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From: "Lyn Nunn" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-CON] James LEVER ? convict or not
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:01:11 +1000
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Oops .. I should have said to NSW. WA was later but he seems to have been in
NSW.

regards

Lyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyn Nunn" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [AUS-CON] James LEVER ? convict or not


> Hi Meegan
>
> If he was born 1848 he couldn't be a convict. Transportation was over well
> and truly by the time he would have been even 10 years old.
>
> regards
>
> Lyn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris & Meegan Ferguson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 7:57 PM
> Subject: [AUS-CON] James LEVER ? convict or not
>
>
>> Hi there listers
>>
>> Trying to find James. Know the following:
>>
>> - m. Isabella MUSGRAVE at Plattsburg near Newcastle NSW in 1875.
>> According
>> to MC, he would have been b. abt 1848 in England. Tragically died, from
>> injuries received 6 months prior in a coal mine accident, in 1896 and
>> buried
>> in Wallsend Cemetery.
>>
>> Some research has indicated he may have been a convict. Speculating
>> - "Also it was stated that there were 2 James Levers in the colony at the
>> same time one married a convicts widow Mary Ann Hanks and the other
>> married
>> Isabella Musgrave. NSW BDM shows the Hanks/Lever marriage took place in
>> 1874 a year before James and Isabella's. Possibly birth date is out by 7
>> years, but don't forget that he was illiterate and probably didn't know
>> his
>> exact birth date, if we could find out what the previous convictions were
>> we
>> might be able to find out a bit more as to age and where he was born"
>>
>> Have searched the Perth DPS site and found a James Lever was convicted of
>> burglary in 1863 and convicted at Liverpool of burglary and sentenced to
>> 7
>> yrs and traveled on the Batavia to WA.
>>
>> I have checked the Old Bailey Proceedings but they don't go to 1863. I
>> really don't know where our James was from but also don't know how he
>> came
>> to Aust. Nothing in his obituaries to suggest place of birth although
>> have
>> one reference in 1871 census to a James Lever in Cheshire which means not
>> the one who came on the Batavia. No help on DC, MC or children's BC
>>
>> Sorry such a long question - can anyone suggest a way forward please???
>>
>> Thanks and apologies for the extended email
>> Meegan
>> Hot, sticky and always sunny Darwin
>>
>>
>>
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