Free Settler or Felon?
| # | Family Name | First Name | Ship | Date | Location | Reference | Remarks |
| 19702 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1816 20 July | Newcastle | SG | Absconded from service |
| 61439 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1816 18 May | - | SG | Absconded from Newcastle settlement |
| 77208 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1804 28 November | Newcastle | HRA Series 1 vol. V, pp. 424 - 425 | Absconded from Newcastle settlement for the 2nd time. Supposed to have gone to the Hawkesbury |
| 77225 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1805 21 April | Newcastle | SG | Absconded from Newcastle three times. Captured and to be returned |
| 77246 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1805 22 December | Newcastle | SG | Absconded from Newcastle settlement. |
| 119989 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1804 16 December | - | SG | Escaped from Kings Town (Newcastle) and picked up near Broken Bay. Ordered to work in the gaol gang until return to Newcastle. Fled from Newcastle once before and endured excessive hardship. Ordered to be returned to Newcastle and given lenient punishment because of his distressing travels. |
| 119990 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1806 5 January | Sydney | SG | Escaped from Sydney gaol. Reward offered for capture |
| 119992 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1812 1 February | ? Sydney | SG | Absconded from employment of L. May |
| 119993 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1813 23 January | Hawkesbury | SG | Hired servant of Thomas McKenna at the Hawkesbury. Absconded |
| 119997 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1816 21 September | Newcastle | SG | Absconded from Newcastle. Still at large |
| 143236 | Desmond | Thomas | - | 1867 | Fordwich | Bailliere's Official Postal Directory p. 116 | Farmer |
| 38722 | Desmond | Thomas | Atlas 1802 | 1814 3 November | Newcastle | CSI | On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per 'Lady Nelson' |
| 38723 | Desmond | Thomas | Atlas 1802 | 1814 25 November | Newcastle | CSI | Leader of runaways from Lime burners at Newcatle on 21 November |
| 77468 | Desmond | Thomas | Atlas 1802 | 1814 10 December | Newcastle | SG | Absconded from the limeburners gang with Francis Parcello, Walter Preston, John Cricks, Isaac Walker, and John Lee on 25th November |
| 119995 | Desmond | Thomas | Atlas 1802 | 1814 31 December | Newcastle | SG | John Bricks and Thomas Desmond absented themselves from the Limeburning gang 25th November. Any person harbouring absentees prosecuted |
| 119996 | Desmond | Thomas | Atlas 1802 | 1815 14 January | Newcastle | SG | Absented himself from the limeburning gang 25th November. Still at large |
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