Daniel Newberry

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Blondie on 5th October 2012

Daniel's partner in crime was his cousin THOMAS OMANT who was transported to Van Diemans Land for Life.

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Blondie on 5th October 2012

Daniel's parents were: Richard Newberry, (Labourer) Richard was Christened Ickleford, Hertford on 24 September 1772 and died 1817 aged 45 years and was buried on 27 June 1817 in Ickleford, Hertford. Richard and Elizabeth Maddle were married on 15 October 1801 in Ickleford, Hertford England. Richard was a son of Joseph Newberry and Elizabeth Knight who married on 11 December 1758 in Arlesey, Bedford, England. Elizabeth Maddle was born 1778 and died 1845 in Ickleford, Aged 67 years and was buried on 22 November 1845 in Ickleford, Hertford. Richard and Elizabeth had 6 children - Daniel being their last. Daniel Newberry Christened 15 October 1815 in Ickleford, Hertford UK. Daniel was a Farm Worker. Daniel was convicted of stealing iron. Place of trial - Hertford Q.S. on 27 June 1836. Daniel was Transported on the "Asia V (3)" (ie: the 5th transport by the name of "Asia" on her 3rd voyage as a convict transport). Sailed from Torbay, Devon UK on 4 August 1837. Daniel was transported for 14 years. She was ship-rigged, 523 tons, Class AE1, built in Calcutta in 1814 of Teak. The Master was Ben Freeman. Surgeon was Jn. Gannon. Daniel was listed as 21 years on entry in the Indent of the 'Asia'. 280 male convicts were embarked in Torbay, UK, 3 died on the voyage, and 277 arrived in Sydney on 2 December 1837, after 120 days. Daniel died 26 October 1873 (Inflamation of the Lungs) aged 57 years at Charleyong NSW - Death Registration No: 3523/1873 Braidwood District - surname shown as 'Newbury'. The Coroners Inquest Report, 27 October 1873 shows Daniel died of 'Natural Causes". Daniel was buried on 29 October 1873 at Charleyong - Undertaker: William Taylor - Minister: William Robson of Wesleyan Church - Witnesses: James Anderson and Frederick Hart and lived in NSW 40 years. 2009: NB: Charleyong Cemetery - As the old Charleyong cemetery is on land owned by the Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) it is not open to the public and would be flooded if the Welcome Reef Dam is ever built. One 1 Headstone remains today. BRAIDWOOD TIMES NEWSPAPER - Wednesday 21 January 2009 Edition: Front Page. At the Historic Braidwood Cemetery a Memorial Wall recording burials of early residents at the Charleyong Cemetery between 1864 and 1904 was unveiled. Daniel Newberry is one of those pioneers buried in Charleyong. His name appears on the plaque as Daniel NEWBURY -his one and only chance of having his name recorded in stone in an official capacity and it is spelt incorrectly. STATE RECORDS NSW - NSW GOVT ARCHIVES & RECORDS MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY Web site search - Index to CERTIFICATES OF FREEDOM 1823-69 NEWBERRY, Daniel arrived ship: 'Asia' 1837 Certificate of Freedom No: 43/1861 Date: 1 Nov 1843 State Records Ref: 4/386 Film: 1015 Remarks: TL 42/1263 REEL 1015 NSW ARCHIVES OFFICE. Certificate of Freedom No. 43/1861 Date: 1st November 1843 Prisoner's No: 37/2707 Name: Daniel Newberry Ship: Asia V Master: Freeman Year: 1837 Native Place: Hertfordshire Place of Trial: Hertfordshire Qr/s Date of Trial: 27 June 1836 Sentence: Seven Years Year of Birth: 1817 Height: 5 ft 4½ inches Complexion: Pale Hair: Dark Brown Eyes: Brown General Remarks: Mole on Right Cheek Eyebrows partially meeting. Diamond mark right leg. Held a Ticket of Leave, No: 42/1263 dated 11 May 1842 now surrendered. State Records Ref: 4/4163 Film: 944 Remarks: District: Parramatta Tried: Hertfordshire Delivered 27 March 1845 BRAIDWOOD GAOL ENTRANCE BOOK 1856 - 1899 Web site search results: "This database was compiled from the list of Register entries of the Braidwood Gaol, NSW for the period 1856-1899. Unfortunately the exact date and reason for admission was not recorded in the register. An approximate time period was interpolated by using the ages of some of the "inmates". It must be stressed that travellers and others used the gaol's facilities as it offered the cheapest accommodation". The gaol was demolished in 1936. NEWBURY, Daniel GAOL NO: 198 COMPLEXION: Fair SHIP: "Asia" HEIGHT: 5.5 ARR: 1837 OCCUPATION: Nil STATE: Free MAKE: Stout AGE: 48 HAIR: Brown BIRTH PLACE: England EDUC: R & W SEX: M EYES: Blue CREED: Prot REMARKS: PERIOD: 1863-64 Daniel married by Banns to Margaret Jenkinson on 16 July 1844 (shown on church marriage register as "Jenkins") at Christ Church St. Lawrence, Sydney, County of Cumberland by George Vidal. Witnesses: Elizabeth Hughes of Elizabeth Street and William Jones of George Street. Marriage Registration No: V1844 4146 29/1844 MF District - 'MF' = Early Church Record Code for Church of England, Sydney, St. Lawrence's. Groom's name shown as Daniel Newbury, Bride's name shown as 'Margaret Jenkins'. Margaret was born 1807 - On the National Archives of Ireland website, Transportation of Convicts to Australia, name search results = 1 Only entry for Margaret Jenkinson, Trial date shown as June 1837 and her age being 26 = DOB 1811, BUT on ships indent for "Sir Charles Forbes" her age is shown as 30 = DOB 1807. "Daniel Newberry and Margaret Jenkinson, both convicts on Tickets Of Leave, met in October, 1842 on the Windsor NSW property of John Terry Hughes, nephew and heir of Samuel Terry, the "Botany Bay Rothschild". The Hughes property was shown in the 1828 Census as '4000 acres, 350 cleared, 150 cultivated, 28 gardeners, stockmen and persons employed in agriculture; and 6 domestic servants. The domestic servants were probably divided between the Windsor house and the Sydney mansion, according to which was occupied at the time. In "Samuel Terry, the Botany Bay Rothschild" p225, Gwyneth M. Dow writes: "If any member of Samuel Terry's family was a chip off the old block', it was John Terry Hughes. His initiative in acquiring land rivalled his uncle's, and before his bankruptcy he had set himself up as a brewer, miller, hotelier, whaler and large-scale merchant. He and Esther lived in a fine mansion 'Albion House', on three to four acres in Elizabeth Street, Sydney near what is now Central Railway. Adjoining their house was their brewery, on the site of what was Tooheys Brewery." Margaret and Daniel apparently resolved not to marry until they both attained their freedom. If they sought to marry beforehand, they would require the consent of the Governor and, as Margaret was shown in the records as married, consent would not have been given until Margaret produced satisfactory evidence of her husbands death. There is no record of either Margaret or Daniel ever applying for the Governor's consent to marry. It may have been coincidence, a mistake on the part of the registrar at the Church, but Margaret's surname was shown not as "Jenkinson", but as "Jenkins". Was this intended to put off anybody who knew that Margaret Jenkinson was Married? It can hardly have been a mistake by the registrar, because Daniel and Margaret, and the Hughes family, sat through three readings of the Banns in which the wrong surname was read out. Daniel attained his freedom in November 1843 and Margaret became free on 19th June 1844. By this time they were both working in the Hughes mansion (Albion House), Daniel probably as a groom and Margaret as a cook or maid. The Banns Register of Christ Church St. Lawrence shows that the Banns were read on: 30th June, 1844 (eleven days after Margaret's freedom) 7th July, 1844 14th July, 1844. for: Daniel Newberry Bachelor, Age not stated. Resident of Elizabeth Street South, Parish of St Lawrence Free by servitude. and: Margaret Jenkins, Spinster, Age not stated. Resident of Elizabeth Street South, Parish of St Lawrence Free by servitude. They were married in Christ Church St Lawrence on 15th July, 1844 by the Reverend George Vidal in the presence of Elizabeth Hughes of Elizabeth Street and William Jones of George Street. William Jones was almost certainly a church employee, as he witnessed almost every marriage. Marriage registered NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages No: 146 Vol.29 Church of England. The Elizabeth Hughes who witnessed the marriage of Margaret and Daniel was Ann Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of their employer John Terry Hughes and his wife Esther. Ann Elizabeth went by the name "Elizabeth" as shown by Esther's will (2.208,Reel 3014, SAG) which mentions her daughter 'Ellen, Lizzie, Priscilla, Esther and Henrietta'. This indicates that the Hughes family was present at the ceremony, perhaps that it was the church attended by the Hughes family, and that the Hugheses concurred in the use of the name "Jenkins". Page 74 of the "Guide to Convict Records" by the Archives Office of NSW reads: "It was not uncommon in the early years of the settlement for convicts to marry again in the colony when they had already married prior to conviction. Various reasons accounted for this - the belief that their spouse was dead, or the attitude that they would never see them again. Some convicts believed that transportation annulled marriage. Moreover, bigamy after seven years was probably not a crime". John Terry Hughes had been declared bankrupt in 1843, due to the great depression of the eighteen-forties, but many of his assets had been secreted away to save them from his creditors. On 14th April, 1845, the 'household stuffs, gigs and horses' were assigned "for separate and inalienable use and benefit of the said Esther Hughes forlife, exclusively of her said husband". Daniel probably left the Hughes family in March, 1845, for it was then that he picked up his Certificate of Freedom, which had been waiting for sixteen months. Daniel and Margaret had one child.

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Eunice on 23rd November 2011

He is the cousin of Thomas Omant - together they robbed in Hitchin, Herts and both were sent to Australia. Daniel to NSW and Thomas to Tasmania. I am related to the Omant line through Thomas' sister Catherine. I am in touch with the relatives of Thomas Omant in Tasmania and Victoria, Australia. My grandmother was the granddaughter of Catherine Omant. Her mother Emily Omant married John Brown.