Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Books 1839 No. 601
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Shoemaker from Hereford. Charged with bushranging (Muswellbrook. Transferred to Sydney gaol 27th June
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Bushranger. Indicted for shooting with a musket with intent to murder Joseph Fleming on 26 May 1839
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Runaway from Major Innes at Port Macquarie. Bushranger
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Sentenced to be transported to Norfolk Island for life after being convicted of shooting at Joseph Fleming with intent to murder
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Richard Young, convicted of shooting at Joseph Fleming with intent to murder and William Allen, John Rose alias Henry Ellis, and Thomas Spencer for aiding and abetting were sentenced to Norfolk Island for life
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Criminal Court Records. Muswellbrook Court of Petty Sessions, Letter Books, 1838-1851. Ancestry
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The prisoners William Allen, John Rose, Thomas Spencer, Richard Young and Mary Ann were charged with having at New England on the high road, stopped and robbed John McLean and Arthur Hodson (Hodgson) Esqs., putting them in bodily fear and taking their, horses, watches etc.,and with robbing and putting in bodily fear Mr. Ellis, Superintendent of George Wyndham and with robbing the station of Alexander McLeod of Cobbera Valla Creek, New England on two occasions taking fire arms, the property of McLeod and a horse the property of John Clare Eustace
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Muswellbrook Bench Books
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Assigned to Major Innes at Port Macquarie. Committed for trial for bushranging with William Allen, John Rose, Thomas Spencer and Mary Anne
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Age 26. Assigned to A.C. Innes at Port Macquarie
Source:
State Records Online Shipping List
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Emigrant. Farm servant from Co. Kent age 23. Engaged for employment by Alexander Paterson at Hunter River on arrival...http://tinyurl.com/k9p7k4v
First Name:
Richard and Keziah
Source:
Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
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Baptism of Thomas, son of Richard and Keziah Young (born 6 September 1839)
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Richard George
Source:
Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
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Birth of Richard George, son of Jonathon and Margaret Young
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Young (?Gentleman Dick) (Bushranger)
Source:
Old New England p. 31 (Reminiscences of Susan Bundarra Young)
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In 1839 bushranger Gentleman Dick roamed the roads with his party of 5, one of whom was a black woman whose task it was to stand guard over those bailed up. When squatter E.G. Clerk, recognized Dick as an old employee, Dick courteously returned the spoil of which he had relieved him