Joshua Wigley

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D Wong on 27th March 2021

Joshua Wigley was listed as 21 years old on arrival. Native Place: Lancashire. Occupations: Weaver/boatman/stableman. Transported for 'Stealing a shirt' Joshua could read, was Protestant, single, 5'3¼" tall, ruddy and a little freckled complexion, brown hair and eyes, small hairy mole left jaw, small raised mole right side of neck, scar upper, anchor back of lower right arm, mermaid, JO inside lower left arm, star back of left.

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D Wong on 31st May 2017

1845: TOL Braidwood. 1845: Married Alice Barnett at Briadwood/Bungendore, NSW. 27/11/1848 Sydney Morning Herald: ROBBERY.-In the course of the evening of Wednesday last, an entrance having been made into one of the sleeping apartments at the Government Printing Office, occupied by two young men named Richards and D'Arrietta, employed there, a large quantity of wearing apparel, belonging to them, was stolen from out of their boxes. As it wasa palpable, that the thief must have been a person well acquainted with thc building, Richards was struck with the circumstance of his having just previously to returning home, and discovering the robbery, met an old fellow apprentice named George Barnett carrying a bundle. The police were then set ia motion, and a search was made at the house of a man named Joshua Wigley, in Castlereagh street, where Barnett resided. The result was finding a portion of the stolen property; and as both Wigley and his wife gave very shuffling accounts of the manner in which the property came into their house, they were taken into custody along with Barnett, for receiving that property knowing it to be stolen, The three were before the Police Court on Friday, when the foregoing was given in evidence, and were remanded. 11/12/1848 Sydney Morning Herald: George Barnett, indicted for stealing wearing apparel in a dwelling house, was found guilty. To be worked in an iron gang for the period of eighteen calendar months. Joshua Wigley, indicted for receiving wearing apparel, knowing it to have been stolen, was acquitted and discharged. 11/6/1851 Sydney Morning Herald: Committal.-On the 4th instant, Joshua Wigley was fully committed to take his trial at the ensuing Quarter Sessions, for stealing £100 in silver, from Mr. Rotton, between three and four weeks ago. The loss was reported in the Herald at the time - Sentence, three years' hard labour on the roads or other public works of the colony. 1852: TOL Maitland 13/2/1852 Empire, Sydney: Another man named Joshua Wigley, also a prisoner of tho Crown, was convicted of being absent from his district, he having recently received a ticket-of-leave for Maitland. He was apprehended a day or two ago, in Sydney. He had a pass in his possession, but it did not entitle him to go beyond the district of Maitland, and, moreover, the time for which it was given had expired. The prisoner stated, in defence, that he had come to Sydney for the purpose of taking his family down to Maitland and that he was not aware he should require a pass for that purpose. He was ordered to be returned to goernment, Mr. Brenan intimating that if he could make any reasonable representation in behalf of his liberty, he would have an opportunity of doing so at the proper quarter. 12/5/1852 Maitland Mercury: Escape.-One day last week a constable of the newcastle police, named John Lord, was bringing up to the Maitland gaol a prisoner named Joshua Wigley, who had been committed by that bench for trial on a charge of felony, when he escaped from him , and got clear off. .....It appeared from the evidence that Wigley was put on board the steamer at Newcastle in handcuffs, but that Lord took the handcuffs off in coming up the river, when they landed at Morpeth the handcuffs swere not put on again, and Wigley took an opportunity to make a bolt, after they had got in sight of the gaol. Lord was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions. Wigley had not yet been retaken. Searched NSW, QLD, VIC & SA BDM's - nothing found.