Hugh Colley

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 8th August 2023

Possible Death record. New South Wales, Australia. Convict Death Register Date of Death; 16 May 1840 at Paterson Police Office Age; No age noted on Register

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Maureen Withey on 11th April 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 11 April 2020), October 1818, trial of HUGH COLLEY (t18181028-86). HUGH COLLEY, Theft > pocketpicking, 28th October 1818. 1477. HUGH COLLEY was indicted for stealing, on the 16th of September , two pocket-books, value 2s., the goods of Samuel Trent , from his person . SAMUEL TRENT . I am a Russia mat-dealer . On the 16th September, about eight o'clock at night, I was on Tower-hill . I had been spending the evening with some friends, and was intoxicated. ELIJAH WILSON . I am a carpenter. On the 16th of September, between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, I was coming over Tower-hill. It rained very hard; I stood under the Excise gateway. The prosecutor was laying down in the wet. The prisoner came by; I asked him to help me to take him under the gateway out of the wet, which he did, and then went away for eight or nine minutes, when he returned and said "What? is he not gone yet?" I told him he wanted a coach to take him home, and sent a boy who stood by me for one, which he did, and the coachman refused to take him. I sent for another, which came, and the prisoner assisted me to thecoach-door with him. After getting him up two of the steps, he fell head-foremost into the coach. The prisoner got in to lift him up. I thought he was a long while about it. I looked round, and saw the prisoner's hand in the prosecutor's left hand inside coat-pocket. I saw him pull the pocket-book out, and put it into his own left hand side-pocket. I told the coachman of it. When the prisoner came down the steps, we secured him, and charged him with it; he denied it. I took a pocket-book and catalogue from him. There was a gas-light over the gateway, opposite the coach. Prisoner. Q.Where did you find the pocket-book? - A.In his left hand side-pocket. Hearn gave me another pocket-book. EDWARD HEARN . I am a fishmonger's servant. I was coming past, and saw the pocket-book and catalogue found in the prisoner's left side-pocket. I picked up a red pocket-book under the steps of the coach. It was not the same found on the prisoner. (Property produced and sworn to.) Prisoner's Defence. They charged me with robbing the man, and found my own pocket-book on me, and nothing else. ELIZA WILSON . He gave me his own pocket-book. I found the prosecutor's on him. GUILTY . Aged 49. Transported for Life . London Jury, before Mr. Recorder. -------------------------------------------------- Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Hugh Colley, alias Hugh Collie, age on arrival, 50, per Canada (5) 1819, Tried at London Gaol Delivery, 1818, sentence Life, Native of Down Co., trade – soldier. DOB. 1769. -------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary’s Index. COLLEY, Hugh. Per "Canada", 1819 1823 Jul 17 - Convict servant of John Smith. To be victualled from the Store at Windsor for six months (Reel 6010; 4/3508 p.674) -------------------------------------------------- PUBLIC NOTICE. Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, July 29, 1829. THE following Prisoners have obtained Tickets of Leave since the last Day of Publication, viz.- Hunters River. Luskintyre & Patersons Plains. Colley Hugh, Canada 5 Sydney Gazette, 30 July 1829.