Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 655
Details:
Edward Sweeny age 57. Reaper from Mayo. Tried at Phillips Town 18 March 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Assigned to Mr. Cobb on arrival
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 655
Details:
Michael Tallent age 16. Tobacco spinner from London. Tried in Dublin 2 April 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Sent to Carters Barracks on arrival.
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825.....
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
Details:
Assigned to Mr. Cory in the district of Newcastle
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 655
Details:
James Thornley age 30. Labourer from Drogheda. Tried 2 March 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Assigned to Mr. Archbold on arrival. Note - great impediment in his speech
Surname:
Thornley (Thornton)
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Place:
Woodville, Pattersons Plains
Details:
James Thornton age 21, stockman assigned to Alexander McLeod at Luskintyre
Surname:
Thornley (Thornton)
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825.....
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
Details:
Assigned to Alexander McLeod in the Newcastle district
Surname:
Thornley (Thornton) (Thorley)
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Details:
Obtained ticket of leave
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
Convict Indents.State Archives. Microfiche 655
Details:
Age 18. Occupation outdoor servant. Native place Suffolk. Tried in Dublin and sentenced to 7 years transportation. Assigned to Campbelltown district on arrival
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 136
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Paterson. Sent to Hyde Park Barracks for identification
Surname:
Villiers or Dennison
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
Warrants of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 1156; Item: [X30]
Details:
James Villers or Dennison age 18. Tried Dublin May 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for felony wearing apparel
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flyn, William Ward and John Austin, all in the service of the Australian Agricultural Company at Port Stephens charged with being at large without passes....Mr. George Muir, chief constable states - On Wednesday evening the prisoners were delivered to my custody by Constable George Higgins and a soldier of the Buffs who stated they had received them from Mr. Joseph Pennington, overseer and some native blacks at the 1st branch of the Hunter River. A letter from Mr. Joseph Pennington, a free settler, produced and read of which the following is a copy.....Leigh Farm, Hunters River, 14th November 1826...I beg leave to report that my overseer in junction with the following named black natives viz doughboy, Kennedy, Bremen, Taylor and Jemmy Murray, captured the five following named convict servants assigned to the A.A. Co., who ran from their service on Saturday evening last viz - Edward Flyn (Surry 4th), Samuel Harris (Norfolk), Patrick Hoy (Isabella), John Austin (Hebe) and William Ward (Ann and Amelia). I should conceive my overseer as well as the Blacks are entitled to some reward as a stimulus to future exertions and request they may be noticed as others are performing similar services, I am, Sir, Joseph Pennington......The prisoner being called on to account for their being absent from their assignments - Patrick Hoy states as follows - Our reason for leaving Port Stephens was for the purpose of proceeding to the nearest Magistrate to make our complaint - We were on the way to Newcastle when we met Mr. Pennington s overseer to whom we surrendered ourselves and accompanied him without objection altho we were five in number. Four of us belong to the same gang at Port Stephens and were employed in breaking up new ground. There were sixteen in the gang and every Monday morning one hundred rod per man was measured off for our weeks work. The ground was hard to work and we were not able to accomplish the task, upon one occasion 15 of the gang received 25 lashes each for not performing it. I escaped from being on the sick list, besides which it was sometimes the custom to stop our allowance of tea and sugar if the task was not completed. It is impossible to do 100 rod in a week on new ground such as we had to work. We tried to do it but could not. We have even got to work in the morning before the Bugle sounded for work to try what we could do but with our utmost efforts from day break to sun set we could not succeed. Our rations are good. We have no complaints on that account. Harris, Flyn and Ward corroborate this statement. John Austin states - I was employed with two others to put up fences, that is not my trade - I am a sawyer. We were tasked to do 20 rod of rail per week, to cut and split the stuff and mortice and put it up. It is more than any three men can do. On remonstrating with Mr. Dawson, he said we must do even more. Remanded for a further hearing
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Proceedings resumed relative to the five prisoners from Port Stephens - Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flynn, William Ward and John Austin - Alexander Green states - I am a constable at Port Stephens. I was sent by Mr. John Dawson to appear against the prisoners at this place if necessary, for absenting themselves. I saw the prisoners at work at Port Stephens on the 11th instant. On the following day they were missed from the settlement. I am not positive as to their task but I believe 16 rod to be the general task work per day at Port Stephens. Some men lately arrived there from Sydney have done the task to within about two rod. I have frequently heard the prisoners complain they could not do their task. If it is not performed they are generally punished on the Monday following for not completing it. There is not any charge against the prisoners that I am aware of except for running away. Mr. Joseph Pennington states - I have been at Port Stephens on the ground where I understand the prisoners were at task work but not since they commenced working on it. The usual task there is 18 rods per man per day. It is hard work certainly, but can be done. Their rations are superior to those usually given to Government servants. Thirteen rod per day would be hard work for a man on a government ration. But these men might do the task on the ration allowed them. This is my opinion. Prisoners remanded for further hearing
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
The five convicts absentees from Port Stephens ( Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flynn, William Ward and John Austin) having been brought before the court, it is ordered that they be returned to their assignment at Port Stephens under a proper escort and that a letter to the following effect be forwarded with them, addressed to Robert Dawson at that station.....Sir, The five convicts having been brought before us charged with the offence of having absconded from the Australian Agricultural Company s establishment at Port Stephens, and having attentively heard and weighed what they severally had to urge in their defence, and taken into consideration the task allotted to them, as testified in the affidavit of overseer McKeenan, find that certain circumstances connected with such task so far operate in their favour, as to induce us on the present occasion to allow the length of time they have been in confinement to be a sufficient punishment; they are therefore returned under a proper escort to your establishment. They have been duly warned of the certainty of corporal punishment being awarded should they at a future period again absent themselves without a written permission from a duly authorised person. We beg leave to hand you a Bench notice, which we shall feel obliged by your giving the utmost publicity to amongst those concerned. We have the honor to be Sir, Your obedient servants (Francis Allman, E.C. Close, George Brooks)....Bench Notice - Should any convict servant assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company be found at large in any of the districts of Hunters River on any pretence whatever without a written permission from a duly authorised person, the convict so found will be brought before the nearest Bench of Magistrates and punished as a runaway.
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
Warrants of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 1156; Item: [X30]
Details:
William Ward age 19. Tried at Drogheda at the Spring Assizes 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing 2 shirts
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Details:
Laborer. Imprisoned for 1mth
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Details:
Labourer assigned to Australian Agicultural Company
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 655
Details:
William White age 18. Errand boy from Co. Down. Tried Dublin 11 May 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Assigned to Penrith district on arrival
Ship:
Ann and Amelia 1825
Source:
Warrants of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 1156; Item: [X30]
Details:
William White age 18. Tried at Dublin May 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for felony of wearing apparel
