Whatever happened to Barakia Parnacott?

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Thank you all who have contributed, you have given me the push I needed.

It would be great to be able to tell John King's story though. I knew Barachia Parnacott would be relatively easy to find because of his less common name- it might be interesting to research the child gang that he elegedly belonged to.

It is frustrating though because John King probably has the more fascinating story.

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This seems to be the correct John King: http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/c31a31270134

absconded in 1832: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4200093?searchTerm=king

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Wow!
Thank you so much- this is really fascinating.

The fact that you can get the information you can really fires the imagination.

I find myself wondering- just how many other convicts like him were out there and would he have stuck out like a sore thumb?
You would imagine he could be found quite quickly by someone hungry for the reward- but I have read enough to realise the public were not always so keen to help the authorities.

There's the bare bones of a novel here if someone wants to write it.