First Name:
Constable John
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Appointed honorary constable
Source:
1841 Census Index
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County Durham, Muswellbrook 0
Place:
Upper Hunter River
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
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Application to marry
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Bond. Application to marry Marianne Robinson
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
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Marriage of John Bartlett of St. Hiliers and Marianne Robinson of Newcastle
Source:
State Archives. Bound Indents. [4/4012]; Microfiche: 663 (Ancestry)
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Farmer's man age 31. Tried in Oxford 1st March 1826 and sentenced to transportation for life for picking pockets. Assigned to Col. Dumaresq on arrival
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
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Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Muswellbrook on a charge of felony. Sent for trial
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Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
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James Falloon per Captain Cook, assigned to Col. Henry Dumaresq, charged with neglect of duty, absence and drunkenness. James Kenny holding a ticket of leave employed by Col. Dumaresq as a yearly servant and George Ellis, free, employed as a yearly servant by Col. Dumaresq also charged. John Bartlett states - I am overseer on Col. Dumaresq s estate and on Wednesday morning after I rang the Bell for work, I went to the huts to turn the men out and I found Kenny and Falloon absent. I was ordered to go and look for them and I found them at Mr. Buchanans both drunk - and Ellis likewise there absent from his station. George Ellis acquitted. James Kenny makes no defence. The Bench find him guilty and mulct him 10 shillings to his master. James Falloon states in his defence that he was invited by John Wall who was left in charge of Mr. Buchanans property to go to him as he had received a letter from Belfast, he being a townsman, and that Docherty and Kenny accompanied him and that a free man of the name of Mossey was also in the hut. The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to receive fifty lashes but a letter being presented to the Bench from his Super in favor of the prisoner, the Bench remit the punishment and admonish the prisoner to be more cautious in future
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Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
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Simon Docherty per ship Bussorah Merchant, assigned to Captain William Dumaresq, charged with neglect of duty, absence and drunkenness....John Bartlett states - I am overseer on Col. Dumaresqs estate and on Wednesday morning after I rang the Bell for work I went to the huts to turn the men out and found the prisoner absent. I was ordered to go and look for him and found him at Mr. Buchanans place drunk. The prisoner states in his defence that John Wall gave him the spirits. The Bench find him guilty and sentence him to receive fifty lashes but remit the punishment on account of the favorable account given him by his overseer
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
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Robert Jones per ship Layton, assigned to Col. Henry Dumaresq, charged with neglect of duty. John Bartlett states - I am overseer on Col. Dumaresq s estate and on Sunday morning last the prisoner had taken his sheep out from the yard and in about two hours after the man who was looking for the horses found twenty eight of his sheep and brought them home and could not find the shepherd any where near the place where the sheep were found....The prisoner makes no defence. The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to receive thirty five lashes
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
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John Wall alias Johnstone per ship Waterloo, assigned to Mr. Cox, exchanged with Mr. Buchanan for the services of Joseph Merritt. Charged with harbouring Col. Dumaresq s servants and having spirits in his possession....John Bartlett states - I heard four of my masters servants were at Mr. Buchanan s and I went in search of them and found them there drunk. But the prisoner was not drunk though he was lazing alongside of one of them - at this time the prisoner was in charge of Mr. Buchanan s property and a free man William Mossey was in the hut at the time he was laying on a stretcher which behind the door but I could not say he was drunk. This was about eleven o clock in the morning last Wednesday week. And one of the party did not return home until after sundown and they appeared to have been fighting. Wall states that the men came to Mr. Buchanan s place on Tuesday night drunk and insisted upon his letting them into the hut - as they wanted to see Mossey. I told them Mossey was not in - but they said they would break open the door if I did not let them in - I opened the door and they came in with a quart pot in which they said they had some rum - when they told me they had spirits, I put them outside and shut the door - but they kept hammering at it until I was obliged to get up and let them in - I was alone and no men to protect the place or I should have gone and acquainted the farm constable - they told me Mossey had given them the spirits and there was no spirits drunk in the hut. I call upon William Mossey to prove the correctness of my statement....William Mossey being called states - I met three of Col. Dumaresq s servants on the road. I gave one of them, Kenny, a bottle rum which they drank in my presence. Kenny then asked me for another and said he would return it in kind. I gave it to him. I lent them a quart pot and I know nothing more and I went to Mr. Buchanan s next day about 12 o clock, but I saw no men there. He denies having been at Mr. Buchanan s previously drinking with Col. Dumaresq s servants. Peter McVeay states - I am overseer to Mr. Buchanan and on Wednesday week last when I returned home I went into the hut with John Bartlett but did not see William Mossey in the hut....One of my men was there and four of Col. Dumaresq s laying in the hut together with Wall and Henry Shoulder who was laying behind the door and Barret was laying outside, and I did not see Mossey until next day about 12 o clock when I engaged him to go along with Wall to Goulburn River to collect cattle. The case remanded till next court day and William Mossey charged with illicitly selling spirits admitted on his own recognizance to appear whenever required
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
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Henry Smith per ship Mangles, under 7 year sentence, assigned to Col. Dumaresq, charged with breach of trust and pilfering. John Bartlett states - I am overseer to Col. Dumaresq., and the prisoner is employed as a tinman; on Wednesday last I gave the prisoner six sheets of tin to make pots and on Thursday he brought me back 6 quart pots. I asked him if he had any tin left he said he had part of a sheet. I told the constable to take charge of him until I went and searched his hut and in the prisoners berth under an old bag I found the tin articles now produced before the court but I could not find the part of a sheet of tin he said he had. I then sent for the prisoner and asked him where it was. He pointed to a plank laying on the ground and said it was under that. On the plank being lifted I found to sheets of tin. I asked him where the part of one was which he said he had. He replied that was all he had got. I took him before Mr. Wightman and he asked the prisoner what the things were made for he said for his own use. I have on other occasions weighed the tin issued to the prisoner - on one occasion I weighed him 6lbs and he brought back including the solder and rivets 4lbs in weight wrought up. The prisoner states in his defence that the overseer told him that if he behaved himself properly he would not be against his earning sixpence for himself if he could have the tin. And the articles now before the court is what he saved. I told the overseer I had some tin in the hut. I did not say how much. The Bench call upon the overseer Bartlett to state what permission was given to the prisoner to work for himself or to use any tin for his own purposes. The overseer replied I told him in the presence of Mr. Wightman that he was but a new hand in the country and to try and make the best of the tin and work it all up and I would not be against his doing a little job to earn himself a sixpence if he behaved himself. The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to fifty lashes.
Source:
Criminal Court Records. Muswellbrook Court of Petty Sessions, Letter Books, 1838-1851. Ancestry
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Correspondence re John Bartlett who had been previously recommended for a conditional pardon but had since proved himself unworthy of the indulgence
Surname:
Bartlett (Bartelett)
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
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John Wall alias Johnstone, remanded - the following depositions were put in and read - from James Falloon, James Kenny, holding a T/L and Simon Dogherty per Bussorah Merchant, employed by Col. Dumaresq. Patrick Goggin holding a T/L, stated he was in Mr. Buchanan s hut on 22 January last. Some time in the night three men from Col. Dumaresqs came to the hut and wished to be let in. Wall told them to go away four or five times. They said they would not and they would see him buggered first. Wall let them in and they were quite drunk. Next morning the overseer and Bartelett came. When Bartelett asked Falloon what brought him there, when he told him to go and bugger himself and the Colonel too. There was no liquor. There was a free man there named Mossey gathering cattle. He had liquor but not in the house to my knowledge. I did not see Mossey in the house that night but saw him next morning about nine or ten o clock and never saw again that day but I saw him the day after. Recently Mr. Veay and Bartelett coming to the hut it was after I had seen Mossey it might be about eight or nine o clock in the morning. My berth is on the right hand as you enter the door way between the door and the fireplace when Bartelett came in Falloon was laying on my bed and lay there for some time after. Mossey might have been in the hut without my seeing him. I am very unwell and cannot move about and cannot state particularly as to time. I did not see any liquor in the house. The men had quart pots in their hands at the table. I cannot say whether they brought any quart ports with them or not. I cannot say that spirits were not drunk in the hut. I did not see any. I was laying on my berth. It is on one side of the house and they were sitting on the other. The house is about 14 feet wide....John Bartelett states that when he went into Mr. Buchanans hut on Wednesday morning the 23 January last....I looked into the inner room, the overseer Mr. Veay being with me and saw a person laying on a berth behind the door, the overseer shook him and asked who he was when the man said it is me. Oh! said Mr. Veay it is you William is it. I said its Mossey. Mr. Veay said he is a quiet boy. I swear to the best of my belief that it was Mossey. Wall again states in his defence that no spirits were drunk in the place and that the men came in a forcible manner and demanded admittance and what I stated in my former statement is true and correct. Case remanded
