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Item: 6932
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Silvester (Sylvester)
Ship: -
Date: 1843 11 March
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Elector of County Durham campaigning for A.W. Scott of Glendon for representative in Legislative Council


 
Item: 7212
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Silvester (Sylvester)
Ship: -
Date: 1843 1 April
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Promising to vote for Robert Scott to represent the County of Durham in the Legislative Council


 
Item: 158677
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Silvester (Sylvester)
Ship: -
Date: 1838 24 February
Place: West Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Baptism of Robert Lewis Thornton, son of Silvester Thornton


 
Item: 159291
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Silvester (Sylvester)
Ship: -
Date: 1835 24 September
Place: Glendon
Source: Australian Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records
Details: Marriage of Silvester Thornton and Sarah Lewis


 
Item: 190347
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Silvester (Sylvester)
Ship: -
Date: 24 September 1835
Place: Glendon
Source: Maitland Marriage Register p 178
Details: Marriage of Silvester Thornton, bond, of St. Heliers, to Sarah Lewis, free, also from St. Heliers. Witnesses Edward Mellen and Elizabeth Macalpin, both from Greenwood Darlington


 
Item: 41575
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Silvester (Sylvester)
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1826
Date: 1836 19 November
Place: Invermein
Source: SG
Details: Obtained Ticket of Leave


 
Item: 135656
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Silvester (Sylvester)
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1826
Date: 1837
Place: Invermein
Source: GRC
Details: Age 28. Assigned to Colonel Dumaresq


 
Item: 165169
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester
Ship: -
Date: 27 February 1824
Place: -
Source: Liverpool Mercury
Details: Committed to Lancaster Castle for trial after being accused setting fire to a ropery. Had given an inconsistent account of his time when the fire took place. Had been employed at the ropery for about 12 months


 
Item: 165170
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester
Ship: -
Date: 6 September 1824
Place: -
Source: The Morning Chronicle (London)
Details: The next prisoner placed at the bar was Sylvester Thornton. He had been convicted at the last Spring Assizes of having set fire to a rope loft, and other premises belonging to a gentleman at Liverpool, in whose employ he had been......the prisoner, when taken into custody, had, after a little time, made a confession of his guilt to the officer, without any threat or promise; but Mr. Justice Bayley reserved the case for the opinion of the judges, to state whether the peculiar circumstances under which the confession was made, did not render it tantamount to an extorted confession. Mr. Justice Bayley then addressed the prisoner, who wept, or pretended to weep, for having witnessed his conduct on his trial we did not think his sorrow sincere. In case of this description his Lordship said, where the commission of crime was so easy, and the detection so difficult it was almost out of the power of the Judge to recommend the prisoner to the Royal mercy. The offence in this instance, betrayed such dark malignity, that the difficulty of recommending the prisoner was increased. The prisoner had been kindly recommended to mercy by the prosecutor; his life should be spared; and the judge hoped he would in future abstain from crime and try to retrieve his early errors. Sentence of death would be recorded against him but it would be his lordship's duty to see that he had not again, in England at least, an opportunity of committing a similar offence.


 
Item: 165171
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1826
Date: -
Place: Bellerophon Hulk
Source: UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
Details: Admitted to the Bellerophon Hulk. Gaoler's report - Not known before. Orderly. Been punished at the Justitia hulk for a theft committed by him and others on a new prisoner.


 
Item: 165172
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1826
Date: 30 October 1824
Place: Jusititia Hulk
Source: UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
Details: Age 14. Convicted of Arson at Lancaster Assizes 1 September 1824. Admitted to the Jusititia Hulk on 30 October 1824. Transferred to the Marquis of Huntley 9 May 1825 for transportation to New South Wales


 
Item: 165173
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1826
Date: 3 March 1828
Place: Carter's Barracks
Source: SG
Details: Ropemaker age 17. From Huddersfield. 4ft 8 in, grey eyes, dark brown hair, fresh freckled complexion. Absconded from Carter's Barracks. 2nd time of running


 
Item: 13612
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester (Silvester)
Ship: -
Date: 1844 7 December
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: MM
Details: Publican. Insolvent


 
Item: 18534
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester (Silvester)
Ship: -
Date: 1845 20 September
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: MM
Details: Built house and offices for purpose of an hotel. Premises to be let after his death. 'Thornton Family Hotel'


 
Item: 49524
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester (Silvester)
Ship: -
Date: 1845 4 October
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: MM
Details: Thornton's Family Hotel built about 1842 by late Sylvester Thornton to be let


 
Item: 120016
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester (Silvester)
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1826
Date: 1841 9 September
Place: -
Source: SG
Details: Granted a free pardon. Despatch dated 3rd April 1841


 
Item: 154510
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester and Sarah
Ship: -
Date: 1842 15 December
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Birth of Sydney, son of Sylvester and Sarah Thornton


 
Item: 159290
Surname: Thornton
First Name: Sylvester and Sarah
Ship: -
Date: 1838 23 November
Place: West Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Baptism of Thomas Lewis Thornton, son of Sylvester and Sarah Thornton (born 5 September 1838)



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