Snowden Dunhill

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Maureen Withey on 13th August 2022

Yorkshire Lent Assizes. To be transported for seven years: Simon Harland, for stealing pigs; William Dent, for robbery; John White, for stealing cloth from off tenters; Snowden Dunhill, for stealing corn, and John Fawcett, for a burglary Chester Chronicle, 26 March 1813.

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Maureen Withey on 13th August 2022

His son, George Dunning, was also transported to Van Diemen's Land, and was executed on 3 July 1827. The Newspaper Report of his execution gives some background about his father, Snowden Dunhill: EXECUTION. At the appointed hour on Tuesday morning, Mr. Hayes the Under Sheriff, (Mr. Fereday, we regret to say, being indisposed) summoned the eight unhappy men condemned to die, from their cell to the fatal scaffold. He found them in earnest preparation, attended by the Reverend Mr. Bedford, whose blessed exertions in their behalf have been unceasing since their sentences were passed ; and the Reverend Mr. Macarthur and the Reverend Mr, Carvosso also kindly lent their aid to administer the comforts of the Gospel at the trying moment. They were altogether in one of the upper rooms, and having had their irons taken off, were brought down one by one that their arms might first be pinioned. we have never before seen men so penitent, so resigned and apparently so contented to die. ... He was followed by George Dunning or Dunhill, aged 24, a handsome young man, about 6 feet 3 inches high, with a fine regular countenance. He had lately become free and was observed during the sessions of the Criminal Court to be present at many of the trials. His father, Snowden Dunhill, who is now in the Prisoners’ Barracks, a prisoner for life, for returning from transportation, was lately tried for stealing in a dwelling-house, and his unfortunate son was observed to pay the most marked attention during the whole trial. The old man visited his son on Monday night to take a last farewell. Both at first bore it with considerable composure, but when the moment of parting came, the son laid his head against the wall and sobbed bitterly. Dunhill’s family and connections were numerous and most of them have been either executed or transported having been long the dread of Yorkshire, noted as Snowden Dunhill’s gang. ... The painful ceremonies being completed, the rope adjusted and the cap drawn over their faces, the Clergymen and Sheriff descended the ladder, the executioner withdrew the bolt, the platform fell and these eight miserable men, in full possession of their facilities, were almost in a moment suspended lifeless corpses from the beam. Hobart Town Gazette, 7 Jul 1827.

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Maureen Withey on 17th May 2019

Snowdon DANHILL aged 59, convict, Catarrh accompanied with Pleuritic Stitch. Journal of Surgeon William Evans, Medical and Surgical Journal of the Asia Convict Ship, between the 28th. June 1823 and the 18th. January 1824 during which time the said Vessel has been employed in conveying one hundred and fifty male convicts from Woolwich to Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, N. S. Wales

Freed after serving his 7 year sentence he was subsequently convicted and sentenced to 14 years transportation 6th March 1834. Died in prison Port Arthur