HEADLINES OF OLD: detailed descriptions

ABSCONDED PRISONERS,COLONIAL CONVICTS, APPREHENDED RUNAWAYS

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 27 April 1836 (No.219) National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230672233

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 13 July 1836 (No.230) National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230672787

Friday 7 January 1848 (No.4)

NSW Govt Gazette 23 Jul 1852 (Iss 74)

NSW Govt Gazette 17th Aug 1852 Colonial Pt1

NSW Govt Gazette 17th Aug 1852 Colonial Pt 2

NSW Govt Gaz 17th Aug 1852

NSW Govt. Gazette 19 Jul 1853 (Iss 80)

FURTHER READING..

ABSCONDED PRISONERS, APPREHENDED RUNAWAYS... Trove Tuesday 7th Apr 2020

Claim a Convict Search and Browse

Convict Records of Australia

Convicts Index 1791-1873 Shuttlewood as example

Convicts | Historical Indexes Online | NSW State Archives

https://www.records.nsw.gov.au › archives › guides-and-indexes › indexes

RETURN OF FEMALE CONVICTS... TROVE TUESDAY 3rd Mar 2020

ABSCONDED CONVICTS 1832... TROVE TUESDAY 25th Feb 2020

TICKETS OF LEAVE-CANCELLED Trove Tuesday 18th Feb 2020

Tuesday, 21 January 2020

DESERTING WIVES AND FAMILIES......Trove Tuesday 21 Jan 2020

Deserting Wives & Families

The Police Gazettes are a wealth of information...though these are all from the NSW Gazettes, they are available for other states... You could be surprised as to what you will find in them.

Deserting wives and families was frowned upon and was considered a punishable crime. These items are full of interesting facts... they give the names, including aliases if applicable, area of abode, full descriptions of the deserter, clothes they had been wearing, whether they left on foot or horse, etc. They are a veritable Pandora's box for researchers.

To their credit, they also post if a warrant has been cancelled... but not often as to why.

1873

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New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930), Wednesday 25 Feb.1880 National Library of Australia. http://nla.gov.au/nla.newsarticle251642230

DESERTING WIVES AND FAMILIES, SERVICE & C.

26 May 1880

New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930), Wednesday 14 Jul. 1880National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251642646

29 Jan 1896

10 May 1899

11 Aug 1928

I was quite interested when I saw the name of DILLON in the page above.. but didn't know whether to feel relieved or miffed when I discovered it wasn't one of my Dillons.