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James Blackman

Birth

Parents

Residence information

Involvement in crime

Working life

• On 9 October 1820 James Blackman was a rail splitter in Bathurst.¹
• At in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, employed. He and two others were keeping stock for James Blackman Junior who had been granted permission to take temporary occupation of 600 acres. This grazing run was "in a circle around your stock yard to be erected on the North East side of Winbournedale Creek, 14 miles North of Bathurst and 4 miles from Mr Terry's present stock station" which was at Millah Murrah. Blackman's land was therefore on the northern side of Winburndale creek near the junction of the creek and Turondale Road.²
• At in Cullen Bullen employed. Blackman sought a new Ticket of Occupation for a new depastruage site nine miles further North [near Capertee]. This was granted by a letter from the Colonial Secretary dated 17 August 1824.^3,4
• At in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, employed.⁵
• At in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, employed.⁶
• At in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, employed. Home Bush was Blackman's property 6 miles north of Bathurst.^7,8

Death

Citations

1. [S470] "RR: Isaac Kemp summary by Lorraine Voigt", 29 Jan 1991, Lorraine Voigt (5 Kenworth Street Brassall Qld 4305); Fleming Family History Archive, Sydney.
2. [S1573] Colonial Secretary, L: Colonial Secretary - James Blackman Jr, Kingswood: Archives Office of NSW, 14 June 1823, page 519.
3. [S1574] Colonial Secretary, L: Colonial Secretary - James Blackman Jr 26 July 1824, Kingswood: Archives Office of NSW, 26 July 1824, page 327.
4. [S1575] Colonial Secretary, L: Colonial Secretary - James Blackman Jr 17 Aug 1824, Kingswood: Archives Office of NSW, 17 Aug 1824, page 209/216.
5. [S1577] Colonial Secretary, L: Colonial Secretary - James Blackman Jr 16 May 1825, Kingswood: Archives Office of NSW, 16 May 1825, page 322-3.
6. [S1576] Isaac Kemp, Convict Muster 1825 NSW: Kemp, Isaac, (Kingswood NSW: NSW State Archives), 11 Oct 1825. Government servant assigned to James Blackman of Bathurst.
7. [S470] "RR: Isaac Kemp summary by Lorraine Voigt", 29 Jan 1991, Lorraine Voigt (5 Kenworth Street Brassall Qld 4305), From the 1828 census.; Fleming Family History Archive, Sydney.
8. [S1579] Isaac Kemp, Nov 1828 Census NSW, NSW, Bathurst, Archives Office, John Blackman's Home Bush property, 6 miles north of Bathurst.

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Last Edited

2 August 2020