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James Sharkett was transported on the Larkins, departing 10th Aug 1829 and arriving 22nd Dec 1829 with 202 passengers.
1829 Voyage - Ship; Larkins, Captain Campbell, from Cork the 10th August, with 195 male prisoners. A Surgeon Superintendent, P. Sprout, Esquire. Arrived; 22 December 1829. Recapitulation; Mustered; 196. Died on Voyage; 3. Disembarked; 1. Total; 200
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THE undermentioned Convicts have been allowed Tickets-of-Leave for the Districts set opposite their respective names. COLONIAL Goulburn. James Sharkett, "Larkins," (2). Convict Department, Sydney, 2nd November, 1857.
SHOOTING WITH INTENT TO KILL. James Sharkett was indicted for shooting Thomas Buckstone, with intent to kill him, at Newcastle, on the 18th March. Mr. Purefoy appeared for the prisoner; Mr O'Meagher attorney. The witnesses called were Henry Webb, Thomas Buckstone, George T. Dyer, Samuel Holt, Dr. John Edmund Stacy, and John Dowling. Henry Webb knew the prisoner, who lived about seventy feet from where he resided. On Sunday, 18th March, witness was speaking to Mr. Buckstone, and happened to turn round, and saw Sharkett with a gun pointed in the direction of Mr. Buckstone's head, and before witness could speak or think the gun went off, and the contents came past witness's face, and Mr. Buckstone put his hands to his head, staggered, and said that old Sharkett had shot him. Witness then went to secure the prisoner, who had gone into his own house, and bolted the door. The door was burst open by the police when he fired the gun a second time, and wounded Mr. Hannell. Cross examined : A man named Goodall lived in the house with Sharkett. Witness had seen the prisoner drunk several times. --- Mr. Buckstone remembered the 18th of March, when he was shot by Sharkett, the slugs went to the bone of the skull and one of them was taken out by Dr. Stacey about two months after Witness had no quarrel with the prisoner, and had not seen him for six or seven weeks before. A shot went through his shoulder. --George T. Dyer, constable, apprehended the prisoner at his own house, after the second shot had been fired. Witness found no other gun in the house, but two canisters with powder, one with shot, and one small box of percussion caps The prisoner said that some one had given him a drug in some liquor , he was excited, but not with drink. Cross-examined : The gun would not go off at half-cock; witness saw the prisoner fire the gun the second time; he appeared a little silly that day -- Mr. Holt showed the prisoner a document, which he said he knew nothing about. The prisoner could not write. Witness had known the prisoner for eleven years, and always thought he was an inoffensive man. --- Dr. Stacy saw Mr. Bickstone after he was wounded, they were not serious wounds , witness saw the prisoner in the watch house that afternoon, and found him labouring under mental delusions, and from the state of his pulse and tongue he was plainly under great excitement. Three days before witness saw him in this excited state. --- John Dowling wrote a letter for Sharkett on the 17th March ; also a notice to this effect : " Mr. Philips, tenant to Mr Buckstone, said to his mistress the old man was coming home, and that he was a dead man. He would soon be a dead man, because he gave some money to some man to give me a draught of poison to kill me. may he meet the consequence that is due to him, in the world beyond the grave, for doing this to me. Signed James Sharkett " Witness was not aware he had done anything wrong in writing such a paper. He wrote it at the request of the prisoner, [His Honor the Judge cautioned the witness, and trusted that he never would write such a paper again ] Mr. Purefoy, for the prisoner, said that there could be no doubt that Mr. Buckstone had been wounded by Sharkett, but from what had transpired and the extraordinary notice written by Dowling, at the dictation of the prisoner, it was plain that at the time of the shooting he was temporarily insane. He believed that the jury would take this view of the case, and he would only call as witnesses, -- Dr. Robert Thorley Bolton, and Mr. Charles Bolton. --Dr. Bolton saw the prisoner in the Newcastle lock up on the 18th March. He was very much excited, and said that he was surrounded by enemies. He saw the prisoner twice afterwards, and he was more or less under the influence of mental delusions. On the 15th or 16th of March witness had seen the prisoner, he was then suffering from indigestion, and was very nervous. Cross examined : He appeared nervous and alarmed, these were symptoms of delirium tremens. ----Mr. Bolton was collector of customs at Newcastle, and had known the prisoner for 15 or 16 years, as a quiet inoffensive man. The jury retired for about a quarter of an hour, and returned with a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to five years hard labour on the roads. Maitland Mercury, 18 Aug 1855.
Irish Archives. Ireland – Australia Transportation Database. Convict, James Sharkett, Trial Co Sligo, March 1829, Crime, Abduction, Sentence, Transportation. Petitioner, Anne Sharkett, Wife, Date of document, 1/2/1847. Doc Ref: CRF 1847 S 6.
At Sligo Assizes, sentence of death was recorded against Mathew Sherlock, Dominick and James Sharkett, for abduction . Clonmel Herald, 4 April 1829.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. James Sharkett, age on arrival, 35, per Larkins (2) 1829, Tried at Sligo, 1829, Life for Abduction. DOB, 1794, native place, Sligo Co. Married, 3 children. Catholic. Trade, Labourer.