Source:
SC. R v. Shea and others
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Had been assigned to Mr. Chapman
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Sawyer and soldier. Absconded from Mathew Chapman
Place:
Upper Williams River
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Apprehended after absconding from Mathew Chapman
Source:
Australasian Chronicle
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EXECUTION.-On Tuesday morning the six bushrangers, James Everett, Robert Chitty, John Marshall, Richard Glanville, John Shea, and Edward Davies, who were convicted at the last criminal sittings of the wilful murder of John Graham, at Scone, on the 21st December last, all paid the forfeit of their lives by expiating their offences on the scaffold. An immense crowd was collected to witness the last awful scene of these men s career, as they had been long notorious for the many burglaries which they had committed in various parts of the interior, but chiefly in the Hunter s River district. At a few minutes past nine o clock the wretched men were conducted from their cells to the area in front of the drop, where they knelt for some time in the exercise of their devotions. Chitty, Everett, Marshall, and Glanville, were attended by the Rev. Mr. Cowper and the Rev. John Elder; Shea by the Very Rev. Air. Murphy ; and Davies, being of the Jewish persuasion, was attended by Mr. Isaacs, the Jewish Rabbi. They all appeared to be deeply impressed with a full sense of their awful situation, and paid the greatest attention to the instruction and prayers of their spiritual attendants. After about ten minutes spent in devotion they arose, and Everett in a very hurried manner ran up the steps leading to the scaffold, and was followed by Chitty, Glanville, and Marshall; they all four in a loud and clear voice sung the first verse of the hymn commencing Awake my soul, and with the sun. Shea was the next to ascend, and Davies, who was dressed in a suit of mourning, was the last to ascend; he cast his eye with a keen penetrating glance upon the crowd assembled in the gaol yard as if to recognise any acquaintance, and then with a firm step mounted the ladder. A few minutes more were spent in devotion, and then the ropes were adjusted and the caps drawn over their faces; they still continued (particularly Everett and Glanville) in loud and apparently fervent prayer till the bolt was drawn, and they were launched into the presence of their Maker. They all died almost without a struggle. They had long been a terror to the inhabitants in the district of the Hunter, and it is to be hoped that awful example which has been made of them will deter others from the pursuing such law.
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Appointed constable and scourger in room of Charles Kegs, deceased
Source:
Application to marry
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Aged 26. Application to marry Mary Anne Pearce. Clergy Rev. Hill
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Sawyer from Windsor aged 27. 5' 4 1/2"; ruddy freckled compl., light brown hair, hazel eyes, red mark GSRC and anchor on right arm, several red marks on left arm. Absconded from Police establishment at Dungog 29 Dec
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Sawyer and soldier. Scourger in Port Stephens district. Absconded when in charge of a female prisoner
Place:
Upper Williams River
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Sawyer and soldier aged 32. Joined 3 bushrangers and committed several robberies. Absconded from Matthew Chapman 30th November
Place:
Upper Williams River
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Apprehended after absconding from Matthew Chapman
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
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Age 21. No reading or writing. Single. Native of Windsor. Pit Sawyer and Soldier. Tried in Dublin and sentenced to 14 years transportation for desertion. Two prior convictions. Assigned to the department of public works on arrival
Source:
SC. R v. Shea and others
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Indicted for being present, aiding abetting and assisting the murder of John Graham
First Name:
Charles (Christopher)
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
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Age 18. Reads and writes. Plaisterer's labourer from Dublin. Tried on 17 April and sentenced to 7 years transportation for picking pockets. Two prior convictions. Assigned to Willoughby Bean at Brisbane Water on arrival
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Indoor servant aged 22. Tried County Donegal. Absconded from district of Invermein. T/L holder
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4014]; Microfiche: 671
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John Donnell age 20. Indoor servant from Donnegal. Tried at Donnegal 21 March 1828. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing linen. No place of assignment recorded
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Ploughs etc. Assigned to James Phillips between Jan and March
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 671
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Age 25. Married with 1 child. Ploughman, reaps, native of Bandon. Tried in Cavan 11 March 1828 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for pig stealing. Assigned to John Hooke at Newcastle on arrival
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
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David Donnelly admitted to Newcastle gaol from Dungog charged with feloniously shooting a heifer with intent to steal the carcass, the property of Thomas Kerr of Eastbank near Dungog
Source:
Ticket of Leave butts
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John Donnelly, tried at Armagh 21 March 1820. Granted Ticket of Leave for the district of Merton
