George Baker

Level 96

Jillian Brewer on 1st May 2023

Convicted of stealing, on the 12th of Nov., 1 gelding, price 5l., the property of Charles Collard:?also, on the 20th of Nov., 1 gelding, price 2l., the property of John Baker;

Level 346

Maureen Withey on 19th December 2022

Transportation to NSW effectively ceased in 1842 but between 1846-1850 exiles were transported. Exiles had served part of their sentence in a penitentiary in Britain and were granted a conditional pardon or ticket of leave on arrival in the Colony. (The Exiles index covers the period 1849-50 only. ) THE EXILES. We think we have now vanquished the opposition which our contemporaries made to the introduction of exiles of reformed character. We have also to state, that the twenty men who arrived in the Royal George have comported themselves so well, as to earn for themselves the good opinion of their employers. We may, therefore, look without any fear to the arrival of the Sir George Seymour, which will in all probability be sent to this district to land its exiles. The various districts on the other side are getting up petitions to the Governor for a portion of these exiles. The labor market is bare ; what are the settlers to do ? What can they do when labor advances to an exorbitant price, — and are …? Port Phillip Gazette, 12 Feb 1845. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224812385?searchTerm=Exile -------------------------------------------------- It is already known that the first criminal inmates of the newly-erected and dreaded prison at Pentonville, were 16 convicted persons, who were drafted from Newgate about ten days ago, whose names were as follows :—Edward Poole, aged 18; J. Sutherland, 18; Edward Snelling, 32; George Baker, 25; David Farrell, 20 P. Freegrove. 21 ; W. Prior, 18 ; James Newland, 35; T. Pearsons, 21; W. Johnson 18; James Birt, 28; Thomas Davies. 24; Thomas Roman, 19; Henry Stevens, 20, Benjamin Bailey 30; and Wm. Webber, 30. The six first are under sentence of ten years’ transportation, and the other ten of seven years. The last named is the person who was convicted the November sessions of inducing, by threats and menaces,. the barman of Mr.Gurney to rob his employer. The number of inmates is already considerably increased, and before the end of the present week numbers will have arrived under sentences from the Epiphany Quarter Sessions throughout the country. Cambridge Chronicle, 14 Jan 1843.

Level 221

D Wong on 27th June 2013

George Baker was 26 years old, he was an Exile who disembarked in Melbourne.