Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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James Collins per ship Guildford and John Moore per ship Hooghley both in government service, charged with theft at the house of Mr. Patrick Reilly. Mrs. Catherine Reilly states - yesterday the prisoners came to my husband s house to make some purchases at which time I was preparing a set of curtains for the windows; the curtains were lying by the place where I sat; having served the prisoners they partook of some gin which Moore had purchased and then they went away; they had not been gone a minute before I missed one pair of curtains; I lost no time in sending after the prisoners; Collins was found at his house and readily underwent a search. Moore was not found for an hour afterwards. No other persons were in the room for some time, either before or after I missed the curtains except two men belonging to the Mounted Police. This accusation was dismissed by the Magistrates for want of legal proof
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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James Collins per ship Guildford, in government service, charged with theft....Henry Winchester, government servant to Surgeon George Brooks, states - On Thursday after noon last between the hours of three and four o clock I missed my watch; I had deposited it in my box which stood in the room where I slept at my masters house. The box was not locked but the lid merely shut down. I immediately reported my loss to my master. Some person must have got in at the kitchen window as I ascertained the back door had not been opened. I was confirmed in my opinion of an entry having been made at the window from finding that a bottle which had stood in the window had been knocked down. I also found dirt on the window from shoes and the print of a strange foot under the window; I also noticed the same impression of a foot at my sleeping room window which from its position seemed as if the person was peeping in at the window to see if anyone was within. From these circumstances, I thought the theft could not have been done by a stranger and having employed Collins to write a letter for me about a week since, my suspicion fell on him. The more so as on my going out on Thursday afternoon on an errand, I had called at his quarters to ask for a book I had lent him a short time previously. I was told he was not at home and I said I would call for it as I returned. I did not however call but returned home direct after having performed my errand. I had not been absent from my masters house more than a quarter of an hour and almost immediately on my return I missed my watch from the box. I then went back to Collins quarters and enquired again for him. I was told he had not been at home but I saw him at a distance going as it were from the house towards the beach. My watch was in the box at the time I went on the errand. Constable Thomas Dwyer states - On Thursday afternoon last, about four o clock I saw Collins going from Doctor Brooks back door along the yard and down the ledge of rocks to the beach. There is no thoroughfare through the yard to the beach. Constable William Turvey, states - When I took Collins in custody I also took the shoes which he had on his feet from him. I compared the shoes with the marks under the windows; they corresponded exactly; there are two peculiar nails in the sole of one of the shoes, the marks of which I could distinctly trace and which confirms me most decidedly in my opinion that the person who committed the robbery wore at the time the shoes I took from Collins. He denied having been in Doctor Brooks yard on the Thursday the theft was committed. The prisoner denies knowing anything of the robbery. Admits having been in Doctor Brooks yard at the time he was seen there by Dwyer. States that he went there to return the book which Winchester had been enquiring for. James Collins sentenced to 2 years in a penal settlement
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Assigned to the Hospital. Witness in Court case of Margaret Kenny
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Aged 23. Labourer assigned to F. Moran
Source:
Gaol Entrance Books. State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2009; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
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Free. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland on a charge of horse stealing. Sent for trial
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
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Samuel Davis, laborer from London. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Sentenced to 1 month confinement for being idle and disorderly
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Aged 22. Labourer assigned to T.W.M. Winder
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
Place:
Somerville, Hunter River
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Apprehended after absconding from the service of Maurice Townshend
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Ticket of leave cancelled. Punishments overlooked at time of gazetting
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Aged 31. Tried in Lancaster. Assigned to J.M. Townshend
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Pit sawyer aged 35 from Blackburn. 5' 9 3/4"; pale complexion, brown hair, grey eyes. Absconded from M. (Townshend) (at) Summerfield in September
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Top and pit sawyer age 36 from Blackburn. Absconded from M. Sommerville 13th November 1837
Place:
Newcastle district
Source:
Archives Office of NSW. Colonial Secretary: Misc records (4/4570D)pp1-88
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Assigned to Mr. Philips
Source:
Newcastle Bench Books. AO NSW Reel 2722
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John Garner and William Petty assigned to Edward Sparke Senior charged with being absen without leave. Garner sentenced to 50 lashes being the 2nd offence. Petty sentenced to 25 lashes
Surname:
Garner (Gardiner)
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Assigned to Edward Sparke. Charged with being absent without leave
Surname:
Garner (Gardner)
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Aged 32. Assigned to Edward Sparke senior
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Blacksmith assigned to J. Platt
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Assigned servant of Mr. Platt. Gave evidence at inquest on Beattie and Maloney
Source:
Church of England Burials Register Book 1821 - 1825 - University of Newcastle
