William Widgett

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Maureen Withey on 15th August 2022

At the Sussex Assizes, which ended Wednesday se’ennight, twenty three prisoners were tried, eleven whom were capitally convicted, and received sentence of death, viz, ... —and, William Widget, aged 31, for felony, in the house of Henry Chalkline, of Frant; Kentish Gazette, 2 Apr 1813.

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D Wong on 9th May 2021

10/9/1833: TOL - Allowed to remain in the District of Illawarra - Crime: Housebreaking, farming man, 5'6" tall, born 1780, fair complexion, brown to grey hair, dark hazel eyes. 1/9/1839: CP - aged 57, born 1782, a labourer, 5'11" tall, fair complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes. 29/10/1849: Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1814-2011 for William Widgett Wollongong St Michael Composite 10 January 1839 - 31 May 1893 William Widgett died aged 71, and was buried 30/10/1849. Address given as Para Meadow, Bulli.

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Maureen Withey on 8th May 2021

Colonial Secretary Index. WIDGETT, William. Per "General Hewitt", 1814; of Windsor 1818 Dec 26; 1819 Jan 4 Re permission to marry at Castlereagh (Reel 6006; 4/3499 p.241) 1821 Mar 24 Store receipts of for wheat (Reel 6051; 4/1748 p.150) 1822 Jan 7 Listed on Colonial Fund statement (Reel 6039; 4/424 p.81) 1823 Aug 22 On list of persons receiving an assigned convict (Fiche 3290; 4/4570D p.11) 1823 Aug 27 Convict from the Establishment, Emu Plains, assigned to (Reel 6028; 2/8283 p.151) 1823 Sep 10 Re Edward Butler's assignment to him (Reel 6011; 4/3509 p.223) ---------------------------------------------------- In 1821, William Widget gives evidence in the trial of several men accused of highway robberies. “ William Widgett deposed, that he was returning to the interior, from the Sydney market, on the morning of Saturday, the 3d of February, and was the foremost of three carts a few miles on the other side of Parramatta, when they were stopped by four armed bushrangers ; and that three of the prisoners at the bar were of the number, the fourth being dead, whose name was Butler. [The circumstance of this deluded and infatuated creature meeting with a premature destiny, in being shot some short time since, was reported in our Gazette of the 21st ult.] The three carts were driven a short distance from the road, and then plundered. The names of the prisoners identified by this witness were Geary, Young, and Cochrane. Young was armed with a musket, and Cochrane had a brace of pistols pendant to his waist. Wm. Madgett, who was in the cart with the above witness, corroborated, in every particular, the circumstances already related.” Sydney Gazette, 18 Aug 1821. -------------------------------------------------- The Statement of the Colonial Police Fund lists a payment: Mr. William Widgett, Carriage of Lead from Sydney to Windsor for Government |£ 4 | 8s | 6 d| Sydney Gazette, 18 Jan 1822. -------------------------------------------------- The Tickets of Leave granted to the following Persons, have been cancelled: General Hewitt, - William Widgett, for retailing spirits without a licence. Sydney Gazette, 6 Dec 1826. -------------------------------------------------- Police Report. Yesterday, while a constable was conducting a prisoner to her house to obtain a fine for drunkenness, he was invited by the woman, whose name is Lucy Beckett, into the house of a person named Widgett. He went in, and according to the constable's statement, sent out for some spirits. Becoming drowsy, he leant his head upon a table, but was advised to lie down in bed. This piece of advice he immediately complied with, when Lucy almost at the same instant threw herself across him, rifled his pockets of £4 15s. in ring dollars, which was held together by a string and handed it to a person in the room, who conveyed it to somebody outside the house. The constable getting out of bed upon the instant, was knocked down, in which condition he was assaulted by a man and two females, from whose belligerent gripes he was rescued by the arrival of some constables, but not before some blood had been shed upon both sides. Sydney Gazette, 14 Nov 1827. Police Report, Sydney. Louisa Beckworth and William Widgett, on the complaint of constable Gazlett, whose case was adverted to in the last Gazette, were brought before their Worships this day. The depositions having been again read over, the Bench ordered that Louisa should be dismissed for want of sufficient evidence of the robbery; Widgett, who is a prisoner of the Crown, was ordered to be returned to barracks, and the constable to be suspended till the pleasure of His Excellency should be made known. Sydney Gazette, 16 Nov 1827. ----------------------------------------------------- Convicts Index, 1791-1873. William Widgett, per General Hewitt, 1814, Ticket of Exemption from Govt. Labor, 30/2. To reside with his wife Ann, came free per Mary Ann (2) 1816. William Widgett, per General Hewitt, 1814, Ticket of Exemption from Govt. Labor, 32/135. with his wife Ann, came free per Mary Ann (2) 1816. torn up on his receiving a ticket of leave (no 33/549) William Widgett, per General Hewitt, 1814, Conditional Pardon, 1 Sep 1839, No 40/166. -------------------------------------------------- 1828 Census Index. Lists William and his wife separately. Ann Widget, age 40, C.F. Mary Ann 6, 1815, protestant, Laundress, Goulburn Street, Sydney. Wm. Widgett, age 49, C. Gl. Stewart, 1814, life, protestant, No 22 Road Gang, Concord.