BASIL KENDALL’S COURT CASE

FROM CATHY AT UQ , WE have the information below regarding Basil and his Crime.

UNWISE SALE OF POISON - POLICE REPORT 1848

Continuing with the sorting through of the HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS research, here is a police incident in Leeds 1848. In 1848, Melinda’s husband Basil Kendall had been arrested and convicted of a crime which at this time I read to be - forging and uttering but which details  I shall reclaim shortly from the bowels of my computer files. He was sentenced to two years hard labour. Whether that was served in Parramatta Gaol as oral history has it or whether he were assigned to Dr Dobie on Gordonbrook Station on the Clarence River - we do not yet know. Be that as it it may - in England, Sarah Rich was endeavouring to do away with herself. Drugs appeared to be a problem then as they appear to be in the 21st Century. Melinda,according to legend, hearsay and Mr Ackland and Mrs Hamilton-Grey, had taken to the bottle. Certainly it was in this period of the late 1840s to 1852 that she lived on the Clarence with Basil dying there in 1852. We have TW Bawden’s series of lectures on the formative Clarence years and there some wild doings. Meanwhile in England -

 

northern star and national trades journal  leeds england saturday 21 october 1848 iss 574 police report2

OLD BRITISH NEWSPAPERS 19TH CENTURY

FOR THE WEEK JULY 4-11 - I AM LOCKED AWAY LOOKING AT OLD BRITISH NEWSPAPERS ONLINE. AND WRITING ON THE NELLIBELL49 BLOG.

 

http://nellibell49.wordpress.com/

 

SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGISTS HAS PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A LOOK AT GALE CENGAGE LEARNING’S  OLD UK NEWSPAPER FILES AND I AM TAKING THAT OPPORTUNITY. http://www.sag.org.au/ http://find.galegroup.com/

 

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Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899

Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales,

1788-1899

http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/index.htm

BELIEVERS IN COURT

BELIEVERS IN COURT: Sydney Anglicans Going to Law

A CASE INVOLVING REV RICHARD HILL

AUSTRALIAN POLICE HISTORY

http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/police1.htm

Aboriginal defendants - stealing - Brisbane Water

Military Jury

Long Dick, Jack Jones, Abraham, and Gibber Paddy, all Aboriginal Natives, belonging to Brisbane Water, stood indicted for stealing a quantity of property, value £50, the goods of Alfred William Jaques, and William Ross, on the 25th of October, 1834.

http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/cases1835-36/html/r_v_long_dick__1835.htm

1835- MURDER CASE

Friday, November 13th. - Before Mr. Justice Dowling and a Military Jury.

John Hagan, a private in His Majesty’s 4th regiment, stood indicted for the wilful murder of Michael Driscoll at Solitary Creek in the District of Bathurst, by firing a musket at him loaden with ball, on the 23d of September last.

http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/cases1835-36/html/r_v_hagan__1835.htm

Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899