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Farm boy age 25 from Sheffield. Absconded from No. 3 irong gang 30th November
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indents Fiche No. 673
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Age 17. Farm boy from Sheffield. Tried at Doncaster 21 January 1828 and sentenced to 7 years Transportation for stealing handkerchiefs. 2 prior convictions. Assigned to George Blaxland at Bush Farm on arrival
Source:
Criminal Court Records. Muswellbrook Court of Petty Sessions, Letter Books, 1838-1851. Ancestry
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Correspondence from Edward Denny Day to the Colonial Secretary informing him of the death of Constable Fox at Cream of Tartar Creek near Gammon Plains by bushranger John Hobson, otherwise known as opposum jack. Bayliss who was assisting in pursuit of the bushrangers Hobson, Knight and Wilson was shot but survived
Surname:
Hobson (Opossum Jack)
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Posted in G.G. Known as Oppossum Jack Absconded from No 3. Iron Gang in 1837
Surname:
Hobson (Opossum Jack)
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Apprehended after absconding from the service of George Blaxland
Surname:
Hobson (Opossum Jack)
Place:
Cream of Tartar Creek, Merriwa
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Shot and killed Constable Fox of Cassilis Police at station of W.C. Wentworth 25 May 1839
Surname:
Hobson (Opossum Jack)
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Associate of Francis Knight and John Wilson
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Ticket of leave cancelled for being drunk and stating himself to be free
Source:
G.G. / An Organised Banditti
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Farm boy from Sheffield. Absconded from No 3 Iron Gang since November 1837
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Assigned to L. Threlkeld. Sentenced to 3mths in iron gang for neglect of duty
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Native of Edinborough. Warehouseman. Sentenced to 3mths in an iron gang by Newcastle Bench for insubordination and neglect of duty. Forwarded to Sydney 8 March
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Attached to Commissaries Dept. Charged with disorderly conduct. No prosecutor. Discharged
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Newcastle (hospital)
Source:
Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle. Burialsp3
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Assigned to A.W. Scott. Died aged 37. Burial date
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No. 29-2247. Iron founder from Swansea. 5' 8"; brown eye (blind in one eye) Absconded from E. Byers in Sydney
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 137
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Cooper from Bristol. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Newcastle. Returned to govt. service
Source:
AO NSW Convict Indents Fiche No. 673
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Age 22. Native of Warwick. Harness maker. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for house breaking. Tried at Nottingham. Assigned to Col Dumaresq at St. Heliers on arrival
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
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Robert Jones per ship Layton, assigned to Col. Henry Dumaresq, charged with neglect of duty. John Bartlett states - I am overseer on Col. Dumaresq s estate and on Sunday morning last the prisoner had taken his sheep out from the yard and in about two hours after the man who was looking for the horses found twenty eight of his sheep and brought them home and could not find the shepherd any where near the place where the sheep were found....The prisoner makes no defence. The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to receive thirty five lashes