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Personal Information
Transportation
John Gilchrist was transported on the Baring, departing 31st Mar 1815 and arriving 7th Sep 1815 with 302 passengers.
Baring (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 209 (106) |
| 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
John Gilchrist, accused of forgery, was brought to the bar, and on hearing the indictment pleaded guilty. The libel was restricted to arbitrary punishment Mr Keay the pannel’s counsel, said few words relative to the character, which he hoped would tend in some degree to alleviate his punishment. Sentence was passed him, 14 years transportation . Perthshire Courier, 6 Oct 1814.
PERTH -William Drummond and Elizabeth Martin, theft and reset of theft; Elizabeth Strachan, theft and reset of theft; Andrew Anderson, theft; James Haggatt, falsehood and forgery ; and John Gilchrist, falsehood and forgery. STIRLING - Andrew M'Allan, forgery, and issuing forged notes. Caledonian Mercury, 12 Sep 1814.
Our readers will remember swindler, who called himself William Mixton Marshall, being advertised in November last, having escaped, along with some others, from Perth. We now understand that he has been apprehended at Cupar in Fife, upon a charge of having forged the names of several persons, and among others that of the right honourable Lady Mary Lindsay Grawford, to a bill of 30£. which he offered for discount at the office of the British Linen Company, Cupar, and we are informed he has taken the names John Smith. John Gilchrist, and J. G Crawford, and has under these names assumed the different characters of a clergyman, and physician, and it is supposed that he is the same person who imposed upon the public advertising take in lunatic boarders some time ago in Portobello and swindled people out of clothes, trinkets, &c. in Dundee, Perth, and other places. Perthshire Courier, 12 May 1814.