Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1838......
Date:
1838 28 August (Burial date)
First Name:
Hyam (?William)
Details:
Hatter. Assigned to James White
Source:
Application to Marry
Details:
John Braham age 41 arrived per Hindostan, application to marry Isabella Barns (came free per Bussorah Merchant)
Source:
Criminal Petitions. HO 17/54/1 National Archives, Kew.
Details:
Court and date of trial: Stafford Summer Assizes 1829. Crime: Housebreaking - the dwelling house of William Webb at Lower Penn, Staffordshire on 20 May 1829. Initial sentence: Death recorded and commuted to transportation for life. Gaoler s report: Bad character, connected with a numerous gang of juvenile thieves at Wolverhampton. Petitioner(s): William Barton, the prisoner s father, undersigned by 11 inhabitants of Wolverhampton including William Webb, the prosecutor and Edward Breech, the prisoner s master. Grounds for clemency: First Offence; the prisoner is penitent; his family is deeply distressed; he was persuaded by others to commit the crime. Additional Information: Tried and convicted with Henry Farmer and William Pugh. Held in Stafford Gaol and removed to the York convict hulk at Gosport
Source:
R v Beard & Richardson - Superior Court of NSW
Details:
Indicted for highway robbery of John Quandron. Guilty. Indicted for theft from William Harper at Oswald's. Guilty Indicted for theft from Alexander McLeod. Guilty
Details:
SUPREME COURT-CRIMINAL SIDE. THURSDAY-Before Judge Dowling, and the Usual Commission. Henry Beard and John Richardson, were jointly indicted for a highway robbery, putting in bodily fear John Quondrum, and stealing from a dray a large quantity of property, belonging jointly to Robert Lethbridge and Richard Alcorn, at Anville Creek, Maitland, on the 5th of June ; and John McMullin was indicted for receiving part of the property, well knowing it to have been before feloniously stolen. It appeared that the bushrangers met the Drayton the road between Maitland and Alcorn s Inn, near Anville Creek, and made the driver Quondrum, and a man of Allman s who was with him and had a cart in charge, to drive into the bush; the robbers then made the servants unload the dray of a puncheon of rum, a cask of brandy, and a large quantity of other property, and put it upon the cart with which they made two trips further into the bush, and hid the plunder. Quondrum gave information to Mr. Coulson, who with the Mounted Police tracked and secured the marauders, and found part of the property in the house of McMullin. Guilty. McMullin was then removed from the bar, and Beard and Richardson were again indicted for burglariously entering the dwelling-house of William Harper, putting the inmates in bodily fear, and stealing a gun at Hunter s River ; the prisoners were again found guilty, and having been called up for judgment, the learned Judge passed the awful sentence of death upon them, and ordered them for execution this morning without a hope of mercy. McMullin who had been convicted of receiving the stolen property, was ordered to be transported for fourteen years.
Source:
R v Beard & Richardson - Superior Court of NSW
Details:
Sentenced to death for Highway Robbery. Executed 5.8.1833 2 days after trial.
Details:
Bricklayer from Gloucestershire. Sentenced to 4 days in the cells by the Luskintyre Bench for refusing to work
Details:
Bricklayer from Gloucestershire. Admitted to Newcastle gaol 17 August en route to Sydney. Returned to government service at Sydney 18 August.
Place:
Anville Creek, near Maitland
Details:
Henry Beard and John Richardson sentenced to death for highway robbery and putting in bodily fear, John Quondrum. John McMullin sentenced to 14 years transportation for receiving
Source:
UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
Details:
Age 16. Tried at Gloucester 11 October 1828 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing a cloak and other articles. Admitted to the hulk and then transferred to the convict ship America on 27 March 1829 for transportation to NSW
Ship:
Bussorah Merchant 1828
Source:
Ticket of Leave Butts
Details:
Alexander Bell, tried Edinburgh 9 November 1827, granted ticket of leave for the district of Port Stephens. Note - altered to Maitland February 1837
Ship:
Bussorah Merchant 1828
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 669
Details:
Alexander Bell aged 20. Tailor from Edinburgh. Tried at Edinburgh 9 November 1827. Sentenced to 14 years transportation for house breaking. Assigned to J. Wood in Sydney on arrival
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835
Details:
William Bennett, assigned servant of A.W. Scott. John Jones remanded on a charge of assaulting Bennett
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835.....
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Sentence in irons expired. Returned to Hyde Park Barracks
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835.....
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Newcastle charged with using threatening language . To find bail and sureties or be confined 12 months
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835.....
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 757
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Newcastle. Sentenced to 14 days in the cells for drunkenness
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835......
Details:
Assigned to A.W. Scott
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835......
Source:
Newcastle Bench Books. AONSW Reel 2722
Details:
Sentenced to 50 lashes for pilfering. Assigned to A.W. Scott
Ship:
Bengal Merchant 1835.......
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details:
Labourer from Essex. Admitted to Newcastle gaol. To be sent for trial. Sentenced to 3 years in irons
