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Item: 62540
Surname: Crossley
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1823 27 March
Place: Sydney
Source: SG
Details: Died in Pitt Street yesterday se'night, Mr. George Crossley aged 75 years

 
Item: 77302
Surname: Crossley
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1808 11 April
Place: -
Source: HR NSW, Vol. VI, King and Bligh 1806, 1807, 1808.. pp. 580 - 581.
Details: Transported to Newcastle Coal mines for 7 years having been found guilty of perjury

 
Item: 77353
Surname: Crossley
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1810 9 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSL6002; 4/3490B pp.12, 13
Details: Lieutenant Lawson instructed to liberate George Crossley and all such other persons who had been banished to the Coal River subsequent to the removal of Mr. Bligh

 
Item: 37500
Surname: Crossley
First Name: George
Ship: Hillsborough 1799
Date: 1810
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: Evidence considered indispensable in proving charges against Capt. Bligh. to be liberated from Newcastle and returned to Sydney

 
Item: 37501
Surname: Crossley
First Name: George
Ship: Hillsborough 1799
Date: 1823
Place: -
Source: CSI
Details: Lawyer. Died in 1823. Worked in the coal mines when at Newcastle

 
Item: 161718
Surname: Crossley
First Name: George
Ship: Hillsborough 1799
Date: 31 May 1815
Place: New South Wales
Source: Selection of reports and papers of the House of Commons: Prisons., Volume 51. Letter from Mr. Justice Bent to the Governor
Details: .........The individuals who have practised, or who claim a right to be admitted as attornies, are, George Crossley, Edward Eagar, GeorgeChartres, Michael Robinson,and William Fleming. With regard to their characters, George Crossley is a man notorious in the annals of Westminster, and his infamous and base character is well known to most practisers in His Majesty's courts at home; he was transported to this country at an advanced period of life, being convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury; and it was matter of congratulation at Westminster Hall, when he met the punishment due to his misconduct. His behaviour in this colony has been far from meritorious, and he has repeatedly deserved exclusion from that practice which he had heretofore been permitted to have...........

 
Item: 161719
Surname: Crossley
First Name: George
Ship: Hillsborough 1799
Date: 1796
Place: London
Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
Details: CROSSLEY, GEORGE (1749-1823), attorney and convict, was born in London, where he was articled and in 1771 was admitted as an attorney and solicitor. In the same year he was imprisoned for a civil debt for twelve months, notwithstanding his claim of immunity as a solicitor. After practising in Adelphi Terrace, London, for twenty-four years, in February 1796 he was charged with forging the will of Rev. Henry Lewin for the benefit of Lady Briggs, thus defrauding the heir-at-law............


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