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Arrived from England on Wednesay 23 December 1818 with 180 male prisoners. Captain Craigie. Surgeon Superintendent Dr. Roylance R.N
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Attached to Light house. Charged with having property in his possession believed to be stolen. Discharged
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions, Bench Books, 1833-1836 (Ancestry)
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Assigned to William Cromarty, pilot. Charged with getting liquor at a public house without a pass...Constable William Anthony testified....Last Wednesday night at nine oclock I went with constable Rouse to Mr. Hewson s public house. I saw the prisoner come out with some spirits in a tumbler. I should suppose about a gill. Constable Rouse asked what he did there he said Mr. Hewson had served him with a glass of rum. The prisoner in defence said that he put Mr. Hewson on board the steam packet on Wednesday about four or five oclock in the afternoon. Mr. Hewson told him to come to his hosue and he would given him and his companion a gill of rum. I went to Mr. Hewson s about nine oclock in the evening when Mr. Hewson served me at the bar with a gill of rum. I did not receive any money from Mr. Hewson for putting him on board the steamer. Admonished and discharged, this being his first offence and his master having given him a good character
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John (?Joseph)
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Miner from Derbyshire aged 39. 5' 3 1/2"; hazel eyes, brown hair, fair ruddy compl., Absconded from the Mineral Surveyor's dept. 5th time of running
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Assigned to John Patton
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Attached to the patrol boat crew. Charged with getting rum from a public house. Sentenced to 50 lashes
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Assigned to the Mineral Surveyors Department
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per Elizabeth Henrietta
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On monthly returns of prisoners punished at Newcastle
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On list of prisoners removed from Newcastle to Pt. Macquarie
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1st to 31st January 1823
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Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly return of Corporal Punishments
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Sentenced to 50 lashes for making away with his slop shoes
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John (Joseph)
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On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle per Lady Nelson
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John (Joseph)
Source:
Convict Settlement
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Punished for running from the settlement
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Colonial Secretary Papers. State Records of NSW Special Bundles
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Runaway from Port Macquarie. On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle. Sentencedto 25 lashes for destroying the blankets in the gaol
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Convict recently received into Sydney Gaol from Newcastle; to be issued with slop clothing
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Runaway from Port Macquarie; sentenced to Macquarie Harbour, VDL
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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Lewis Collins per Neptune, John Hart per Isabella, William Betts per Hadlow, John Marney per Elizabeth, William Bond per Earl St. Vincent and Bernard Wood per Chapman, all runaways from Port Macquarie....James Croft, keeper of His Majestys Gaol at Newcastle states that when the above prisoners were placed under my charge I supplied them with some blankets as they were naked. They have since converted the blankets to various purposes making bags, and cutting off strips to bind round their legs. The Woollen they now have wrapt round their legs if part of the blankets. James Crofts further states - I found a rope on Lewis Collins the day before yesterday. I asked him where he got it. He refused to tell me but said he meant to sell it. I had heard that the signal halyard had been stolen from the cutter Eclipse - I have no doubt the rope I found on him belongs to that vessel...Sentences - Lewis Collins 50 lashes. The others 25 lashes each
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On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle per Elizabeth Henrietta
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Convict Indents (Ancestry)
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Tried at Leicestershire 25 March 1818 and sentenced to transportation for life. Age 21. 5ft 5in, light brown hair hazel eyes..