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Biographies
Joseph Puckeridge, was born in 1777 and was a brick maker. He was convicted of feloniously stealing 75 yards of scotch ticking, valued at 5 pounds. He was tried on 2 April 1800, at Middlesex Gaol Delivery and sentenced to death, but remitted for life to NSW.
The transcript reads as follows:
JOSEPH PUCKERIDGE, Theft > shoplifting, 2nd April 1800.
312. JOSEPH PUCKERIDGE was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 15th of March, seventy-five yards of Scotch ticking, value 5 pounds, the property of John Bennett, privately in his shop.
JOHN BENNETT sworn. - I am an upholsterer at Hammersmith, opposite the Black Bull: On Saturday, the 16th of March, the prisoner came to my house, and said he came from a lady, and wanted some carpets; in about half an hour the prisoner came a second time, I was writing in the kitchen, it is impossible that anybody could come into the shop without my knowledge; hearing a noise in the shop, I went upstairs, and saw the prisoner within a very few yards of my door, with the ticking upon his shoulder; I pursued him, and at one time I was very near him, but he jumped over some pales, and tore his hands with the tenter-hooks; then I lost him for an hour and a quarter; I went to different public-houses, and gave information; the country people had stopped him, seeing his hands bloody, they thought he had committed murder; I afterwards found him in the taproom at the White-horse, Shepherd's-bush, about a mile and a quarter from my shop; I am sure the prisoner is the same man; it laid in the shop window where we put carpets; he must have gone quite round the door to take it.
Q. Are you quite sure he must have come into the shop? - A. I am quite sure of it; the prisoner told me that a gentleman had given it him to carry, at my door.
Cross-examined by Mr. Gurney. Q. At the time this ticking was taken out of your shop you were in the kitchen? - A. Yes.
Q. You found nobody in the shop when you came up? - A. No.
Q. When you came up the man had run away, and you ran after him? - A. Yes.
Q. What opportunity had you then of seeing his face? - A. He turned, repeatedly, to see if I was coming after him, and when he got to the pales, I almost caught hold of his hand.
THOMAS PRINCE sworn. - I work in the brickfields: I saw the prisoner walking along with a piece of ticking on his shoulder, he was coming from Mr Bennett's house towards town; I saw him drop it down and run away; Thomas Hatton picked it up, and took it to Mr Bennett's house; I am sure the prisoner is the man.
THOMAS HATTON sworn. - I saw the prisoner with the ticking upon his shoulder; he threw it down when Mr. Bennett pursued him close; I took it up, and carried it to Mr Bennett's shop. (It is produced).
Mr Bennett. This is my ticking, I had had it three quarters of a year by me, it being too narrow for common mattresses; there is seventy-five marked upon it at the corner, it cost me seven pounds.
Prisoner's defence. I went into the Black-bull, and a porter said he would give me some beer to carry it for him; I had been to North-end to look for work; I am totally innocent of the charge.
GUILTY Death. (Aged 23.)
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury,
Joseph one of 296 convicts transported on the Earl Cornwallis and arrived in Sydney on 12 June, 1801. Joseph came to Australia with his free wife Ann Maund.
Earl Cornwallis, 784 tons, built in London in 1783 was a large ship by the standards of the time. Her master was James Tennant and she carried no surgeon. She sailed from London on 18 November 1800 and arrived in Sydney 12 June 1801 (206 days). She brought out 193 male and 95 female convicts of whom 27 males and 8 females died in transit. The two children of Joseph and Ann did not survive the rigours of the journey. The “Earl Cornwallis” sunk on the return journey to London. Joseph was put to work making bricks for the government.
Submitted by Researcher (Brian Clayton) on 31 May 2020
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Death Registration - Source: NSW BDM
V18184124 2B/1818 PUCKERIDGE JOSEPH AGE 41
V1818810 7/1818 PUCKERIDGE JOSEPH AGE 41
Submitted by Researcher (2119) on 17 February 2014
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New South Wales Resident 1818 - Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834
Submitted by Researcher (2119) on 17 February 2014
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New South Wales Resident 1816 - Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834
Submitted by Researcher (2119) on 17 February 2014
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Criminal Record 1798 - Source: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892
Submitted by Researcher (2119) on 17 February 2014
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Baptism 1777 - Source: Ancestry.com. London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
Submitted by Researcher (2119) on 17 February 2014
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Burial 29th September 1818 Old Sydney Burial Ground http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/excel_doc/0013/111352/Burial-inventory-June08.xls
Submitted by Researcher (2119) on 17 February 2014
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