3 The ‘crimes’ of the damned page 43 William Roadknight Hobart Town Gazette, 15 February 1823 page 43 William Stewart H. Maxwell-Stewart and B. Hindmarsh, ‘“This is the Bird that Never Flew”: William Stewart, Major Donald MacLeod and the Launceston Advertiser’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, 2, 1 (2000), pp.1-28. page 44 John Begley 190 John Begley per Admiral Cockburn (VDL), AOT, Con 23 and Con 31/1; A. T. Yarwood, Marsden, Samuel (1764-1838) in D. Pike (ed.) Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2, (MUP, London, 1967), p.212. Hobart Town Gazette, 10 November 1821. page 44 William Blunt and Joseph Saunders Hobart Town Gazette, 10 November 1821. page 44 While drinking 138 Richard Perrhyn, per Maria, AOT, Con 31/34. page 44 In all only three percent Based on an examination of the records of 888 Macquarie Harbour convicts transported to the settlement between 1821 and 1832. AOT, Con 31 and SC 41/1 series. page 44 Of these, none was convicted of murder 336 James Buckley per Maria, AOT, SC 41/1 5 July 1824. page 45 At about ten past six The information of Patrick Rice, and the information of James Davis, HRA Ser. 3, vol. VI, pp.211 and 214. page 45 Once inside the building The information of James Davis, HRA Ser. 3, vol. VI, p.212-3. page 46 They were forced The information of Samuel Theody, HRA III, VI, p.216. page 46 The robbery was only discovered Colonial Times, 22 June 1827. page 46 The Government advertised Hobart Town Gazette 23 June 1827. page 46 On the Wednesday The information of James Davis, HRA, III, VI, pp.211-2. page 46 Thomas was in a celebratory mood Hobart Town Gazette 23 June 1827. page 47 All that week The information of James Davis and information of William Thomas, HRA, III, VI, pp.212 and 215-6. page 47 At the subsequent trial Hobart Town Gazette, 18 August 1827. page 47 Nevertheless the Crown case collapsed Colonial Times 17 August 1827 and AOT, SC41/1. page 48 John Mawer John Mawer, AOT, SC 41/1 14 December 1825. page 48 The brothers Michael and Philip Flannagan 73 and 74 Henry/Michael and Philip Flannagan per Bencoolen AOT, Con 31/13 and An Alphabetical Return of Prisoners who have absconded from Macquarie Harbour, ML B706. page 48 John Wood AOT, SC 41/1 7 August 1826 and
page 48 Edward Broughton 909 Edward Broughton per Earl St Vincent, AOT, Con 31/1 page 49 Outrage W. Beatty, Early Australia with Shame Remembered, Cassell, London, 1962, p. 79. page 49 Of the 245 convicts Commandant to Lieutenant-Governor, 6 January 1825, AOT, CSO1/219/5265. page 49 For making away 221 John Mayo per Guildford 4, AOT, Con 31/29, 18 March 1829. page 49 Not only of the gang Colonial Times, 23 March 1827 and ; 419 James Reed, per Medina AOT, Con 31/34 and 667 William Holt per Medina, AOT, Con 31/19. page 50 We feel no small Hobart Town Gazette, 3 February 1827 and 504, Henry Jones Batchelor, per Richmond, AOT, Con 23/1. page 51 Waiting up P. Tardiff, Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1990, p. 355–6. page 51 Sentenced to be transported I. Schaffer, ‘The Forgotten Women Convicts of Macquarie Harbour, 1821-1826’, Tasmanian Ancestry 18, 2 (1997), pp.94-8. page 51 There were others Colonial Times, 10 March 1826 and AOT, SC 41/2. page 51 The jury that M. Chesterman, ‘Criminal Trial Juries in Australia: From Penal Colonies to a Federal Democracy’, Law and Contemporary Problems, 62, 2 (1999), pp.69-71. page 51 The same practice C. Emsley, Crime and Society in England 1750-1900, Longman, London, 1987, p.154. page 51 Thus when William Brown, Patrick Lynch and William Young AOT, SC 41/1, 10 January 1827. page 53 Gottfried Hanskie Court-martial proceedings against Gottfried Hanske and Christoph Beulter, Private Soldiers in the 2nd Light Battalion King’s German Legion, 13 September 1810, NA, WO/71/222; M. R. Howard, ‘Walcheren, 1809: A Medical Catastrophe’, British Medical Journal, 319 (1999), pp. 1642-5 and SRNSW, Colonial Secretaries Correspondence, 6023; X820 p.9 and 6009 4/3506, p.113 and AOT, 436 Godfrey (sic) Hanskie, per Guildford, Con 23/1 and Con 31/19. page 53 Mermaid, kangaroo, snake AOT, Con 31/13 and CSO 43, p. 55 and papers relating to the Lady East, ML, Tas Papers, 21. page 54 They included William Grovenor 224 William Grovenor per Lady East, Hobart Town Gazette 11 March 1825 and Tas Papers, 21. page 54 John Williams 758, John Williams, per Governor Ready, AOT, Con 31/45. page 55 Ten convicts who arrived HRA, III, IX, pp.377-82 and 869 and Hobart Town Courier, 8 January 1831. page 55 One of their number 279 Richard Edwards per Royal George, AOT, Con 23/1 and personal correspondence with the Flowers family. page 55 William Thompson, John Morphew and John Becket ML, Tas Papers 22. page 55 Four prisoners Petition addressed to Governor Arthur from twelve prisoners confined on board the Argyle transport AOT, CSO 1/539/11703 and 730 William Philips, per Argyle, AOT, Con 14/2. page 55 There were others E. Fitzsymonds, Mortmain: Van Diemen’s Land Sullivan’s Cove, Hobart, 1977, pp.120-6. page 56 Peter Rainor 170 Peter Rainor, per Shipley 3 (NSW) and Guildford (VDL), AOT, Con 23/1 and CSO1/397/8998. page 56 It was suspected AOT, CSO1/97/2307. page 56 William Gibbons AOT, CSO1/103/2458. page 57 Robert Surrage AOT, CSO1/242/5865. page 57 As the cases of many HRA, III, VIII, pp. 971-2. page 57 William Buelow Gould Police Office Records General Sessions, Saturday 20th June 1829 — William Smith / William Gould - Charged with passing a forged note of the Derwent Bank and with subsequently destroying the same to avoid detection AOT, CSO 1/187 /4488 and Muster Master to Colonial Secretary, 28 August 1829 AOT, CSO1/415/9352.