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56177
Surname: Briggs
First Name: William
Ship: Speke 1826
Date: 1835 28 March
Place: Merton
Source: SG
Details: Obtained ticket of leave


57100
Surname: Briggs
First Name: William
Ship: Speke 1826
Date: 1849 1 August
Place: Scone
Source: MM
Details: Ticket of leave cancelled. Unable from ill health to support himself


137489
Surname: Briggs
First Name: William
Ship: Speke 1826
Date: 1841 3 December
Place: Merton
Source: SH
Details: Ticket of leave cancelled for drunkenness and disorderly conduct


163833
Surname: Briggs
First Name: William
Ship: Speke 1826
Date: 29 January 1838
Place: Newcastle
Source: Application to Marry
Details: William Briggs aged 33 arrived per 'Speke', application to marry Eliza Burke (free emigrant). Allowed


172376
Surname: Briggs
First Name: William
Ship: Speke 1826
Date: 20 October 1841
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Gaol Entrance Books. State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2009; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details: Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Muswellbrook. Ticket of leave cancelled. Sent to Hyde Park Barracks


195626
Surname: Briggs
First Name: William
Ship: Speke 1826
Date: 30 November 1826
Place: Sydney
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4011]; Microfiche: 662
Details: William Briggs age 23. Farmer s man from Lancashire. Tried in York 18 March 1826. Sentenced to transportation for life for highway robbery. Note - died 30 September 1862 at Parramatta


212088
Surname: Briggs (48th regt)
First Name: Private John
Ship: -
Date: December 1819 - March 1820
Place: Newcastle
Source: 48th soldiers - Muster and Pay Lists. Trove. /File 5971. AJCP Reel No: 3797-3798/48th Regiment: Northamptonshire
Details: Stationed at Newcastle and afterwards Hobart


15280
Surname: Bright
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1845 15 March
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Convicted of horse stealing. Awaiting sentence. Suspected of being one armed murderer Morgan


14751
Surname: Bright
First Name: David
Ship: -
Date: 1845 8 March
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: To be tried at Maitland Circuit Court 12 March for horse stealing


15359
Surname: Bright
First Name: David
Ship: -
Date: 1845 22 March
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Convicted of Horse stealing. Sentenced to 15 years transportation


16087
Surname: Bright
First Name: David
Ship: -
Date: 1845 20 March
Place: -
Source: SMH
Details: Sentenced to 15yrs transportation for horse stealing


202069
Surname: Bright
First Name: David
Ship: -
Date: 14 May 1844
Place: -
Source: NSW Govt. Gazette
Details: Notice - The individual named and described under, as having escaped from custody at Peel River, being charged with horse stealing, and there being reason to suspect him of having murdered a native black at Moreton Bay, all constables and others are hereby required to use their exertions towards his apprehension - David Bright, states himself a native of the colony, fresh complexion, light hair, tall slender person and has only one arm, issued by F. Allman jun., 1st Commission of Crown Lands


168399
Surname: Bright
First Name: David
Ship: Dorset 1841
Date: 1845
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Gaol Description Books 1841 - 1848. Roll 759.
Details: Born in 1816. Lost left arm. 5ft 10 1/2in, slight build, fresh complexion.Admitted to Newcastle gaol


202068
Surname: Bright
First Name: David
Ship: Dorset 1841 (came free)
Date: 5 January 1845
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books
Details: David Bright, seaman from VDL. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Sydney, for trial. Forwarded to Darlinghurst gaol for transportation


15317
Surname: Bright
First Name: Edward
Ship: -
Date: 1845 15 March
Place: Big River
Source: MM
Details: Indicted for stealing a horse belonging to Thomas Hoskisson


144382
Surname: Bright
First Name: Esther
Ship: -
Date: 1856 20 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Baptisms p.60
Details: Daughter of George and Eliza Bright. Baptism


135326
Surname: Bright
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1854 4 February
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Signed address to Dr. Bowker on the occasion of Bowker's return to England


144381
Surname: Bright
First Name: George and Eliza
Ship: -
Date: 1856 20 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Baptisms p.60
Details: Master Mariner. Baptism of daughter Esther Bright


4818
Surname: Bright
First Name: James
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1835
Date: 1842 21 May
Place: Maitland
Source: HRG
Details: Ticket of Leave granted.


16088
Surname: Bright
First Name: James
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1835
Date: 1842 2 September
Place: Maitland
Source: GG
Details: Ticket of leave cancelled for prevarication in giving evidence