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Charles Tinkler was transported on the Eliza, departing 22nd Sep 1819 and arriving 21st Jan 1820 with 159 passengers.
The Eliza was a 511-ton (later 538 ton) merchant ship built in British India in 1806. She made five voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 225 (114) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Joseph Cockburn, George Williamson, the elder, and Charles Tinkler, were indicted for stealing geese. After the Judge had summed the evidence, the Jury returned verdict Guilty, to be transported for seven years. After this trial, Charles Tinkler was again tried, along with Williamson the younger, for sheep-stealing; when Williamson was Acquitted, and Tinkler found Guilty. Sentence, Death, afterwards changed to transportation for life. Westmorland Gazette, 10 April 1819.
MURDER.- Foley, an aboriginal black native, was indicted for the wilful murder of one Charles Tinkler, a crown servant at Port Macquarie, on the 28th March last. By the evidence it appeared, that the prisoner occasionally lived in the house with the deceased and two or three other white men, and that he was in the custom of going out, with the deceased, to shoot ducks and other game ; such being an indulgence extended by the Commandant to the deceased, on account of his good conduct. At the instigation of the prisoner, the deceased proceeded upon a fowling excursion, accompanied by the prisoner, two other black natives, and the father of the prisoner. This was on Tuesday. No tidings being obtained after 3 or 4 days absence, a military party, with 3 natives, was sent out in search of the deceased ; who, after some difficulty, was accidently found in a wounded state, a spear having entered the lungs, and still remaining in the body. The poor man was immersed in water, with his head reclining on a stump. At first he seemed insensible ; but immediate attention being had to his pitiable condition, he recovered sufficiently to give an account of that which had happened to him. He said, that after shooting a pair of ducks, he handed over the gun to the prisoner to make a fire by, and when in the act of drinking at a pond, one of the natives threw some mud in his face; and another struck him on the head. Upon turning round, he saw the prisoner making up a hill with his gun. He endeavoured to pursue him, when the latter told him he would he devil-devilled, or killed; and almost immediately after the prisoner's father speared him. He was soon overtaken, and so cruelly beaten by them, as to be supposed dead. In this dreadful state, the unfortunate man crawled to the spot where he was discovered, having been in that condition from the Tuesday till the Sunday following, on which day he was received into the, hospital under the kind care of Dr Moran, the Resident Surgeon. The deceased informed this Gentleman, that he should not live long; and in about an hour after medical aid was afforded, friendly death rescued our too confident fellow-creature from further suffering. The deceased exculpated the prisoner from the charge of spearing him, saying it was his father. It did not appear by any of the evidence that the prisoner's offence consisted in aught else but running off with the gun and that the others, to cover this act, cruelly treated the deceased, as described. It was proved that the prisoner had ever conducted himself as a quiet inoffensive native, and was one of the last that could be supposed likely to perpetrate such a deed. Our limits only permit us to say, that the prisoner was Acquitted. Sydney Gazette, 19 Aug 1824.
New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 1820 - Name: Charles Tinkler Event Date: 10 Feb 1820 Arrival year: 1820 Vessel: Eliza Event Description: Sent to work in the mines at Newcastle Comments: Per "Eliza", 1820 Page: 79 --------------------------------- 1821 - April 1821. Event Description: On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle Comments: Per "Eliza", 1820 Page: 127 --------------------------------- 1822 - Event Date: 11 Jan 1822. Event Description: Bushranger sent to Port Macquarie under Proclamation of 15 Dec 1821. On list of convicts at Port Macquarie Comments: Per "Eliza", 1820 Page: 346-7 Ship: Eliza No; 48 Where and by whom convicted. Volunteer miner to Newcastle ran from thence apprehend and removed to Port Macquarie 11 Jan 1822 as Bushranger Sentence: Renewal of Original sentence Date of Conviction; 11 Jan 1822 Noted against his name; Died 29 March 1824 -------------------------------------------- Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current Name: Charles Tinkler. Gender: M (Male) Death Date: 28 Mar 1824 Cemetery: Allman Hill Historic Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Port Macquarie, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, New South Wales, Australia Has Bio?: N