Surname:
Johnstone (Wall)
Details:
Labourer from Belfast. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Sydney gaol. To be tried at the Maitland Quarter Sessions. Sent to Maitland 2 May
Surname:
Johnstone (Wall)
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland Quarter Sessions. Remanded until next Sessions. Sent to Sydney gaol 13 May
Surname:
Johnstone (Wall)
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details:
John Wall alias Johnstone per ship Waterloo, assigned to Mr. Cox, exchanged with Mr. Buchanan for the services of Joseph Merritt. Charged with harbouring Col. Dumaresq s servants and having spirits in his possession....John Bartlett states - I heard four of my masters servants were at Mr. Buchanan s and I went in search of them and found them there drunk. But the prisoner was not drunk though he was lazing alongside of one of them - at this time the prisoner was in charge of Mr. Buchanan s property and a free man William Mossey was in the hut at the time he was laying on a stretcher which behind the door but I could not say he was drunk. This was about eleven o clock in the morning last Wednesday week. And one of the party did not return home until after sundown and they appeared to have been fighting. Wall states that the men came to Mr. Buchanan s place on Tuesday night drunk and insisted upon his letting them into the hut - as they wanted to see Mossey. I told them Mossey was not in - but they said they would break open the door if I did not let them in - I opened the door and they came in with a quart pot in which they said they had some rum - when they told me they had spirits, I put them outside and shut the door - but they kept hammering at it until I was obliged to get up and let them in - I was alone and no men to protect the place or I should have gone and acquainted the farm constable - they told me Mossey had given them the spirits and there was no spirits drunk in the hut. I call upon William Mossey to prove the correctness of my statement....William Mossey being called states - I met three of Col. Dumaresq s servants on the road. I gave one of them, Kenny, a bottle rum which they drank in my presence. Kenny then asked me for another and said he would return it in kind. I gave it to him. I lent them a quart pot and I know nothing more and I went to Mr. Buchanan s next day about 12 o clock, but I saw no men there. He denies having been at Mr. Buchanan s previously drinking with Col. Dumaresq s servants. Peter McVeay states - I am overseer to Mr. Buchanan and on Wednesday week last when I returned home I went into the hut with John Bartlett but did not see William Mossey in the hut....One of my men was there and four of Col. Dumaresq s laying in the hut together with Wall and Henry Shoulder who was laying behind the door and Barret was laying outside, and I did not see Mossey until next day about 12 o clock when I engaged him to go along with Wall to Goulburn River to collect cattle. The case remanded till next court day and William Mossey charged with illicitly selling spirits admitted on his own recognizance to appear whenever required
Surname:
Johnstone (Wall)
Source:
Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 136
Details:
John Wall per Waterloo, native place Belfast. Trade, labourer. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Sydney gaol. To be tried at the Maitland Quarter Sessions
Surname:
Johnstone (Wall)
Source:
Sydney Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 852
Details:
John Wall per ship Waterloo admitted to Sydney Gaol from Brisbane County (Invermein). Occupation butcher. To be sent for trial at the Maitland Quarter Sessions
Surname:
Johnstone (Wall)
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details:
John Wall alias Johnstone, remanded - the following depositions were put in and read - from James Falloon, James Kenny, holding a T/L and Simon Dogherty per Bussorah Merchant, employed by Col. Dumaresq. Patrick Goggin holding a T/L, stated he was in Mr. Buchanan s hut on 22 January last. Some time in the night three men from Col. Dumaresqs came to the hut and wished to be let in. Wall told them to go away four or five times. They said they would not and they would see him buggered first. Wall let them in and they were quite drunk. Next morning the overseer and Bartelett came. When Bartelett asked Falloon what brought him there, when he told him to go and bugger himself and the Colonel too. There was no liquor. There was a free man there named Mossey gathering cattle. He had liquor but not in the house to my knowledge. I did not see Mossey in the house that night but saw him next morning about nine or ten o clock and never saw again that day but I saw him the day after. Recently Mr. Veay and Bartelett coming to the hut it was after I had seen Mossey it might be about eight or nine o clock in the morning. My berth is on the right hand as you enter the door way between the door and the fireplace when Bartelett came in Falloon was laying on my bed and lay there for some time after. Mossey might have been in the hut without my seeing him. I am very unwell and cannot move about and cannot state particularly as to time. I did not see any liquor in the house. The men had quart pots in their hands at the table. I cannot say whether they brought any quart ports with them or not. I cannot say that spirits were not drunk in the hut. I did not see any. I was laying on my berth. It is on one side of the house and they were sitting on the other. The house is about 14 feet wide....John Bartelett states that when he went into Mr. Buchanans hut on Wednesday morning the 23 January last....I looked into the inner room, the overseer Mr. Veay being with me and saw a person laying on a berth behind the door, the overseer shook him and asked who he was when the man said it is me. Oh! said Mr. Veay it is you William is it. I said its Mossey. Mr. Veay said he is a quiet boy. I swear to the best of my belief that it was Mossey. Wall again states in his defence that no spirits were drunk in the place and that the men came in a forcible manner and demanded admittance and what I stated in my former statement is true and correct. Case remanded
Surname:
Johnstone (Walls)
Details:
Charged with having firearms in his possession and wounding an assigned servant of Mr. Cox
Surname:
Johnstone (Walls)
Source:
Newcastle Bench Books
Details:
To be forwarded to Merton to be dealt with by the Bench of Magistrates
Surname:
Kelly alias Matthews
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 678
Details:
Bryan Kelly alias Matthews age 24. Native place Longford. Shepherd.. Tried at Dublin 28 August 1830. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for cow stealing. Assigned to George Blaxland at Hunter River on arrival
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 678
Details:
Daniel Kenny age 19. Native place Cork Co., Chairmaker for 3 years. Tried in Dublin 3 July 1830. Sentenced to transportation for life for manslaughter. Assigned to Alexander McDougall at Maitland on arrival
Details:
Aged 30. Ticket of leave holder
Place:
On board the 'Waterloo'
Source:
Medical Journal of the 'Waterloo'. National Archives
Details:
Age 23. Scorbutus. Put on the sick list 12 April, discharged 28 April 1831, cured
First Name:
John (alias James)
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 678
Details:
John Lawless age 23. Tobacconist from Dublin. Tried in Dublin 1 November 1830. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for assault with intent to rob. Assigned to Richard Kirk jun at Sydney on arrival
Details:
Alias Roddy. Aged 27 from Co. Down. Horsebreaker and soldier. Formerly in service to Capt. Dumaresq. Reward offered for his apprehension
Surname:
Lynch (alias Roddy)
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 678
Details:
Joseph Lynch age 24. Native place Co. Down. Horse breaker, soldier and ploughman. Tried at Co. Down 5 August 1830. Sentenced to transportation for life for house breaking. Assigned to Captain William Dumaresq on arrival
Surname:
Lynch (bushranger)
Details:
Correspondence from Sir John Jamieson regarding his assigned servants James Archer and George Biddles who shot two bushrangers John McDonald and Joseph Lynch at his cattle station on the Namoi. Patrick Tye a ticket of leave holder and stockkeeper to Edward Cox favourably mentioned as having apprehended twenty eight bushrangers and also William Thomas per ship Asia 10, assigned servant who assisted in taking the bushrangers......Notwithstanding the local knowledge of McDonald and his gang enabled them to escape the vigilance of the mounted police for a few months, still their existence appears to have been that of wretchedness and fearful alarm for their safety. McDonald and Lynch were absent from my station eight weeks and three days and from their expectation that the mounted police would closely follow their track, their progress down the river must have been rapid and the distance they penetrated into the interior very considerable. They described with terror to William Thomas the great number, gigantic stature (seven ft in height) and ferocity of the native blacks who they said threw the spear from the hand by its centre and at first from such a distance as to penetrate but little deeper than the skin of their horses, but that afterwards they became so bold as to seize and pull round their horses by the tails and added that the weather was so wet during the attack that their fire arms would not go off; for their protection from the above statement and the anxiety with which McDonald and Lynch enquired of William Thomas if he had seen any of their horses return that way especially a grey mare of Crawford s, it may reasonably be inferred that the report is true which Nutty the Namoi chief received from the native blacks viz, that one of the gang of white robbers had been shot by their own party and two tumbled down (killed) by the natives which would account for the destruction of the whole of McDonalds party which never exceeded five.....George Biddles aged 32 per ship Asia (10) under sentence of transportation for 14 years, a native of Leicester and formerly a marine in his Majesty s naval service gave an account.....I landed in the colony on 26 June 1833 and was assigned to the service of Sir John Jamison in March last; I proceeded to Capita, to his new stock run on the Namoi River. Joe Lynch was described by George Biddles as a tall thin man about six feet high, fair hair, and an effeminate voice and apparently about five of six and twenty years of age; he wore a pair of black trousers, buttoned up the front, a fancy coloured shirt, a fustian shooting jacket and a muslin cravat, a pair of half boots, and a straw hat; the shirt and trousers he boasted of having taken from Mr. Robertson. They all called McDonald by name and acknowledged him as their chief; McDonald was about five feet seven inches in height, dark complexion, black hair and whiskers, a scar on his nose and slightly pock marked, stout made, and about six and forty years of age; wore at this time a blue jacket, blue waistcoat, duck trousers, a pair of laced half boots, cut in several places, and a straw hat. Crawford the other bushranger wore a fustian shooting jacket and trousers, half boots, and a straw hat, five feet nine inches in height, of swarthy complexion, stout made, and stooped much with his head forward; about 30 years of age. The fourth bushranger was described as a good looking dark haired man, who stated himself to be a Welshman; he was about five feet eight inches high, wore a fustian jacket, dark waistcoat, slop blue trousers, half boots, an a straw hat; he appeared to be four or five and twenty years of age and seemed to be a quiet backward man, not well satisfied with his situation. The fifth was a short man, five ft five inches.....I (George Biddles) had some conversation with John McDonald during the night; he related the sundry robberies he had committed and boasted the most of all in having wounded a police man who had charge of one of his party whom they captured; he told me he came to this Colony in the same ship as myself the first time she came; he further stated, that he had held the indulgence of a ticket of leave and lost it; I recommended him to give himself up to the law, he said no, I know my doom if taken. I will therefore endeavour to get out of the country which I shall try to do in following the river. He added that the police could not be more than a day or two behind and desired me to tell Sergeant Temple that McDonald and his mob had gone down the river and that they would leave track enough for them. James Archer addressed himself during the night to Lynch and said what a pity it is that a set of fine young fellow like you should be running yourselves to the gallows in this way; McDonald looked at him and replied, gallows is it? the gallows will never catch Mac, when I die, I die by a ball; Lynch then added the rope will never be made that will hang Joe; the following morning they all breakfasted by daylight, having previously sewed up in bags upwards of 3cwt of flour; they examined the five unloaded muskets and returned them to us also a pistol which was out of repair. From their hatred to Patrick Tye, they were going to shoot his stock horse; I begged of them not to shoot the horse in consequence of which they left him with us; but stated that if they had found Patrick Tye at home when they went to his station they would have punished him with 50 lashes each man and then have shot him; they acknowledged they had taken all his arms, clothing and ammunition, destroyed his provisions and turned their horses in to eat his wheat; their hatred and vengeance against Patrick Tye was from his constant pursuit and capture of bushrangers in that quarter; after leaving the hut they went in quest of a mare in charge of a free man named Farley, who was fencing down the river in the employment of Sir John Jamieson; Taylor or Archer made the near cut to where Farley was at work and informed him that the bushrangers were coming. Farley instantly mounted the mare, and attempted to swim the river but the stream swept him off the mare and he was unfortunately drowned. Towards the end of October George West, per ship Claudine an assigned servant to Sir John Jamison that the bushrangers had taken cattle away from attempted to swim the river on his stock horse but the stream running so high he was swept off the horse and drowned; his body was found next day by the black natives. Lieut. Steel the commanding officer of the mounted police, stated that no harm would come to men who shot McDonald or any of his party. James Archer was aged 27 and under sentence of transportation for 14 years; a native of Bishops Storford, Essex and an assigned servant of Sir John Jamison since his arrival in the Colony 1829
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5'93/4"; ruddy freckled complexion, light brown hair, light hazel eyes; small diagonal scar between eyebrows; formerly in service to Cap.Dumaresq. 70 pound reward offered for information leading to his capture. Accomplices included John Crawford (per York); James Feeny (per Jane) and John McDonald (leader of the gang)
Details:
Granted Ticket of Leave
Details:
Ticket of leave cancelled for theft
