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J ohn
Rawlins
Bricklayer from Hampshire
convicted of stealing brass taps. Tried at Wiltshire Quarter Sessions
and sentenced to transportation for 7 years. Obtained ticket of
leave in 1842.
Richard Rawson
24 year old
father of two from Yorkshire who was convicted of stealing poultry.
In
August 1839 the Government Gazette recorded that Rawson had been
apprehended after absconding from the bridge party at Anvil Creek near
Maitland. His description was posted -
Wheelwright and house carpenter and
sawyer aged 30 from Yorkshire. 5' 6 1/4"; ruddy complexion; brown hair,
hazel eyes, mole on right breast bone, tattoos.
James Thomas Richards
Twenty one year old
waterman convicted of robbing a till. Assigned to Richard Sharpe at
Windsor. He also served a colonial sentence at Norfolk Island.
Granted a
Ticket of Leave
for the Goulburn district in
1847.
John Richards
Married copper miner from Cornwall convicted of
stealing a letter seal in March 1835.
His description from the indent -
Height: 5’4”
Complexion:
Dark sallow
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel
grey
Particular
marks
Scar upper
part of nose, another inner corner of right eyebrow, ship right breast, sun,
half moon, stars, INRA inside lower right arm; man woman MDIR inside lower left
arm; large scar outside left leg.
John Richards was assigned to the
Australian
Agricultural Company at Newcastle on arrival. The work was
arduous and over the next few years he was punished many times for
absconding and failing to do his allotted tasks.
Select here to read some of the punishments recorded in the Newcastle
Bench Books
Henry Robinson
Twenty Five
year old peddler from Middlesex. Convicted of stealing a watch at Surry
Quarter Sessions 8th September 1834
His description
in the ship indent
included:
Nose short, eyebrows partially meeting, 11 dots and +
back of left hand, blue spot back of middle finger of same. 2 round
scars outside small left leg.
He was assigned to
Crawford Logan Brown
at Dungog in 1837
David Rose
Sixty year old bargeman from Somersetshire. Convicted in March 1835 and
sentenced to transportation for life.
Ticket of leave issued for Scone in January 1844.
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