NSW: Gaol Description and Entrance Books 1818-1930

[BAC3]

Hello,

My middle-range Ancestry subscription does not allow me to access the above records......I need "Worldwide".....and I wonder if someone has that facility they could help with the information contained in the entries for two convicts who were admitted to the Darlinghurst Gaol and then transferred to Cockatoo Island:

(1):    George SIMMONDS admitted 24/04/1848 transferred 06/12/1848: date of birth 1827, Middlesex, arrived Port Phillip per "Maitland" 09/11/1846;

(2):     William JONES (alias Christopher FARRELL, Henry SHAW) admitted 28/11/1848 transferred 06/12/1848: date of birth 1828, Staffordshire, arrived Port Phillip per Marion  25/01/1848.

Whatever information can be gleaned about these two re-offending "Exiles" would be helpful....I have tried TROVE but attempting to follow their tracks via paper reports has not proved easy.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

BAC3

 

[rosie17]

George Simmonds
Arrival year 1846 date of admission 24/4/1848
Darlinghurst N S W
entry 531 George Simmonds b London ..looks like shoemaker
3 years labour Cockatoo Island 6 Dec 1848

[BAC3]

Thanks rosie17,

Have you any idea what happened to George SIMMONS after he arrived at Cockatoo Island?   When was he released, for instance?  Did he receive any retributive treatment, bread and water!!??    Just a hope!!

BAC3

[rosie17]

Have you looked on trove for Christopher Farrell residence Geelong 1859 1889 N S W Police Gazettes
Henry Shaw alias Christopher Farrell b Liverpool England 1828
Ship Marion 1847 arrival year 1847
Labourer religion protestant can read and write
Hair Black eyes grey height 5ft 8 1/4
12/8/1869 Burglary 7 Larceny 10years
14/8/1872 stabbing a fellow prisoner 10years
1872 to Banna Jail ( not sure if that is right as the writing hard to make out )
5/11/187? sentence remitted

[rosie17]

Christopher Farrell alias Henry Williams alias Bowen and Frederick Clarke alias Josha Edmontson escaped from Geelong Gaol along with other 2 prisoners his age 62 described as very dangerous
A bit of a rogue I would say 

[BAC3]

rosie17

You will have recognised now the difficulty I had researching TROVE and trying to find some
chronology to his serial re-offending.   You have mentioned a few dates and possibly I can work the jigsaw round those particular pieces.  All highly entertaining.  

A multi-named rogue/scoundrel, you have added several more aliases     However, I do know he died in Geelong Gaol in 1895 of pneumonia and debility, so I have the edges of the jigsaw.

Thank you for your help

BAC3

[rosie17]

Your welcome at least you know what happened to him as you have his death   ...obviously he never changed 

[Dundee]

Have you looked on trove for Christopher Farrell residence Geelong 1859 1889 N S W Police Gazettes
Henry Shaw alias Christopher Farrell b Liverpool England 1828
Ship Marion 1847 arrival year 1847
Labourer religion protestant can read and write
Hair Black eyes grey height 5ft 8 1/4
12/8/1869 Burglary 7 Larceny 10years
14/8/1872 stabbing a fellow prisoner 10years
1872 to Banna Jail ( not sure if that is right as the writing hard to make out )
5/11/187? sentence remitted

I think it is Berrima Gaol.

BAC3, if you can get to a library which has free access there are photos in those records.

Another conviction in 1883 for stealing in a dwelling house - John SHAW alias Christy FARRELL.  Sentence 5 years on the roads; he had aged considerably by then.

Have you seen his records on PROV; more aliases there!!

http://prov.vic.gov.au/research/prisoners-and-convicts

Debra 

[rosball]

Not sure if this is him ... career of a criminal .

Christopher FARRELL alias James and Thomas SHAW born 1828 in Liverpool ....  "for the past forty years has seldom been out of gaol".

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8558405

cheers,
   Ros

adding :
  Christy FARRELL alias Thomas or James SHAW   escape and some history 1889
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146674774
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13743516
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132180237

 Henry Shaw alias Christopher FARRALL burglary 1869
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60890971
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60835889

 Henry SHAW alias Christopher FARRELL attempted murder 1872
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/cite/1453273/13261997
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162662559