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# Surname First Name Ship Date Location Reference
             
132890 Chitty Constable Robert - 1834 29 September Brisbane Water SH
             
  Stephen Curran, free, appointed constable in the room of Robert Chitty who was dismissed
 

 
5310 Chitty Robert - - Cabbage Tree Bay Reid's Mistake, Keith H. Clouten
             
  Convict constable. Removed from position due to mis-conduct.
 

 
52908 Chitty Robert - 10 December 1840 Dungog SH
             
  Assigned to Matthew Chapman. Joined the Jew boy gang (bushrangers)
 

 
108211 Chitty Robert - 1836 10 February Port Stephens GG 1836
             
  Scourger. Absconded with Eliza Welsh 29th December 1835
 

 
15892 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1840 30 November Hunter Valley An Organised Banditti
             
  Member of the Jew boy Gang. Scourger
 

 
44590 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1841 25 February - SC. R v. Shea and others
             
  Had been assigned to Mr. Chapman
 

 
52780 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1840 9 December Williams River G.G.
             
  Sawyer and soldier. Absconded from Mathew Chapman
 

 
52786 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1840 30 December Upper Williams River GG
             
  Apprehended after absconding from Mathew Chapman
 

 
54304 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 18 March 1841 Sydney Australasian Chronicle
             
  EXECUTION.-On Tuesday morning the six bushrangers, James Everett, Robert Chitty, John Marshall, Richard Glanville, John Shea, and Edward Davies, who were convicted at the last criminal sittings of the wilful murder of John Graham, at Scone, on the 21st December last, all paid the forfeit of their lives by expiating their offences on the scaffold. An immense crowd was collected to witness the last awful scene of these men’s career, as they had been long notorious for the many burglaries which they had committed in various parts of the interior, but chiefly in the Hunter's River district. At a few minutes past nine o’clock the wretched men were conducted from their cells to the area in front of the drop, where they knelt for some time in the exercise of their devotions. Chitty, Everett, Marshall, and Glanville, were attended by the Rev. Mr. Cowper and the Rev. John Elder; Shea by the Very Rev. Air. Murphy ; and Davies, being of the Jewish persuasion, was attended by Mr. Isaacs, the Jewish Rabbi. They all appeared to be deeply impressed with a full sense of their awful situation, and paid the greatest attention to the instruction and prayers of their spiritual attendants. After about ten minutes spent in devotion they arose, and Everett in a very hurried manner ran up the steps leading to the scaffold, and was followed by Chitty, Glanville, and Marshall; they all four in a loud and clear voice sung the first verse of the hymn commencing ‘Awake my soul, and with the sun.’ Shea was the next to ascend, and Davies, who was dressed in a suit of mourning, was the last to ascend; he cast his eye with a keen penetrating glance upon the crowd assembled in the gaol yard as if to recognise any acquaintance, and then with a firm step mounted the ladder. A few minutes more were spent in devotion, and then the ropes were adjusted and the caps drawn over their faces; they still continued (particularly Everett and Glanville) in loud and apparently fervent prayer till the bolt was drawn, and they were launched into the presence of their Maker. They all died almost without a struggle. They had long been a terror to the inhabitants in the district of the Hunter, and it is to be hoped that awful example which has been made of them will deter others from the pursuing such law
 

 
64134 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1829 22 September Brisbane Water SG
             
  Appointed constable and scourger in room of Charles Kegs, deceased
 

 
76335 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1834 30 June Sydney Application to marry
             
  Aged 26. Application to marry Mary Anne Pearce. Clergy Rev. Hill
 

 
108006 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1836 13 January Dungog GG 1836
             
  Sawyer from Windsor aged 27. 5' 4 1/2"; ruddy freckled compl., light brown hair, hazel eyes, red mark GSRC and anchor on right arm, several red marks on left arm. Absconded from Police establishment at Dungog 29 Dec
 

 
108107 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1836 3 February Port Stephens GG 1836
             
  Sawyer and soldier. Scourger in Port Stephens district. Absconded when in charge of a female prisoner
 

 
127558 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1840 23 December Upper Williams River GG
             
  Sawyer and soldier aged 32. Joined 3 bushrangers and committed several robberies. Absconded from Matthew Chapman 30th November
 

 
127575 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1840 30 December Upper Williams River GG
             
  Apprehended after absconding from Matthew Chapman
 

 
158027 Chitty Robert Sophia 1829 1829 21 January - AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
             
  Age 21. No reading or writing. Single. Native of Windsor. Pit Sawyer and Soldier. Tried in Dublin and sentenced to 14 years transportation for desertion. Two prior convictions. Assigned to the department of public works on arrival
 

 
88370 Chitty (Bushranger) Robert - 1841 27 February Sydney FP
             
  Tried in the Supreme Court before the Chief Justice on 24th February 1841. Bushranger
 

 
44580 Chitty (Chetty) Robert Sophia 1829 1841 25 February St. Albans SC. R v. Shea and others
             
  Indicted for being present, aiding abetting and assisting the murder of John Graham
 

 

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