Place:
Newcastle district
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 19
Details:
Ticket of leave holder. Employed by Alexander McLeod
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Obtained ticket of leave
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Granted Ticket of Leave
Date:
1st to 31st March 1823
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly return of Corporal Punishments
Details:
Alexander Maclean, Thomas Jones, John Davis, Patrick McGee and Patrick Dunn sentenced to 25 lashes each for robbery on board the 'Lady Nelson'
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Correspondence - Commandant Henry Gillman to Colonial Secretary
Details:
Thomas Jones Included in a list of 19 convicts transported to Newcastle who appear unaccounted for in the Returns from that Settlement and not in the last General Muster - At present at Newcastle with Assistant Surveyor beyond Patrick Plains at the last General Muster
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly Return of Corporal Punishments inflicted at Newcastle
Details:
Assigned to Government service. Sentenced to 50 lashes for assaulting the Chief Constable and general misconduct
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Henry Butler per Guildford and Thomas Jones per Grenada both in service of government charged with theft....Chief Constable James Calvert states....On Sunday afternoon the 10th inst., I was sent for by John Smith to take charge of the prisoners who he informed me had been attempting to rob his till. Mr. Smith showed me a bank note and some silver which he said had been taken out of the till and thrown by Butler into a cask in the yard as he attempted to make his escape. I searched the prisoners and found a Spanish Dollar concealed in Jones mouth. They were both intoxicated. Mr. Smith states....The prisoners were at my house and I heard someone in the shop. My wife went out and caught Butler at the till. He endeavoured to make his escape and threw some money away which was afterwards picked up. One of the dollars was picked up by Jones who put it in his mouth from where it was afterwards taken by the Chief Constable. Henry Butler and Thomas Jones both sentenced to 75 lashes and hard labour in the gaol gang until further orders
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Thomas Jones in service to government, charged with absenting himself from his quarters at unseasonable hours and for maliciously biting the Chief Constables finger...The Chief Constable states....the prisoners was reported to me to be absent from his quarters. I found him at the house of Susan Grey. In taking him into custody there was a struggle, in which the prisoner got my finger in his mouth and bit it most violently.The prisoner states in his defence - I was intoxicated and did not know what I was about. Sentenced to 50 lashes and solitary confinement for the remainder of his sentence
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Labourer aged 33. Assigned to J. Thorp
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Granted Certificate of Freedom
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On list of convicts employed by William Cox
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Assigned to Bathurst settlement
Place:
Newcastle district
Source:
Newcastle (Hunter River) Population Book, 1824 - Ancestry
Details:
John Lee born c. 1801, assigned to William Hicks
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Sentenced to 50 lashes for disobedience of orders
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Assigned to Lieut. Hicks. Sentenced to 100 lashes for robbery
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
Samuel Tarburton, Michael Duffy, John Lee and Thomas Jones all charged with stealing tobacco from on board the colonial schooner Speedwell....George Ison overseer of the Town Gang states...The prisoners were employed on one of the launches loading the Speedwell with coals. William Hide states - I had charge of the Speedwell yesterday in the absence of the Master - Some tobacco and other goods were on the deck. In the course of the afternoon I missed the tobacco. The prisoners before the court were the only persons from the shore at work in the launch that brought the coal. I did not miss the tobacco till they were gone. I went to the launch in which they had been at work and which was moored off for the night and under the head I found part of the tobacco and also the basket. A large proportion of the tobacco was gone. David Goodsir, seaman on the Speedwell states...I saw the basket of tobacco on deck. There is no one else could have taken the tobacco except the men before the court. The prisoners deny any knowledge of the robbery. Sentence: Samuel Tarburton 50 lashes and sent to Port Macquarie for the remainder of his sentence. Michael Duffy 50 lashes and sent to Port Macquarie for the remainder of his sentence. John Lee sentenced to 50 lashes and Thomas Jones sentenced to 50 lashes
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
John Lee per Grenada, Thommas Kent per Prince of Orange, DAvid Jones per Eliza, George Wright per Batavia, all in attendance on the assistant surveyor up the river. All four were charged with refusing to obey the orders of the Assistant Surveyor when called on by him to attend him on duty. Charge stated by Mr. Henry Dangar, assistant surveyor. All four men were sentenced to hard labour in the mine for one month
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
Surname:
Leeson (Gleeson)
Details:
Groom aged 31. Assigned to P. McIntyre
Surname:
Leeson (Gleeson)
Source:
Application to marry
Details:
Bond. Application to marry Margaret Callaghan
