Surname:
Simonds (Symonds)
Source:
Convict Settlement
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Punished for purloining provision from his fellow prisoners when delegate
Surname:
Simonds (Symonds) (Harris)
Source:
Convict Settlement
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Punished for running from the settlement
Surname:
Simonds (Symonds) (Harris)
Source:
Convict Settlement
Details:
Punished for running from the settlement
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Three convicts of this name by this ship. On the list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per Lady Nelson
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
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Granted Conditional Pardon
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Mary"
Source:
Convict Settlement
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Punished for refusing to work and theft
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From Van Diemen's Land. On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle
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Hurt by lightning on 30 Dec 1820 at Newcastle but recovering
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On lists of prisoners transported to Port Macquarie
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. P59
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Marriage of James Wells aged 37 and Anne Morley aged 40. Witnesses at marriage William and Mary Ann Cooper
Source:
In the Service of the Company: letters of Sir Edward Parry, volume 1, December 1829 - June 1832. Letter NO 389
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Sawyer. Assigned to govt. service at Newcastle. Request by Sir Edward Parry that Wells be re-assigned to the A.A. Company
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Age 36. Ticket of leave holder
Source:
Application to Marry
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James Wells age 37 arrived per 'Fame' in 1817, to marry Anne Morley age 40 (ship of arrival not stated)
Source:
Colonial Secretarys Correspondence. Series: NRS 937; Reel or Fiche Numbers: Reels 6004-6016
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On list of persons praying His Excellency the Governor to have their names published in Church in order to being married - James Wells per Fame to Mary Shaw per Maria
Source:
UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letters Books
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Age 19. Tried at Chelmsford on 11 March 1815 and sentenced to transportation for life. Admitted to the Perseus hulk from Chelmsford on 27 March 1816
Date:
1816 Spring Assizes,
Source:
National Archives Kew. Reference: HO 47/55/14
Details:
Description - Report of J Bayley on 1 individual petitions (James Wells, the prisoner s father) and 2 collective petition (39 people, including the rector, overseers and churchwardens of Compton cum Sheford, Bedfordshire, most professions/trades given; and 8 people, the prisoner and other people of Dagenham and Romford, Essex) on behalf of James Wells convicted (with Peter Peacock and Richard Peacock) at the Essex Spring/Lent Assizes held at Chelmsford in 1816 for highway robbery against Simon Wall, servant to Mr Oliver of Hornchurch and William Field. There is note that William Wells was removed from Newgate, charged on the oath of William Field with highway robbery and sentenced to death at the Chelmsford Lent Assizes 1816.
Details:
Sawyer to be sent to Newcastle; listed as Wills