Catherine Barnes

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Beth Taylor on 15th November 2019

BARNES, Catherine (c1774-?) Tried - 3 May 1813 Lancaster April Quarter Sessions Catherine was 34 years-old in 1808 when she appeared before the Court at the Lancaster Liverpool Sessions charged with larceny. She fronted the same Court a second time three years later, in 1811, on the same charge and was given a custodial sentence of two years in gaol. Barnes was sentenced a third time at Lancaster in 1813 and received a term of transportation for 7 years after being found guilty of larceny. She had been a servant and was transported to New South Wales on the ship Broxbornebury in 1814. BC: 1774 1808, Jan. – Catherine Barnes was sentenced at Lancaster Liverpool Sessions for larceny & received a sentence of 6 months gaol. (Source: HO 27 Criminal Register Index 1805-1816 Lancashire, Vol. 23, by Stuart Tamblin, CD-ROM) 1811, Jan. – Catherine Barnes was sentenced at Lancaster Liverpool Sessions for larceny & received a sentence of 2 years gaol. (Source: HO 27 Criminal Register Index 1805-1816 Lancashire, Vol. 23, by Stuart Tamblin, CD-ROM) Sentenced: 13/05/1813 Lancaster April Quarter Sessions to transportation for 7 years Crime: Larceny Previous Occupation: Servant Age on Convict Indent: 40 Ticket of Leave 1267; Certificate of Freedom 585 (indent) 1814 Muster: Catherine BARNS (sic), Broxbornebury, con, off stores, to Sir John Jamison, Sydney (6821) William WAY, Admiral Gambier 2, con, off stores, to I Archer, Parra (2446) 1817 – Petition of William Way for a TOL, he says he was sentenced at Exeter in 1809 for 14 years, since his arrival he has been in servitude to Isaac Archer, a settler at the Field of Mars. [Note also signed by Mr Archer & TOL written]. (Source: SRNSW Col Sec Papers, Petitions Fiche 3182; 4/1853 p358) 1822 - Catherine Barnes married William Way (c1769-?) at St Johns C of E, Parra on 19 Aug 1822. (William Way, aged 52, Prisoner, arrived per Admiral Gambier, Abode: Parramatta, Signed; & Catherine Barnes, aged 43, Prisoner, arrived per Broxbornebury, Abode: Parramatta, Signed X; married 19 Aug 1822, registered St Johns Church of England Parramatta by Banns by Samuel Marsden; Witness: John Cureton, Signed; Witness: Mary O'Donnel, Signed X. Source: St John's Church of England, Parramatta NSW: Church Register - Marriages; ML ref: Reel SAG 55-56 & V1822-2989-3B) [Note: There are no records of any children born to the couple] 1822 Muster: Catherine BARON (sic), FBS, Broxbornebury, 7 years, wife of W. Wade, Sydney (A00881) William WADE (sic), TL, Ad. Gambier 1811, 14 years, employed by Mrs Squires, Sydney (A21607) 1823-1825 Muster: Catherine BARNS (sic), FS, Broxbornebury, 7 years, wife of William May (sic), Sydney (10912) & husband – William WAY, FS, Ad. Gambier 1811, 7 years, landholder, Kissing Point (43911) 1823, 1 Feb. – Permission was given for Mr John Bray of Kissing Point & 400 sheep & servants of Mr James Squire of Kissing Point, to proceed through the Cowpastures. These include – William Way, TOL, overseer; Catherine Barnes, free by certificate, his wife; William Ryan, free by certificate, shepherd & Robert Allen, free by CP, in charge of cart drawn by 3 bullocks. (Source: SRNSW Col Sec Papers, Letters Sent Reel 6010; 4/3507 p282) 1824, 31 Aug. – Catherine Barnes is on a list of servants who had worked for Sir John Jamison from Aug 1814 to Aug 1816, a total of 2 years & 7 days. (Source: SRNSW Col Sec Papers, Letters Received Reel 6061; 4/1780 p257B) 1826 – William WAY was appointed as the Poundkeeper at “Cookbundoon River.” (Source: The Australian, 18/10/1826, p2) 1827 – William WAY was appointed Ordinary Constable (from poundkeeper) in the County of Argyle. (Source: Sydney Gazette, 22/01/1827, p1) 1828 Census: Catherine WAY, 54, FS, Broxbornebury, catholic, *(W0713), wife to – William WAY, 59, Admiral Gambier 1811, prot, constable, resides Tarlow, G. Plains *(W0712) [William had 2 acres with 2 horses & 12 cattle]. Also Thomas STALWELL (Stilwell), aged 9, BC [Note: Thomas was the child of Jane Jones and John Stilwell, both arrived per Broxbornebury] 1829 – William WAY resigned as Constable at Goulburn Plains & was appointed as Poundkeeper, in place of Matthew Healy who was dismissed. (Source: Sydney Gazette, 25/07/1829, p3) 1830 – “SINGULAR DISCOVERY IN THE Official Journal.-Twenty-one head of Cattle were advertised in last-Saturday's Gazette, is being impounded by William Way. Way's charges were omitted in the first time advertising, but they were noted the second time (yesterday) as amounting to £7 13s.-a sum nearly equal, if not exceeding the value of the said 21 head altogether. The same was done with regard to Bragge and Parsons, two other-pound keepers. We leave Emigrants elect in London, and our readers generally, to make their own comments.” (Source: Sydney Monitor, 09/06/1830, p3) 1833 – “WEDNESDAY 29. (Before His Honor the Chief Justice.) William Carroll, stood indicted for embezzling one order for the payment of £7, one do, for the payment of £l 9s. and one do (penny?) for the payment £1 the property of William Way. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner was in the employment of the prosecutor, and some time in the mouth of April, received the said orders from him for the purpose of procuring necessarries in Sydney ; being authorised to appropriate the two small orders to the payment of the necessary expenses on the road, for himself and the oxen. The prisoner returned about the 6th of May, without the articles for which he had been sent to Sydney, and stated that he had unfortunately got into bad company in Sydney, and had been robbed of the money which he had received in payment of the order, but would make it good the next shearing season. His Honor was of opinion that the indictment could not be sustained, inasmuch as it appeared that the order … in the indictment to have been embezzled by the prisoner, appeared to be drawn in his favour by Captain Edwards, who had been indebted for the carriage of goods in what he understood to be his dray, in the sum of £7. The prisoner had represented himself to be the owner of the dray and oxen, and the order was drawn in his favour accordingly. The Attorney-General contended, that the prisoner had received the order as the agent of the prosecutor, and had given it up to the prosecutor as his property, on his return home. The prisoner's character was spoken of in favourable terms by the prosecutor, up to the period of the embezzlement. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty against the prisoner, end be was discharged with an admonition from His Honor to avoid falling into bad company, which had brought him to his present situation. His Honor observed, that though there had been certain circumstances adduced, which had induced the Court and jury to find him not guilty, he must not consider himself indemnified from the consequences of his imprudence, in subjecting his employer to the loss of his money. It was his duty to have taken sufficient care of the property committed to his charge, which according to his admission he had not done, and he was therefore bound to make it good. The prisoner was discharged by proclamation.” (Source: Sydney Gazette, 30/05/1833, p3) 1834, 13 Dec. – William Way of Goulburn Plains, was granted 10 acres of land at Goulburn on the Mulwaree Ponds. (Source: SRNSW Land Grants, Reel 2705, 7/508) No entries of death found for William or Catherine WAY in the NSW BDM records. Notes from the book “Journey to a New Life…” the story of the ships Emu & Broxbornebury by Elizabeth Hook (3rd ed. 2014). I am the author & can be contacted on tbeth3370@gmail.com for further info

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Beth Taylor on 1st August 2019

BC: 1774 1808, Jan. – Catherine Barnes was sentenced at Lancaster Liverpool Sessions for larceny & received a sentence of 6 months gaol. (Source: HO 27 Criminal Register Index 1805-1816 Lancashire, Vol. 23, by Stuart Tamblin, CD-ROM) 1811, Jan. – Catherine Barnes was sentenced at Lancaster Liverpool Sessions for larceny & received a sentence of 2 years gaol. (Source: HO 27 Criminal Register Index 1805-1816 Lancashire, Vol. 23, by Stuart Tamblin, CD-ROM) Sentenced: 13/05/1813 Lancaster April Quarter Sessions to transportation for 7 years Crime: Larceny Previous Occupation: Servant Age on Convict Indent: 40 Ticket of Leave 1267; Certificate of Freedom 585 (indent)