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Inquest on the bodies of two men who lost their lives on board the Eleanor
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The ship Eleanor arrived from England with the Machine Breakers. To be taken up by Government to convey prisoners to penal settlements - 200 prisoners were incarcerated in the Phoenix Hulk and more in the gaol.
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The male prisoners by the Eleanor who form part of those convicted for the late riots in England, were landed on Monday morning. 'As fine a body of men as ever set foot on Australian shores from a convict ship and were nearly all assigned to individuals up the country
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Portsmouth to Port Jackson
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Missionary Register by Church Missionary Socity
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Rev. John Christian Simon Hadnt, late of the German Mission at Liberia embarked at Portsmouth on the 'Eleanor' convict ship. Convicts on the Eleanor sentenced to Transportation under Special Commissions and a passage granted to Mr. Handt with a view of providing religious instruction for the exiles during the voyage
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Assigned to Thomas Bartie
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Kent, David and Townsend, Norma.,The Convicts of the Eleanor; Protest in Rural England, New lives in Australia. The Merlin Press 2003
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Died near Narrabri in 1887
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Granted Absolute Pardon
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 679
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William Adams age 35. Married with 5 children. Native place Hants. Shepherd, drover, woodman, reaps, mows and well sinker. Tried at Winchester 18 December 1830. Sentenced to 14 years transportation for machine breaking. Assigned to Thomas Bartie at Williams River on arrival
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Assigned to Francis Little
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Kent, David and Townsend, Norma.,The Convicts of the Eleanor; Protest in Rural England, New lives in Australia. The Merlin Press 2003
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Died near Scone aged 61, 16 October 1863.
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 679
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Robert Baker age 28. Married with 4 children. Native place Wiltshire. Shepherd, farm labourer. Tried at Salisbury 27 December 1830. Sentenced to 14 years transportation for machine breaking. Assigned to Francis Little at Hunter River on arrival
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Gosford (Brisbane Water) Court of Petty Sessions, Letter Books, 1826 - 1874 (Ancestry)
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Correspondence from Jonathan Warner to the Superintendent of Convicts...Sir, I have the honor to recommend to His Excellency the Governor the transfer of the ticket of leave of Cornelius Bennett to the Bathurst District. I beg leave to add that the prisoner lost his ticket on the 22nd September last the very day on which I delivered it to him, not more than a mile from hence as he was passing through a thick scrub; he has not been able to recover it since
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Granted Absolute Pardon
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Age 37. Ticket of leave holder
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 679
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Cornelius Bennett age 34. Married with 3 children. Native place Berks. Ploughs, reaps and milks. Tried at Reading 27 December 1830. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for machine breaking. Assigned to W.A. Steel at Bathurst on arrival
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Aged 26. Assigned to H.C. Sempill
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 679
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Charles Bulpitt age 25. Married. Native place Hants. Ploughs, milks, reaps and sows. Tried at Winchester 18 December 1830. Sentenced to transportation for life for machine breaking. Assigned to Hamlton C. Sempill in Sydney on arrival. Note - brother of John Bulpitt who arrived on the same vessel
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Granted Conditional Pardon