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Ticket of leave holder
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Application to Marry - refused
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John Maxwell age 44, application to marry Martha Wise age 35 per William Pitt refused both being prisoners of the Crown
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle
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73rd regiment. Passenger on the 'Anne' from England
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Lieutenant John
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The Bicentenary Pioneer Register, Second Edition, Volume 111
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Born c. 1779. Spouse Harriet Newman (came free). Issue 1) Charles b. c 1807. 2) Harriet Merrick Maria b. 1812. 3) Henry b. c. 1818
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle
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On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle
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A man of colour. On list of prisoners to be dispatched to Newcastle
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle
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Sentenced to 3 yrs at Newcastle for stealing a quantity of gunpowder belonging to the estate of the late Thomas Abbott
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Colonial Secretary's Correspondence
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Sarah May, Thomas Anderson, Edward Williams, William Tucker, Daniel Thurston and Charles Clarke on a list of convicts to be sent to Newcastle penal settlement on the Estramina
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per Lady Nelson
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Absconded from Newcastle settlement. Still at large
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The Bury and Norwich Post
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At Ely Assizes John Lock Thurston, W. Lock Thurston and Daniel Lock Thurston pleaded guilty to the several indictments found against them for horse stealing and burglary and received sentences of death. On account of the extraordinary good character given to William, by a gentleman in whose service he had lived up to Michaelmas last, his sentence was respited before the Judge left the town, upon condition of his being transported for life. The two others were left for execution on Thursday next, but it is reported they all made their escape this day (Monday)
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The Bury and Norwich Post
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John Lock Thurston and Daniel Lock Thurston, the two horse stealers convicted at Ely Assizes will be executed on Thursday next
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Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
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Employed as schoolmaster at Parramatta
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UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
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John Lock Thurston, Daniel Lock Thurston and William Lock Thurston sentence of death respited to to transportation for life. Tried at Ely Assizes on 27 January 1809. Received on to the hulk Prudentia at Cambridge on 10th April 1809 and transferred to the convict ship Anne for transportation to NSW on 31st July 1809.
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Nation Archives Kew. Item reference HO 47/41/15
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Report of Edward Christian, Chief Justice for the Isle of Ely, on 1 individual petition (Robert Alderson, barrister) and 4 collective petitions (6 people, clerks and a schoolmaster of Hingham, Norfolk; the prisoners; 15 people of Cheapside, Walthamstow, Tottenham, Homerton, Bishopsgate, Rickmansworth and Inner Temple in Middlesex, Hertfordshire, London and Essex; and 26 people, comprising grand jurymen, prosecutors, the Newgate Keeper, ministers of Ely and police officers) on behalf of John Lock Thurston, William Lock Thurston and Daniel Lock Thurston (brothers), convicted at the Ely Assizes on 27 February 1809, for horse stealing and burglary, property of Thomas Granger (and others), on 26 November 1808. There is a copy of the application for respite for William Lock Thurston. There are letters from Edward Christian, [Philip Wodehouse], Francis Bagge, Chief Bailiff of Ely and Peploe Ward, Deputy Bailiff of Ely acknowledging the receipt of a respite for John and Daniel Lock Thurston; one, similar, from H R Evans, Deputy Bailiff of Ely; a certificate of good character for John Lock Thurston from George Eyre, carpenter and former employer, Southwark; and another from Nathaniel Bennett & Son, coach makers on behalf of Daniel Lock Thurston. There is a letter from S Stephens regarding their attempt to escape made by the brothers, which has not gone against them as the gaol is insecure and this is regarded as an 'Inducement to the Attempt'. Grounds for clemency: previous good character, have respectable connections in Norfolk, youth (all between 20-25 years), the grand jury and prosecutors support their application for a pardon, they are education to trade, behaved well in prison and all have shown contrition. Initial sentence: death, William Lock Thurston respited. Recommendation: speaks in favour of mercy for all 3 men but in particular William Lock Thurston. Recommendation: transportation for life. Folios 103-125.
