watching the operation of cook, Harry without a word of warning struck him on the back of the head with a tomahawk twice and left him for dead. Harry then returned to Mills hut and brutally murdered Mrs. Mills nearly severing her head from her body with several blows of the tomahawk. He then ransacked the place and carried away with hi the little girl who was never aterwards seen and it is supposed that she too met with the same awful fate as her mother. After this he committed a series of outrages and robberies and though a reward was offered for his capture , he managed to elude the vigilance of his pursuers for a considerable time
184492
Surname: Black Harry (Indigenous)
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 14 March 1896
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Weekly Mercury
Details: A Cast of Black Harry. - Black Harry was hanged in East Maitland in 1861 for a murderous outrage committed on a boy in the Hunter district and which led up to a series of diabolical crimes perpetrated between the offence mentioned and his capture some few months afterwards. His grave in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at East Maitland being opened by a well known scuptor, and Black Harrys head severed from his body for the purpose of having a cast taken from it. Several casts were taken in plaster of Paris by Mr. Wattie McGill, and one of these was shown by Major Sloan who had it in his possession for many years notwithstanding the fact of its being in 1893 floods, the cast was almost as good as new, freshed up with a coat of lamp black.....The cast was handed over to the Tecnhological Museum by Major Sloan etc.
188317
Surname: Blackadder
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 31 May 1840
Place: Abode Morpeth
Source: Maitland Baptism Register
Details: James, son of William and Anne Blackadder born 26 February 1840. Baptised 31 May 1840. Occupation of William Blackadder, baker
188321
Surname: Blackadder
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 2 September 1882
Place: Coldstream
Source: Clarence and Richmond Examiner
Details: Death on 28 August at his brother s residence, Coldstream, James, youngest son of the late William Blackadder of Sterling Scotland, leaving a wife and six children. Aged 42
188709
Surname: Blackadder
First Name: Mary
Ship: -
Date: 19 June 1842
Place: Abode Morpeth
Source: Maitland Baptism Register p. 67
Details: Mary, daughter and William and Anne Blackadder born 27 May 1842. Baptised 19 June 1842. Occupation of William Blackadder - baker
189923
Surname: Blackadder
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 11 March 1838
Place: Abode Morpeth
Source: Maitland Baptism Register p. 171
Details: Thomas, son of William and Anne Blackadder, born 6 February 1838. Baptised 11 March 1838. Occupation of William Blackadder - baker
188319
Surname: Blackadder
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 14 April 1835
Place: Pitt and Goulburn Sts. Sydney
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: Commenced business as bread and fancy biscuit baker
188320
Surname: Blackadder
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 31 July 1857
Place: Cumberland St. Sydney
Source: SMH
Details: Death on 30 July at No. 50 Cumberland St. Sydney, Elizabeth, second daughter of William Blackadder, baker and granddaughter of Thomas Poole, Stratford on Avon. Aged 13 years and 2 months
188318
Surname: Blackadder
First Name: William and Anne
Ship: -
Date: 31 May 1840
Place: Abode Morpeth
Source: Maitland Baptism Register
Details: James, son of William and Anne Blackadder born 26 February 1840. Baptised 31 May 1840. Occupation of William Blackadder, baker
188710
Surname: Blackadder
First Name: William and Anne
Ship: -
Date: 19 June 1842
Place: Abode Morpeth
Source: Maitland Baptism Register p. 67
Details: Mary, daughter and William and Anne Blackadder born 27 May 1842. Baptised 19 June 1842. Occupation of William Blackadder - baker
189924
Surname: Blackadder
First Name: William and Anne
Ship: -
Date: 11 March 1838
Place: Abode Morpeth
Source: Maitland Baptism Register p 171
Details: Thomas, son of William and Anne Blackadder, born 6 February 1838. Baptised 11 March 1838. Occupation of William Blackadder - baker
192539
Surname: Blackaway (Blakaway) (Blackridge)
First Name: George
Ship: General Hewitt 1814
Date: 13 January 1813
Place: London
Source: Old Bailey Online
Details: GEORGE BLACKAWAY was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 7th of December , two shawls, value 28 s. and one yard of crape, value 5 s. the property of Richard Powell , privately in his shop . GEORGE STAPARD . I am an apprentice to Richard Powell, linen-draper , 180, Oxford-street . On the 7th of December, about nine o clock in the morning, the prisoner came to our shop. I had occasion to go through the shop. When I came back again the prisoner was gone. Q. Who was in the shop - A. Mr. Powell served him with a handkerchief. RICHARD POWELL . On the 7th of December, about nine o clock in the morning, the prisoner came into my shop; he asked me to shew him some pocket handkerchiefs. I shewed him some. He purchased one, and then he went away. In about five minutes afterwards, George Stapard came in the shop, and asked me where a piece of black crape was that he left on the counter. I did not miss any thing. I told him, I saw it just before I served the customer, meaning the prisoner. We made search for the crape, and could not find it. There had been no other person in the shop. My young man pursued the prisoner, and in ten minutes he brought him back. and when the prisoner was brought back he had two shawls and a remnant of crape. We had not missed the shawls until the prisoner came back. Stepard. When I went through the shop, I saw the prisoner purchasing a handkerchief of Mr. Powell; when I returned I missed a piece of crape that was laying on the counter. I went out in pursuit of the prisoner, and found him near three hundred yards from our house. I desired him to come back with me. I told him there was a mistake in the things that he had bought. He would not come back, but run away; I followed him, and overtook him when he had run about sixty or seventy yards. He had a small bundle under his arm, which I wished him to give me. He would not. I insisted upon his going back with me. He attempted to untie the bundle. When I saw that he endeavoured to untie the bundle, I snatched it away, and took it to my master. The bundle contained two shawls, and the crape that I had missed. Q. You got him home - A. Yes, and I went for a constable, and gave him in charge. These are the shawls, and the crape; they are my master s property. GUILTY - DEATH , aged 38.
66888
Surname: Blackbourne (Blackburn)
First Name: John
Ship: Dunvegan Castle 1830
Date: 1838 23 May
Place: Invermein
Source: GG
Details: Obtained ticket of leave
84201
Surname: Blackbourne (Blackburn)
First Name: John
Ship: Dunvegan Castle 1830
Date: 1839 8 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: CDR
Details: Ticket of leave torn up
60871
Surname: Blackburn
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1839 4 June
Place: 11 miles from East Maitland
Source: SG
Details: Selling by auction 4 x 100 acre farms on Wallis Creek. Adjoining Rae's 300 acres
81460
Surname: Blackburn
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 18 January
Place: Situated at Wallis Creek
Source: MM
Details: Augustus Dreutler advertising to sell the estate known as Blackburn's grant. 2240 acres
93920
Surname: Blackburn
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1834 28 May
Place: Hunters River
Source: GG 1834
Details: Robert Cambell sen., - Claim for grant of land - 400 acres promised to Blackburn (deceased). Boundaries not given they being the subject of dispute to be determined by Commissioners
147611
Surname: Blackburn
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: -
Date: 1824 March December
Place: Hunter River
Source: CSI
Details: Waiving claim to land on Hunter River in favour of Henry D Owen. Memorial (Fiche 3103; 4/1838B No.728 pp.1195-1216)
147612
Surname: Blackburn
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: -
Date: 1824 20 March
Place: Hunter River
Source: CSI
Details: The tract of 300 acres of land laying between Mr H D Owen and Mr Wilkinson had been located to Blackburn (Reel 6012; 4/3510 p.542)
147613
Surname: Blackburn
First Name: Benjamin
Ship: -
Date: 1827 19 November
Place: late of Pitt St. Sydney
Source: The Monitor
Details: Died on the 5th November 1827. Co-partner in the Firm of Blackburn and sons of Holbeck near Leeds, Yorkshire