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Item: 111801
Surname: Wilkes (Wilks)
First Name: Oliver
Ship: Guildford 1824
Date: 1830 29 July
Place: -
Source: SG
Details: Lock and Blacksmith aged 28 from Wolverhampton. Hazel eyes, brown hair, ruddy complexion. Absconded from P. Cunningham. 3rd time running


 
Item: 164477
Surname: Wilkes (Wilks)
First Name: Oliver
Ship: Guildford 1824
Date: 13 June 1829
Place: Port Macquarie
Source: Sydney Monitor
Details: Extracts from a Journal kept at Port Macquarie by an Officer there of long standing, an emigrant ...........May 7. Oliver Wilks, prisoner, was, through an informer, suddenly accused before the Magistrate for being short of brass. In defence, the man offered to produce the brass which he was accused of purloining. He was permitted to fetch it. On his return, he placed before the worthy Justice, two pair of brass spurs, which the fellow had the audacity to allege, were made by the order of the said justice for his own use. The Justice said, go along about your business, you d...d rascal. The spurs were ordered to be kept in the King s magazine and there they are at this day



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