Ship:
Admiral Gambier 1811......
Details:
Absconded from Newcastle Settlement
Ship:
Admiral Gambier 1811......
Details:
Absconded from the limeburners gang with Francis Parcello, Walter Preston, John Cricks, Isaac Walker and Thomas Desmond on 15th November
Ship:
Admiral Gambier 1811......
Details:
Lieut. Thompson instructed that Lee be wrought in double irons and strictly watched to guard against desertion
Ship:
Admiral Gambier 1811......
Details:
On list of runaways to be returned to Newcastle
Ship:
Admiral Gambier 1811......
Details:
Prisoner at Newcastle. Speared by the natives and returned to Newcastle settlement. One of the men he absconded with Thomas McCarty was reported to have been killed by the natives
Ship:
Admiral Gambier 1811......
Source:
Colonial Secretarys Correspondence. Series: NRS 898; Reel or Fiche Numbers: Reels 6020-6040, 6070; Fiche 3260-3312
Details:
John Lee, Isaac Walker, Walter Preston, Francis Parcella and John Bucks were all sentenced to 50 lashes for absconding.
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
Details:
Labourer from London. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Withdrawn from the service of Mr. Dangar awaiting His Excellency s decision on the case
Details:
Assigned to the Police Office. Charged with being absent at night. Constable Rouse witness in case
Details:
Admonished and discharged from Court after being charged with being absent at night
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. Marriages p7
Details:
Marriage of John Lee aged 37 and Elizabeth Broom. Witnesses at marriage James and Margaret McGreavy
Details:
Aged 34. Assigned to Government service at Newcastle
Place:
On board the 'Asia' convict ship
Source:
The National Archives Catalogue,Medical journal of the Asia convict ship
Details:
Age 19. put on sick list 25th February, discharged 2 March. Diarrhoea
Source:
Maitland Family History Circle's Pre 1900 Pioneer Register
Details:
Born c 1817 Cambridge. Occupation Farm Labourer. Spouse Elizabeth Raynor. For more information see Pioneer Register Entry No. 824
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
Details:
Weaver. Assigned to E.W. Evans
Details:
Apprehended after absconding from service of Thomas Brown
