Jacob Whitfield’s crime occurred in 1820, for which eventually he was transported for life to NSW, leaving on the Isabella 1 from Cork two hundred years ago and arriving in Sydney on 10 March 1822. Looking closely again at information I have already posted about the Isabella I see I could have “celebrated” a family […]
This place in Devonshire Street Surry Hills, seen here pre-tram, always intrigued me, even when from 1955-59 I passed it when walking (or running!) from Sydney Boys High to Central Station. Now as for my Whitfield family, all the funerals we went to in Picton in the 1950s were held in the Church of England, […]
From Australian Biographical & Genealogical Record (ABGR) Series 1 – 1788-1841: Now some remarkable documents from Wiki Tree: New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930 for Jacob Whitfield The person to whom Jacob is assigned, Henry Kable, a convict himself. is very well known in our early colonial history. Jacob Whitfield – New […]
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