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Item: 64968
Surname: Wilson
First Name: Buchanan
Ship: -
Date: 1832 29 November
Place: -
Source: SH
Details: Bushranger. Sentenced to 14 yrs at Norfolk Island for Highway robbery and assault


 
Item: 142779
Surname: Wilson
First Name: Buchanan
Ship: -
Date: 1834 27 September
Place: Norfolk Island
Source: SG
Details: Found guilty of having been present, aiding and abetting in the mutiny at Norfolk Island. Remanded


 
Item: 142781
Surname: Wilson
First Name: Buchanan
Ship: -
Date: 1851 23 April
Place: Huon road
Source: The Courier (Hobart)
Details: Transported from Nsw for being illegally at large under arms. Convicted of assault and robbery on Patrick Cooney and sentenced to death


 
Item: 142782
Surname: Wilson
First Name: Buchanan
Ship: -
Date: 1851 21 May
Place: Hobart Town
Source: SMH
Details: Executed at Hobart on 3rd May 1851 for robbery under arms. The morning was rainy and very few people were present. The wretched man, being a Presbyterian, was attended on the scaffold by Rev. Lillie. Before being launched into eternity Wilson addressed the crowd and desired them to take warning by his fate and avoid Sabbath breaking which had been the foundation of all his crimes


 
Item: 142783
Surname: Wilson
First Name: Buchanan
Ship: -
Date: 1851 22 April
Place: Hobart
Source: Colonial Times
Details: Found guilty of robbing Patrick Cooney. His Honor in passing sentence dwelt on the enormity of the prisoner's offences and remarked that he had been a seoncd time transported for similar crimes. By the Judge - "You are to be taken from whence you came, and there remain till the day of execution, when you are to be hanged by the neck until you be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul"


 
Item: 64334
Surname: Wilson
First Name: Buchanan
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1830
Date: 8 May 1844
Place: Stroud
Source: State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details: James Edwards, Henry Elgar, Henry Hughes, Samuel Ringwood, Buchanan Wilson and Robert Whitehead admitted to Newcastle gaol from Stroud charged with robbery and having firearms in their possession


 
Item: 142784
Surname: Wilson
First Name: Buchanan
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1830
Date: 1830
Place: -
Source: Archives of NSW. Convict Indents, Fiche No. 676
Details: Age 18. Weaver and farm boy from Glasgow. Tried 25th December 1829 and sentenced to 14 years transportation for House breaking. 5ft 4 in, ruddy freckled complexion, brown hair, grey eyes. Assigned to John Day at Blackrock, Bathurst on arrival



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