Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
References
| Primary Source | (Ancestry) State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Title: Port Macquarie: List of Convicts, 1822-1825; Volume: 4/3864 p.33 |
Claims
"Elder brother of my 3x great-grandmother."
Photos
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Convict Notes
On 23 May 1835, he married Emma Pullen (George Hibbert (1834), at St. Peter's Church of England, Richmond NSW.
George was again convicted in 1839 for stabbing with the intent to kill at Kurrajong where he had land, by the Windsor Quarter Sessions and initially sentenced to 15 years transportation to Van Diemans Land (Hobart, Tasmania). This was later reduced to 3 years in the same location.
He was convicted with Patrick Shields in Sydney on 5 May 1823 for the theft of clothes from John Wood of Bringelly and received a sentence of 3 years transportation to Port Macquarie. Shields was also convicted of theft from Sir John Jamison's property and sentenced to 4 years at the same location.
George Sunderland was born in Howarth, Yorkshire England in c.1801 and arrived free in New South Wales in 1808 with his parents: john Sunderland, Private (NSW Corps), Mary (nee Burton), and his siblings, Rebecca, Sarah and John (Jr).