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Transportation
Ebenezer Picken was transported on the Cawdry, departing 30th Nov 1825 and arriving 30th Nov 1825 with 14 passengers.
The Cawdry was a grab ship that was used to transport 14 prisoners from Calcutta and Ceylon in 1826.
Cawdry (generic)References
| Primary Source | List of Absconded Prisoners, Sydney Gazette, 3 Dec 1828. Moreton Bay Register of Convicts. |
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Convict Notes
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Cawdry - 1826. Indent No; 8 Name; Ebeneza Picken Age; 22 [1803] Single Native Place; Edinbro' Trade or calling; Soldier Trial where & Date; Calcutta - 1824. Sentence; Life Assigned; Jno Chandler, Botany 1828 - Census. Name; Edward Picken. Iron Gang. 1829 - 13 Mar. Sydney Goal Entrance Book. Name; Edward Picken. Offence; Runaway from 20 Road Gang. 25 lashes and returned 1832 - Parramatta Goal Description Book. No; 1035. Edward Picken. Year of Birth; 1802 Build; Middle Height; 5 ft. Eyes; Hazel Hair; Brown, Light. Completion; Fair 1832 - 30 Sep. Phoenix Hulk Transportation Entrance Book. 3 years, Morten Bay. Presbyterian. 1835 - 16 Nov. Phoenix Hulk Entrance Book. No; 747. Per Isabella from Morten Bay, Colonial Sentence Expired 1837 - 8 Mar. Ticket of Leave. 37/466
The Cawdry arrived in New South Wales from Calcutta on 15 April 1826 bringing fourteen prisoners of the Crown.
Absconded Prisoners. Picken Ebenezer, Cawdry, 24, Soldier and Labourer, Edinburgh, 5 feet 8, dark hazle eyes, light brown hair, sallow compl, from No 1. Iron Gang. Sydney Gazette, 3 Dec 1828. Moreton Bay Register of Convicts; Arrived, per Isabella, 7 Jan 1833. Ebenezer Picken, Cawdry, Fort William Bengal, 4th Session of Oyr & Terminer 1824 Murder, Life, soldier, colonial conviction, Gen. Sessions, Bathurst, 12 Sept 1832, House Robbery, Three years, To Sydney 7 Nov(?) 1835. Description: Ebenezer Picken, native place, Edinbro, age 32, height 5ft, 8. fresh complexion, brown hair, hazle eyes. The original conviction in Bengal: "Law. Supreme Court, Oct 28 – Ebenezer Picken and William Muirhead were indicted for shooting a native at the cantonments of the subsidiary force at Nagpore. The jury after twice retiring, and a long deliberation, found the prisoners guilty, on the belief that what they confessed to their comrades - “we have killed a black fellow” - was fact; besides which, the defence they put forth was in itself sufficient to raise doubts of their innocence; for, they asserted, that the natives of the Nagapore country were in the habit of firing random shots to frighten away wild animals. Mr Turton, however, has moved for an arrest of judgement, on the ground that it is no murder here, if the life of a man was taken in the territories of a foreign prince. He has applied for time to consider the case, previously to his ultimate address to the bench on this subject. (Beng. Hurk.) Source - The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Magazine for British and Foreign .., Volume 19, May 1825. Ticket of Leave Obtained. Port Phillip, Picken, Ebenezer, Cawdry Sydney Gazette, 18 Mar 1837. TICKETS OF LEAVE CANCELLED. (From Friday's Government Gazette.) The tickets of leave of the undermentioned prisoners of the Crown, have bean cancelled for being absent from their districts, they are illegally at large:- Port Phillip Ebenezer Picken- Cawdry; Sydney Morning Herald, 27 Nov 1850