John Lockwood

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

NOTE 2: Year of Birth is taken from official records but day and month are not known. The latter dates have been entered as 01/01 because the site does not allow those fields to be left empty.

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

NOTE: Occupation of Beerhouse keeper is not listed in the options, so Publican was selected.

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

DEATH: Name: Lockwood, John Manning Sex: M Age: 89 Place of death: Fremantle [Fremantle Hospital] Year of death: 1922 [13 November, 1922] Registration place: Fremantle Registration number: 2700284 Registration year: 1922 (WA BDM at https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-justice) --00-- BURIAL: Place: Fremantle Cemetery, Palmyra, Melville City, Western Australia Plot: Anglican-Mon A-0933 Biography: Yes (see https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213402676/john-manning-lockwood) --000--

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

FREMANTLE JAIL RECORD LOCKWOOD, John; inmate #9807, arrived 10 Jan 1868 per Hougoumont Alias: MANNING, MAITLAND Date of Birth: 1835 Marital Status: Married, 1 child Occupation: Beerhouse keeper Literacy: Literate Crime: Forgery of promissory note Sentence Period: 15 years Ticket of Leave Date: 16 Jun 1874 Certificate of Freedom Date: 12 Sep 1882 Comments: Labourer, general servant, self-employed, 1875-1877 grubber (https://fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/research/convict-database/). --000--

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

IN WA: 1868: On arrival, John Lockwood, 32, was listed as convict #9807; sentenced to 15 years, at the Central Criminal Court, London, 10 June, 1867, for “feloniously forging and uttering a forged promisory note”; beerhouse keeper; married, one child; literate; Protestant; family – wife Eliza and son John, at 2 Normandy Place, Alton; character “good”. Described as 5’8” tall, black hair, dark eyes, full visage, dark complexion, strong appearance; scar on forehead, moles on back. Other: Ticket of Leave 16.6.74; Certificate of Freedom 12.9.82 (Convicts to Australia at https://www.perthdps.com/convicts/con-wa42.html; and Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930; Convict Department, Registers; General Register for Nos 9599-10128 cont. (R16)). --0--

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

EMBARKATION: “The hired convict ship Hougoumont, which has been taken up, by the Government for the conveyance of a numerous party of convicts to Freemantle, Western Australia, left the Nore on October 1, and proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board 150 convicts from the establishments at Chatham and Millbank. The convicts from the Chatham establishment, at St. Mary's, embarked from the dockyard on board the paddle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakely, and were in charge of a numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all heavily armed. Among the convicts shipped were a party of fifteen Fenians, who were engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, together with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the ship Severn [only two were on the Hougoumont – Thomas Berwick and Lionel Holdsworth, each sentenced to 20 years for fraud], and some others who have achieved notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian convicts, like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained together in gangs, but it was observed that they were kept apart from the other convicts in a portion of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel also took down a number of convicts from the establishment at Millbank, for shipment on board the Hougoumont, in charge of a strong escort and convict guard. On Tuesday, October 8th, the Hougoumont arrived in Portland roads. Shortly before midday ninety convicts were marched down to the Government pier at Portland under a strong escort of the 12th Light Infantry. The party included twenty-three Fenian convicts, among whom it was said, was Moriarty [not the senior Fenian, Captain Moriarty; rather, this was Bartholomew Moriarty, aged 17]. The Government steamer employed in the breakwater service was used for conveying the convicts on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The convicts were chained together on embarking, and on board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the convicts safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The Governor of the penal settlement at Freemantle, Captain Young, is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native land.” (Sydney Morning Herald, 19 Dec 1867, p4, at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28608271). --00--

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

1867, 28 September: Sent to Millbank Prison, London, for embarkation on the Hougoumont for WA (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for John Lockwood; Pentonville Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1866-1869; image 112). --00--

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

1867, 5 July: Admitted to Pentonville Prison, Caledonian Road, London – inmate #4715, sentenced to 15 years PS (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for John Lockwood; Pentonville Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1866-1869; image 112). “After a sentence of transportation was handed down, the prisoner entered into a separate stage where he was placed into an individual cell, isolated from others, apart from brief periods of exercise and attendance at chapel. However, no communication of any kind with other prisoners was permitted at any time. The philosophy behind this penal methodology had its provenances in the religious, monastic traditions; i.e., that in the isolation of his cell the malefactor would be able to contemplate the errors of his way, unadulterated by the negative influences of former contemporaries, and be reformed.” (Edgar, 2018, pp39-40) When first put into practice, the mandated period of separate confinement was 18 months. By the late 1840s, authorities had conceded that such conditions of imprisonment were “injurious to many prisoners’ mental health” and the stint was reduced to 12 months. Periods of separate confinement were reduced further “as a prisoner displayed good behaviour tendencies” (Edgar, p40). Pentonville, Millbank, Wakefield and Mountjoy in Ireland were the “Probation” or “Separate” prisons, as were some local jails. --0--

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

JAILS: 1867, June: Held at Newgate Prison – John Lockwood, 32, beerhouse keeper, sentenced to 15 years PS for forgery and uttering money; 5’9” tall (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for John Lockwood; Newgate Prison; Registers of Prisoners; 1863; image 312). --0--

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Dianne Jones on 8th January 2024

Trial/3 HENRY DAWSON (Policeman 301 A). On Saturday, 30th March, I saw the prisoner at his public-house, the Prince of Wales, Church Street, Borough—Mr. Bryant said he hoped the £10 note was right—he said, ‘Yes, that is all right; I received it from Mr. Gordon, Park Farm, West Croydon’—this pocket-book was produced on the first and second occasions, and he pointed out this note to me: ‘John Gordon, Park Farm, West Croydon, £10 next £20.’—we made an appointment to see the prisoner on Saturday night—Mr. Bryant and I were going to his house, and met him and Ball in Church Street; we then went to Ball's house—Ball made a statement to me a day or two afterwards—on 5th April I went to the Artichoke, Leicester Square, and said to the prisoner, ‘Lockwood, I want you; I have been to your place several times, and have not been able to see you’—he said, ‘I did not know where to see you or where to find you’—I said, ‘I left my name and address with your wife, and she told me she gave it to you’—I spoke to him about the £5 note, and then said, ‘What about that £20 note that you passed at the butcher's in Trinity Lane on the 27th?’—he said, ‘Butcher's? what butcher's?’—I said, ‘I do not know his name, but it is a butcher in Great Trinity Lane’—he said, ‘No, I passed no note’—I said, ‘Were not you an assistant in the vicinity of Trinity Lane?’—he said, ‘What firm?’—I said, ‘I do not know; but did not you go to the butcher's on Wednesday night with your wife, where you owed an account, and purchase another joint of meat, and receive the change for a £20 note?’—he said, ‘No, I know nothing about it’—I said, ‘You are the same with these notes as you were with the fives; I met Ball in High Street, Borough, a day or two ago, and he told me you were keeping out of the way, but if the party he received them of did not come forward and assist him he should round on you’—the prisoner said, ‘Ball had no right to say that; he cannot prove it’—I said I should take him to Bow Lane Station and we should see—I took him there, and he was charged with uttering a £20 note at the butcher's, in Great Trinity Lane—the inspector said, ‘Oh! Mr. Curtis's?’—I said, ‘Yes’—the prisoner said, ‘That note I changed with Mr. Curtis I received from Mr. Gordon, Park Farm, West Croydon’, and produced the book again—Mr. Curtis was sent for and identified the prisoner, who gave his name, John Lockwood, Prince of Wales beer shop, Church Street, Borough—he said he had seen Gordon last Sunday night, 31st March, at his house. Cross-examined. Q. How long have you been in the police? A. Thirteen years—I have been examined many times—I met Ball and asked him where Lockwood was—he said that he was keeping out of the way—I told Lockwood that, and he said that Ball had no right to say so and could not prove it—I asked him about the £5 note—he said, ‘I received that from Mr. Waters, 126, Waterloo Road, a customer who very often comes to my house in a trap with two others.’ GEORGE SCOTT (City Detective Sergeant). On the evening of 5th April I was at Bow Lane Station and heard the prisoner say that he got the £20 note from John Gordon, of Park Farm, West Croydon—I searched him and found the pocket-book produced and another one—I have looked through them, but find no entries of the numbers of bank notes. JOSEPH TYRRELL CURTIS (re-examined). I have brought the book in which I entered the address the prisoner gave me: ‘Mr. Gordon, Park Farm, East Croydon’—I wrote that down at the moment in blue ink. Contd/4... Trial/4 STEPHEN WEST. I am a meat salesman, and occupy the Park Farm, Beddingtou, West Croydon—I have lived at Croydon all my life—I know nobody named Gordon occupying a farm there—there is a farm at Ayling Park, two miles off; Mr. Watney lives there. CHARLES NEWTON. I am postmaster at Croydon, and have been so twenty-five years—I know Mr. West's farm, at Beddington, and Mr. Watney's, Ayling Park Farm—I know no other Park Farm in or near Croydon. SAMUEL WILLIAM PACE. I am cashier to Dimsdale, Fowler, and Barnard, of 20, Cornhill, bankers—they were agents for Nash and Neale, bankers, of Reigate, under the name of the Reigate and Croydon Bank—it was a bank of issue—it stopped payment on 24th June, 1850—this £20 note, dated February, 1863, and £10 note, dated May, 1863, are on genuine forms—I do not know this signature, ‘Philip Brooks’, or the counter signature of ‘Harris’—they are both signed and countersigned in the same way, and the bank had stopped long before—there were no such persons connected with it. GEORGE JOHNSON. I was a clerk to Messrs. Nash and Neale, trading as the Reigate, Croydon, and Dorking Bank—I know nothing of these signatures of Brooks and Harris. JAMES PARRY. I carry on business in Walworth Road, and buy waste paper—within the last twelve months I bought as waste paper some notes of this description—these are much like them, but they were not signed—they went to the mill, I think, but I gave two or three away to people in the neighbourhood. WILLIAM PRIESTLEY. I am a general dealer, of Richben Street, Hunter Street, Kent Road—I have known the prisoner above two years—I first knew him at the Robin Hood beer shop, Eltham Street, Kent Road, which he kept—I played at skittles there—I went there nightly—I afterwards knew him at the Prince of Wales, in the Kent Road; I went there often—I sold him a watch and chain at the Robin Hood—I always went by the name of Priestley, never in the name of John Gordon—I do not know Park Farm, Croydon—I never told the prisoner I was a farmer—I did not give this £20 and £10 note to the prisoner, and never saw them till I was at the police-court, charged with uttering—I was discharged—I was also charged with stealing a truck and discharged—Paul Sullivan, a friend of the prisoner's and a friend of mine, also charged me. Contd/5... Trial/5 Cross-examined. Q. Were you dressed the same at the police-court as you are now? A. Yes, except my tie; I have got a bad neck—I always wore the same kind of dress—I do not look much like a farmer; I never dressed like one—I had an overcoat in the cold weather—I have not bought any clothes for this trial—I never had these notes, and never got any change for the prisoner—I heard three or four persons swear at the police-court that I did. ROBERT PETHER (Policeman 98 M). I have known the prisoner ten years—I knew him when he kept the Robin Hood—I knew Priestley going to the Robin Hood two or three years ago—I never knew him by any other name—I have had him in custody—he always gave the name of Priestley—I also knew him at the Prince of Wales when the prisoner kept it, the latest time was in January and February. JOHN MARSH (Policeman 92 M). I have known Priestley nearly twelve years in the name of William Priestley, and I knew his father—I have known the prisoner two or three years—I knew him when he kept the Robin Hood, and have seen Priestley there playing at skittles, and always in the name of Priestley, never in the name of Gordon—after the prisoner removed to the Prince of Wales I saw Priestley there with Sullivan, sometimes nightly—it is a general house of call for him. GUILTY. He received a good character, but Mr. Brennan, of the Mint, stated that eight or ten of his associates had been sentenced to penal servitude.— Fifteen Years' Penal Servitude. (There was another indictment against the prisoner.)” (https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18670610-563) --00--