Betty Ethel Palmer

Betty married Charles Stewart Harris. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1930, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
• Residence: 1954, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Notes:

Birth:
NSW BDM 20418/1886

Died:
NSW BDM 32251/1957

Jack married Margaret Emma Weekes in 1912. Margaret died on 6 Mar 1981 in Grafton, NSW, Australia. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Occupation: 1880 - 1899, Forbes, NSW, Australia; Assistant Postmaster, salary ?160 per annum. in August 1880, ?180 per annum. in December 1890
• Occupation: 1900, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia; Assistant Postmaster
• Occupation: 1905, Bingara, NSW, Australia; Postmaster
• Occupation: 1908, Coraki, NSW, Australia; Postmaster
• Occupation: 1911 - 1918, Waverley, NSW, Australia; Postmaster
• Occupation: 1918 - 1921, Mudgee, NSW, Australia; Postmaster
• Occupation: 1922, Grafton, NSW, Australia; Postmaster
• Residence: 1927, Bondi, NSW, Australia; Retired

Notes:

He went to school in Tambaroora until his mother's death on 12.05.1872. Then he went to live with his oldest brother, John Hurley, and family, at Liverpool in Sydney. His (and Archer's also?) share of the large family estate was managed by John. Fred became a boarder at Newington College.

After he left Newington, Fred sat for his Public Service exams and joined the Postal Service on 28.04.1878. He was sent to Forbes in 1880 as a postal assistant.


Died:
Jack Elphinstone Palmer was his sole executor.

Probate granted 28/06/1945

Frederick married Sarah Elizabeth Job on 20 Jan 1886 in Forbes, NSW, Australia. Sarah (daughter of George Job and Emma) was born in 1863 in Forbes, NSW, Australia; died in 1932 in Arncliffe, NSW, Australia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married:
Emma's surname was "Tole" according to BDM 4991/1886

Other Events:

• Event: 15 Mar 1828, Thetford Assizes; Tried for forgery, sentenced to death
• Transported: Dec 1828, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Date of Departure: 22 August 1828

Notes:

Convicted for forgery in Norfolk Azzises on 15 Mar 1828 and sentenced to transportation for life

Convict: arrived Port Jackson on ship Royal George in December 1828

Name is "John DENNINGTON M" according to archers death record


From Dennis Lloyd, in reply to Sharon Money.

Hi Sharon, how nice it is to at last find a positive connection to the Money line I am related to. My GG Grandmother was given a New Testament(which I still have) at the age of 8 in 1861 by her mother. Handwritten entries list all the family history (except only two Money entries), and one entry says that her grandfather was General John Money of Crown Point Estate (Trowse Newton), Norfolk. This John Money is the Balloonist and soldier who fought against the Americans in NY State under Burgoyne. The death certificate lists his full name as John Dennington Money Palmer, father as General John Money and mother as Sarah Dennington, and he arrived here in Australia about 1827. That is about 10 years after John Money died. I cannot make any further connections, perhaps you can help.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/money/messages/512.html

From Glen Innes

Reference: HO 17/26/2
Description:

Prisoner name(s): John Palmer alias John Money Dennington and John Mortimer Algar.

Prisoner age: John Palmer 21.

Prisoner occupation: John Palmer was an apprentice carpenter in Kent. John Mortimer Algar was in service to a gentleman residing in Bressingham, Norfolk for five years.

Court and date of trial: Norfolk Lent Assizes held at Thetford on 15 March 1828.

Crime: Uttering forged Bank Of England Notes. John Palmer purchased eight ?5 notes, two ?1 notes and two sovereigns through William Brewster (alias William Hardy) a shopkeeper of 54 White Horse Lane,[London] and Zippel or Ezekiel (alias Thomas Rowland) the landlord of the Three Compasses Pub in Shadwell Old Market, [London]. John Palmer disposed of the money in Norfolk with the assistance of John Mortimer Algar.

Initial sentence: [Death], commuted to unknown for John Palmer and transportation for life for John Mortimer Algar.

Annotated (Outcome): John Palmer: respited 2 April 1828, pardon prepared 3 April; John Mortimer Algar was granted a conditional pardon in 1838.

Petitioner(s): Two petitions from Nine Norfolk magistrates.

W Freshfield & Sons, solicitors to the Bank of England (prosecutor) of New Bank Buildings, [London].

Two petitions from Edmund Wodehouse magistrate of Norwich, [Norfolk].

James Hales undersheriff of Thetford, Norwich, [Norfolk].

15 inhabitants of Norwich, [Norfolk] on behalf of John Palmer including Lord Stafford.

Nine inhabitants of Trowse Millgate, Norwich, [Norfolk] on behalf of John Palmer.

Six petitions from John Postle (friend of John Palmer's natural father) magistrate of Colney, Norwich, Norfolk].

66 inhabitants of Brandon, [Norfolk] on behalf of John Mortimer Algar.

Two petitions from Lord Glenelg's office in Downing Street, London in favour of John Mortimer Algar.

Two petitions from Sir Richard Bourke KCB of London the former Captain General Governor and Commander in Chief of New South Wales including a memorial from Sir John Jamison (John Mortimer Algar's employer/assigned colonist).

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): John Palmer: mother is distraught; father had died by the time his master carpenter had been declared bankrupt; youth and inexperience made him an easy target for depraved senior persons who taught him the habits of dishonesty and idleness; a talented young man who could become a useful and honest member of society; the prisoners' executions will have no salutary influence on the public mind because justice in Norwich is currently inconsistent; evidence of the prisoners' good characters were held back at the trial because they were expecting to be shown indulgence by pleading a minor part in the offence; by 1838 John Mortimer Algar was in a position to receive mercy; he had served the time required by law to qualify for a pardon and possessed a ticket of leave.

Other papers: John Palmer's two confessions sent by Reverend William Broon, the Chaplain of Norwich County Gaol, [Norfolk].

Two letters from John Johnson the governor of Norwich Castle, [Norfolk].

Home office report on W Freshfield's evidence.

Letter from W Freshfield & Sons.

Note from Edmund Wodehouse.

Note from Thomas Anysh of the Home Office, [London].

Additional Information: The prisoners were tried by Judge Baron Garrow.

The Norwich magistrates recommended that the prisoners be transported for life. This was not a unanimous recommendation for John Palmer.

John Palmer is the illegitimate son of the deceased Lieutenant General Money of Trowse Newton, Norfolk.

John Palmer absconded from Norwich in 1827 for a poaching transaction.

John Mortimer Algar arrived in New South Wales on the Lord Melville in 1829.
Date: 1828 Mar 22 - 1838 Oct 5
Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Transported:
Transported on ship "Royal George"

Died:
NSW BDM 11681/1886

7:30 PM

John married Catherine Critchley on 21 Jan 1852 in Maitland, NSW, Australia. Catherine (daughter of William C Critchley and Catherine Murphy) was born on 23 Nov 1817 in Sydney, NSW, Australia; died on 12 May 1872 in Tambaroora, NSW, Australia; was buried on 14 May 1872 in Tambaroora, NSW, Australia. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Emigrated: 1832, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; Moved to NSW from Hobart

Notes:

From Anne Wilson:

----- Original Message -----
From: "David & Anne Wilson"
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 6:14 PM
Subject: [PJ] Thomas Thompson


Good morning everyone and happy new year to all,

I've been a bit quite lately tracing a line of my husband's family who were free settlers and have come to a halt at a gentleman called Thomas Thompson. I would like to find out if Thomas was a convict but as there is little to be read about him I am wondering if anyone may know anything about the Thomas Thompsons who came to the colony in the early 1800's. There were a few of them.

My Thomas married a Catherine Critchley in 1831 Newcastle area. Catherine was the daughter of a marine of the 48th Regiment and was born in Tasmania. Thomas died in 1842 in Sydney and a transcript of his death says he was a coloured man. I am assuming this meant he was from the West Indies or Africa and not an Aborigine as from what I have read so far most Aboriginal deaths are recorded that way. I have emailed the person who has claimed a Thomas Thompson on the Claim a Convict site but had no response and am wondering if anyone may be related to the Critchley family who settled in the Maitland area or the Hurley or Palmer families of the same area as poor Catherine Thompson nee Critchley married Farrell Hurley in 1843 after Thomas died but Farrell then died and Catherine married a Mr Palmer and they lived "happily together until Catherine's death.

I hope everyone has a successful year of searching and maybe I will get to see some of you at various places that I will be visiting when I come to Sydney in early February.

Regards Anne in Townsville


Birth:
Erskine Street, Sydney, NSW

Died:
Cause: Typhoid fever

Notes:

Married:
Presbyterian Church

George married Emma. [Group Sheet]