George Bateman

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Robin Sharkey on 8th September 2021

PETITION FROM PRISONER FOR WIFE's FREE PASSAGE BRITISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES, CRIMINAL PETITIONS from 8th Aug 1835 to 21st Mar 1837 HO 17/105/52 Prisoner name: George Bateman. Prisoner age: 31 years. Prisoner occupation: Butcher, of Gosford Street, City of Coventry Court and date of trial: Coventry City Summer Assizes, 3 August 1835. Crime: Sheep-stealing, namely one sheep, value £1 the property of William Walter [William Walters] on 15 April 1835 at [the parish of] St Michael, Coventry. Initial sentence: Transportation for life. Gaoler's report: 'Character good'. Annotated (Outcome): 'Sentence reduced to 14 years transportation, 15 October 1835'; 'In Van Diemens Land, wait for the recommendation of the Governor of the Colony' [1837]. Petitioner(s): George Bateman (the convict) undersigned by 102 inhabitants of the City of Coventry known to him with the jury foreman and one magistrate; Mrs Bateman (wife), undersigned by Thomas Banbury (mayor of Coventry) and 38 inhabitants of the City of Coventry known to the convict, praying only that she and her family may be granted free passage to Sydney. Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Previous good character; recommended to mercy by the jury and the prosecutor; first offence; served seven years in the army and honourably discharged; his family are entirely dependent upon him for support and are destitute and reliant upon the parish; deepest remorse for the offence. Other papers: Two letters from William Williams MP severally transmitting the petitions to the Home Department with a third pursuing a reply; Judge's report on the case with the copy notes of the trial subjoined; letter from the Secretary of State for the Home Department informing William Williams MP that he sees no ground to interfere with the exercise of discretion reposed in the Governor of New South Wales as to recommendation for remission of sentence. Additional Information: Ordered initially to York [convict hulk]; transported to Sydney, [New South Wales].

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D Wong on 5th May 2020

George Bateman was listed as 32 on arrival. Native Place: Warwickshire. George was literate, married with 2 male and 1 female children, he was 5'8" tall, brown complexion, light brown hair, hazel eyes, small scar and mole left cheek, small split in upper lip, G B inside lower right arm, scar inside left elbow, two scars back of left hand. 1837: Assigned to John Barrick, Brisbane Water. 14/9/1842 Sydney Morning Herald: SUDDEN DEATH.-On Monday evening, about ten o'clock, George Bateman, a butcher, residing on the Brickfield-hill, retired to bed in his usual health, whither he was followed in about a quarter of an hour after by his wife, when she discovered him lying dead in bed. An inquest will be held to-day on the body at Johnstone's public-house. 15/9/1842 Sydney Gazette: INQUEST. — A coroner's inquest was held yesterday afternoon, upon the body of a man named George Bateman, by trade a butcher, who resided on the Brickfield hill. It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased had retired to rest on Monday evening, in apparently good health, but had been discovered to be dead about a quarter of an hour afterwards, and Surgeon Whittle having certified that the death of the deceased arose from natural causes, a verdict to that effect was returned. 1/6/1848: Hannah Bateman (who held a publican's license in Parramatta in 1832 and 1848) married Bartholomew Donnelly (possibly arr. Captain Cook 1832) in Parramatta - a daughter Emma Donnelly born 1850 in Parramatta. Hannah was born C1808-died 6/1/1897, at Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria. Bartholomew Donnelly was born C1800 and died 11/3/1870, at Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, aged about 70.

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Roger Davey on 4th May 2020

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