Source:
In the Service of the Company: letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural company: volume 1, December 1829 - June 1832 Letter 501
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Employed in Govt works at Newcastle and no longer needed. Sir Edward Parry requesting that Rawson be re-assigned to the A.A. Company to work in the Company mines at Newcastle
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Age 46. Assigned to the ironed gang at Newcastle
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Coal miner age 29 from Manchester. 5ft 2in. Light hazel eyes, light brown hair, fresh complexion. Absconded from No. 8 Iron Gang
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 655
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James Rawson age 25. Coalminer from Manchester. Tried at Stafford March 1824. Sentenced to transportation for life. Assigned to government employment in Sydney on arrival
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 655
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James Rendle age 18. Sailor R.N., from Plymouth. Tried at Plymouth 2 May 1824. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Sent to Windsor district on arrival
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Patterson's Plains
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Age 18. From Sanbury. 5' 4 3/4" grey eyes, flaxen hair, pale complexion, Absconded from J. Boughton at Patterson's Plains
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Apprehended after absconding from No. 1 stockade
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Brick maker aged 23. Absconded from Newcastle gaol
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Brickmaker aged 25 frm Sunbury. Grey eyes, flaxen hair, pale complexion. Absconded from No. 1 road party since 7th December. 2nd time absconding
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Brickmaker aged 33 from Sunderland. Absconded from the Stockade at Towrang. Supposed that he will attempt to leave the Colony
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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Henry Sears, in government service, charged with making away with his slop clothing. The superintendent states - the prisoner having been returned to government service a short time since in a state of nakedness, I was directed to clothe him which I did. Since which he has made away with his shirt and shoes. Henry Sears sentenced to one month in the gaol gang
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Henry Sears in government service, charged with stealing a pair of shoes from a fellow prisoner. William Hart states - Last night after I was asleep in barracks my shoes were stolen from me. James Dermoody states - This morning at day break I saw Sears going to the privy with a pair of shoes under his arm. I followed him and saw him putting them under the flooring of the privy. I asked him where he had got them, he said he had found them and that I should have half if I would not say anything about it. I refused to have anything to do in it I went and told the barrack master who took the shoes from him. The prisoner states he found the shoes. Henry Sears sentenced to 50 lashes
Place:
Phoenix Hulk to Moreton Bay
Source:
State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Title: Phoenix Hulk: Discharge Book, 1825-1830; Volume: 4/6285
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Henry Sears per Asia, sentenced to 3 years in a penal settlement. Discharged from the Phoenix Hulk and transported to Moreton Bay per Lucy Ann
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 655
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Henry Sears age 18. Brick moulder from Sunbury. Tried at Lewes 16 August 1824. Sentenced to transportation for life. Assigned to Airds district on arrival
Source:
Darlinghurst Gaol Entrance Books
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Henry Sears sent to Darlinghurst gaol from Norfolk Island with seven other men all to be sent for trial. Sentenced to death. Executed 8 December 1842
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Last week, two desperate marauders were apprehended on a gentleman s estate in the neighbourhood of Sutton Forest, by two of the servants on the estate, one of them an assigned servant, and were kept confined until the arrival of the police, who were absent on the look out for the gang, of which those two formed a part. They turned out to be Henry Sears, other wise called Flash Gatty, and John Daley, two runaways from the Towrang ironed gang. They were forwarded for examination before the magistrate at Berrima, who told the assigned servant that for the exertions which he had displayed in apprehending the prisoners, he should re commend him to his Excellency the Governor for a conditional pardon.
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Supreme Court, before Sir James Dowling Chief Justice. The Norfolk Island Murderers. John Jones, Thomas Whelan, George Beavar, Henry Sears, Nicholas Lewis, James Woolf alias Mordecai, all late of Norfolk Island, labourers, were indicted for, that they on 21 June last on board a certain brig or vessel called the Governor Phillip, at sea, about one mimle from Norfolk Island being then in the act of committing the crime of piracy did with malice aforethought, assault one Charles Whitehead, then being on board the said brig with intent to murder him.....
Place:
Gaol yard at Woolloomoolloo
Source:
The Colonial Observer
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Execution of the Norfolk Island Pirates - George Beaver, John Jones, Henry Sears and Michael Lewis
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John Daley and Henry Sears convicted of robbery with fire arms, were sentenced to transportation - Daley for seven years and Sears for fourteen years.