Edward Mott

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Maureen Withey on 21st January 2021

TICKETS-OF-LEAVE.—The following tickets-of-leave, for this district, are now lying at the Police Office, Brisbane, ready to be delivered to applicants, viz. : Edward Mott. Moreton Bay Courier, 24 Oct 1846. -------------------------------------------------- Police Court. TUESDAY. Before W. A. Brown, Esq, P.M. Edward Mott, drayman, who had been summoned 'for being drunk, did not appear. The service of the summons was proved, and evidence taken to prove the charge. P. C. Wright deposed to finding the defendant lying in a state of drunken insensibility in the Fortitude Valley Road. He put him on one of his drays, and sent him into town. The Police Magistrate infliced a fine of 5s. Moreton Bay Courier, 26 Dec 1857. ---------------------------------------------------- Police Court, Friday. Edward Mott, an old offender against the laws of sobriety, was fined £1 and 2s. 6d. costs for being drunk and disorderly on the 9th inst, in Queen street. Defendant inquired what was the alternative, if he did not pay? He was informed that he would have forty-eight hours solitary confinement. Mott chose the cell of repentance, instead of "forking out the tin," and marched off with the fortitude of a martyr in a righteous cause, the opinion of the Bench being, that two hours confinement would alter defendant's determination. Moreton Bay Courier, 16 Oct 1858. -------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY. Before the Mayor and Mr. Heussler. There was only one case on the list, and that was not gone on with, owing to the drunkenness of the defendant. The complaint was one of threatening language, preferred by Edward Mott against his wife, Judith Mott, but when the case was called on the defendant rushed into Court in a state of obvious intoxication, and commenced using such violent and disgusting language that the bench felt it necessary to order her imprisonment for 24 hours. The case was therefore remanded until the next day. The Moreton Bay Courier, 17 Nov 1860. --------------------------------------------------------- Edward Mott finding that his conjugal affairs didn't go altogether right, his other - we cannot say better half - desiring to have it all her own way by the assertion of a despotism which usurped the privileges of master as well as " missus," now appealed to the court for protection. The specific charge was threatening language, and as the evidence of the complainant came up to the mark, the bench ordered the defendant to find sureties to keep the peace herself in £20 and two sureties in £10 each. Moreton Bay Courier, 20 Nov 1860. ----------------------------------------------------- CENTRAL POLICE COURT. THURSDAY, APRIL 14. Before the Police Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS.-Edward Mott, an old offender, for drunkenness, was fined 20s.; The Brisbane Courier, 15 Apr 1864. -------------------------------------------------- TRANSMISSION BY DEATH. Real Property Acts of 1861 and 1877. NOTICE is hereby given that application has been made for registration of transmission by death of Land, and according to particulars as follow. Any person desiring to oppose must do so on or before day specified below. Name of Deceased Proprietor.—Judith Mott, late of Kedron Brook, sometime Wife of Edward Mott, Farmer. Date of Death.—October 4, 1878. Name of Claimant.—Edward Mott, of Kedron Brook, Farmer. Description and Situation of Land.—Portion 34, Parish of Enoggera, and Portion 268, Parish of Bulimba. Estate Claimed to be Transmitted.—Fee-simple. Particulars of Will or Otherwise.—Claiming as Administrator under Letters of Administration granted June 18, 1879. Date Within which Caveat may be Lodged. August 5, 1879. HENRY JORDAN, Registrar-General. DALY & HELLICAR, Solicitors, Brisbane. 369 Brisbane Courier, 11 July 1879. --------------------------------------------------- GROVELEY CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-Pray accept our best thanks for the courteous attention and the space in your valuable paper that you have so generously devoted to Groveley Church during the post fortnight. May I, without presuming too much on your forbearance, ask you kindly to insert the following. It ought to have been given before, and I would wish to apologise for the inadvertent omission - viz., those names of the settlers and neighbours who signed the address of welcome to his Excellency Sir George Bowen, when asking him to lay the foundation stone of Groveley Church, September 23, 1867 :- John Nicholson, W. C. Nicholson, A. B. Blaker, Thomas Lade, Joseph J. Lade, William Townley, John M'Dowall, Edward Owens, John Smith, Thomas Marshall, Samuel Taylor, Edward Mott, William Robinson, Samuel M'Cracken, Robert J.Storey, Edward Pickering, Henry Tow, James Denlston, and William Scanlan. Any notice of Groveley Church would be lamentably incomplete which did not include special reference to our veteran fellow worker and loyal friend, Edward Mott. To the last day of his long life he was ever at hand, staunch and true, with aid and advice, and in times of disappointment and anxiety it was his stimulating word of courage and hope that helped us to tide over many a dark and trying hour. I am, sir, &c.,, M. N. Red Hill, September 27. Brisbane Courier, 29 Sept 1917.

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Maureen Withey on 21st January 2021

Hulk Records, Woolwich. HO-9-4 4 page 42/51. Received 6 Feb 1828. James Hobbs, age 19, Stg double barrelled gun, Tried Glos Genl Sessions, 15 Jan 1828, 7 years, Transported 19 Apr 1828. Edwd. Mott, age 19, Stg a double barrelled gun, Tried Glos Genl Sessions, 15 Jan 1828, 7 years, Transported 19 Apr 1828.

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Maureen Withey on 2nd September 2019

Moreton Bay Records. Edward Mott- Original Conviction, Gloucester Qr Sess, 8 Jan 1828, 7 yrs for stealing a gun. Trade: Bricklayer. Colonial Sentence at Supreme Court, Sydney, 5 Nov 1831,sentenced to Death, but commuted to Life for stealing from a dwelling-house and putting in fear. To Sydney, 16 March 1839. Description: Native of Gloucestershire, age 24, height 5 ft 2 1/2. Fair comp, light brown hair , light hazle eyes, E. religion. Sydney Gazette, 8 Nov 1831 reports: SATURDAY, 5th. Samuel Reeves, William Collins, and Edward Mott, were indicted for a robbery in the dwelling-house of Richard Brookes, and putting the persons therein in bodily fear, at Mullonga, on the 2nd of July last. The jury found Collins guilty, and acquitted the other prisoners. The same prisoners were again indicted together with William Wells and George Coppin, for stealing two sheep, the property of George Williams, at Mittagong, on the 1st of September last. Guilty. Mott, Reeves, and Collins, Death; Wells and Coppin, Death recorded. DEATH OF AN OLD COLONIST. Perhaps the oldest colonist in Queensland was Mr. Edward Mott, who passed away quietly in the presence of those he most loved last week. He was a man who was not often seen ; he lived in his bush home at Enoggera, and during recent years at all events came into town very seldom. The deceased gentleman was born at the beginning of the now dying century—in 1807—and came to New South Wales as far back as 1826. After a residence there of some fourteen years, he travelled over land to what had only a few years before been christened Moreton Bay, (but now the capital of Queensland. Since then he has never left the place. The old gentleman was always interesting, for he had a fund of information and a wealth of incident to impart, which made conversation with him engrossing. He was the only man who has seen Brisbane grow from its inception, and it is fortunate that some of his experiences, his trials, and his troubles — which were typical of other pioneers even later than himself — have been preserved to us by means of Mr. J. J. Knight's work, "In the Early Days." His experiences, however, were not confined to the dim and distant past ; only a few years ago an attempt was made on his life, for he was waylaid and almost strangled. The marks he bore with him to hia grave. After this he decided to make a disposition of his property — for be was always a careful man. At the time of his death be was in very comfortable circumstances, but What he prised most was the high esteem in which he was held by a very large circle of friends. The old gentleman was buried on Wednesday in Grovely Cemetery, close to the home in which he had lived for some forty-five years. A large concourse of mourners followed his remains to their last resting place, the fathering including representives of nearly all the families in the district, and numerous busy city men who made the time necessary to pay their respect to the old pioneer. Four daughters survive Mr. Mott —Mrs. A. Clugston, Mrs. T Herraty, Mrs. George Marshall, and Mrs. William Page, all Enoggers. The deceased's age was 93 years and three days. The Queenslander, 8 September 1900

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Maureen Withey on 2nd September 2019

James Hobbs and Edward Mott, for stealing a gun, the property of T. Saunders of Cheltenham. Cheltenham Journal, 21 Jan 1828. Gloucester, February 9. On Tuesday last the undermentioned convicts were removed from our County Gaol to the Justicia Hulk, at Woolwich, preparatory to their embarkation for New South Wales, under their sentence of transportation for seven years, viz. ... James Hobbs, Ed. Mott, ... Cheltenham Chronicle, 14 Feb 1828