Source:
Colonial Secretary Index
Details:
Appointed to paint numbers on houses in Sydney
Source:
Colonial Secretarys Papers. Petitions to the Governor from Convicts for Mitigation of Sentences
Details:
....That Petitioner arrived in this colony per ship Fortune 1806 a convict for life, and was employed at both settlements of Castle Hills and Toongabbie under all the hardships privations and sufferings of the distressed colony by the inundations of that year. Early in the year 1808 your humble petitioner was called upon to act as principal of painters in Government Employment and there solely remained for the space of 7 years and better which he trusts with credit and without the smallest stain of character and the most part under the immediate eye of His Excellency The Governor; at which time petitioner received a ticket of leave being removed from his situation through sickness occasioned by his trade. Your Petitioner is a married man and ever anxious to render every comfort that he may obtain by honest and industrious habits to the partner of his life who is a free woman. After a service of 6 years and 3 months in the Navy of England by which I am married in my arms and 14 years 9 months 8 days prisoner to the Crown being more than the half of my present life,, your humble petitioner may with confidence look up for mercy and pardon to your Your Excellency s humane consideration, conscious of never having a criminal charge laid to my account before any Court during my residence in the colony save my once deserting the colony, and such would not have happened, but for the truly afflicting and lamentable circumstances.....
Details:
Age 63. Labourer
Surname:
Schooler (Skooler)
Surname:
Schooler (Skooler)
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632
Details:
Henry Skooler tried Middlesex Gaol Delivery 24 April 1805. Sentenced to 14 years transportation. Died at Brisbane Water in 1847
Surname:
Schooler (Skooler) (Schooner)
Details:
On list of convicts to be sent to Newcastle
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632
Details:
Tried in London 21 February 1805. Sentenced to 7 years transportation
Source:
Convict Settlement
Details:
12 lashes punishment for running from the settlement - taken down for discovering the abode of bushrangers
Place:
King Street, Sydney
Details:
Free by servitude. Builder aged 50
Details:
Absconded from Newcastle settlement
Details:
Carpenter at Newcastle. To be sent to Sydney with his concubine
Details:
On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle
Details:
On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle
Details:
Benjamin Waterhouse, former mate of the Lady Nelson killed by natives near Port Stephens
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632
Details:
Benjamin Waterhouse tried Admiralty Sessions 16 January 1805. Sentenced to 14 years transportation
Source:
UK, Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849. Ancestry
Details:
Benjamin Waterhouse age 17. Tried Admiralty Sessions London 16 January 1805. Sentenced to 14 years transportation. Admitted to the Captivity from the Portland, Langston Harbour 26 January 1805. Sent to the Fortune 9 June 1806
