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Clerk to Magistrate at Newcastle. Testified in Court as to the bad character of William Salisbury
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Received prize at East Maitland School
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Mary Shepherd per 'Orpheus' servant
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Died aged 51 after lingering and painful illness on 6 October 1831 at Luskintyre, the estate of T.W.M. Winder
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Clerk to Bench of Magistrates. Witness in trial of Frederick Dixon
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Allotment 43 Newcastle
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Claim for Deed of Grant. 36 perches originally located by George Lilly, who sold to George Stone who sold to Francis Williams who sold to Francis Beattie who sold to Captain Biddulph who passed it to Pritchett. To be leased by Executors of the late R.C. Pritchett
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Church of England, Newcastle
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Church of England Marriage Register Book 1818 - 1825. University of Newcastle
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No. 30. Marriage of Joseph Johnson to Elizabeth Hanks, both of Newcastle. Witnesses Francis Williams and Mary Beattie. Minister Rev. G.A. Middleton
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Francis Williams (late Cashier of the Bank of NSW, who has been in confinement many months, and whose trial was protracted at his own instance, was this day placed at the bar, and arraigned for feloniously and fraudulently embezzling from the said Bank the sum of eleven thousand nine hundred and seventy five pounds. His Honor the Judge Advocate remarked upon the extraordinary features of he case for a few minutes, and lively sympathized with the hapless prisoner at his sudden and tremendous degradation. At the same time expressing his utmost abhorrence at the perpetration of the foul deed which had subjected a man, as the prisoner once was, to such a reduced situation as that in which he was then placed. The sentence was then pronounced which adjudged the said Francis Williams to be transported to such part of the territory as His Excellency the Governor might think proper to direct, for the term of fourteen years
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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John Kelly (free) charged with drunkenness....Francis Williams stated - I saw Kelly yesterday morning in the street, he was then drunk. I saw him afterwards in the afternoon staggering along; about sunset he came on the wharf in a state of intoxication and reeled against me. On my desiring him to keep off he abused me very grossly. John Kelly fined 5 shilling or in default to be placed in the stocks for two hours......placed on the default of payment, in the stocks
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Robert Young, in government service, charged with having property in his house knowing it to be stolen....Chief Constable George Muir states - I had an information that some silver tea spoons stolen from Mr. Williams were in the possession of the prisoner, I searched his house yesterday in the morning but could not find them. I again went in the afternoon and in the prisoners garden on digging round some geraniums, I found four tea spoons. They were wrapt in a rag and tied with shoemaker s waxed thread. The four spoons now before the court together with the rage they were wrapt in are those I found. The prisoner is a shoemaker and works at the trade. Francis McNamara, a constable - states Last Sunday morning I was at the prisoner s house; his wife brought four tea spoons from a bedroom and asked if a name was not marked on the spoons. I examined them and said saw F.W. on two of them; at breakfast time I again saw them in use but the initials were then defaced from the two I had seen in the morning; in the course of the day I asked Riley the constable whether he had heard of any spoons being stolen; he told me some spoons had been stolen from Mr. Williams. Mr. Muir having asked me yesterday what I knew of the business I told him what I have now stated. The spoons now before the court are those I saw at Young s house; the initials I saw on the two spoons before they were defaced were the same as on two tea spoons now produced by Mr. Williams. When I saw the spoons on the breakfast table Young was in the room sitting by the fire. Constable Dennis Flannery states - three or four times last week and on Sunday last, I saw silver tea spoons as I took them to be on the table at Young s house. I have breakfast at Young s when the spoons were used. The spoons now in court are those I saw at Young s house. Francis Williams Being states - I had six silver tea spoons made at Sydney some years since; they had my crest and initials on them. Four of them were kept in a trunk at my cottage, the other two were in daily use; about the end of July last the four spoons were missed from the trunk and I had no doubt at the time they had been stolen by a boy who lived in the house. I did not make any immediate effort to recover them. The prisoner in his defence states - My wife and I have recently disagreed and she is about to leave me and I am persuaded she would do everything in her power to do me an injury; I know nothing of the spoons being in my house. My wife had not been long from Sydney. She brought a good deal of property with her and even if I had noticed the spoons which I did not, I should have supposed she had brought them with her. She wants me to be sent to Port Macquarie in order that she and her friends may possess themselves of the little property I have, by hard labour and honest industry, accumulated. Robert Young sentenced to three years addition to his former sentence of transportation, which expires July 1828
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Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
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Employed as government Clerk at Newcastle
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Colonial Secretarys Index Online
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Visited England, 1807-10; in partnership with Simeon Lord, 1810 - July 1813; trustee and Commissioner of turnpike road, Sydney to Hawkesbury; magistrate, Van Diemens Land, 1814; pastoralist, Van Diemens Land, 1813-17; accountant, then cashier, Bank of New South Wales, 1818-20; convicted of embezzlement, March 1822.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Onnline
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Francis Williams (1780?-1831), merchant, arrived at Port Jackson in the privateer Lucy in April 1806. He had left England as supercargo of a ship trading with South America which had been lost. He appears to have joined the Lucy on a journey through South American waters attacking Spanish shipping and across the Pacific to Port Jackson for repairs. Soon after his arrival he was employed by the merchant Simeon Lord
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Ticket of leave holder aged 42. Agent
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Obtained ticket of leave
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Age 43. Ticket of leave holder
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4011]; Microfiche: 662
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Francis Williams age 25. Farmer s man and soldier from Bedford. Tried at Woolwich 6 May 1826. Sentenced to 14 years transportation for desertion
