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168585
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Barossa 1839
Date: 4 January 1843
Place: Newcastle
Source: Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930; Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757.
Details: William Brown, William Castles and Robert Lindey all admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland for being out of their irons. Sent to Hyde Park Barracks


204321
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Barossa 1839
Date: 21 May 1847
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details: William Brown, gardener from Scotland. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Berrima. To be returned to Berrima


20887
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Countess of Harcourt
Date: 1833 9 May
Place: Maitland
Source: SG
Details: Obtained Ticket of Leave


196747
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Countess of Harcourt 1828
Date: 1828
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 669
Details: William Brown aged 25. Porter and labourer from Manchester. Tried at Manchester 13 January 1827. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing jewelry. Assigned to Catherine Hunt at Patrick Plains on arrival. Note - brother of John Brown who arrived on the same ship


208693
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Emma Eugenia 1838
Date: 7 December 1860
Place: Maitland gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details: William Brown, labourer from Northamptonshire. Admitted to Maitland gaol from Paterson. To be sent for trial at the quarter sessions


13807
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: England 1826
Date: 1832 14 June
Place: Maitland
Source: SG
Details: Baker. Assigned to James Cox


175198
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: England 1826
Date: 9 September 1851
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Roll: 757. Ancestry
Details: Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Sentenced to 1 month hard labour for being an idle and disorderly person


182678
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: England 1826
Date: 9 February 1833
Place: Invermein
Source: Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details: William Brown per ship England, assigned to Major Druitt, charged with bushranging. John Temple, sergeant of the Mounted Police states - I apprehended the prisoner on Baldwins Creek at Liverpool Plains on the 5th instant. He had previously been apprehended by his overseer but got away from him. .....The prisoner states in his defence that he is free and when he went to his master near Penrith and made application for his Certificate he was told there was a Colonial Sentence recorded against him of 3 years which conviction not having been passed on him he considered it unjust and ran away.....The Bench find him guilty and direct him to be forwarded to the Principal Supt. of Convicts Office to be identified and dealt with


208188
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: England 1826
Date: 26 April 1860
Place: Maitland Gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details: William Brown, baker from London admitted to Maitland gaol from West Maitland. Sentenced to 1 month imprisonment


180664
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 6 November 1835
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions, Bench Books, 1833-1836 (Ancestry)
Details: William Brown per Exmouth, assigned to the A.A. Company, charged with theft. John Crawley assigned to the AA. Company testified....Last Wednesday night I baked two cakes, one of the cakes we had for supper and the other was put by . In the morning when I arose it was gone. I had nothing to eat before I went down the pit. I found the cake in the prisoners berth. Robert Nightingale assigned to the A.A. Company testified....that the prisoner told him that he had baked the bread. Nightingale was cook and did not see Brown baking the bread. Zachariah Meredith testified....Last Wednesday I was in the hut when the prisoner came into the hut. He asked me if I was asleep. I told him no he took a panickan and drank out of it. I did not see him bake any cakes. Prisoner remanded


180677
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 10 November 1835
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions, Bench Books, 1833-1836 (Ancestry)
Details: Assigned to the A.A. Company. Case resumed....James Steele testified.....Last Thursday morning the prisoner came to me and he told me that the cake Latham brought to me was his. Crawley said it was his. I told the prisoner it must br brought before the Magistrate. William Brown admonished and discharged


183965
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 7 March 1836
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
Details: Admitted to Newcastle gaol from the Police Office for examination. Sent to Goat Island 24 March 1837


34207
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Fortune 1806
Date: 1822 27 Feburary
Place: Newcatle
Source: CSI
Details: Convict runaway. Removed to Port Macquarie


167028
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Fortune 1806
Date: 31 May 1824
Place: Newcastle
Source: Colonial Secretary's Correspondence - Commandant Henry Gillman to Colonial Secretary
Details: William Brown Included in a list of 19 convicts transported to Newcastle who appear unaccounted for in the Returns from that Settlement and not in the last General Muster - Free by servitude. At Mr. McLeod's but not at this Settlement at the last General Muster


35132
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Isabella 1832
Date: 1836 18 June
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: SG
Details: Obtained Ticket of Leave


194168
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Isabella 1832
Date: March 1832
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 681
Details: William Brown age 24. Tailor, good. Native place Northampton. Married with 2 chidlren. Tried at Peterborough 29 June 1831. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing pork. T/L 36/1143


93266
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Kennedy 1818 (?)
Date: 1831 19 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: NGE
Details: Native of Waterford. Tobacconist. Free by Servitude. Committed for trial by Luskintyre bench for committing a rape on a child under 10 yrs. Forwarded to Sydney gaol 11 April. Conduct in gaol very indifferent


34208
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Lord Eldon 1817
Date: 1823 13 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: Servant of Mr. Sinclair. Permitted to proceed to Newcastle per Elizabeth Henrietta


156428
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Lord Lyndoch 1833
Date: 1842 22 December
Place: Invermein
Source: Australasian Chronicle
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave


84702
Surname: Brown
First Name: William
Ship: Lord Melville 1830
Date: 1851 30 July
Place: Cassilis
Source: MM
Details: Ticket of leave cancelled for being absent from district