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From: "Ray" <>
Subject: Re: [HV] Posting John Tuck
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:54:05 +1100
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Hello Rhonda.
Sorry that I cannot help you with this request.
BUT: I would love to hear how you discovered his use of an assumed name, and
then how you discovered what his real name was.
What detective work did it take? Or did he come clean and admit to someone
somewhere?
As I am interested in convicts using aliases, your reply might assist.
Additionally, I expect that it would be of interest to the list in
general -- especially as so many of us have convicts in the Hunter.
Looking forward to your story.
Ray in Sydney
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhonda Brownlow" <>

> Can anyone on the list help me with John Tuck aka John Warne Tuck he
married Margaret McLean nee Urquhart at Maitland under the assumed name of
John Inches, who incidentally had died and was buried in Campbell Hill
cemetery. John Tuck may have thought he would be a bigamist and it was safe
to you this alias as he had a left a wife and three children in Norfolk when
he committed forgery.
>
> On 28 Oct 1831 John was one of 199 convicts transferred from the "Essex"
to the convict transport "Captain Cook". A military convict made up the
complement of 200 On 5 Nov 1831 the "Captain Cook" sailed for Port
Jackson but on 8 Nov 1831 strong westerly gales forced the ship to take
refuge in Milford Haven and remain there until 27 Nov. On 2 April
1832 the "Captain Cook" arrived in Port Jackson.
>
> During April, 1832 John Tuck), Coach builder, was assigned to Peter
McIntyre. - near Scone in the Upper Hunter region. Peter McIntyre also had
land holdings at "Pinacree" Maitland so we can assume John came with him as
his coach builder.
>
> Commercial Hotels. The first was licensed in 1836, second built on the
corner of High and Charles Streets in 1848 by John Warne Tuck who held the
licence until 1850, then from 1868-70 (no licence from 1870-78) and then
until his death in 1883.
> Rhonda Brownlow

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