![]() ![]() ↑ Tasmanian Archives, Conduct Book $init=CON31-1-46p153.↑ 1832, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), 4 February, p.↑ The execution and confession of William Webber.↑ AO NSW Supreme Court depositions T149 31/99 p9.By then he had lost 3 front upper teeth, and the first 3 fingers of his right hand were "defaced". In 1838 he was sent from Bathurst to Sydney to be tried for possession of firearms, sentenced again to transportation for life to Norfolk Island. In the 1837 muster he was still a "Government Servant" at Vale of Clywdd. The other John Walmsley was 22, a carter, born Bolton, tried Manchester for street robbery, life sentence, 5ft 9 1/2in, grey eyes, light brown hair, ruddy. Research NotesĬonfusingly, there are two convicts on the Minerva who were known as ‘John Walmsley’. ![]() He received a conditional pardon in 1843, and possibly an absolute pardon. ![]() Walmsley shewed considerable regret at the occurrences in which he was engaged, and left the harbour - to become, it is hoped, a new man. was so strong, especially among the natives, that their lives would have been endangered by remaining in this colony. The feeling against both, from the conviction of the O'Hara family, &c. Sydney Gazette, Saturday 4 February 1832, page 3: Walmsley, the celebrated bushranger, and another man of the same grade, were on Thursday sent to Van Dieman's Land. In February 1832 John Walmsley was sent to Van Diemens Land to serve out the remainder of his original sentence, under the name of 'John Womersley' which was the spelling of his name when he was originally transported. The Charker/McGlynn family of South Creek were also tried at the Supreme Court, but they had been lucky to have been tipped off before their arrest, had removed all incriminating evidence from their properties, and were found not guilty by the jury. Some received sentences of 14 years transportation to Norfolk Island and Moreton Bay, including Michael and Mary O'Brien, and Mary's grandchildren John, James and Mary O'Hara, and James O'Hara's wife Mary Ann O'Hara. Walmsley, then Webber were captured in January, and Walmsley turned King's evidence to save his neck, resulting in a round-up of the people who had supported them. They will hide-out at the O'Brien house a few times including Christmas Eve 1830 to 3 January 1831. Early in October they paid their last visit to the Chalkers at South Creek because after that the constables were always watching the place. Two or three weeks after Donohoe's death they returned to Michael O'Brien's house at Seven Hills and introduced themselves to Michael O’Brien. Webber and Walmsley managed to run away during the gunfight and they continued bushranging. ![]() On 1 September 1830 John Donohoe was killed in a shootout. Sometime in 1829 he joined John Donohoe’s gang, and newspaper reports referred to him as ‘John Walmsley’. In a list of absconded prisoners, in the newspaper Sydney Gazette Friday 26 September 1828, page 4: “Walmsley John, or Wamersley, Minerva, carter, 23, Leeds, 5 feet 5 1-2, chesnut eyes, dark brown hair, brown freckled comp from No. The indent of the Minerva has John Womersley, age 18, trade or calling: carter, tried at York 27 March 1824, native place Leeds, height 5 feet 5¼ inches, chestnut eyes, dark brown hair, brown complexion, little freckled. John was transported to New South Wales on the Minerva which arrived Sydney on 19 November 1824 carrying 172 convicts. He was a bushranger and was part of John Donohoe’s gang with William Webber.Ī Leeds Yorkshire newspaper report has the following: "JOHN WOMERSLEY (18), JOHN PICKLES (19), JOSEPH EXLEY (18), were sentenced to death, commuted to transportation for life, for burglariously breaking into the house of Isaac Longbottom of Leeds." John Womersley was also known as John Walmsley. John Walmsley was an Australian Bushranger ![]()
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