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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z L
John Lake John Lake, a 21 year old cowman from Chatham was indicted for stealing a cow valued at 9 shillings belonging to John Salter. John Salter was a respectable farmer from Notting Barns in Kensington who had placed his cow and its calf safely in one of his fields in the Harrow Road on 15 January 1835. This was the last he had seen of the cow. On the 19th January, John Lake and his accomplice, Francis Davis aged 15 took the animal to Mr. Barker, a salesman in Smithfield, saying that a Mr. Westbrook had requested Barker to dispose of the cow. They left the cow with Barker for the afternoon and in the evening returned to find that the cow had not yet been sold. They decided to take the cow and leave in at the green yard at Paddington. Here they claimed that it was a stray cow and therefore claimed a reward for taking care of it. The keeper of the yard refused to reward them however did give them 1 shilling. For this Lake abused the keeper and told him if they had taken it to Kensington they would have got 5 shillings for it. This led to the two thieves' undoing as it led to the discovery of the owner. Lake and Davis were subsequently taken in to custody and on the 2nd February 1835 were placed before the bar at the Old Bailey. Francis Davis managed to produce several people who could give him a good character. This worked very much in his favour as he was acquitted of the charge, the jury believing him to have been in the dupe of the older Lake. Lake was sentenced to transportation for life for his part in the theft.
James Lawson Groom from Yorkshire. Certificate of Freedom issued in 1842
Richard Lee Married Horse dealer from Northamptonshire. Assigned to John Brown, Bathurst
James Leverton Fifteen year old farmers boy. One of five convicts from the Royal Sovereign who was assigned to Thomas Icely at Bathurst.
John Ludlow was born in Compton Dando. He was sentenced to transportation for life for housebreaking at the Somerset Assizes in March 1835. On arrival he was assigned W. Bayliss. In 1838 the following appeared in the New South Wales Government Gazette: Ludlow alias Ludwell, John per Royal Sovereign. aged 32. Somersetshire, marine, 5' 8 1/4 " sallow and pockpitted compl., brown hair, brown eyes, raised mole right side of upper lip, mermaid inside lower right arm, blue ring middle finger of right hand, and scar back of hand mark of a wound on left knee. absconded from J.H. Boughton, Paterson since 26th November. He was issued with a ticket of leave for the district of Paterson in 1844 and a conditional pardon in 1848.
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