Thomas Bodman

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Birth Reg: 4062/1853. William Bodman, son of Thomas and Catherine, MA district (Church of England. Australian Agricultural Company; Dungog; Eldon; Stroud; Uffington district) ---------------------------------------------------------- TITLE DEEDS. The undermentioned deeds have been transmitted from this office to that of the Registrar General of New South Wales, for enrolment, under the provisions of the Act of the Governor and Legislative Council, 7th Vic, No. 16, to be by him forwarded through the Surveyor General to the Colonial Treasurer, by whom notification of their receipt at his office will be made to the grantees by letter, after which they will be delivered on application, viz.:  Portions of Land. Proclamation of 3rd August, 1848.—Deeds dated 16th December, 1848. 149. Thomas Bodman, 2 acres 2 roods, Durham, lot 5. 150. Ditto, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto, lot 6. 152. Thomas Bodman, 2 acres 1 rood, ditto, lot 8. 153. Ditto, 2 acres 1 rood, ditto, lot 9. 154. Ditto, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto, lot 10. 155. Ditto, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto, lot 11. 158. Thomas Bodman, 2 acres 1 rood, ditto, lot 14. Maitland Mercury, 31 Jan 1849. ------------------------------------------------------------ CAMPBELL. BODMAN. This was a case of trespass, and the declaration of the plaintiff set forth that Thomas Bodman, the defendant, had entered a certain close in the county of Gloucester, and by his so entering, several cattle of the plaintiff had escaped, and plaintiff was prevented from cultivating the land. Damages were laid at £500. The pleas of the defendant were, first, not guilty ; second, that plaintiff was not possessed. On those pleas, issues were joined. For the plaintiff. Mr. Foucett; attorney, Mr. Briggs. The defendant did not appear. The witnesses called were Thomas Campbell, Henry Carmichael, Patrick Roach, John Moony, and John Campbell. (Thomas Campbell had purchased, in January, 1455,314 acres of Church and School lands, on the Willlaras River, and defendant, who was a neighbour, came upon his land, broke, down his fence, and turned the stock off. The defendant refused to give him possession of a portion of the land, and held it for about eleven months. He might have cleared £100 from that land.---Henry Carmichael was a licensed surveyor, and ho knew that the defendant had occupied fifteen or sixteen acres of the plaintiffs land.- The other witnesses spoke to the losses sustained by the plaintiff, and John Moony stated that Bodman had offered to settle the matter. He first said he would give £50, and then came up to £150. His Honor said that this was a very simple case, and all that the jury had to do was to fix the amount of damages. The jury retired for twenty minutes, and returned with a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages, £100. Empire, 20 Mar 1856. ------------------------------------------------------------- Drunkenness and Obscene Language -Yesterday, at the West Maitland police court,  Thomas Bodman, charged with having been drunk on Saturday evening, and with using obscene language, was convicted, and fined 10s., or twenty-four hours' imprisonment, for the latter offence. Maitland Mercury, Tues 13 Oct 1868. -------------------------------------------------------------- Possible? ABOUT a quarter-past 8 last evening, a man named George Burke, who resided at a boarding-house kept by a Mr. Mathews, in Kent-street, took a fit of coughing while in bed, and burst a blood-vessel. Thomas Bodman, a fellow-lodger, noticed the occurrence, and told another lodger named Sims of it. Sims at once informed Mr. Mathews, who communicated with the police, and Burke was then removed to the Infirmary ; but on arrival there he was found to be dead. Deceased had been staying at Mathews's about a week. He was very weak from asthma, and coughed very much. He told Sims that he was a married man, and had left his wife in Victoria. Sydney Morning Herald, 15 Aug 1879. --------------------------------------------------------------- Possible death? Death Reg: 1646/1879. Thomas Bodman, age 61 years, Died Sydney.

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NSW Convict Index. Thomas Bodman, per Henry Porcher, 1835, Certificate of Freedom, 14 Dec 1839 No 39/2245. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Possible marriage? NSW BMD Marriage Reg: 643/1850. Thomas Bodman and Catherine Kildare, MA district. (Church of England. Australian Agricultural Company; Dungog; Eldon; Stroud; Uffington district)

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National Archives. HO-9-2_4. Page 19/48. Euryalus Hulk, at Chatham. Nine Received from the Justitia Hulk, 6 May 1831. Thomas Bodman, age 9, Stg a breast of mutton, Tried Taunton, 29 Mar 1831, 7 years. NSW per Henry Porcher 24 Aug 1834. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, Thomas Bodman, who, though only ten years of age, is an old and consummate thief, was committed by the mayor for trial at the assizes, on the charge of stealing a breast of mutton from the shop of Mr Nowell, butcher, of Walcot-street. The prisoner has been repeatedly in custody and whipped for felony. Star, (London), 24 Mar 1831. Western Circuit. Thomas Bodman, a fine little boy, aged only nine years, was found guilty of stealing a breast of mutton, value 1s. Mr. Justice PARK asked  the constable if the poor boy had any parents or friends to take care of him. The constable said he did not know if the boy had any friends, but be knew that his parents were very bad people in Bath, and they encouraged the boy to commit depredations of this sort. His LORDSHIP then said that, in order to save  him from certain ruin, he would pass upon him the utmost sentence the law empowered him to do in his case, and he therefore adjudged that, for this felony, he should be transported for seven years. That sentence was only passed on him nominally, and his Lordship said he would write to the Home Secretary to have him placed in some asylum where he would be educated and taught habits of industry whereby he would be enabled hereafter to gain an honest livelihood. Morning Herald, 11 April 1831. Somerset Assizes. ... Seven Years: ... T. Bodman, ... Bath Chronicle, 14 April 1831.