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New Courts with civil
jurisdiction established & presided over by Mr. Justice Bent the Deputy Judge
Advocate |
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Mine shaft
commenced near the hospital in Watt Street, Newcastle |
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Schooner 'Governor Hunter' (owned by Mr. Nicholls)
aground on a sand beach near Newcastle |
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Arrival of Convict ship Wanstead, Master Henry Moore.
Departed England 21st August with 119 female prisoners. One,
Elizabeth Davies died on the passage out and another Ann Simkins,
drowned. |
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Thomas West who arrived on the Earl
Cornwallis in 1801 received a conditional pardon in consideration of his
general good conduct and character for sobriety and industry and in having
erected a water mill for the grinding of grain at Barcom Glen within two
miles of Sydney, being the first water-mill ever erected in the
vicinity of Sydney' (Caledonian Mercury 7 November 1814) |
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Apprehension of James Hardy Vaux who was attempting to escape
from the colony on the vessel Earl Spencer |
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First detachment of 73rd
regiment embarked for Ceylon on Earl Spencer |
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Arrival in the colony of 46th
Regiment under command of Lieutenant - Colonel Malle
MILITARY UNIFORMS OF BRITAIN AND THE EMPIRE - Britain; Australia; Canada; American Colonial; India; New Zealand; Africa - 1742 to the Present Time |
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Captain James Wallis of 46th
Regiment arrived per
General Hewitt. 266 convicts on the General Hewitt including artist Joseph Lycett,
architect Francis Greenway and John Smith of Newcastle.
Detachment of the
46th regt., commanded by Major Ogilvie. 35 convicts died on the passage out (Caledonian Mercury 7 November 1814) |
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Lieutenant Thomas Thompson of
46th regt., appointed Commandant at Newcastle |
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Road from Sydney to Liverpool
opened |
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A
detachment of the 46th Regiment embarked on board
the brig Endeavour for Newcastle to relieve the
detachment of 73rd on duty there. |
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Head quarters of 73rd Regiment
under Lieutenant O'Connell embarked for Ceylon on board
General Hewitt |
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Convicts escape from Newcastle Settlement on the 'Speedwell'....... |
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Lieutenant Skottowe publicly commended by Governor Macquarie
for his work and conduct at Newcastle penal settlement |
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Arrival of convict transport Three Bees - with 210 prisoners on board including Patrick
Riley later a Newcastle publican. |
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Explosion on board Ship Three Bees
while moored at the wharf in Sydney
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Thomas Hobby Coroner for
Windsor and also Newcastle |
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Bushrangers Dennis Donovan and William Alder who escaped from
Newcastle Penal settlement captured. Donovan received sentence of death |
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William Cox to build a road
across the Blue Mountains |
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Death of Captain Mathew
Flinders in England (1774 - 1814) |
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Arrived the convict ship Surrey I. Death toll after typhus fever
outbreak totalled 51
comprising 36 convicts, 11 officers and seamen and four soldiers |
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Arrival of the Broxbornebury convict ship from
Portsmouth,. Master: Thomas Pitcher. Passenger Jeffery Bent, Barrister at
Law, who was appointed Chief Justice. Brother of Ellis Bent, Judge-advocate |
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AUGUST
31
Naval ranking in 1829 |
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Death on the 31st ult., at Bath, Arthur Phillips Esq.,
Vice-Admiral of the Red, and the first Governor of Botany Bay (Liverpool Mercury 16 September 1814)
London Encyclopaedia By Thomas Tegg |
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Convict ship
Somersetshire I arrived with 199 male prisoners including James Clohesy. |
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Departure of Samuel Marsden
for New Zealand. |
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Francis Parcello and Walter
Preston, by the Guildford; John Cricks by the
Archduke Charles; Isaac Walker by the 1st
Gambier; John Lee by the 2nd Gambier; and Thomas Desmond
by the Atlas absented themselves from the lime burning gang at Newcastle
on the 25th of November
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DECEMBER 14
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Arrival of. Samuel Marsden at the Bay of Island
New Zealand |
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Francis Greenway advertising employment as an
architect in Sydney (Sydney Gazette) |
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