TROVE TUESDAY 27TH JUNE, 2017... SPLENDID SAILING SHIPS..

ALLAN CHARLES GREEN..
Photographer, artist, ship enthusiast..

He was born in Daylesford, in the Central Victorian goldfields on Dec. 23, 1878. His father was a miner. There is a photograph of a sister, Florence, and there were an unknown number of brothers.

ALLAN CHARLES GREEN [1878-1954], the man behind the photos - Green Collection, SLV.

Photo: Green Collection, State Library of Victoria, accession No. H91.325/2412, publicly released. 

 

Our knowledge of this man's life - if not the published indications of a gentle and kindly soul - are at best fragmentary. We do know that as a young man Allan Green and his brothers set out for the goldfields of Western Australia, in the roaring days of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, but - not striking it rich - eventually opened a grocery store in the remote mining settlement of Day Dawn well north of Perth, inland from Geraldton [it is now a ghost town]. Allan Green was never a miner: he had originally worked as helping hand to a blacksmith, and after the store was opened, finding himself left for long periods alone, he started a corresponmdence course in Fine Art, the basis of his water colour painting that followed.

Clearly Green was a man of finer instincts than his environment of remote boom and bust mine towns suggest. A photograph of wheat wagon out in WA also suggests he was already working with a camera. Information about his introduction to photography, however, is completely lacking, but everything about the stunning clarity of Green's plate glass images, and his care in composition, compellingly suggests that he also had some formal training in this art. 

He is seen here [above] as a young man, in a typical early 20th Century Edwardian portrait, perhaps taken around the time of his marriage to Elizabeth May Cowie, a beauty of Scottish heritage, whom he married at the Town Hall in South Melbourne.

Allan Charles  Green, wife Elizabeth May Green, and daughter 

Marion 

- SLV

Photo: Green Collection, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe 
Library] accession NO. H91.325/2438.

 Some rights reserved

Returning to Victoria in the early years of the 20th Century Green opened a photo studio on Williamstown's Front Esplanade, which he lived above. While Green no doubt did commercial portrait photography, his own fascination and focus seems to have been was almost entirely maritime, and he clearly spent an enormous amount of time on it.

Of the 10,000 or so images Green donated to the State Library of Victoria in 1940 [the number, nominally 8025, is much understated as a result of by multiple images under single subject listings], there are just a few family portraits and few general scenes. The rest is entirely of ships, one of the great collections of its kind. 

Superb / Allan C. Green. 

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• Title:
  Superb / Allan C. Green.
• Author / Creator: Allan C Green 1878-1954, artist.
• Date: [between 1900 and 1954] 
• Description: 1 painting : watercolour on paper mounted on board ; sheet 36.4 x 50.2 cm. 
• Copyright status: This work is out of copyright 
• Terms of use: No copyright restrictions apply. 
• Identifier(s): Accession no:H17228 
• Subjects: Superb (Ship); Clipper ships -- Australia -- Pictorial works; Watercolors
• Index terms: Australia; sailing ships 
• Notes: Signed in green paint lower right: Allan C. Green 
• Contents / Summary: British clipper built 1866 by Green's at Blackwall for their own line. 
• Source / Donor: Gift; 1956. 
• Link to online item: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/402205 
• Link to this record: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1657275 

His first love had been sailing ships, billowing under full sheets out at sea, and there are thousands of such images in the SLV's Green Collection, augmented by his highly regarded colour paintings from the 19th-early 20th Century's end of sail era, many of them published in the Melbourne 'Punch,' and later the maritime 'Port Phillip Quarterly.'

The photograph collection largely consists of Green's own work, but he also gathered in photos of ships from all around the world, and he sold reproductions of these these from his Front Terrace studios. In truth, the business failed to flourish, and the 1930s found Green working as a newsagent in Melbourne's tough inner suburb of Richmond, a business that eventually failed during the Depression.

Green's grandson, Mr David Thiessen of Oak Park, Victoria, who passed on this information, tells us that while his grandfather - artist at heart - was never a successful businessman, nor was he much concerned with money. Apart from his time in Western Australia, Green's only trips outside the State of Victoria were two trips to Sydney, at least one of them accompanied by his grandson. Although only a boy, David Thiessen recalls him photographing warships at Garden Island during this visit.


              Allan C Green The Argus  Mon 26 Apr 1954 

Here is a small selection of Allan C. Green's work... 

all courtesy of TROVE.. via  

pictures, photos, objects 

Many of these are kept at State Library of Western Australia.. 

or State Library of Victoria.

All are out of copyright...




State Library of Victoria

• Title: SAILING SHIPS GEELONG, PORT OF [picture]
• Author/Creator: Allan C Green 1878-1954 photographer.
• Date: [ca. 1900-ca. 1954] 
• Description: negative : glass ; 12.1 x 16.6 cm. (half plate) 
• Copyright status: This work is out of copyright. 
• Identifier(s): Accession no(s) H91.108/2761 
• Subjects: Sailing ships
• Index terms: Ships 
• Notes: Photographs and further information for some images in Green Collection Shipping Photographs in Picture Collection. 

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State Library of Western Australia 

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State Library of Western Australia 

129207PD: Cargo ships docked at Rockingham jetty, approximately 1907.

http://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b3914855_1

State Library of Western Australia 

129206PD: Rockingham jetty, loading and unloading timber with steam locomotive and flat wagons, approximately 1907.

slwa_b3914855_2

   

TROVE TUESDAY, 20 JUNE, 2017... THE INNOCENT CONVICT..

Parramatta_Female_Factorypainted by Augustus Earle, c. 1826

Who was the Innocent Convict...on reading the article of that title, (see below) the name given is Mary Green. Was she living in the female factory?

 There was a Mary Green at the Female Factory...was she the right Mary Green?

https://femalefactoryonline.org/police-reports/law-report-of-bridget-reynolds-mary-green-anne-ball-ann-mcmullen-9-november-1832/

A 'Mary Green' appears on the list on Convicts to Australia at  http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/confem44.html
arriving on the Wanstead...
Wanstead - Arrived 9 January 1814.
Sailed 24/8/1813 from Spithead in 138 days.
Embarked 120 females.

SURNAME        CHRISTIAN NAME      TRIAL PLACE        DAY  MONTH   YEAR   DEPARTED        

Green          Mary                Nottingham         13     03    1813   ENGLAND

However the Mary Green the article labels as the 'innocent convict' appears to have come out in the First Fleet according to the time mentioned in the story.

On a list of convicts, published by Gutenberg Australia, only one Mary Green is mentioned.   http://gutenberg.net.au/convicts.txt


"The Innocent Convict..."

Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), Thursday 9 March 1865, page 4 

Please click on image to enlarge..

THE INNOCENT CONVICT.

(From Diaries of a Lady of Quality: by A. Hayward, Q.C.)

November 18th, 1803.—"We left Buxton in

the midst of a deep snow, and after a very cold

and wretched journey arrived at Elton [Elton

Hall, Oundle : the seat of the Earl of Carysfort]

the next day. During the time we were there,

I heard the following story, which appeared to

me very interesting:—Some years ago some

passengers in a vessel bound for Botany Bay

were very much struck by the appearance of a

female convict who was on board. She was a

very beautiful woman, and appeared to be only

eighteen or nineteen : her elegant manners were

as striking as the beauty of her person. To

these charms she added one still more powerful

—great modesty and strict propriety of de-

portment. It was this quality, so extra-

ordinary in this most abject situation, which

first called forth the attention of her su-

periors. The captain of the vessel was re-

quested to examine the register which was sent

with every convict detailing their offence and

their sentence, and inform the passengers what

had been the crime of a creature who appeared

so lovely. He found that her name was Mary

Green, and that she had been convicted on the

clearest evidence of stealing a card of lace from

a shop in Oxford-street. During a long passage,

her continued good conduct gained her so much

respect that, a maid-servant belonging to one of

the officers having fallen sick on board, his wife

took Mary Green to supply her place; she

found very soon that she had gained by the

change: the more she saw of Mary the better

she liked her. At last she tried to persuade

herself that her favorite was innocent of the

crime laid to her charge. She questioned her

as to her former situation, and as to the reasons

which could have induced her to the commission

of a crime which seemed so foreign to her

nature. Mary replied, as she had to all her

former inquiries, that no power on earth could

make her reveal any part of her story. She

added that she was perfectly resigned to her

fate, and determined to pass the rest of her

days in New Holland, as she could never re-visit

her native land. Still, in spite of the mystery

which hung about her, she rose every day in

the good opinion of her mistress, who, after

some time, placed her about her children ; then

only she discovered that, in addition to all her

amiable qualities, Mary possessed, in a superior

degree, all the talents and accomplishments

which belong to an exalted situation. She

spoke several modern languages, and understood

both painting and music—in short, she soon

became the favorite companion of her mistress,

who could no longer treat this superior being as

a servant. Still, however, Mary resisted her

urgent entreaties to discover her former situa-

tion ; she owned that it had been superior to

that rank in which she now found herself ; con-

fessed that her present name was assumed;

added that she had been very unfortunate ; but

would never add to her other misfortunes that

of thinking her relations and friends were

blushing for her. About three years after

this time, the chaplain of the settlement was

called upon to attend the deathbed of an old

female convict who was lately arrived. Though

an old offender who had grown up in the paths

of vice, this woman felt in her last moments

great contrition, and made a full confession of

all her crimes. She said that what laid the

most heavy on her conscience was the recollec-

tion of her having laid one of her offences to the

charge of an innocent young woman. She said

that, having gone in one day to a shop ¡n

Oxford-street at the same time with a very young

girl who appeared to be fresh from the country,

she had spoken to her ; and, after having stolen

a card of lace, she followed the young woman

out of the shop. Soon after, hearing the cry of

" stop thief," she made a pretence of her clog

boing untied to ask the assistance of the young

woman, who was still close by her, and while

she was stooping had contrived to slip the lace

into her muff, and to escape herself be-

fore their pursuers reached them. She

said she had afterwards heard that the

poor girl had been convicted of an offence of

which she knew her to be perfectly inno-

cent. This account immediately brought to the

chaplain's mind the Mary Green who had ex-

cited so muoh curiosity, he went immediately

to her, asked for her story, and received from

her the usual answer, refusing all intelligence

on this subject. He, however, pressed her, told

her that it might be of the utmost importance

to her to confide in him, as some circumstances

had lately come to light which he hoped might

lead to her exculpation if she would give him

all the particulars of her case. She burst into

tears, told him that she was the only daughter

of a respectable merchant of Birmingham, but

still refused to tell her name : she said that at

eighteen years of age she had gone to London

for the first time, to an uncle who lived in New-

man-street ; that a day or to after her arrival

she had, in the dusk of the evening, gone to a

haberdasher's shop, to which she had been di-

rected as being only a few steps from her

uncle's house. On coming out of the shop she

had heard a cry of 'stop thief,' and had hastened

home to escape the mob, by whom she had been

very much hustled. On the steps of her uncle's

house she was arrested, the piece of lace was

found upon her, and she was immediately car-

ried into confinement. She said she thought it

was hardly possible that any testimony of her

character could avail against the positive evi-

dence brought against her, more particularly as

her only defence was that she knew not how,

the lace came into her muff. She therefore de-

termined to conceal her name and never apply

to her family. This happened just before the

time of sessions. Mary's trial and condemna-

tion ensued so soon after, that her relations had

not had time to make all the enquiries which

they afterwards sent in vain all over

the kingdom. These circumstances tallied so

exactly with the old woman's confession that the

chaplain ventured to tell Mary that he had no

doubt of her acquittal. He informed the

governor of the whole transaction, who promised

to transmit this information by the first ship to

the English Government, and said that her

innocence appeared to him so clear that, without

instructions, he would venture to say that she

should no longer be considered as a convict, but

as a planter. In England the strictest inquiry

was made, and every circumstance exactly tallied

with Mary's deposition. The next ship brought

her complete acquittal and conveyed her back

to her disconsolate parents, who had not ceased

to lament the unaccountable disappearance of

their beloved child. Soon after her return she

married extremely well to a young clergyman,

who had a very good living.

The question remains unanswered...

TROVE TUESDAY, 13TH JUNE, 2017 - CONVICT SHIPS ... AND WITH PENSIONERS...

Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, convicts going aboard, Edward William Cooke, 1828, hand-coloured etching. Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia: an9058453



TROVE is truly a treasure trove ... of facts and stories, of those you expect and certainly, many unexpected..

While looking for articles on convict ships, I was not disappointed.. there are numerous articles.. just try looking for just that 'convict ships' or for the names of particular ships if you wish, or dates.. the options are many. I have included just a couple of articles to as a sample of what is there. ..PART 1

 However, I came across Pensioners in Convict Ships.. something I had heard of, but had never followed through. Great thought was given as to whom was eligible.  see PART 2..

 Some of these items are too difficult to read from the original so you have the transcriptions only.

Thanks to David Black for kindly allowing me to share his photograph of this Memorial Plaque.

"We took this photo in Portsmouth as we stood on the spot where the first convicts left to go to Australia."

Thanks to David Black 

PART 1

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Saturday 19 March 1803, page 3 (3)

 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article625461

 SHIP NEWS.

On Sunday last anchored in the Cove, His

Esq. Commander, with Prisoners from Eng-

land, from whence she sailed the 23d of Sep-

tember last. In her way she put into Rio

de Janeiro to refresh. She left England with

Majesty's ship Glatton, JAMES COLNETT,

270 Male, and 135 Female Prisoners---se-

ven of the former, and five of the latter died;

brought upwards of 30 Free Settlers, Eight

Pieces of Heavy Ordnance, and a quantity of

Ordnance Stores. The day before she got

into the Cove 100 weak people were taken

out, and put on board the Supply, 50 of the

most ailing were soon after sent on shore to

the General Hospital, where every attention

was paid them. Their complaints were

slightly scorbutic, of which they are reco-

vering very fast.

On Sunday morning arrived the Bridge-

water, Capt E. H. PALMER, with Flour

and Stores from England, and a great quan-

tity of Salt Meat from the Cape of Good

Hope, sent by Vice-Admiral Sir R. CURTIS.

The day before the Bridgewater left the Cape,

His Majesty's Sloop Imogen arrived from Eng-

land, with Orders to General DUNDAS and Sir

R. CURTIS, not to evacuate the Cape ; from

which it is to be apprehended a misunder-

standing had taken place between England

and Holland---perhaps with the French Re-

public.

The Bridgewater has on board a Private

Investment, in which the following articles

are comprised, viz. 200 bhds of Ale and

Brown Stout, Soap, Cordage, Shoes, Men's

Cloathing, Tobacco, Irish Linen, Watches,

Leather, Harness and Sadlery, 20 bhds of

Crockery, Slops, 24 casks of Constantia, &c.

On Saturday the 12th instant arrived from

King's Island, with skins and oil, the sloop

Surprise (formerly the Diana), belonging to

Messrs. Kable and Underwood.

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sunday 24 April 1803, page 4 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article625527 

Sydney.

On Saturday the 16th Instant and two fol-

lowing days a number of prisoners convicted

of misdemeanors, were shipped on board the

Buffalo for Norfolk Island. Robert Jillet

was also put on board, with Hailey, im-

plicated in the same offence, and several

of the Store Attendants, whose conduct had

been such as to render them suspected. Se-

veral persons were permitted to go at their

own request, some to accompany their hus-

bands, and others from a desire of a change of

air.

Last week John Orrall was taken before a

Magistrate on suspicion of stealing a Sail the

property of J. Harris, Esq. and the charge

being justified, was sentenced a corporal

punishment; in the course of which he pro-

fessed a knowledge where the property lay

concealed, and was permitted to go, in

charge of a constable, in quest of it. After

amusing the officer with a round-about pro-

menade he stopped at a house, and inform-

ed him the sail was in the loft, but declared

himself unable to mount, which he persuaded

his guide to do ; up the guardian scrambled

to hunt for the property, and after passing

some minutes in a vain pursuit, scrambled

down again, TO HUNT FOR HIS DEPARTED

PRISONER, who at the moment of his ascen-

sion had made off, and has not since been

heard of; but is supposed to have had re-

course to the dismal alternative of taking to

the woods, where he must inevitably perish, or

transiently subsist by plundering the settlers,

whose interest it is to secure and bring to jus-

tice every miscreant of this description.

Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857), Friday 2 April 1852, page 2 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8771146 

Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), Convicts embarking for Botany Bay  180-?  NLA

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PART 2 

This article shows that the whole concept was very well detailed... Considering the circumstances many lived in, the promise of a new beginning with a paid position, must have seemed very tempting.

Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 - 1861), Saturday 12 January 1850, page 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3709243

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PENSIONERS IN CONVICT SHIPS.

In consequence of the wish expressed by many pensioners to settle in Australia, her Majesty's Government has authorised the following condi-tions under which some of them may be provided with free passages to that country :—
1st. The convict guards, hitherto furnished by regiments of the line, are in future to consist of pensioners who wish to settle in Australia. A company of from sixty to seventy men, with a due proportion of non-commissioned officers, will be formed at Tilbury Fort, and kept ready to furnish detachments for this duty ; and, as they are em-barked, fresh volunteers will be brought from the pension districts to supply their place.
2nd. The age of these pensioners is not to exceed forty-five, and the number of their children not to exceed two under seven, or three under ten years of age. No maximum is specified for the number of children above ten years of age, as that must in some measure depend on whether they are likely to be serviceable in the colony.
3rd. These pensioners shall, engage to serve for a period of six months, or until the termination of the voyage, at the rate of 1s. 3d a day for a private, 1s. 6d. for a corporal, and 1s. 10d. for a Serjeant ; such pay to commence from the date of leaving their respective districts, and to continue on shipboard, and after landing in the colony, till the period of their engagement has expired, subject to the usual deductions for rations during the voyage ; and they shall be conveyed from their homes to Tilbury Fort, or other place of embarkation, at the public expense.
4th. As the pensioners thus employed are to receive pay during the voyage, no enrolment money will be issued to them; and each will be
equipped for the voyage by an advance of four months' pay previous to sailing.
5th. As the wives and families of these pen-sioners cannot be allowed to accompany them in a vessel which is intended for the conveyance of convicts, they will be sent out free of all expense, within three months after the departure of the pensioners, and the cost of their conveyance to the
port of embarkation will be paid by the public.
6th. If the pensioners is married, his pension during the Six months that he is on pay will be
applied for the support of his w¡fe and family till
embarkation, and towards their outfit for the
voyage.
7th. Each pensioner proceeding on this duty , will be equipped with one frock coat, one shell jacket, one pair of trousers, and a cap, to be worn on those occasions when he is on duty, and which equipments, in the event of his serving as an enrolled pensioner in the colony, will be renewed as often as the nature of the service is found to require. The usual arms and accoutrements of an enrolled pensioner will also be issued to him.
8th. These articles will be marked and numbered as belonging to the pensioner, and on the expira-tion of the period for which he is to receive pay, they are to be returned into the Government store of the colony, in good order, under the direction of the officer or non-commissioned officer in charge of the party. In the event of any damage be-yond what is likely to have resulted from wear and tear, the cost thereof is to be deducted from the pensioner.
9th. On the termination of six months, the pensioner's military engagement will be considered at an end, if by that time he has arrived at his destination, and he will thereafter only be liable
to attend exercise as an enrolled pensioner, for twelve days in each year, in any loyal company to be formed in the colony under the authority of the Act 10th and 11th Vict., cap. 54 ; and to serve in defence of the colony, or when called out for the preservation of the public peace, under the authority of the Governor.
10th. When employed on this duty he shall receive the pay authorised by the Royal Warrant of the 7th September, 1843, for enrolled pen-sioners, viz..
In aid of On days of
Civil Power. Exercise.
Sergeants .... 3s. 6d....3s. 0d. per diem. Corporals .... 3s. 0d....2s. 6d. " Privates .... 2s. 6d ... 2s. 0d. "
with an addition of 6d. per day beyond the highest rate to a sergeant- major, if any of that rank are
authorised to be employed.
11th. In consideration of the expense incurred by the Government in sending out the pensioner and his family to the colony, he shall not receive enrolment money annually, but shall be bound to keep up the usual stock of necessaries, consisting of one pair of boots, two shirts, two pairs of socks, and one stock, and if at any time deficent therein after his enrolment, his officer will advance him the amount necessary for purchasing the same, and deduct it from the first issue of his pay or pension.
12th. Every pensioner on the termination of the six months for which he is engaged, shall be bound to register his place of abode in the books of the person who pays his pension, and not to remove therefrom without intimating to him his intended change of residence, and obtaining per-mission. 
It being considered more advantageous for the pensioners and their families that they should supply the demand for labour, than attempt set-tling on land of their own, no grant of land has been promised them ; but if they acquire money to purchase it in the interior, there will be no ob-jection to their settling there, even though the distance should prevent them from serving as enrolled pensioners.
13th. In the event of the death or removal from the force of any pensioner thus enrolled before the expiration of the period for which his clothing

has been issued, it shall revert to the public, to be made available for the equipment of his suc-
cessor.
14th. An allowance of one guinea will be made to cover the expense of the funeral of any pen-sioner who dies while thus enrolled or on pay.
15th. It must form a special condition of the original engagement and subsequent enrolment,
that the service is in neither case to reckon for
increase of pension ; but when employed in defence of the colony, these pensioners shall, in the event, of being wounded or disabled in the execution of their duty, be allowed the usual increase of pension as for wounds received in action.
16th. Every pensioner volunteering for this service will, during the continuance of the period for which he is engaged, or enrolled, be subject to the provisions of the Mutiny Act and Articles of War ; but all minor offences may be punished by such fines, or by expulsion from the force, as the Governor of the colony for the time being may direct.
17th. In the event of the pensioners being enrolled, the periods of exercise shall be fixed by the Governor of the colony for the time being, and none of them shall be called out, either for exercise or in defence of the colony except by him or persons holding his authority for that purpose ; but when so called out they shall be placed under the General or other superior officer in command of Her Majesty's forces in the colony, in the same man-ner, in all respects, as if they formed part of the regular forces of Her Majesty's army.

     

  Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (Hobart, Tas. : 1847 - 1854), Saturday 5 July 1851, page 4 

   http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173059785 

      CONVICT GUARDS

The following circular has just been

issued from the War Office to the Staff

Officers of Pensioners:—

I am directed to transmit the conditions

of service for convict Guards proceeding

to Australia and Van Diemen's and in the

ensuing year, and to request that you will,

immediately after your next payments,

recommend for this Service any number,

not exceeding six, of the most eligible of

the pensioners in your district who may

wish to become candidates for that duty

attending carefully to the instructions previously

given you as to the qualifcations

required for this duty, and the mode of

recommending them, which you will do

on the enclosed blank form.

Much inconvenience having been experienced

by private applicants and enquiries

from pensioners to whom the

nature of the conditions do not appear to

have been sufficiently explained, I am

directed to request that you will be particularly

careful to read and explain

these conditions to them at your payments,

and also to hang up a copy in your office

that they may be perused

by them at that time.

Should no candidates offer on this occasion,

you can recommend the required

number at any other period in the course

of the year; but you must, in the meantime,

report the circumstance of no candidate

being at present available.

The candidates must distinctly understand

that it is quite uncertain when they

will be wanted, as opportunities for forwarding

them depend entirely on the number

of convicts sent cut in the course of

the year,but none are likely to be required

earlier than March next, and the year will

probably have passed before the whole are

called for.

As the men appointed to this service

will not receive enrolment money, they

will not be required to refund any portion

of the bounty money which may have been

paid to them*; but it is expedient to avoid

enrolling them when you are in expectation

of their services being wanted for this

purpose, unless you cannot make up the

required number for your district other

     wise.

Should any of these Candidates die, or

remove to another district or alter their

intention of going out, it is requested that

you will immediately communicate the

circumstance to this office, in order that

the necessary alteration may be made in

I have, &c. 

United Service Gazette.

L. SULIVAN

 Just one more that I couldn't resist...

Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Saturday 5 May 1888, page 702 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19932310 

A Romantic Convict Story.

At the present time (says the Sydney Evening

News) the Government have under consideration

the case of Jeremiah Shea, an old man of 88

years of age, who was sent out to Botany Bay

in 1818, and who has applied for a pension.

His story, as told by himself, is a most re-

markable one. He claims to be the natural

son of the late Lord George Beresford and

brother to the late fire-eating Marquis of

Waterford, who broke his neck in the hunting

field. The name of his mother, who died in a

convent, he knows, but states that he is sworn

not to divulge it. He was adopted into the

family of Mr. Shea, one of the curators of the

British Museum, London. By that gentleman

he was apprenticed to Mr. Lock, shoemaker,

King-street, Covent Garden. One day, while

carrying a bag of shoes home for his master, he

loitered to play marbles, and the bag was

stolen. Fearful of returning home without

them he ran away from his situation and got

into bad company. Shortly afterwards, while

standing outßide the shop of Alderman Wait-

man (then Lord Mayor of London), in Bridge

street, Blackfriars, two men accosted him and

promised him a shilling if he would lift a

bundle of cloth standing outside Alderman

Waitman's door into a hackney coach. He

was in the act of doing so when he was seized

and given into custody on the charge of steal-

ing, and on being tried at the Old Bailey

before the Recorder of London, Judge Silvester,

was sentenced to seven years' transportation.

In the same year he came out in the ship

Morley the Second, and speaks well of his

treatment while on the voyage. His history

since his arrival in Australia is best told in his

own words, which have been embodied in the

form of a memorial to the Government, as

follows: "To the Native-born Australians, —

I, Jeremiah Shea, arrived here in October,

1818, in the ship Morley the Second, under

sentence of seven years, and when I landed was

Assigned to Captain William Cox, of Claren

don, in whose service I remained until I became

free at his station, Manah, near Mudgee. I

became free on 26th February, and then went

to the Hunter and engaged with Mr. John

Wiseman of that place, and his father, Mr.

Solomon Wiseman, of Wiseman's Ferry,

Hawkesbury River. After leaving their

service I engaged with Mr. Thomas Heydon,

of Murrurundi, and Peter Brodie, Esq., of the

same place. I also worked for Mr. John

Kennedy Howe, and for Mr, James McDougall,

both of Singleton ; also for Mr. Hobbler and

Mr. Turner, both of Maitland. I was entitled

after my term of service to a grant of land of

thirty acres for good conduct (never having

been brought before a police court while in the

colony). I did not apply for it till 183O. My

application was drawn out in the usual form

and signed by Mr. Solomon Wiseman, J.P.,

and sent in, at the time of General Darling,

was attested by W. C. Wentwovtb, and went

home. To that application I never received an

answer. Lately, I petitioned the present Go-

vernment, and can get no redress, as the old

records of the convict period have been

destroyed. In no office in the colony can my

name, or that of the ship I arrived in, be found.

I have saved many from being shot in New

South Wales, and many from being killed by

the blacks. I have done much work for Mr.

D. Milson, of the Wollombi, son of the late

Mr. Milson, of St. Leonards. In 1852 I went

to the diggings, northern side, and found the

first ounce of gold there, which I sold to Dr.

Jenkins for £2 10s. At that time flour was £7

per bag, and beef 2d. Dr. Jenkins and Mr.

Brodie kept stores, also Mr. Frisk, who was

very kind to the miners; the diggings would

have been broken up but for his timely aid.

There were three public-houses on the dig-

gings—Gibbon's, Gold Nugget, and Scho-

field's Nundle. Mr. Jones, J.P., Warden and

first Gold Commissioner, followed by Mr.

Durhen, C.L. Commissioner and P.M., Tam-

worth; Major Innes, Mr. Charles King,

Captain Brown, Captain Douglas, and Mr.

Dalton. They are all gone, and I am left to

write this, and trust that those who read it will

assist me in as much as lays in their power, as

l am now old and infirm. I must not forget

to mention Sergeant Langworthy; he was the

best officer on the diggings. By his influence

many young men were kept from going astray,

and made good members of society. I was

born and reared at the British Museum,

Russell-street, Bloomsbury." There is con

siderable consistency between the different

parts of the old man's story which im-

parts to it a strong appearance of proba

bility. Of course, in view of his great age,

and the fact that he has led a wild life for

the greater part of seventy-one years on the

diggings or in the bush, it is not to be mar-

velled at that slight discrepancies should have

crept in. If his story be correot, it is really

wonderful how an octogenarian like this could

retain so clear a recollection of events so long

past. It is felt to be a hardship that this old

and wherewithal worthy settler should have no

part or lot in the land he has done so much to

open up and render habitable. Since the year

1852 he has been engaged on the diggings

with more or less success; but what he won

by hard labour he lost in speculation. He is

now living at Hanging Rock, near the Peel

River, where, as he states, he was the first to

discover gold. But owing to the advance of

years and increasing decrepitude he is unable

to work any more, and is, therefore, in very

straightened circumstances. He has been in

Sydney during the last five weeks trying to get

some assistance from the Government. Thanks

to the interest taken in his case by several

gentlemen, including Mr. James Fletcher,

M.P., and Dr. James Cox, there is a proba-

bility of some relief being afforded him in the

shape of a weekly pension. The old man's

recollections of persons and things during what

may be euphoniously termed the prehistoric

days of New South Wales are most vivid and

interesting. His adventures include conflicts

with blacks, encounters with bushrangers,

which, added to his personal reminiscences of

the penal system of the early days, make his

story read like a romance. His history is only

one of many, but it is rendered remarkable by

the fact that he survives to tell his own story.

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