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Item: 43558
Surname: Connor
First Name: Patrick
Ship: Asia 1824 (?)
Date: 1828
Place: Upper Hunter
Source: 1828 Census
Details: Watchman to William Carter at Piercefield. Note - no prisoner by the name of Patrick Connor in the indents


 
Item: 32906
Surname: Porter
First Name: James
Ship: Asia 1824 to Van Dieman's Land
Date: 1847 14 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Ticket of leave cancelled. Absent from district


 
Item: 31607
Surname: Porter
First Name: James
Ship: Asia 1824 to VDL; Sarah 1837 to VDL
Date: 1847 26 May
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Obtained Ticket of Leave


 
Item: 167851
Surname: Porter
First Name: James
Ship: Asia 1824 to VDL; Sarah 1837 to VDL
Date: 1840 - 1844
Place: -
Source: State Library of NSW. Autobiography 1840 - 1844 written at Norfolk Island
Details: James Porter was born in London in about 1800. He was sent to sea at an early age and spent some time in Chile. In 1821 he was convicted of stealing and sentenced to transportation for life. He arrived in Hobart the following year on the Asia. After several attempts to escape he was sent to the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. In 1834, with nine other convicts, he seized the brig Frederick and sailed her to Chile. They landed at Valdivia where they assumed new identities as shipwrecked sailors. In 1836 Porter was arrested, returned to England, and transported again to Tasmania, arriving in 1837 on the Sarah. He was sentenced to death for piracy, but the sentence was commuted and he was transported to Norfolk Island. After four years of good behaviour he was transferred to the mainland. In May 1847 he absconded from Newcastle, supposedly on the brig Sir John Byng. He was never heard of again



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