Peter Daw

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Maureen Withey on 1st August 2025

The Mare Stolen from Mr. Inwood, of Burstead, was Detained by the Parish Officers Urightling, and has been identified Mr. Inwood ; and two Men, committed for Trial the ensuing Horsham Assizes, one named WILLIAM EVANS, for Stealing it, and the other named PETER DAW, for Receiving.  Police Gazette, 18 March 1829. William Evans.. 22, for stealing at Bursted, a mare, the property of Daniel Inwood. … and Peter Daw,.., for receiving a mare, the property of Daniel Inwood, knowing it to have been stolen; fourteen years' transportation.  Sussex Advertiser, 30 March 1829. ------------------------------------------------------------ Convict Index. Peter Daw, per Sarah, 1829, Ticket of Leave, No 36/358. District, Merton; Tried Sussex Ass. Peter Daw, per Sarah, 1829, Ticket of Leave, No 39/723. District, Merton; Tried Sussex Ass. Peter Daw, per Sarah, 1829, Recommended Absolute Pardon, 1 Feb 1841. Peter Daw, per Sarah, 1829, Absolute Pardon, No 42/002. 8 Mar 1842. The Account of the capture of the Bushrangers, for which Peter Daw received an Absolute Pardon, is reported in the Sydney Herald, 31 Dec 1840. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28652749?searchTerm=Martin%20Kelly%20jew%20boy An extract: On Monday, the 21st instant, Mr. Day was joined by Mr. Edward White, Mr. R.C. Dangar, also by the Chief Constable John Nolan, Peter Daw, Martin Kelly, William Evans, William Walker, the five latter are ticket-of-leave holders, Martin Donohoe, who is an assigned servant, and a black boy. The party proceeded in a direction likely to fall in with the tracks of the bushrangers, in which they succeeded not quite a mile from Muswell Brook, and continued on that track for about five miles, when they were informed the bushrangers had crossed the Hunter at Aberdeen the previous night ; on receiving the intelligence the party in pursuit pushed on in the direction of Scone, when after crossing the Hunter, the party met a man who had been despatched from Scone, for the purpose of reporting at Muswell Brook the robbery at Mr. William Dangar's, at Turanville, that of the Inn at Scone, from which they took £70, as well as Mr. Thomas Dangar's store, where the bushrangers, in addition to their other atrocities added that of murder—having taken what they wanted from Mr. Dangar's, they were on the point of quitting when a young man named Graham, clerk to Mr. Thomas Dangar, imprudently fired a pistol at one of them, who deliberately shot him on the spot—he survived but twenty minutes. On hearing these particulars Mr. Day's party proceeded as quickly as possible to Scone; on reaching which Mr. Day proceeded to the Court House, where the Police and two other Magistrates were then sitting, and a number of settlers at the time, both in and about the Court House, who, it were only reasonable, to suppose, were equally interested in the capture of the bushrangers with Mr. Day and those then in pursuit, but strange to say no exertion was made, no notice of the occurrences above-stated forwarded to the surrounding settlers, nor could Mr. Day obtain a horse, although applying for one to the settlers then at Court! ….