John Glade

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Maureen Withey on 5th July 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 July 2020), July 1789, trial of THOMAS PHILLIPS JOHN GLADE (t17890708-9). THOMAS PHILLIPS, JOHN GLADE, Theft > burglary, 8th July 1789. 514. THOMAS PHILLIPS and JOHN GLADE were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Mary Wake , about the hour of two in the night, on the 10th of June last, and stealing a copper tea-kettle, value 4 s. a copper sauce-pan, value 2 s. and other things, her property . ELIZABETH WAKE sworn. My mother Mary Wake kept the house at the time of the robbery; on the 10th of June at night, about one, I fastened up the house myself a little after five, I was sitting up with my mother, who was very ill, and Esther Crow came and told me the house was broke open; when I came down I found the tap-room window was broke open, part of the sky-light of the cellar was taken off, and laid on one side, where they got in and came up stairs, and opened the window; I missed a copper tea-kettle and two punch-bowls, six cups and saucers, and one pound weight of tobacco; they were taken from the bar in the tap-room; I believe they got out of the window, the casements were open; I told the neighbours; one Mr. Peters who did keep the house, he took one of the prisoners; wekept the house three years, my father and mother are both dead; they were both taken the next morning. ESTHER CROW sworn. I am servant to Mary Wake , I got up soon after five in the morning; when I unlocked the tap-room door, I found the windows open, the door was locked, there was a latch to the other doors which they opened, and went into the tap-room; the brandy and rum was found in the tap room moved from the bar; they were all safe when I went to bed. JOHN WAKE sworn. I am son to Mary Wake , my mother sent to let me know her house was broke open; I went to her, and found Mr. Peters there; Mr. Peters had taken Glade, and I took him into the back parlour; I told him if he would tell me where the things were, he should be safe; he took me to New George-yard, Kent-street, in the Borough, and went up to a two pair of stairs room, and knocked at the door, and was let in by a woman, and found several of the things; a tea-kettle and copper sauce-pan, and several other things which I took away, some I kept, and some the constable had; what I had I delivered to the care of my sister Elizabeth Wake . (A copper tea-kettle, and bowls and saucepan produced and deposed to.) (The sauce-pan was full of gin.) John Wake . I brought the things to Justice Addington. Glade said that Guest and Phillips, and himself, committed the robbery; the magistrate discharged Guest. JOHN CLARKE sworn. On the 10th of June I was standing at the Horse-ferry; I saw Phillips and Glade at five minutes after four o'clock coming down Millbank; I asked them if they were going over the water; they said yes, and they got in the boat with a tea-kettle and sauce-pan, and I put them over to the Lambeth side; Phillips gave me a shilling to pay three-pence for the fare, but no house being up, I could not get change; Phillips asked if I had got six-pence; I had not then; he told me another time would do, when he saw me. WILLIAM PETERS sworn. I kept the Roebuck public-house formerly, I was informed the house was broke open, and I heard a waterman say to Glade, you ought to be hanged; and I took him up to the Roebuck; in going along he said he had got some of the tobacco; I told him if he would tell where the things where, he would not be hurt; I went to George-yard, Kent-street, and found several of the things, with Glade who went with us. NICHOLAS BOND sworn. On the morning of the 10th of June I called on Mr. Peters and John Wake , and informed them of the robbery, and Mr. Peters had got John Glade . PRISONER's DEFENCE. I know nothing of the robbery. WILLIAM PHILLIPS sworn. I know the prisoner Phillips, he lived with my father some time as a hair-dresser , but was too old to be bound; he was an honest lad. JOHN WILLIAM JOHNSON sworn. I know Glade, I am a taylor; I have known him some years, he always bore a good character. JOHN BOX sworn. I have known Glade seventeen years; he always was a very honest lad. MARY HENDREN sworn. I know Glade, I have known him nine or ten years; he always bore a good character. MARY SUMMERS sworn. I have known John Glade five years; he always bore the best of characters. THOMAS PHILLIPS , JOHN GLADE , GUILTY, Of stealing, but not of breaking and entering . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice WILSON.

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Maureen Withey on 5th July 2020

Colonial Secretary Index. GLADE, John. Per "Atlantic", 1791 1816 Nov 16 - Of Sydney. On list of persons who came as convicts and who claimed they were free at the last General Muster, without supporting documentation (Reel 6038; SZ759 p.283) 1820 Jul - Memorial (Fiche 3019; 4/1824A No.280 pp.95, 98) 1822 - Signatory to petition from settlers, landholders and residents of the District of Kissing Point for leave to appropriate a piece of purchased land for a burial ground (Reel 6056; 4/1763 p.265) ---------------------------------------------------- List of persons who at the last muster reported themselves as free but who did not produce any certificate, etc, who are now required to obtain such documentation, or they will be considered imposters. No. | Name |Ship Residence Occupation | 5. John Glade . . .Atlantic, Sydney And the foregoing Persons are hereby apprised that the proper time to apply at the Secretary's Office for the obtaining any of the above Documents, is the first Monday of each Month. By Command of His Excellency. J. T. CAMPBELL, Secretary Sydney Gazette, 30 Nov 1816.

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Iris Dunne on 30th August 2018

1828 Census - aged 57 Date of Conviction: 8 or 9 July 1789 Australian Death Index: Year 1848, No.V1848561 33B

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Pauline McQuade on 30th August 2018

I came across John Glade in the Testament i.e. will of my great something uncle Major John MacKenzie of Wester Duddingston, Edinburgh. John Glade of Kissing Point is named as the father of Elizabeth Glade who gave birth to Australia MacKenzie the natural daughter i.e. illegitimate daughter of Major John MacKenzie and Elizabeth. Major John MacKenzie of the 46th Regt of Foot was the Commandant of Port Dalrymple in the 1810s and there was some sort of stushie involving the Masonic lodge shortly before his departure. He died in Edinburgh in 1830 and as for his daughter Australia, grand-daughter of John, she may have been the Miss MacKenzie who married Miles Sheehy, Soilicitor of Sydney in c.1834.

He was reportedly born in London (unconfirmed). He arrived on the "Atlantic" (3rd Fleet) on 20 Aug 1791. He married Sarah Sims on 27 Mar 1797 at St Johns, Parramatta. Sarah had arrived in the colony as a convict on the "Indispensable" in 1796. Their home was burned down in 1806. In 1825 & 1828 he is recorded as a settler at Kissing Point. In 1841 he is at Hunters Hill in the census. Gladesville and Glades Bay were named after him. He is buried at St Anne's, Ryde.