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- Researcher (Tabitha Park)
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Biographies
Crime: House breaking
Convicted at: Glasgow Court of Justiciary
Sentence term: 14 years
Ship: Minerva
Departure date: 8th July, 1824
Arrival date: 19th November, 1824
Place of arrival New South Wales
Passenger manifest Travelled with 171 other convicts
National Records of Scotland
Reference AD14/23/54
Title Precognition against John McDonald for the crime of theft
Dates 1823
Access status Open
Location On site
Level File
Finding aids 19th Century Solemn Database
Accused John McDonald, tailor, Millwood Street, Calton, Glasgow
Precognition against William McPherson, Con Docherty, Joan Docherty, Agnes Mitchell, William Adams, George McManus, John McDonald, John Gow for the crime of reset
Dates 1823
Accused William McPherson, hornspoon maker, Address: Hosie’s Land, near new bridge of Glasgow
Con Docherty, changekeeper, Address: Bell Street, Glasgow
Joan Docherty, wife of Con Docherty, changekeeper, Bell Street, Glasgow, m.s. Main
Agnes Mitchell, servant to Jean Main, Bell Street, Glasgow
William Adams, labourer, Tarbet’s Land, Old Wynd, Glasgow
George McManus, Age: 18, wright, 44 Bridgegate Street, Glasgow
John McDonald, Age: 19, tailor, Bridgegate, Glasgow, Address: [Bridgegate, Glasgow?]
John Gow, Age: 15, tailor, Mowat’s Land, Stevenson Street, Calton, Glasgow
National Records of Scotland
Title Trial papers relating to John McDonald, John Gow, William Adams, George McManus for the crime of theft by housebreaking, and reset of theft at Hole, Cumbernauld, Dumbarton. Tried at High Court, Glasgow
Dates 26 Sep 1823
Accused John McDonald, Verdict: Guilty, Verdict Comments: Guilty in terms of own confession, Sentence: Transportation - 14 years. Note: Porteous roll within papers
John Gow, Verdict: Guilty, Verdict Comments: Guilty in terms of own confession, Sentence: Transportation - 14 years. Note: Porteous roll within papers
William Adams, Verdict: Outlawed, Verdict Comments: Outlaw and fugitive, Sentence: Outlawed and put to the horn. Note: Porteous roll within papers
George McManus, Verdict: Guilty, Verdict Comments: Guilty in terms of own confession, Sentence: Transportation - 14 years. Note: Porteous roll within papers.
No Ships found for John Gow, William Adams, or George McManus.
John McDonald was born C1804.
Dec.1831: Permission to marry Margaret Barclay (Louisa 1827) John was 27 and had a TOL - Margaret was 22 and on Bond.
1832: Married at Scots Church, Sydney. May have had 7 children, cannot pick them out on the NSW BDM.
1835: TOL, District: Cooke: Born: Glasgow; Trade: Tailor.
1/2/1838: COF
Submitted by Researcher (Tabitha Park) on 23 March 2020
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/2, p.254
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