Convict Register Details
Midwest WA Heritage Convict Register Details
Convict Registry ID:631
| SURNAME | GILCHRIST |
|---|---|
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| OTHER NAME | alias Kenneth CHISHOLM |
| CONVICT NO | 1574 |
| BIRTH/DEATH | 1819 Loth, Sutherland, Scotland – 15.12.1873 Colonial Hospital Geraldton, believed to be as a result of lead poisoning; bur Urch St Cemetery, Geraldton |
| BRITISH DATA | alias Kenneth CHISHOLM, s/o John CHISHOLM & Janet Beaton BETHUNE, (prison papers) stated his father to be John Chisholm of Inverness & (on marriage certificate) as John Gilchrist; unmarr, cooper/soldier, illit, Presbyterian; 31.08.1842 was in 2nd Rifle Brigade; 22.08.1851 Pentonville, Prisoner 1475; 02.08.1852 Dartmoor Prison; behaviour in Dartmoor Prison - good |
| PRE CONVICTION | 02.09.1844 absent without leave, prev conv, 90 days with hard labour remitted to 60 days, Sault Ste Marie, Canada West, absent without leave & taking a rifle, 168 days imprisonment then reduced pay & restrictions in activities |
| CONVICTION | 05.09.1850 Kingston, Ontario, Canada, General Court Martial, in company with 5 others stationed at Hudson Bay Company Fort, crossed the St Mary’s River & entered Michigan USA, prev convs, 14yrs |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | 5ft 9½ins, black hair, hazel eyes, oval visage, swarthy complexion, stout build, scar on right eye, little finger left hand crooked; 1856 – about 10 stone, olive skin, scar right eyebrow; letter D on his side (deserter) |
| ARRIVAL | Fremantle – Dudbrook 07.02.1853 from Dartmoor Prison |
| CERTIFICATES | TL16.01.1854 Fresh Water Bay (SO3, p154), CP08.11.1856 |
| LOCATION/ EMPLOYMENT | 19.09.1853 (SO3 p58) CE to Fresh Water Bay Station as constable; 1854 Perth, worked for Joseph Richards as butcher, 06.03.1854 engaged by W.F. Mends; 17.10.1854 Mt Eliza Depot left for Bunbury; ¹Feb 1855 Geraldine Mine; ⁴Jan 1856 Hiring Depot, out of employment for H.A. Sanford; ²Jun 1856 ½yr TL return, Port Gregory, cooper for Captain Sanford at the whale factory; May 1857 Whale Fishery Port Gregory, cooper for Joshua Harwood; 1860 ‘the Bowes’, worked for William Burges; ³Nov 1865 Wheal Fortune Mine, cooper; signed a petition to halt the building of a public house so close to the mines; 1868 Geraldton, granted Confectioner Licence; 1869 Geraldton, confectioner |
| FAMILY | Marr – Jane CAPPS (b.1838 Middlesex UK, d/o George, she arrived 14.10.1854 per Esmeralda with her brother Peter, his wife & 2 children, a servant) 01.05.1856; Jane marr2. Samuel SCOTT [7262] alias Montague, a blacksmith in Northampton 24.05.1875 The Bowes - Scott went into business with his brother Thomas [7263] in Northampton as Scott-Montague Bros
Children: Kenneth Chisholm GILCHRIST: 01.02.1857 Fremantle - 12.12.1907 Jarrahdale, marr Charlotte DAWS 21.01.1889 Jarrahdale (as Kenneth Chisholm); Henry John Lucas GILCHRIST: 08.05.1858 Champion Bay - 23.03.1923 Northampton, marr Ann Elizabeth GILES, the district midwife 26.11.1877 (as Henry Chisholm); Janet Chisholm GILCHRIST: b.25.04.1860 Champion Bay, marr Thomas WILLIAMS 1876 Northampton (as Janet Chisholm); William Samuel CHISHOLM: 04.08.1864 Wheal Fortune Mine, Northampton, married Julia Martha GILES 1889 Gwalla; Marion CHISHOLM: bap 04.11.1866 Northampton, marr George S. STURMAN 1890 Northampton; Walter CHISHOLM: 04.09.1872 Waneranooka, Northampton, marr Mary Ann WINDELL 1894 Northampton |
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| REFERENCES | SROWA – Convict Register Acc 1156 R21B, R32; Convict Description Register Acc 128/41; Mount Eliza Depot Occurrence Book Acc 1156 Occ 4; Superintendent’s Orders Acc 1156 SO3; ¹Comptroller General Letterbook Acc 1156 C11/382; ²Colonial Secretary’s Office Correspondence Received Acc 36 CSR 367/83 - 84; ³CSR 564/113 - 114; 4CSR 358/39 - 40; Perth Police Court TL Register Acc 1386 p631; Lingard, Laurel: Celtic Courage, Early Settlement and Survival in Northampton Western Australia; ^Erickson, R: Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre1829 – 1888, p1194; Government Gazette, 10 Jun 1856 & Jun 1857/663 p2, Apr 1868 /18 p87, May 1869/20 p108; Sue White Research Data – Northampton Historical Society, Inc.; Midwest of Western Australia Pre – 1910 Pioneer Family Register, p25; Register of Deaths Geraldton Courthouse |
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