Source:
The Convict Ships - Charles Bateson
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Master Henry Moore; 280 male convicts
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Arrival of the 'Fortune' on 12th July, Captain Henry Moore, with 242 male convicts and a military guard of 27 rank and file commanded by Ensign Mullin of the 8th Veterans. Departed 28th January in company with the Porpoise and Alexander and storeship Lady Madeline Sinclair. Arrived at Rio 11th April and departed there 30th April. Lost 3 convicts and a soldier on the passage
Source:
State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632
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Tried in Lancaster 29 March 1804. Sentenced to 14 years transportation
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Free by Servitude
Source:
The Lancaster Gazette
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Joseph Bather for burglary tried and the Lancaster Assizes and condemned. Recommended to mercy by the jury
Surname:
Bather (Baither)
Source:
CSI (Reel 6003; 4/3492 p.112)
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Estramina"
Surname:
Bather (Baither)
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(Reel 6003; 4/3492 p.208)
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Endeavour"
Surname:
Bather (Baither)
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Absconded from Newcastle settlement..
Surname:
Bathers (Baithers)
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Absconded from Newcastle on Christmas Day. After wandering lost for 3 weeks. Stripped and maltreated by the natives and taken to Broken Bay
Source:
The 1788 - 1820 Associations Pioneer's Register
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Born c 1775 Lancashire. Spouse Elizabeth Buffett. Issue 1). James b. 1807 married Bridget Lynch. 2). John b. 1810. 3). Thomas b. 1813 married Sarah Fernance. 4)Joseph b. 1814 married Sarah Woodbury. 5) Benjamin b. 1816 married Susannah Craft. 6) George b. 1817 married Mary Lynch 7) William b. 1819 married Sarah Carpenter. Joseph Bridge died at Moreton Bay 15 Feb 1829
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State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632
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Joseph Bridge, tried at Lancaster Assizes 11 August 1804. Sentenced to transportation for life
Source:
Convict Settlement
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Punished for refusing work, insolence to overseer and taking to the bush
Source:
Colonial Secretary Index
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Lady Nelson" (Reel 6006; 4/3498 p.161)
Source:
Colonial Secretarys Papers. Special Bundles
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Commutation Warrant - Having been found guilty in the Criminal Court of felon on 25 July of felony and received sentence of death; on account of some favourable circumstances in mitigation of his offence Governor Macquarie granted a pardon for his crime on condition that he remain a convict in NSW and work at hard labour for the remainder of his life
Source:
Colonial Secretary Papers
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On list of prisoners transported to Port Macquarie
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632
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John Brown sentenced 12 September 1804 Middlesex Gaol Delivery, to 7 years transportation
Source:
Colonial Secretary Papers. Copies of Letters Sent Within the Colony
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John Brown together with James Yates, Benjamin Risby, John Gorman, Thomas Sim, Richard Williams, William Blackburn, John McCartney, James Gossip and James Woodley all escaped from Port Macquarie penal settlement where they had been under sentence of transportation; when captured they were to be transported to Macquarie Harbour VDL to serve out their original sentences
Source:
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
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JOHN BROWN, alias CATCH ME IF YOU CAN , was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 14th of September , a one-pound Bank-note , the property of John Wheatley. Prisoner s defence. I was not in his shop at all, I was coming along the street; they cried out stop thief; I am innocent of the charge, they knocked me down, I asked them what was the matter, they said I had robbed him; they would not hearken to me, they said I was the thief; I said I was not, I was going to Deptford; I am a seafaring man, and have not a friend in the world. GUILTY , aged 31. Transported for seven years .
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Convict runaway. Removed to Port Macquarie
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Correspondence - Commandant Henry Gillman to Colonial Secretary
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William Brown Included in a list of 19 convicts transported to Newcastle who appear unaccounted for in the Returns from that Settlement and not in the last General Muster - Free by servitude. At Mr. McLeod's but not at this Settlement at the last General Muster
