Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Catherine Rice per ship Lady Rowena, assigned to Rev. Threlkeld charged with neglect of work and disobedience of orders. David Roberts, states - I am overseer at the Rev. Threlkeld s and have been twice called on to witness to the prisoner s disobedient conduct. Rev. Threlkeld desired her to clean an knife - she replied she was not able to do it. Mr. Threlkeld repeated his orders and she replied with insolent manner that she could not stand the house. This took place yesterday morning. She had cleaned knives but a little time before the above act of disobedience took place. Prisoner in her defence states that she has to0 much work to do and that there is work there (meaning in her master s house) for three women. Sentenced to 7 days solitary confinement
Place:
Newcastle district
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Catherine Rice, in service to Rev. Threlkeld, incapable of performing the duties of a servant for which application was made. Ordered to be returned to the 1st Class of the female factory at Parramatta
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Catherine Rice per ship Lady Rowena, in service of the Rev. Threlkeld, being incapable of performing the duties of a servant for which application was made, ordered to be returned to the 1st Class of the female factory at Parramatta
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Catherine Ryan, per ship Lady Rowena, in the service of Patrick Reilly charged with refusing to work. Catherine Reilly states - the prisoner is the assigned servant of my husband. I cannot get her to do the work of the house. When I desire her to wash a shirt or mend linen she replies she did not come to me for that. That she came as a dairy woman. This has frequently occurred. Yesterday she refused to wash some linen belonging to the house and this morning she absented herself from the house without leave from six until nine o clock. The prisoner in her defence states - I was ill yesterday from head ache and was unable to work. I have never refused to work when able. My Mistress is always abusing me. She calls me all sorts of bad names. Catherine Ryan admonished and ordered to return to her duty
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Catherine Ryan in service of Mr. Patrick Reilly charged with refusing to work. Catherine Reilly states - On my return home yesterday after the prisoner had been before the Bench, I found her seated at a table with her head lying on it. I desired her to go and clean the house and windows to which she made no reply. A few minutes after she came to me and said she could not do any work that day - No, divil a bit. - Prisoner in her defence states - I had a head ache. Sentenced to one week solitary confinement
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Catherine Ryan in the service of Mr. P. Reilly, charged with general neglect of work, drunkenness and insolence. Mr. Patrick Reilly states - On Saturday last my wife being from home, the conduct of the prisoner came more particularly under my notice, and I observed her general inattention to her duty about the house. In the course of the afternoon I detected her drinking spirits with some soldiers who were at my house and eventually she became so much intoxicated as to commit an outrage on a black native girl which caused considerable disturbance, so much so, that Mr. McLeod and other gentlemen who were with him left their room to enquire into it. Her general conduct is insufferable and when remonstrated with she answers with the utmost insolence. The prisoner states in her defence - I only pushed the black girl out of the house and in so doing I obeyed my mistresses orders - it was not my fault that the girl fell. I could not help the noise. It is impossible to please either master or mistress. Sentenced to 3rd Class of the Factory for six months
Source:
State Archives NSW. Convict Indents. microfiche 660
Details:
Age 26. House servant from Dublin. Sentenced to transportation for life for stealing a cloak. Assigned to Rev. Middleton at Newcastle on arrival. Died suddenly at Windsor on 26 January 1847
Details:
Servant aged 24. Assigned to Arnold Fisk
Details:
Granted Certificate of Freedom
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4011]; Microfiche: 660
Details:
Jane Williamson age 25. House servant from London. Tried in Dublin 4 August 1825. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for robbery. No place of assignment recorded
Surname:
Willson (Wilson)
Source:
State Archives NSW. Convict Indents. microfiche 660
Details:
Age 46. Married with 6 children. Tried 22 August 1825 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing. Assigned to Rev. Threlkeld in Sydney on arrival in 1826
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Ann Wilson per ship Lady Rowena, in service of Rev. Threlkeld, charged with drunkenness and disobedience of orders. The Rev. L.E. Threlkeld states - On Wednesday evening last I desired my son to ask the prisoner to put a ....or two on the fire for the purpose of having them cooked for the dogs. She answered the boy that she would do no such thing having already done her work. I then went and asked her what she meant by refusing to obey orders. She replied in a most insolent manner that she would not do as she had been desired. I replied if that is the case, I must send you away, on which she became very abusive and perceiving she was quite drunk, I felt obliged to send for a constable and to give her over to his custody. The prisoner in her defence states that her reason for refusing to do as she was ordered on the day charged was that she had been at work very hard all day, not having had time to eat her dinner, denies, the accusation of drunkenness. Admits having been insolent when the constables came to take her into custody which was owing to the irritation of her feelings at the moment. Ann Wilson sentenced to 3rd Class of the Factory at Parramatta for 6 months.
