WISE, Richard

Birth Name WISE, Richard
Gender female
Age at Death unknown

Narrative

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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">General Notes: Birth ref: <i>Place of birth still to be verified! </i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Christening ref:&#160; Baptised at St. Peter and St. Paul church, Bromley on the
30th November 1777 by Thomas Bagshaw, minister, Richard, son of
Thomas and Susanna Wise.&#160; <i>Ref: From Bishop's transcript, St. Peter and
St. Paul church register, source Family History library film 1042453.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">On the 9th March 1812 at Erith on the River Thames, a gang of men
including, <b>John Seabrook, Richard Wise, James Newman, Edward
McGinnis, Mark Byfield</b> and <b>George Davis</b>, boarded a hoy [a small
barge or river sloop] which contained a cargo of government stores,
including rum, which was intended for victualling the fleet during the
Napoleonic Wars. They stole 50 gallons of rum and <b>Seabrook, Wise</b> and
<b>Davis</b> were caught, indicted and found guilty, and sentenced to hanging -
but the others remained at large. <i>Note: Richard Wise's abode is given as
Erith in the trial, but in fact he and his family were living at Five Bells Lane
in Deptford at the time.</i> The three were then incarcarated in Newgate
prison until the 24th July 1812, when <b>Seabrook</b> and <b>Wise</b> were released
under the act of Habeas Corpus, to stand trial before a jury at the
Summer session of the Maidstone Assises - Davis also was committed to
trial the same day. They represented themselves but were found guilty by
the jury, but the attempt to distrain their property for compensation failed
as they had &quot;no goods&quot;. Their death sentences were commuted to life
transportation, and the three came to NSW together on the <i>&quot;Earl
Spencer&quot;</i> in 1813. <b>Newman</b> and <b>Byfield</b> were later captured, tried, and
transported.<b> Newman</b>, aged 32, was sentenced at Sussex in 1815 for
fourteen years and arrived at Sydney on the <i>&quot;Ocean&quot;</i> on 30th January
1816, and got his ticket of leave at Concord in 1829, while <b>Byfield</b> was
sentenced at Kent in 1813 to life, and arrived at Sydney on the <i>&quot;General
Hewart&quot;</i> on the 7th February 1814, but sailed from Sydney as a crew
member of the <i>&quot;Saracen&quot;</i> in 1820. No trace to date, has been found of
Edward McGinnis.&#160; <i>Ref: SRNSW reel 911 4/4069 and reel 561 4/4771
page 245.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">[To wit] the jurors of our Lord the King upon their oath, present <b>John
Seabrook</b> late of the parish of Erith in the county of Kent, mariner,
<b>Richard Wise</b> late of the same, mariner, and <b>James Newman</b> late of the
same,mariner, and <b>Edward McGinnis</b> late of the same, mariner, and
<b>Mark Byfield</b> late of the same, mariner, otherwise called <b>Mark Banfield</b>,
on the ninth day of March in the 52nd year of the reign of our sovereign
Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of the UK of GB and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Faith, with force and arms at the the parish
aforesaid in the county aforesaid, 50 gallons of rum of the value of &#163;30, of
the goods and chattels of our said Lord the King, in a certain vessel called
a hoy <i>[in this case probably a river barge?]</i> upon the navigable River
Thames, then and there having being found feloniously did steal, take and
carry away, against the peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown and
dignity.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>John Seabrook</b> and <b>Richard Wise</b> attainted of stealing goods value &#163;30
of our Lord King in a hoy on a navigable river between them, be severally
hanged by the neck until they be dead.&#160; <i>Ref:&#160; PRO Kew, Indictments ASSI
94/1673 f 42.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">No. 42 <b>John Seabrook</b>, no. 43 <b>Richard Wise</b>, Seabrook aged 42, Wise
aged 35, removed by habeas corpus from Newgate Prison 24th July
1812, charged on the oath of Henry Beadle and others, with feloniously
stealing, taking and carrying away, 8 gallons of rum of the value of &#163;40 of
the goods and victualling stores of our Lord the King, being in a certain
vessel on the navigable River Thames at Erith.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Trial held at Maidstone Assises Friday 5th August 1812:</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>John Seabrook</b>, puts himself <i>[puts his case i.e. defence]</i>, jury say guilty
<i>[i.e. guilty verdict]</i>, no goods <i>[relates to posible attempt to distrain his
property for compensation]</i>, reprieved, transported for life. </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Richard Wise,</b> the like judgment, reprieved, transported for life.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>James Newman</b>, at large, indicted.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Edward McGinnis</b>, at large, indicted.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Mark Byfield</b> alias <b>Banfield</b>, stealing goods of &#163;30 of the King, on a
navigable river, indicted. All these cases are linked as No. 24 in the file.
<i>Ref:&#160; PRO Kew, Crown and Gaol book ASSI 31/21.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Left England on 2nd June 1813 as a convict on board <i>&quot;Earl Spencer&quot;</i>, a
672 ton ship with 16 guns, built at Thames River in 1803, registered in
London, owned by Jan Mitchell and Company, the Master was William
Mitchell and the Surgeon was D. Mackenzie, and had a crew of 56 men.
She carried a detachment of the 73rd Regiment and196 male convicts, of
whom 107 were sentenced to life, 59 to 14 years and 34 to 7 years. The
<i>&quot;Earl Spencer&quot;</i> left England under the escort of HMS <i>&quot;Kangaroo&quot;</i> and
came via Madeira and arrived at Port Jackson on 9th October 1813,
taking 129 days. The first steam engine bought to the Colony was on
board, along with missionary Thomas Kendall who was schoolmaster for
the trip, and may have left some record of the voyage, e.g. papers in
Australia or New Zealand.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>John Seabrook</b> and <b>George Davis</b>, both convicted with Richard and
transported on the <i>&quot;Earl Spencer&quot;</i>, are mentioned in official despatches:</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">In December 1817 <b>John Seabrook</b> was on a list of prisoners transported
to Port Macquarie per &quot;Lady Nelson&quot;.&#160; <i>ref:&#160; SRNSW reel 6019 4/3864
pp96 454-5.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>George Davis</b> had numerous mentions, including being forwarded to
Thomas Moore for assignment, applying for his boatman's reinstatement,
and finally on 26th May 1825 he was managing John Piper's grazing run
north of Bathurst.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Ticket of Leave no. 14/87 granted on 8th August 1814. <b>Richard Wise</b>,
ship <i>&quot;Earl Spencer&quot;</i>, Mitchell, master 1813, residence Sydney, native
place Kent, trade boatman, age 35 years, height 5 feet 9 inches,
complexion sallow, hair black, eyes hazel dark, tried at Kent assises 5th
August 1812, life.&#160;&#160;<i> ref: SRNSW reel 601, shelf ref: 4/4427.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Muster 1817 - The alphabetical return of male convicts and those that
have been convicts, who were in His Majesty's colony of NSW on the 1st
January 1810, the date of His Excellency Governor Macquarie taking
charge of that colony, with a correct account of those that have served
time during that period to the 31st December 1817, showing the date of
arrival of each prisoner in the colony, ship name, and Master of the ship's
name, when and where tried, period for which transported, how disposed
of and whether still resident in the colony as stated by each individual
whose sentences are not expired at the General Muster they attended:
<b>Richard Wise</b>, October 1813, <i>&quot;Earl Spencer&quot;</i>, Mitchell, tried Kent 1812,
life, servant to Mr. Isaac Nicholls in the colony.&#160; <i>ref: &quot;Convict records&quot;
AJCP reel 60 HO 10/3, reel 61 HO 10/8 [1817], &quot;Criminal registers&quot; AJCP
reel 2755 HO 27/8.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Richard Wise</b>, <i>&quot;Earl Spencer&quot;</i>, tried Maidstone Assises, Kent 5th August
1812, sentence - life.&#160;<i> ref:&#160; &quot;Transportation registers&quot; AJCP reel 87 HO
11/2 page 99.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Also two mentions in AJCP reel 57 ref:&#160; CO 207/1</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Petition for mitigation of sentence.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">To His Excellency, Governor Macquarie,&#160; Memorial of <b>Richard Wise</b>,
respectively herewith, that your Excellency's memorialist was tried at
Maidstone in Kent August 1812 and received sentence of transportation
for life, came to this colony in the ship <i>&quot;Earl Spencer&quot;</i>, Mitchell
commander in the year 1813.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Memorialist begs to return you his sincere thanks for the indulgence he
has already received of a Ticket of Leave, and to make known to your
Excellency, that he had a wife who followed him from England in the ship
<i>&quot;Broxbournebury&quot;</i>, and five small children who are solely dependant upon
his industry for support, most humbly requests leave to hope for your
Excellency's humane consideration and clemency by a further extension
of your liberality, it being his determination to proceed in those paths of
restitude and moral decorum becoming a father of a family and a good
member of society.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Memorialist therefore submissively and anxiously pray your Excellency will
allow him to participate in your benevolence.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">And in duty bound, your Excellency's memorialist, will ever pray, <b>Richard
Wise</b>.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>Footnote:</i>&#160; This petitioner have been in my service ever since his arrival in
this colony. His honesty, industry and sobriety have caused me to give
him charge of all my stores and recourse to every part of my house, which
confidence he has never abused, but always acted with the strictest
integrity. I therefore feel a pleasure to recommend such a character to
your Excellency's humane consideration.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Isaac Nicholls</b>, Sydney, New South Wales, 15th December 1817.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">&#160; <i>ref:&#160; SRNSW fiche 3182, 4/1853 page 387.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">19th December 1817 - <b>Richard Wise</b>, servant to Isaac Nicholls, Isaac
Nicholls recommending Wise for mitigation of sentence.&#160; <i>ref:&#160; SRNSW
fiche 3289, 5/3822.2A page 12.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>Note on Isaac Nicholls - he was transported for 7 years and arrived on the
&quot;Admiral Barrington&quot; in 1791. In 1797 following the expiration of his
sentence, he received a grant of land at Concord and in the following year
obtained his first spirit licence, operating an inn in George Street. In 1805
he established a shipyard, building the &quot;Governor Hunter&quot; and in March
1809, he was appointed Superintendent of Public Works and Assistant to
the Naval Officer, he became the first Postmaster in June 1810. Governor
Macquarie appointed him Superintendent of Convicts, a post he held till
he retired.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">On 31st January 1818, both <b>Richard Wise</b> and <b>George Davis</b> were
granted their Unconditional Pardons - Richard was listed as a Waterman
from Kent, and George was listed as a Seaman from Weymouth.&#160;<i> ref:
NSW AO 822 4/4430 page 112.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Muster of the Master, crew and passengers of the brig <i>&quot;Queen Charlotte&quot;</i>
of Sydney, burthen registered 119 tons, bound to Port Dalrymple - viz 15th
November 1820. Among the passengers listed are, <b>Richard Wise</b>,
conditional pardon no. 930 date 31-1-1818, and <b>Richard Wise jnr.</b> aged
10 years, son of the proceeding.&#160; <i>ref:&#160; SRNSW reel 561, entry 276.</i> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">It would appear that Richard came to Van Diemen's Land with his son, to
appraise the situation, regarding his future prospects, and after leaving
Richard jnr. in care, returned to Sydney to collect the remainder of the
family.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Muster of the Master, crew and passengers of the brig <i>&quot;Queen Charlotte&quot;</i>
of Sydney, burthen registered 119 tons, bound to Port Dalrymple - viz
22nd May 1821. John Payne Master, Thomas Mitchell Mate, 11 crew,
passengers, Mr. W. Emmett owner, <b>Mr. Wise</b> free settler, <b>Elizabeth</b>, and
<b>Susannah, Matilda, Eliza, Charles, Robert, Jane</b>, [children of the
above] and <b>Mrs Hammant</b>, wife of Mr. Hammant, now absent in the
<i>&quot;Lynx&quot;</i>, and <b>Maria </b>her infant child.&#160; <i>ref:&#160; SRNSW reel 561, entry 323.</i> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Note:&#160;</b>&#160;&#160;&#160; It would appear that Susannah was the eldest child of <b>Thomas
Hammant</b> and <b>Susannah Wise</b>.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Index to land grants in Van Diemen's land.&#160; <i>ref: SRNSW fiche 3262, 4/438</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Some confusion over the date of the land grant has yet to be cleared up,
as a date of 30th June 1823, stating 100 acres bound by land owned by
<b>Knowland, White</b> and <b>Sellick</b> has been mentioned in other family history
reports.&#160; <i>ref:&#160; to be verified!</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">100 acres, 12 acres of wheat, 1 acre of barley, 1 acre of potatoes, &#189; acre
of garden or orchard, 30 acres of cleared land, 7 hogs, 18 bushels of
wheat in store.&#160;&#160;<i> ref: Land Muster 1822...to be verified!</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">The property was known as <i>&quot;Arrandale&quot;</i> and was at Pateena on the Soth
Esk; was sold after his son Robert's death and the proceeds divide
between Robert's surving sons.&#160;&#160;<i> ref:&#160; to be verified! </i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Public notice:&#160; The acting Surveyor General is directed to inform the
Persons whose names are included in the following list, that their Grants
will be forfeited if not claimed before the 31st day of October next...E.
Dumaresq, acting Surveyor General, Survey Office August 21 1826.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">List of Grants by Sir Thomas Brisbane, remaining unclaimed include,
<b>Richard Wise</b>, 100 acres.&#160;<i> ref: HTG August 26 1826, page 1 column 2</i>.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Survey Office July 1828 - It is hereby notified that the following Grants are
lying at the Survey Office ready for delivery to the respective Grantees,
who will have to produce certificates from the Police Magistrates of their
districts, as to the conditions of the Grants not having been violated - no.
24 - <b>Wise, Richard</b>, 100 acres, District Norfolk Plains,&#160; signed G.
Frankland.&#160; <i>ref: HTG July 19 1828, page 21 column 1.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">November 1829 land grant Launceston area.&#160; <i>ref:&#160; NSD 1/7W/PW 65.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">1842 census, Norfolk Plains, page no.12, Census 1/33, page 165,167.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Richard Wise and family are listed in &quot;Bicentenary Pioneer Register&quot; 2nd
edition Volume 3 [1987].</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=31mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Death. <b>Richard Wise</b>, male, aged 73 years, farmer, died of natural
causes on 10th November 1850, informant was Richard Ellis, registered
14th November 1850, signed by Richard Uniacke, Deputy Registrar.&#160;&#160; <i>ref:
RGD 35/238</i>. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; He worked as a Ropemaker in June 1802 in Deptford, Kent. </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; He worked as a Labourer in June 1804 in Victualler's Office, Deptford,
Kent. </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; He worked as a Porter - waterman in February 1812 in Deptford, Kent. </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; Crime: Indictment, 9 March 1812, Kent. Tried with John Seabrook,
James Newman, Edward McGinnis and Mark Byfield, for stealing 50
gallons of rum valued at &#163;30 from a hoy on the River Thames at Erith.
John Seabrook and Richard Wise found guilty and sentenced to
death by hanging.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; Gaol: Habeas Corpus, 24 July 1812, Newgate Prison. Richard Wise
and John Seabrook removed by habeas corpus for trial by jury</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; Trial: Larceny, 5 August 1812, Maidstone, Kent. Tried at the age of 35,
in the Summer session of the Maidstone Assises on Friday 7th
August 1812 with accomplices John Seabrook , James Newman,
Edward McGinnis, and Mark Byfield, larcency on a navigable river.
Sentence of death reprieved and sentenced to transportation for life.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; Transportation: Convict - &quot;Earl Spencer&quot;, 2 June 1813, Port Jackson.
Departed England along with accomplices John Seabrook and
George Davis on board convict transport &quot;Earl Spencer&quot;. </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=0mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Description:&#160; height 5&quot;9&#189;&quot;, dark and swarthy complexion, black hair,
brown eyes. ref:&#160; Archives NSW AO Fiche no. 634, 719,930. [Bound
Indents].</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; Sentence: Ticket of Leave granted, 8 August 1814, Sydney, NSW. </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; Petition: Mitigation of sentence, 15 December 1817, Sydney, NSW.
15th December 1817, Richard Wise, servant to Isaac Nicholls,
petition for mitigation of sentence. ref: SRNSW fiche 3182, 4/1853,
page 387.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; Pardon: Conditional pardon granted, 31 January 1818, Sydney.. </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; He immigrated First visit on 15 November 1820 to Port Dalrymple.
Richard snr. and Richard jnr. arrived on the &quot;Queen Charlotte&quot;.</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="margin-left=38mm; margin-right=0mm; text-indent=-6mm"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; He immigrated Family - &quot;Queen Charlotte&quot; on 22 May 1821 to Port
Dalrymple. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">•&#160; He owned land Grant on 26 August 1826 in Norfolk Plains.</span></font></div>
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Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth      
Baptism 1777-11-30    
Death 1850-11-10    
Burial 1850-11-13    

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father WISE, Thomas
Mother HILL, Susanna
         WISE, Richard 1850-11-10

Families

Family of WISE, Richard and DALTON, Elizabeth

Married Wife DALTON, Elizabeth ( * 1777 + 1864-05-13 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage 1801-03-22    
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
WISE, Susanna1802-05-021851-04-17
WISE, Henry1804-05-141809-07-14
WISE, Matilda1806-12-191883-09-23
WISE, Eliza Ann1809-06-061886-01-29
WISE, Richard Charles Wilkinson1811-11-071901-07-23
WISE, Charles James1815-05-171842
WISE, Robert1818-01-041904-04-27
WISE, Jane Isabella Elizabeth1820-09-121895-09-20
  Attributes
Type Value Notes Sources
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Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
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