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Surname: Crawford
First Name: John
Ship: York 1831
Date: 2 January 1835
Place: Namoi River
Source: The Australian
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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Surname: Crawley
First Name: John
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1831
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW. Microfiche 677. (Ancestry)
Details: Age 18. Knife boy from London. Tried 27 May 1830 and sentenced to transportation for life for cutting and maiming. Large dark heavy mark on left arm. Assigned to Archibald Mossman in Sydney on arrival. Sister Julia Crawley arrived as a prisoner on the Louisa in 1827
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Surname: Creed
First Name: Thomas
Ship: York 1831
Date: 28 May 1836
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
Details: Admitted to Newcastle gaol charged with neglect of duty. Assigned to H.B. Butler of Maitland on 12 November 1836 (?Henry Bishop Butler)
192956
Surname: Creed
First Name: Thomas
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1831
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 677
Details: Thomas Creed age 19. Groom from Middlesex. Tried in London 15 April 1830. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing copper. Assigned to Archibald Little at Upper Minto
65303
Surname: Creed (Creek)
First Name: Thomas
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1835 30 June
Place: Invermein
Source: Australian
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave
30199
Surname: Dawson
First Name: Edward
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1834 27 December
Place: Maitland
Source: SG
Details: Obtained Ticket of Leave
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Surname: Dawson
First Name: Edward
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1837
Place: Maitland
Source: GRC
Details: Ticket of leave holder aged 30. Employed by Edward Sparke senior
84024
Surname: Dawson
First Name: Edward
Ship: York 1831
Date: 16 May 1836
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
Details: Admitted to Newcastle gaol. Absent from his district. Assigned to William Sparke at Webland Park on 18 June 1836
192957
Surname: Dawson
First Name: Edward
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1831
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 677
Details: Edward Dawson age 25. Married with 3 children. Ploughs, milks, reaps. Native place Herefordshire. Tried at Bedford 13 July 1830. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing pigeons. Assigned to Rev. Sharpe at Hawkesbury on arrival
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Surname: Dickson
First Name: William
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1831
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 677
Details: Age 27, native of Edinburgh. Stonemason, tried 14 June 1830 and sentenced to 14 years transportation for house breaking. One previous conviction of 6 months. Assigned to Dept. Public Works on arrival
120125
Surname: Dickson (Dixon)
First Name: William
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1841 19 March
Place: Brisbane Water
Source: GG
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave
137515
Surname: Dickson (Dixon)
First Name: William
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1843 24 April
Place: Gosford
Source: SMH
Details: Ticket of Leave cancelled for drunkenness and dishonesty
109272
Surname: Dutton
First Name: Samuel
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1837
Place: Cassilis
Source: GRC
Details: Aged 26. Tried in Warwick. Assigned to Richard Jones
192958
Surname: Dutton
First Name: Samuel
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1831
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 677
Details: Samuel Dutton, carter from Coventry. Tried at Warwick 13 July 1830. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing tin. Assigned to Richard Jones in Sydney on arrival
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Surname: Evans
First Name: Joseph
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1837
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: GRC
Details: Aged 30. Tried in London. Assigned to A.E. Dare
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Surname: Evans
First Name: Joseph
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1831
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 677
Details: Joseph Evans, age 25. Brass founder from Birmingham.. Tried at London 27 May 1830. Sentenced to transportation for life for stealing a watch. Pale freckled complexion, brown hair, hazel grey eyes. Assigned to Charles Driver at Bong Bong on arrival. Note - drowned in attempting to cross the Namoi River in 1838
133851
Surname: Evans
First Name: Joseph
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1830 27 May
Place: St. Margaret Westminster
Source: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
Details: Sentenced to Death for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of George Cooper Page and stealing a watch valued at 2 pounds
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Surname: Ferguson
First Name: James
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1837
Place: Invermein
Source: GRC
Details: Free. Aged 35. Employed by Col. Dumaresq
93453
Surname: Foggatt
First Name: George
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1834 12 February
Place: Invermein
Source: GG 1834
Details: Sawyer aged 25 from Barnwell; dark brown complexion, dark brown hair, brown eyes, one cast inwards. Tattoos. Absconded from Capt. Dumaresq 23 January 1834
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Surname: Foggatt
First Name: George
Ship: York 1831
Date: 1834 5 March
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: GG 1834
Details: Apprehended after absconding from Capt. Dumaresq