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Unclaimed letter held in Post Office Sydney
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Sentence of death for highway robbery commuted to transportation to Norfolk Island for life
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Assigned to D.F. Mackay
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Labourer age 26 from Chester. 5ft 1 1/4in, ruddy complexion, light brown hair, grey eyes, nose a little pockpitted, scar on knuckle of left thumb. Absconded from Norfolk Island August 1842
Source:
UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
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Age 13. Convicted of horse stealing at Chester on 2 August 1834 and sentenced to transportation for life. Admitted to the Euryalus hulk on 23 August 1834 and transferred to the convict ship John Barry for transportation to NSW on 31 August 1835. Also admitted to the hulk from Chester on this day, was James McQuoy aged 11. He was also transported on the John Barry.
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On list of runaways from Port Macquarie forwarded to Newcastle
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Aged 26; native of Essex; 5' 11/2"; blue eyes, brown hair, fair freckled pockpitted complexion; absconded from gaol gang
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Plumber and glazier age 31 from Essex, 5ft 1 1/2in, blue eyes, light brown hair, fair pale pockpitted complexion. Absconded from No. 26 road gang
First Name:
Henry (?John)
Source:
DUNGOG LETTERS - COPIES OF LETTERS SENT 1839/42 AONSW Reel No. 2679
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Thought to be captured bushranger known as John Rose or 'Johnny the Native'
First Name:
Henry (?John)
Place:
Upper Williams River
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Farmer's boy age 18 from Chester. 5ft 1 1/4in, ruddy complexion, light brown hair, grey eyes, nose a little pockpitted, scar knuckle of left thumb. Absconded from D.F. Mackay 21st August 1837
Surname:
Johnny The Native (?Ellis) (?Rose)
First Name:
(?Henry) (?John)
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News from the Interior - 'A runaway who has been at large this last three or four years, and who goes by the name of Johnny the Native, was brought in a few days since by one of the Border Police, but unfortunately the fellow managed to give the Policeman the slip after bringing him so far as Brisbane.
First Name:
John (?Henry)
Source:
Muswellbrook Bench Books
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Suspected to be a runaway. Committed for trial for bushranging with William Allen, Thomas Spencer, Richard Young and Mary Ann
First Name:
John (?Henry)
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Bushranger. Indicted for aiding and abetting Richard Young in shooting with intent to murder Joseph Fleming on 26th May 1839
First Name:
John (?Henry)
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Sentenced to be transported to Norfolk Island for life after being convicted of aiding in abetting in the shooting of Joseph Fleming
Surname:
Rose (alias Ellis)
First Name:
John (alias Henry)
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Richard Young, convicted of shooting at Joseph Fleming with intent to murder and William Allen, John Rose alias Henry Ellis, and Thomas Spencer for aiding and abetting were sentenced to Norfolk Island for life
Surname:
Rose (known as Johnny the Native) (?Ellis)
First Name:
John (?Henry)
Source:
DUNGOG LETTERS - COPIES OF LETTERS SENT 1839/42 AONSW Reel No. 2679
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Thought to be Henry Ellis per John Barry 1836 who had absconded from D.F. Mackay
