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National Portrait Gallery Online
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Walter Preston, engraver and convict, came to New South Wales aboard the Guildford in 1812. Convicted of highway robbery at the Old Bailey in 1811, he was sentenced to death, but this was commuted to transportation for life. On arriving in Sydney, he was assigned to the service of Absalom West, an ex-convict brewer and printer for whom Preston and another convict printmaker, Philip Slaeger, engraved the plates for Views of New South Wales, published by West in 1813 and 1814. Preston re-offended again and in early 1814 was sent to the penal settlement at Newcastle. In company with a convict named Francis Purcell, Preston absconded from Newcastle later that year, but was recaptured and returned to the settlement. Following James Walliss appointment to the command at Newcastle in June 1816, he commissioned Preston to produce a series of twelve engravings later published in Walliss An Historical Account of the Colony of New South Wales.
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UK Prison Hulk Registers (Ancestry)
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Age 33. Convicted of felony in London 5th December 1810. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Admitted to the Retribution Hulk on 27 March 1811. Transferred to the convict ship Guildford for transportation to NSW on 14 August 1811
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Zoortestoodo (Fortesto)
Source:
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
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ZOORTESTOODO SANTO and FRANCISCO PERARA were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 17th of November , a watch, value 2 l. 2 s. the property of George Morris , privately in his shop Perara's Defence. I never was in the shop, I bought the watch of another seaman. Santo's Defence. Perara desired me to go along with him to buy a watch, I did not know that he had stolen a watch nor what his intention was. SANTO, GUILTY, aged 33. PERARA, GUILTY, aged 20. Of stealing, but not privately . Transported for Seven Years ..
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On list of prisoners sentenced to Newcastle who arrived from Van Diemens Land
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Lady Nelson"
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On list of runaways from Newcastle
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Sent to Newcastle as prisoner per "Estramina"
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1812 29 August; 1813 22 March
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On lists of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Estramina"
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Sent to Newcastle and to be kept in irons
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Burials p.21
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Free pauper. Died in Newcastle aged 70. Burial
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Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
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Assigned to Mr. Mitchell at Newcastle
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Estramina"
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Lady Nelson" (Reel 6004; 4/3493 p.404)
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per Mary. Note - two prisoners by the name of John White by this ship (1) John White convicted at the Spring Assizes in 1811 at the Old Bailey, Middlesex. Employed as a stock man at Grose Farm. (2) John White tried London Gaol Delivery 31 October 1810. Sentenced to transportation for life
