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183100
Surname: Dunnett (Dennett)
First Name: William
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 24 July 1833
Place: Invermein
Source: Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
Details: William Dennett per ship Exmouth, assigned to Hamilton C. Sempill, charged with neglect of duty. Jeremiah Horrigan states - I am overseer at Segenhoe. The prisoner was a watchman at the sheep station; the sheep were lost on Friday last; he did not come to report the circumstances to me; it was accidental my going to hat station as I did on Saturday the following day; It was the watchman s duty to have let me know of the loss on the day it happened Friday. The prisoner states in his defence that he was told to report any loss when the overseer visited the station; he did not understand he was to leave his station to do so but admits he ought to have gone to have reported the loss which had occurred. The Bench find the prisoner guilty but abstain from awarding punishment at the intercession of his superintendent John Dow.


183101
Surname: Dunnett (Dennett)
First Name: William
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 1831
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 679
Details: William Dunnett, age 20. Native place Glasgow. occupation weaver and spadesman. Tried 17 September 1830 at Glasgow Court of Justiciary and sentenced to 14 years transportation for house breaking. Assigned to Hamilton C. Sempill in Sydney on arrival


120328
Surname: Dunnett (Durnell)
First Name: William
Ship: Exmouth 1831
Date: 1841 15 January
Place: Scone
Source: GG
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave


118445
Surname: Dunning
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 1877 9 August (Burial)
Place: Campbells Hill Burial Ground
Source: Maitland Burial Records
Details: Died aged 77


141540
Surname: Dunning
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 1867
Place: Bendolba
Source: Baillier's Post Office Directory p.30
Details: Labourer


39656
Surname: Dunning
First Name: William
Ship: Hadlow 1818
Date: 1819 2 February
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle


57631
Surname: Dunsmore
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 1849 25 August
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Offering reward for mare missing from the station of William Nowland at Mooki River


109612
Surname: Dunsmore
First Name: William
Ship: James Pattison 1837
Date: 1842 25 January
Place: Cassilis
Source: SG
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave


189955
Surname: Dunsmore
First Name: William and Phoebe
Ship: -
Date: 19 September 1847
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Baptism Register p. 172
Details: Phoebe Elizabeth, daughter of William and Phoebe Dunsmore born 16 November 1846. Baptised 19 September 1847. Occupation of William Dunsmore - confectioner


189957
Surname: Dunsmore
First Name: William and Phoebe
Ship: -
Date: 28 November 1836
Place: London
Source: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
Details: Phoebe Dunsmore and William Dunsmore were indicted for stealing, on the 27th of November, 5 bottles, value 5s.; 5 preserve pots, value 5s.; 1lb. weight of preserves, value 5s.; 1lb. weight of tea, value 5s.; 1lb. weight of sugar, value 1s.; 7lb. weight of candles, value 7s.; 1lb. weight of raisins, value 1s.; 1lb. weight of sago, 1s.; 1lb. weight of beef, value 6d.; 1lb. weight of mutton, value 6d.; 1lb. weight of pork, value 6d.; 1 pint of brandy, value 6s.; 1 pint of wine, value 6d.; and half a pint of whiskey, value 1s.; the goods of Charles Smithson, the master of the said Phoebe Dunsmore. WILLIAM FULLER (police-constable.) On the 27th of November, about half-past seven o clock, I was on duty in Cadogan-place, watching there, and saw the male prisoner ring Mr. Smithson s bell - the door was opened, he went in, and in about a quarter of an hour I saw him come out with a clothes basket I stopped him, and asked what he had got there he said, what odds was that to me, it was his own property I took him back to the door, and rang; the female prisoner opened the door I asked her if she knew any thing of the basket or its contents she said it was all his, that he belonged to the house I kept them, and sent for Mr. Smithson the basket contained the articles stated. CHARLES SMITHSON . This female was a servant of mine, acting as nurse to Mrs. Smithson I never saw the man before he did not belong to the house the officer called to me and I saw the things in the basket - I identify the brandy, the cork of which had the name of my spirit merchant on it, and the whiskey the same I had missed things several times. (The prisoner received a good character.) PHÅ’BE DUNSMORE GUILTY . Aged 25. WILLIAM DUNSMORE GUILTY . Aged 24. Transported for Seven Years


189956
Surname: Dunsmore
First Name: William and Phoebe
Ship: James Pattison 1837
Date: 1837
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12189; Item: [X640]; Microfiche: 729
Details: William Dunsmore, age 27, married with 1 child. Native place Perthshire. Occupation cook and baker. Tried at Central Criminal Court, London 28 November 1836. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing wine - Notes - lost three upper front teeth, scar left side of chin. Wife Phebe Dunsmore (maiden name Head) sailed in January last, a prisoner under sentence of seven years


94128
Surname: Hemley (Dunn)
First Name: William (Billy)
Ship: -
Date: 1852 1 September
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Found not guilty of stealing a horse belonging to William Allison at Oakey Creek


205845
Surname: Hemley alias Dunn (Hambly?)
First Name: William alias Billy
Ship: Recovery 1836
Date: 17 July 1852
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details: William Hemley alias Billy Dunn, labourer from Devonshire. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Cassilis on a charge of horse stealing. Acquitted


92853
Surname: Henley (Dunn) (Henly)
First Name: William (Billy)
Ship: -
Date: 1852 18 August
Place: Cassilis Bench
Source: MM
Details: To be tried for horse stealing


33029
Surname: Turner (Dundas)
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 1847 17 July
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Alias James Dundas. Arrested for drunkenness in Maitland and detained on suspicion of being a runaway