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Item: 166758
Surname: Edwards
First Name: William
Ship: Minerva 1824
Date: 1824
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents (Ancestry)
Details: Educated for the bar. Tried in Cape town 4th May 1824 and sentenced to 7 years transportation. Native of North Wales. 5ft 8 3/4 in, hazel eyes, brown hair, rather bald. Brown complexion. Remarkably well behaved on the voyage. Assigned to Port Macquarie on arrival.


 
Item: 194843
Surname: Edwards
First Name: William
Ship: Minerva 1824
Date: 22 November 1824
Place: Sydney Cove
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
Details: William Edwards age 41. Educated for the Bar. Native place North Wales. Tried at Cape Town 4 May 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Remarkably well behaved on the voyage out. Sent to Port Macquarie on arrival


 
Item: 163246
Surname: Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name: William (Alexander)
Ship: Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Date: 31 December 1824
Place: -
Source: Hobart Town Gazette
Details: WILLIAM EDWARDS alias LOOKAYE. It appears that his real name is Alex ander Lookaye : that he came out to this Colony a convict for life in the Ship Atlas, and on his arrival here in October 1819, he was sent to Newcastle for twelve months, for having preferred false charges against the Surgeon Superintendent and master of the ship: that he was received from Newcastle with a bad character on the 21st of February 1821 ; and employed at Head Quarters as an overseer of light works, in consequence of having been hurt on the arm whilst at Newcastle ; but during his overseership he abused the confidence reposed in him ; that he was dismissed in consequence, and put to work in a labouring gang: that he was subsequently a government servant to the late Mr. Solicitor Wylde, from whose service he absconded, and was advertised among the runaways of the 8th December, 1821. It would seem that shortly after this period he effected his escape from hence to Batavia, and that he proceeded from thence to the Isle of France, where he contrived to get introduced to the Chief Justice, and to get appointed a notary public, when he heard of the arrival of Mr. Commissioner Bigge at the Cape of Good Hope. It appears that during the time Mr. Bigge was executing his Commission of Inquiry here, Lookaye was one of the persons from whom he derived much of that erroneous information contained in his report ; and that having contracted an itch for political intrigue, he thought the Cape afforded during the stay of the Commissioner, a fit scene for this purpose. He accordingly left the Isle of France, carrying off with him some valuable MSS belonging to the Chief Justice of that Island, and soon, restored himself to the Commissioner's recollection. It is supposed that the marked, countenance which the Commissioner bestowed on him led to an advantageous matrimonial alliance with a Dutch lady of the Cape, with whom it is said he obtained 12,000 dol. The obnoxious line of conduct the Commissioner pursued towards the Governor General, Lord Charles Somerset, and the representations which he is understood to have forwarded to England against this nobleman, are supposed to have been founded principally on information derived from Lookaye; whose career it appears was suddenly cut short by a private libel which he published concerning his Lordship. For this, by the sentence of a Dutch Court, he has been transported to this Colony for seven years; no great hardship on him, considering that he was already, by virtue of the sentence of a British Court, a prisoner for life. This conviction, and the exposures consequent on it, have, it is said, completely disconcerted the Commissio er of Inquiry. He has been obliged to confess that in listening to this man he acted upon evidence unworthy of credit, and to make a complete recantation of his past conduct; and to complete his chagrin, public fetes have been given to the Governor General on the victory thus gained by him over the Commissioner and, his party, by all the respectable Inhabitants of Cape Town. The strangest part of this business, however, is that Mr. Commissioner denies all connection or acquaintance with him previous to his arrival at the Cape; and, that when the Minerva left that place it was not posiively known, though some vague surmises were afloat on the subject that Edwards alias Lookaye had ever been in this colony.


 
Item: 163247
Surname: Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name: William (Alexander)
Ship: Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Date: 26/27 November 1824
Place: -
Source: CSI
Details: On list of convicts transported to Port Macquarie per "Sally"; listed as Edwards alias Alexander Loo-KayeRe permission for wife to proceed to Port Macquarie


 
Item: 163248
Surname: Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name: William (Alexander)
Ship: Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Date: 15 February 1825
Place: Port Macquarie
Source: CSI
Details: At Port Macquarie. Enclosing letter to Mr Bigge (Reel 6063; 4/1785 p.105)


 
Item: 163249
Surname: Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name: William (Alexander)
Ship: Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Date: 24 December 1824
Place: -
Source: Hobart Town Gazette
Details: A Notary Public, named Edwards, has lately been transported from the Cape of Good Hope to New South Wales, for a Libel on the Governor, Lord Charles Somerset. But as the Sydney Papers which have reached us, do not contain either particulars of the offence or any comments on the criminal, we shall merely add that he arrived by the Minerva at Sydney; and, on afterwards being banished to Port Macquarie, made two ineffectual attempts at self-destruction


 
Item: 164159
Surname: Edwards (Lookaye) (Loo-kaye) (Kaye)
First Name: William (Alexander)
Ship: Atlas 1819; Minerva 1824
Date: -
Place: -
Source: The Oriental Herald Volume 4
Details: Poor Edwards, who has been condemned to seven years' transportation, for a proposed libel, without proof by witnesses of any sort, was sent to Robin Island, a place where convicts are usually sent to. The Minerva convict ship touched lately at Simon's Bay, on her way to New South Wales, on which Edwards was brought to Simon's Bay, to be put on board. Shortly after his arrival, he, in despair, cut bis throat; but being interrupted in the act, he did not accomplish his purpose.



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