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Transportation
John Brickfield was transported on the Countess Of Harcourt, departing 16th Mar 1824 and arriving 12th Jul 1824 with 174 passengers.
Ship of 517 tons, built in India 1811. Voyages to NSW and VDL 1821, 1822, 1824, 1827 & 1828. Researchers please note that sailings direct from Ireland to Australia are not recorded under British data, and therefore not all details of people are on this web site (they are being added in, by volunteers, so please check thoroughly or send a message on community fb if you have queries).
Countess Of Harcourt (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 119 (61) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Supreme Court, Wednesday. Joseph Hawley, John Brickfield, and Richard Coglan, were severally indicted as principles, and then as accessaries, in aiding, abetting, and assisting in committing a rape upon the person of Isabella Yoeman, at Newington, on the Parramatta road, on the 7th of July. The prisoners were all found Guilty, after a consultation of the Jury for about three minutes ; and having been called up for judgment, the learned Judge observed, that they had been convicted on the most satisfactory evidence, and that every person who had heard the trial, must have been satisfied of their guilt; they were fast hastening from that to another tribunal, and he would advise them to make the best use of the few short hours that remained to them in this world to atone for their sins. His Honor then passed the awful sentence of death upon them, ordering them for execution at such time and place as His Excellency the Governor might think proper to appoint. The prisoners were removed from the dock protesting their innocence. Sydney Herald, 2 Sep 1833. Clement Doughty, Joseph Hawley, Richard Coughlan, and John Brickfield, convicted of rape, and John Fuller, for attempted murder and rape, have had their sentences mitigated to hard labour in irons, at Norfolk Island for life, and were yesterday removed from the condemned cells to the Esther, lying in the stream, for removal to that place. Sydney Herald, 5 Sep 1833.
John Baker, and John Brickfield, prisoners of the crown, belonging to the Carters' Barracks, charged with an attempt to break into the house, known as the Emu Inn, George-street; it appeared, that the man who slept in the room where the attempt was made, heard a noise, and gave information to some of the other servants, who pursued the prisoners, and apprehended them ; there were more of the gang concerned, who effected their escape; 50 lashes each. Sydney Gazette, 3 May 1826.
EARLY DEPRAVITY.—At the Middlesex Sessions, on Friday, John Brickfield and Edward Lock, one, apparently under eight, and the other ten years of age, were convicted of picking pockets. It was stated, that they had been before convicted of similar offences; and that the younger boy had been severely whipped. But they appeared to be quite incorrigible, and evinced a hardened insensibility to their situation in the dock; although the younger artful enough to affect to cry, by rubbing his eyes with his knuckles, and yet failed to extract a single tear. His parents were represented to be decent honest people, but they said they did not know what to do with him.— The Court was totally at a loss to think what punishment it should award the young offenders; and therefore, deferring to pass Sentence upon them, proceeded with the trials of other cases, which were too insignificant to notice. Aurora Borealis, 16 Sep 1821. At the Middlesex Sessions, on Saturday, John Brickfield and Edward Locke, two mere children, for picking pockets, were sentenced, the former to transportation for life, and the latter to three months imprisonment, to be kept on bread and water, and to be whipped three times: Brickfield was actually the teacher of a little gang of pickpockets. Bath Chronicle, 27 Sept 1821.