Samuel Coates

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 8th December 2020

RETURNED TO ENGLAND 1819 - New South Wales, Australia, Departing Crew and Passenger Lists, July. Surry of London. 443 Tons bound for England 14 July 1819 - Sailed 31 July 1819 No; 27/210. No; 9. Samuel Coates. Free by Pardon No 355. Date 12 June 1819 New South Wales Certificate of Freedom. [NRS 12208] Register of Certificate of Freedoms No; 355 - 12 June 1819 Name; Samuel Coates When and where tried; By Criminal Court at Sydney on the 30 day of November 1813. 30 Nov 1813 Sentence; Life by sentence of the Criminal Court Sydney Ship and arrival year; Originally came in the Providence - 1811 under sentence of Transportation for seven years, expired Native County; Stapleton Co Kildare Trade; unable to read Age; 38 years [1781] Height; 5 ft 11 in Complexion; Dark sallow Hair; Brown Eyes; Hazel Additional Remarks; Delivered 16 June 1819

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D Wong on 26th April 2020

Samuel Coates stated his age was 35 on arrival in 1811. Transported for: 'Theft of a valice'. 15/11/1813: Sentenced to death for feloniously stealing from Sergeant Hobbs of the 73rd Regiment ninety-eight promissory notes valued at 17 shillings each. The sentence was commuted and he was sent to Newcastle for Life. 1814: Was in Newcastle. After receiving an Absolute Pardon on 12/6/1819 Coates left the colony on board the Surry bound for England on the morning of Sunday July 25th 1819.

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Robin Sharkey on 14th January 2014

IRISH PETITION, 1810 Samuel Coates first petitioned in 1810. Here his crime was described as the theft of a valice, presumably the many notes stolen were in the valice. He petitioned for liberty to regain his health and settle his personal affairs, after such time he would return to gaol and transport himself to another country. He states that his wife is pregnant with their sixth child, the eldest being only five years old (!). He states that he has two farms in Kildare.

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Robin Sharkey on 14th January 2014

IRISH PETITION, 7 November 1811 Right before the ship left Ireland, Samuel Coates petitioned the Lieutenant Governor requesting the liberty of transporting himself and his wife and SIX children to America. This clearly was not areed to.

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Robin Sharkey on 13th January 2014

"Samuel Coates Esq was tried in Dublin on Tuesday last for a robbery on the Commercial Buildings of a considerable number of banknotes, to which he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to be transported." per Belfast Newsletter dated 6 July 1809. Samuel Coates was born at Staplestown, Co Kildare Ireland (from NSW Absolute Pardon granted in 1819). He was a member of a landed gentry family at Staplestown, born about 1775 because he was recorded as being aged 35 on the ship's indent. Received Ticket of Leave only 12 months after arrival, dated 12 July 1812. * November 1813: indicted for stealing, on 25 Sept 1813, 98 promissory notes out of the dwelling house of Sergeant Hobbs of 73rd regiment. Found Guilty, sentenced to death. * 19th November 1813: Commutation by Gov Macquarie of death sentence to transportation for life within the territory of NSW. Sent to Newcastle. * 1814 Muster - prisoner at Newcastle * December 1814: given a 14 day pass to visit Sydney to attend to his affairs (authorized by Goverenor) per Col Sec records. * 20th May 1816: IT'S WHO YOU KNOW, NOT WHAT YOU KNOW! Private diary of Lachlan Macquarie: " At the earnest and pressing solicitation of D'Arcy Wentworth Esq, Suprdt of Police, and of Lieut Watts A.D.C, I have this day agreed and promised to grant an Absolute Pardon in two years from this date to Samuel Coates, convict, now at Newcastle under a Colonial Sentence for Life, providing he continues to conduct himself properly and in a becoming manners during the intermediate time." * 12th June 1819 Absolute Pardon, number 355. Trade or calling: grazier. (implying landowner in Ireland). Tried "30th Nov 1813, Sydney, by a court martial" Details: 5ft 11in, brown hair, hazel eyes, dark sallow complexion. * Sydney Gazette 20 March 1819: proprietor Samuel Coates selling a neat and commodious dwelling house at No 3 Upper Pitt Street" purchasers could also be accommodated with the furniture at a fair valuation. Credit of three months may be had. * Sydney Gazette, 10th July and 17th July 1819: " Mr Coates gives notice of his intention to leave the Colony in the Surry , or the earliest opportunity." * Sunday 25th July 1819 the Surry moved out of Sydney Harbour. Lachlan Macquarie came to Sydney for the purpose of dispatching the Surry and noted in his diary that the ship got under weigh at noon and took only two hours to clear out of the Heads. Many respectable passengers were listed as being on board in Sydney Gazette shipping news but Samuel Coates was not listed as one of these. He may have been one of the thirty who the captain advertised on 19 June he would take "at a very reduced price and to victual them on King's allowance as Government passengers." * 1824 Pigotts Directory of Ireland ... Was he one of the Samuel Coates Esq at Cloncurry near Enfield, Co Kildare or the one at New Par near Kilcock, Co Kildare? ... Or was he never able to be accepted in the polite society of the Irish gentry again?