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Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 136
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Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Merton. Returned to govt. service. Assigned to William Todhunter at Luskintyre on 10th May 1837
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X634]; Microfiche: 700
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Farmers boy age 16 from Lancaster. Tried 21 October 1831 and sentenced to 14 years transportation for stealing a handkerchief.
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The Scone Advocate 15 October 1920
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Much has been written of the exploits of Wilson the bushranger, who enjoyed six years liberty in the Liverpool Plains country, after escaping from the police, before being finally run to earth. What was his original crime. Let us read portion of the evidence, tendered at his trial in Scone on 3rd November 1840, prior to his escape..Mr. Timothy Ferry, chief constable being sworn deposes and produces the indent book of the year 1832, from which it appears on page 95 that the prisoner John Wilson was born at Lancaster, a farmers boy, he was convicted of stealing a handkerchief at Lancaster Quarter Sessions on 21 October and sentenced to 14 years transportation.
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Confectioner. Assigned to Aust. Agricultural Company
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Confectioner assigned to Sir Edward Parry
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In the Service of the Company. Letters of Sir Edward Parry, Volume 2 June 1832 - March 1834 Letter 706
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John Bryant and William Wilson assigned to Sir Edward Parry to be exchanged for William Edwards and William Brown who were assigned to the A.A. Company
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Age 22. Assigned to the A.A. Company