Source:
AO NSW Convict Indents Fiche No. 673
Details:
Age 22. Native of Warwick. Harness maker. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for house breaking. Tried at Nottingham. Assigned to Col Dumaresq at St. Heliers on arrival
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details:
Robert Jones per ship Layton, assigned to Col. Henry Dumaresq, charged with neglect of duty. John Bartlett states - I am overseer on Col. Dumaresq s estate and on Sunday morning last the prisoner had taken his sheep out from the yard and in about two hours after the man who was looking for the horses found twenty eight of his sheep and brought them home and could not find the shepherd any where near the place where the sheep were found....The prisoner makes no defence. The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to receive thirty five lashes
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details:
Robert Jones, per ship Layton, assigned to Col. Henry Dumaresq, charged with neglect of duty....John Marra, states - I am sheep overseer to Col. Dumaresq and the prisoner is employed as a shepherd and on Saturday last he left his flock and another shepherd picked up a part of them and brought them home with his own flock. On Sunday morning I counted them out and found 172 away. I picked up 69 of them and the prisoner and another shepherd picked up the remainder of them in the course of the day except one that was killed near the yard. The prisoner was brought to court this day fortnight on a similar charge and it is 3 or 4th time he has lost them within a short time. The prisoner states in his defence he did not lose his flock - that they were rushed by a dog and his flock divided and he saw part of them join another flock and he called to the shepherd to take care of them until I went after the other part of the flock which were found next day a short distance from the place where they were last.....The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to receive fifty lashes. Punishment remitted in consequence of the prisoner promising to do better and having been formally a good shepherd
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details:
Robert Jones per ship Layton, assigned to Col. Dumaresq, charged with neglect of duty.. Mr. Wightman, superintendent to Col. Dumaresq, states - On Tuesday week the prisoner who is employed as a shepherd lost 57 sheep out of his flock, I counted the flock myself into the fold and found that number missing and on Monday last he again lost 6 of his sheep. This is the third time he has been brought to the court of offences of the same nature. The prisoner states in defence that he has left his flock but a short time when Mr. Wightman came and that he found those that were lost a very short time after they were lost. When the 6 sheep were lost my flock was rushed by three native dogs. The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to receive seventy five lashes being his 3rd conviction
