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George Dudley was transported on the Coromandel, departing 27th Oct 1819 and arriving 5th Apr 1820 with 299 passengers.
Coromandel (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 253 (128) |
| 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
Tried at the Old Bailey, 7 July 1819. 916. GEORGE DUDLEY was indicted for stealing, on the 20th of June , one watch, value 5 l.; two seals, value 20 s. and one key, value 5 s., the property of Charles Cadman , from his person . CHARLES CADMAN . I am clerk to Mr. Marks, who is a soap-boiler , and lives in York-street, Westminster. On the 20th of June, I was in Catherine-street, Strand, opposite Bedford-court ; the prisoner and two or three others came up. The prisoner snatched my watch from my pocket and ran up Bedford-court; I followed and overtook him - he could not get away, but turned round, and struck at me; he missed his blow, and I collared him. While I held him a woman came out of one of the houses in the court, and took hold of my coat behind; I heard something fall like a watch, and glass break - the woman picked it up and took it away; I have never recovered the watch - I am sure the prisoner took it. He got away, leaving the flaps of his coat in my hand. I pursued and overtook him again - the watchman stopped him. Prisoner's Defence. A gentleman pushed me against the wall - I am innocent. GUILTY . Aged 20. Transported for Seven Years . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Burrough.
He did marry Mary Lynch (Lynchey) after they had a number of children. He is buried in St Peter’s church, in I think, Petersham.
George was transported for a pick pocketing offence in London. My information is that he was tried at the Old Bailey. Later he was a receiver of banknotes stolen from a bank in the colony. He was arrested and transported to Norfolk Island for this. Interestingly the robbers were never arrested, so George may have been an unlucky mug. He was sentenced to 14 years in NI but was allowed back to Sydney after he assisted in the rescue of people from a wreck at NI. He
George Dudley was assigned to John Lucas one of the first born in the colony and operator of a flour mill at Liverpool. He completed his sentence in 1827 but was again in trouble in 1828 for his part in the theft of approximately $25 million in today's money from the Australian Bank. He wa sentenced to 14 years on Norfolk Island. Towars the end of his sentence he became one of the first sent to Cockatoo Island in Sydney harbour. From about 1841 he cohabitated with Mary Ann Lynchey a daughter of a convict, Sarah Lynchey, who had accompanied her mother, another sister and a brother to Sydney in 1835. they had 11 children and finally married in 1858. George died in 1868 from "disease of the brain". Mary died in 1901.