GEORGE HUTCHINSON

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The New South Wales Police Gazette of 17 August 1898 details Hutchinson’s release from Darlinghurst gaol in
Sydney at the end of his two year sentence. The date might suggest he had been in police custody since August
1896.
It states his “trade” as “labourer” consistent with the court reporter’s description in 1896.
The matter of his exact year of birth is further muddied because it is listed as 1862.
His eyes are described as “brown” and hair “dark brown”, though the information accompanying his photographic
record from Bathurst gaol, says the eyes were “blue” and hair simply “brown”.
In the column under “Remarks, and if previously convicted” it states “previously convicted”. It is unclear to this
writer whether this is a reference to the recorded offence of 1896 or another prior conviction.
Sources
www.poheritage.com/Content/Mimsy/Media/factsheet/94092ORMUZ-1886pdf.pdf; Melbourne Daily Telegraph, 1887 as quoted at
historyhackblog.wordpress.com/tag/ship; Forbes and Parkes Gazette (State Library of NSW: microfilm collection, RAVFM4/248, roll
n# 5: Friday 30 October 1896, p.2 - article dated 29 October 1896: Tuesday 3 November 1896, p.2 - article dated 30 October 1896:
Friday 4 December 1896, p.2 - article dated 1 December 1896; State Records Authority of New South Wales: Shipping Master’s Office,
Passengers Arriving 1855-1922; NRS13278, [X201] reel 493, reel 524; State Records Authority of New South Wales: NRS1998, [3/5960],
Bathurst Gaol photographic description book, 1874-1930, No. 1166, p.19, reel 5085; ancestry.co.uk, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-
1960 [database on-line]. Original data: Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Outwards Passenger
Lists. BT27. Records of the Commercial, Companies, Labour, Railways and Statistics Departments. Records of the Board of Trade and of
successor and related bodies; The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England.
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