Joseph Cone

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iain Frazier on 21st September 2025

Family connections for Joseph (Cone) are: CONE Joseph (Cone) was born about 1787. He was tried w/1other for stealing sheep of John (Woods) butcher of Lowestoft in 1816 at Suffolk Assizes. He was tried again w/1other for stealing hogs, in May 1822, of A (Raynor) of Lowestoft at Suffolk Assizes in August 1822, sentenced to 7years, held at Ipswich county gaol & hulk YORK at Gosport Hampshire & arrived in Australia as a convict on 4 3 1823 after a voyage of 6months on SURREY; he was Protestant. He became an overseer of livestock in 1823. He is recorded in 1828 with Ticket of Leave living with & employed as overseer by Thomas (Raine)-who farmed 'Rainham' property at Queen Charlottes Vale-at Bathurst. He was a widower & overseer to William (Blackett) in 1830. He was tried w/1other for stealing a calf, on 30 4 1834, of William (Lawson) of Boree at Sydney Supreme Court in Auguust 1834 & sentenced to Life. He was a farrier of North Tarmouth on Norfolk Island on 2 6 1841 when he absconded from his employer-he was described as 5?'9" dark ruddy complexion brown hair bald dark grey eyes. [Some details taken from this Website] Ann/e (Kelly) was born about 1810 perhaps in Waterford Ireland & became a nursery maid. She was tried for robbery at Waterford Ireland, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 12 1 1828 after a voyage of 4.5months on ELIZABETH; she was Catholic. [Some details taken from this Website] References: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'

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Chris Ison on 8th December 2024

Principal Superintendent of Convict Office, Sydney, January 17, 1844. THE undermentioned Prisoners having absconded from the individuals and employment set against their respective names, and some of them being at large with stolen Certificates and Tickets of Leave, all Constables and others are hereby required and commanded to use their utmost exertion in apprehending and lodging them in safe custody. Any person harbouring or employing any of the said Absentees, will be prosecuted as the law directs. The age of the prisoners is calculated up to the present time. J. M'LEAN, Principal Superintendent of Convicts ... ... Cone Joseph, Surry (4), 54, North Tarmouth, farrier, a feet 9 inches, dark ruddy comp., brown hair and bald dark grey eyes, from Norfolk Island, since 2nd June 1841. (New South Wales Government Gazette, 19 Jan 1844, Issue No. 10, p. 155)

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Maureen Withey on 30th April 2024

NSW Marriage Reg. Joseph Cone and Ann Kelly, 1830, Ref. 306/1830.

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Tony Beale on 3rd November 2021

Joseph Cone in the New South Wales, Australia, Convict Applications for the Publication of Banns, 1828-1830, 1838-1839 Name: Joseph Cone Gender: Male Birth Year: 1787 Age: 42 Arrival year: 1823 Arriving Vessel: Surrey 4 Spouse Name: Anne Kelly Spouse Gender: Female Spouse Age: 20 Spouse Arrival Year: 1828 Spouse Vessel: Elizabeth 4 Marriage Year: Abt 1829 Application Date: 4 Nov 1829 Application Place: Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia Joseph a widower and an overseer to William Blackett. Rev J E Keane Ann assigned to William Coates

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Maureen Withey on 4th September 2019

Suffolk Assizes, Joseph Cone and James Mutton, for stealing a sheep, the property of John Woods, of Lowestoft, butcher… Norfolk Chronicle, 6 April 1816 Committed to Ipswich County Gaol- James Claxton and Joseph Cone, for stealing five hogs. Bury and Norwich Post, 15 May 1822 Suffolk Assizes. James Claxton and Joseph Cone, for stealing five hogs, the property of A. Rayner, Lowestoft. All these had before been convicted in this court. Norfolk Chronicle, 3 Aug 1822 ..The following convicts were removed from our County Gaol, and put on board the York hulk at Gosport: - Joseph Cone and James Claxton, for 7 years. Bury and Norwich Post, 28 Aug 1822. The NSW 1828 census at Bathurst. Householder is Thomas Raine. Jos. Cone, aged 40, T.L., (Surry (4), 1823, 7 yrs) empoyed as overseer, protestant,resident in the outstation with about twenty other men. However, the Sydney Herald, 18 Aug 1834 reports the following: SUPREME COURT, CRIMINAL SIDE. MONDAY-Before his Honor Mr Justice Dowling and a Civil Jury Thomas Dolman and Joseph Cone stood indicted for stealing one calf, the property of William Lawson, at Boree, on the 30th April last. It appeared from the evidence of William Keenan, overseer to Mr Raine, that in the month of June last he obtained information that some of Mr Lawson's cattle had been branded with an improper brand, when he ordered the stock keeper to prevent any more such branding as he might discover taking place; on the following day, the prisoner Cone (whose residence is within a short distance of Mr Raine's stock station, with whom he had been employed as an Overseer, and had cattle running with Mr Raine's herd) went to the overseer, Keenan, and informed him that he intended to take his cattle away, and requested that he would accompany him to the stockyard to see that he took away his own cattle only; on reaching the stockyard, Keenan saw a calf branded JK, and on inquiring to whom it belonged, the prisoner Cone told him it had been the property of Mr Lawson, but now belonged to James Knight, a former overseer to Mr Raine and bore his brand, suspecting that there was some impropriety about the branding of this calf, Keenan desired that it might be left in the yard until he informed his master of the circumstance; he then went to the hut for the purpose of writing a letter to Mr Raine on the subject, but was followed shortly afterwards by the stock keeper, who informed him that the calf and the other cattle belonging to Mr Raine had been turned out of the yard and driven away, Keenan then went to Cone and asked him the reason why he had turned the cattle out who merely said the cattle would be in at night; not satisfied, however, Keenan took a horse and followed the cattle and brought the calf back, winch was driven away by the prisoner Dolman, who was Cone’s servant. It appeared further that the prisoner Cone had sold two calves to Knight, who had got a brand made, having had no cattle previously; the cows to which the calves belonged were Mr Lawson’s, and bore the brand WL, and were seen standing outside the stockyard during the branding of the calves, and followed them when they were driven off, the second calf had been branded JK about a month after the first one; when the prisoner Cone was asked how he obtained the calves which he sold to Knight, he stated that he received them from Mr Lawson’s overseer, in lieu of others belonging to himself, which in mistake had been branded for Mr Lawson’s, but it was proved that no such circumstance had ever taken place. Knight, who had been dismissed from Mr Raine’s service, was present while Cone was branding these calves. Cone, in his defence, put it to the consideration of the Jury whether it was probable that he who had had the superintendence of 2500 head of cattle, and had frequent opportunities of possessing himself of them at pleasure, without exposing himself to detection, would for the sake of a calf brand it in the public manner stated in evidence and appropriate it feloniously to his own use; he had been an overseer to Mr Raine for eleven years and had never before been charged with an offence of any kind, which service he had quitted of his own account, the duties having become too laborious in consequence of Mr Raines stock having been joined with that of another gentleman. The Jury after a short consultation, found the prisoner Cone, guilty, Dolman not guilty. Sentence of transportation for life, was then passed on the prisoner. Sydney Herald, 18 Aug 1834