Place:
On board the ship 'Adamant'
Source:
The National Archives. Surgeon Superintendent James Hamilton's diary
Details:
On list of prisoners whose wine was stopped as punishment for being extremely dirty
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly Return of Corporal Punishments inflicted at Newcastle
Details:
Government servant. Sentenced to 50 lashes for insolence to his overseer and absenting himself from his gang
Details:
Runaway from Newcastle. Captured at Brisbane Water
Source:
State Records NSW. Colonial Secretary Correspondence. Special Bundles, 1794-1825. Series 898
Details:
Assigned to government service. Sentenced by the Commandant to 25 lashes for insolence to his overseer
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Edward Mens per Adamant and Charles Wood per Princess Royal, both in service to government, charged with absenting themselves from their gang. James Gallaghar, overseer of the road party states....the two prisoners accompanied by John McGuire and Michael Townsend absented themselves from the hut on Saturday evening last and did not return until the following morning. The prisoners deny being absent and accuse the overseer of ill-treating them. Edward Mens and Charles Wood sentenced to 50 lashes each
Source:
UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
Details:
Age 17. Tried in London 10 January 1821 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing stockings. Received onto the Justitia Hulk on 20 January 1821
Place:
Cheapside, England
Source:
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
Details:
Aged 21. Sentenced to transportation for 7 years for stealing, on the 15th December 1820, six pairs of stockings belonging to William Kipling
Place:
Pennington, Hunter River
Details:
Labourer aged 27. Free by servitude. Employed by John Town (sen)
Details:
Baker aged 40 from Kittering; 5'7"; pale sallow compl., brown hair, grey eyes, absconded from No. 14 road party
Source:
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
Details:
Age 27. Sentenced to transportation for life for stealing, on the 29th November, one reticule; one handkerchief and one shilling (pickpocketing)
Surname:
Shinfield (Shingfield)
Details:
Stockkeeper aged 27. Free by servitude. Employed by N. Goldingham
Surname:
Shinfield, (Shenfield)
Place:
On board the Adamant
Source:
The National Archives. Diary of Surgeon Superintendent James Hamilton
Details:
Age 19. Taken ill at sea; pain in the head and inclined to vomit and faintness, skin and pulse natural, tongue clean; put on sick list 5 May 1821; discharged 17 June 1821
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 757
Details:
John Skelton sent to Newcastle gaol from Maitland on a charge of absenting from service. Sentenced to 1 month hard labour
Details:
Convict servant of Helenus Scott. To be victualled from the Stores at Newcastle for 6mths
Surname:
Vollance (Valance) (Vallance)
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
Details:
Assigned to Mr. Cunningham in the district of Newcastle
Surname:
Vollance (Vallance)
Source:
Application to marry
Details:
Free. Application to marry Mary James
Surname:
Vollance (Vallance)
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
William Vallance per ship Adamant, in government service, charged with broaching a cask of rum, the property of the Crown. James Wilkins, overseer of the gaol gang, states - I detected the prisoner yesterday in the act of broaching a cask of Government Rum which was lying on the wharf; I cautioned him not to repeat the offence, and ordered him away. A short time after I again detected him committing the same offence, he had spilled the cask and I saw him lying on the ground drinking from it. The prisoner denies the offence. Sentenced to six months in the gaol gang
Surname:
Vollance (Vallance)
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
William Vallance per ship Adamant and John Owens per ship Prince Regent, both in government service, charged with absenting themselves from work. Mr. Alexander Busby being duly sworn states - The prisoners belong to the wharf gang; yesterday afternoon they were both absent without leave. I sent a constable in search of them; they had been absent about an hour and half; it is not the first time that Vallance has absented himself without leave. Constable Peter Riley, states - I was requested yesterday afternoon by Mr. Busby to go in search of the prisoners. I found Vallance shingling a house belonging to a person in Macquarie street; and Owens I found near his own quarters; it was between three and four o clock when I found them. Admitted by the prisoners who throw themselves on the Courts mercy. Sentenced: William Vallance 7 days solitary confinement. John Owens admonished
Surname:
Vollance (Vallance) (Vallence)
First Name:
William (John)
Details:
Carpenter aged 23. Assigned to John Pike
Surname:
Vollance (Vallane) (Vallance) (Vallence)
Details:
Assigned to Alexander Livingstone. Carpenter
