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7266
Surname: Balmain
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 8 April 1843
Place: -
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Supporter for the election of Major Wentworth to the Legislative Council


172097
Surname: Balmain
First Name: John
Ship: Portland 1837
Date: 16 November 1854
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2009; Roll: 757. Gaol Entrance Books. Ancestry
Details: Labourer from Perth, Scotland. Admitted to Newcastle gaol under sentence of 6 months hard labour


56708
Surname: Germain
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1849 14 July
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: W.H. Jarmain giving notice that no partnership existed between himself and Germain


20307
Surname: Main
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1846 10 January
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: MM
Details: Unclaimed letter held in the Sydney Post Office


117634
Surname: Main
First Name: John
Ship: Guildford 1829
Date: 1839 24 April
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: GG 1839
Details: Shoemaker and soldier aged 29 from Somerset. 5'9"; ruddy and freckled complexion,sandy hair, light brown hair. Absconded from the lockup at Muswellbrook 10th April


117701
Surname: Main
First Name: John
Ship: Guildford 1829
Date: 1839 1 May
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: GG 1839
Details: Apprehended after absconding from Matthew M Hall


185026
Surname: Main
First Name: John
Ship: Guildford 1829
Date: 6 June 1839
Place: Muswellbrook
Source: Criminal Court Records. Muswellbrook Court of Petty Sessions, Letter Books, 1838-1851. Ancestry
Details: Correspondence from Edward Denny Day to the Clerk of the Peace at Maitland informing him that John Main had been sent to the iron gang at Harpers Hill under sentence of 12 months in irons


185027
Surname: Main
First Name: John
Ship: Guildford 1829
Date: 7 May 1839
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
Details: Shoemaker from Bristol. Sent to Newcastle gaol from Sydney. To be sent to Muswellbrook to be dealt with


196507
Surname: Main
First Name: John
Ship: Guildford 1829
Date: 1829
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4014]; Microfiche: 673
Details: John Main aged 19. Shoemaker and soldier from Somersetshire. Tried at Dublin 3 December 1828. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for desertion. Assigned to Bathurst district on arrival. Sent to Pinchgut Island 29 December 1841. Sent to Cockatoo Island


172428
Surname: Main (Mein)
First Name: John
Ship: Guildford 1829
Date: 8 November 1841
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757
Details: Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Scone. Useless in service. Returned to government


175670
Surname: Maine (alias McIlvaine)
First Name: John
Ship: Guildford 1829
Date: 20 October 1836
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
Details: Shoemaker from Somerset shire. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Port Macquarie per steamer William IV. Forwarded to Sydney gaol for the purpose of being sent to Moreton Bay to be dealt with for absconding


179875
Surname: Mane (Main)
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 28 October 1841
Place: Scone lockup
Source: Bench of Magistrates - Scone Prisoners confined in Lockup - Ancestry
Details: Admitted to Scone lockup. No charge. Returned to govt. service.


208269
Surname: Wood (Castlemaine Brewery)
First Name: John Robert
Ship: -
Date: 21 April 1902
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser
Details: A turbine launch, 60 feet long, built to the order of Mr. J. R. Woods of Newcastle, arrived from England last week. She is the first vessel with turbine engines in Australia, and can attain a speed of 22 knots an hour


199040
Surname: Wood (Castlemaine Brewery)
First Name: Joseph and John
Ship: -
Date: 1888
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison Morrison, W. Frederic Sydney. The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888
Details: WOOD BROTHERS AND Co., Wholesale Wine and Spirit Merchants and Brewers, Bolton-street, have a very large connection throughout the whole of the northern districts, in fact the largest in that line of business. The firm, consisting of Messrs. John and Joseph Wood, established themselves on the 5th February, 1865. The original premises were afterwards burnt down, and in their stead the present handsome building was erected. The firm entered the brewing business in 1874, and this department is carried on under the title of Prendergast, Wood, and Co., Castlemaine Brewery. They have a branch store at Maitland, and are the proprietors of a sugar plantation at Ingham, Herbert River, Queensland, where, during the season, as many as 250 hands are employed, and on the Newcastle premises, including the brewery, employment is given to seventy persons. In addition to this the firm are large employers of labour in other directions. Joseph Wood, of the firm, is president of Liedertafel, the Newcastle Rowing Club, and director of the Newcastle N.S.S. Company, and Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery Company. Mr. John Wood, the other partner, is a director of the Gas Company, treasurer of the Jockey Club, and Past Master of the English Constitution of Freemasons, St. George Lodge