Details:
Stone Cutter. Employed by Alexander McLeod
Details:
Stonemason. On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per Elizabeth Henrietta
Place:
Durham/ Northumberland
Details:
Convict assigned to Benjamin Davis
Source:
State Records NSW. Colonial Secretary's Correpondence. Special Bundles, 1794-1825. Series 898
Details:
On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle. Assigned to Government. Sentenced by the Wallis Plains Bench to 100 lashes for there being a strong suspicion of robbing Dr. Moran's farm. William Dunn, Nerean Allen and Charles Day punished similarly for the same reason
Place:
Government Cottage, Pattersons Plains
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
149. Ralph Smith per Ocean, assigned servant to Timothy Nowlan and Peter Brady per Dorothy assigned servant to Benjamin Davis charged with stealing a sheep the property of Timothy Nowlan...Edward Keely, overseer to Mr. Nowlan states....On Thursday 15th June, I missed a sheep out of my masters flock. Benjamin Davis states...Last Sunday I was looking for some ducks which I had reason to suppose were stolen from my yard and in the search I found part of a sheep and having ascertained that Mr. Nowlan had lost one, I informed him of what I had found; the mutton could not have been where I found it without the knowledge of the prisoners...John Ward, servant to Mr. Nowlan states....I had charge of my masters flock of sheep; on the day the one was missed, I saw Smith wake one out of the flock and kill it; he charged me not to mention what I had seen to any one. Smith made no defence. Brady denies any knowledge of the transaction. Sentence - Ralph Smith to be sent to Port Macquarie for the remainder of his original sentence. Peter Brady to be returned to government
