Source:
Register of Tickets of Leave (Ancestry)
Details:
Christopher Flynn, native place Dublin. Convicted 14 September 1821, labourer, granted at Ticket of Leave by Special Order of the Governor for the district of Wallis Plains
Date:
March and April 1825
Details:
Employed at the Govet Dairy, Parramatta; request for a ticket of leave as reward for information leading to arrest of bushrangers
Date:
1st to 30th April 1823
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly Return of Corporal Punishments
Details:
Sentenced to 40 lashes for setting fire to his master's house
Place:
Newcastle district
Source:
Archives Office of NSW. Colonial Secretary: Misc records (4/4570D)pp1-88
Details:
On list of assigned convicts who are not mechanics. Assigned to Mr. Hickey
Details:
Aged 28. Servant assigned to James McClymont
Source:
Colonial Secretary Papers. State Records of NSW Special Bundles
Details:
Runaway from Port Macquarie. Sentenced to 25 lashes for destroying the blankets at the gaol
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
John Hart per Isabella and James Bryan per Prince Regent both in service of government. Charged with absconding from the gaol gang and taking to the bush. The prisoners absconded from the gaol gang and were taken into custody in the interior. Both men were sentenced to 25 lashes
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 19
Details:
Assigned to government service at Newcastle
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Lewis Collins per Neptune, John Hart per Isabella, William Betts per Hadlow, John Marney per Elizabeth, William Bond per Earl St. Vincent and Bernard Wood per Chapman, all runaways from Port Macquarie....James Croft, keeper of His Majestys Gaol at Newcastle states that when the above prisoners were placed under my charge I supplied them with some blankets as they were naked. They have since converted the blankets to various purposes making bags, and cutting off strips to bind round their legs. The Woollen they now have wrapt round their legs if part of the blankets. James Crofts further states - I found a rope on Lewis Collins the day before yesterday. I asked him where he got it. He refused to tell me but said he meant to sell it. I had heard that the signal halyard had been stolen from the cutter Eclipse - I have no doubt the rope I found on him belongs to that vessel...Sentences - Lewis Collins 50 lashes. The others 25 lashes each
Details:
Native of Co. Carlow. Labourer. Admitted to Newcastle gaol by Maitland Bench on a charge of shop lifting. Forwarded to Sydney for trial 11 April. Conduct in gaol very bad
Details:
On list of runaways from Port Macquarie forwarded to Newcastle per Sally
Surname:
Horrigan (Hoolahan)
First Name:
Daniel or David
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 136
Details:
Labourer from Cork. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Merton. Sentenced to 3 months imprisonment. Discharged 11 January 1837
Surname:
Horrigan (Horigan)
Details:
Lost Certificate of Freedom. Notice warning Constables not to molest him.
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Patrick Hoy per Isabella, runaway from Port Macquarie, charged for refusing work and taking off his irons. Proved on the evidence of the keeper of H.M. Gaol. Sentenced to solitary confinement for 3 days
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
William Bond, Patrick Hoy and Daniel Horrigan, belonging to the gaol gang, charged with refusing to work and disobedience of the overseer. Henry Smith, Deputy Overseer states....the prisoners were placed this morning in my charge to work at the church. I could not get either of them to do any work and when I asked them to they abused me very grossly and told me they would work as they liked. I desired them to remove some rubbish that was in the way and they would not move and called me a man killing scoundrel. Bond, Hoy and Horrigan sentenced to 25 lashes each
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flyn, William Ward and John Austin, all in the service of the Australian Agricultural Company at Port Stephens charged with being at large without passes....Mr. George Muir, chief constable states - On Wednesday evening the prisoners were delivered to my custody by Constable George Higgins and a soldier of the Buffs who stated they had received them from Mr. Joseph Pennington, overseer and some native blacks at the 1st branch of the Hunter River. A letter from Mr. Joseph Pennington, a free settler, produced and read of which the following is a copy.....Leigh Farm, Hunters River, 14th November 1826...I beg leave to report that my overseer in junction with the following named black natives viz doughboy, Kennedy, Bremen, Taylor and Jemmy Murray, captured the five following named convict servants assigned to the A.A. Co., who ran from their service on Saturday evening last viz - Edward Flyn (Surry 4th), Samuel Harris (Norfolk), Patrick Hoy (Isabella), John Austin (Hebe) and William Ward (Ann and Amelia). I should conceive my overseer as well as the Blacks are entitled to some reward as a stimulus to future exertions and request they may be noticed as others are performing similar services, I am, Sir, Joseph Pennington......The prisoner being called on to account for their being absent from their assignments - Patrick Hoy states as follows - Our reason for leaving Port Stephens was for the purpose of proceeding to the nearest Magistrate to make our complaint - We were on the way to Newcastle when we met Mr. Pennington s overseer to whom we surrendered ourselves and accompanied him without objection altho we were five in number. Four of us belong to the same gang at Port Stephens and were employed in breaking up new ground. There were sixteen in the gang and every Monday morning one hundred rod per man was measured off for our weeks work. The ground was hard to work and we were not able to accomplish the task, upon one occasion 15 of the gang received 25 lashes each for not performing it. I escaped from being on the sick list, besides which it was sometimes the custom to stop our allowance of tea and sugar if the task was not completed. It is impossible to do 100 rod in a week on new ground such as we had to work. We tried to do it but could not. We have even got to work in the morning before the Bugle sounded for work to try what we could do but with our utmost efforts from day break to sun set we could not succeed. Our rations are good. We have no complaints on that account. Harris, Flyn and Ward corroborate this statement. John Austin states - I was employed with two others to put up fences, that is not my trade - I am a sawyer. We were tasked to do 20 rod of rail per week, to cut and split the stuff and mortice and put it up. It is more than any three men can do. On remonstrating with Mr. Dawson, he said we must do even more. Remanded for a further hearing
Place:
Newcastle/ Port Stephens
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Proceedings resumed relative to the five prisoners from Port Stephens - Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flynn, William Ward and John Austin - Alexander Green states - I am a constable at Port Stephens. I was sent by Mr. John Dawson to appear against the prisoners at this place if necessary, for absenting themselves. I saw the prisoners at work at Port Stephens on the 11th instant. On the following day they were missed from the settlement. I am not positive as to their task but I believe 16 rod to be the general task work per day at Port Stephens. Some men lately arrived there from Sydney have done the task to within about two rod. I have frequently heard the prisoners complain they could not do their task. If it is not performed they are generally punished on the Monday following for not completing it. There is not any charge against the prisoners that I am aware of except for running away. Mr. Joseph Pennington states - I have been at Port Stephens on the ground where I understand the prisoners were at task work but not since they commenced working on it. The usual task there is 18 rods per man per day. It is hard work certainly, but can be done. Their rations are superior to those usually given to Government servants. Thirteen rod per day would be hard work for a man on a government ration. But these men might do the task on the ration allowed them. This is my opinion. Prisoners remanded for further hearing
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
The five convicts absentees from Port Stephens ( Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flynn, William Ward and John Austin) having been brought before the court, it is ordered that they be returned to their assignment at Port Stephens under a proper escort and that a letter to the following effect be forwarded with them, addressed to Robert Dawson at that station.....Sir, The five convicts having been brought before us charged with the offence of having absconded from the Australian Agricultural Company s establishment at Port Stephens, and having attentively heard and weighed what they severally had to urge in their defence, and taken into consideration the task allotted to them, as testified in the affidavit of overseer McKeenan, find that certain circumstances connected with such task so far operate in their favour, as to induce us on the present occasion to allow the length of time they have been in confinement to be a sufficient punishment; they are therefore returned under a proper escort to your establishment. They have been duly warned of the certainty of corporal punishment being awarded should they at a future period again absent themselves without a written permission from a duly authorised person. We beg leave to hand you a Bench notice, which we shall feel obliged by your giving the utmost publicity to amongst those concerned. We have the honor to be Sir, Your obedient servants (Francis Allman, E.C. Close, George Brooks)....Bench Notice - Should any convict servant assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company be found at large in any of the districts of Hunters River on any pretence whatever without a written permission from a duly authorised person, the convict so found will be brought before the nearest Bench of Magistrates and punished as a runaway.
Date:
1st to 31st July 1825
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly Return of Corporal Punishments
Details:
Assigned to Government. Sentenced to 50 lashes for Theft at a Government Cottage
Surname:
Kinsley (Kinsela)
Details:
Aged 28; native of Dublin; dark eyes, black hair, fair freckled complexion; absconded from road gang
