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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: 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: 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

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