Australian Royalty: Genealogy of the colony of NSW

Oliver Ewing and Jane Stubbs both of this parish were married in this church by banns this eighteenth day of August in the year 1804 by me > Davis, curate
Both Oliver and Jane signed the register
in the presence of Richard Gorway and Rhoda Graveley

Reference: HO 17/26/93
Description:
Prisoner name(s): Oliver Ewings.
Prisoner age: 45.
Prisoner occupation: Clerk.
Court and date of trial: Old Bailey June Sessions 1829.
Crime: Embezzlement: £40 belonging to his employer, Robert Espinasse of Inner Temple, [London].
Initial sentence: 14 years transportation.
Gaoler's report: 'Not known - at Newgate before.'
Annotated (Outcome): Nil 17 July 1829.
Petitioner(s): Oliver Ewings (prisoner) undersigned by five people.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner only took the money in order to secure the payment of various sums that he had borrowed to liquidate the claims of his workmen; has been employed by most respectable men in the legal profession for 28 years; several gentlemen are keen to employ the prisoner as a clerk after his incarceration; the prisoner is honest and respectable; the prisoner's family will become a burden on the parish; the prisoner had no time to prepare a defence; the prisoner only pleaded guilty in order to avoid making the case more public; if the sentence mitigated he might reform.

EMBEZZLENENT.—On Saturday, Oliver Ewings, a respectable-looking man, about forty years of age, late clerk to Robert Espinasse, Esq. was charged at Worship-street office, with embezzling several large sums of money received by him for and on account of his employer. In November 1827, he had embezzled thirty guineas ; yet his employer not only forgave him this offence, but paid a debt of 20/. for which he had been arrested. He had subsequently embezzled several considerable sums. The prisoner's family was described by the officer who apprehended hint to be in the most miserable condition.

Oliver Ewings, one of 200 convicts transported on the ship Sarah, 22 August 1829.
Sentence details: Convicted at London Gaol Delivery for a term of 14 years on 11 June 1829.
Vessel: Sarah.
Date of Departure: 22 August 1829.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.

The ship Sarah (1) arrived in NSW 7 Dec 1829, master Columbine

dated 17 Jul 1843
Prisoner no. 29/2854
Oliver Ewings per the ship Sarah, master Columbine 1829
Native place Berkshire, an attorney's clerk
Offence Embezzlement
Tried London Gaol Delivery 11 Jul 1843
14 years sentence
Born 1784, 5 feet 4 and a quarter inches tall, ruddy complexion, brown mixed with grey hair and dark hazel eyes
Small scar under outer corner of fight eyebrow, nose large

Name: Oliver Ewings
Death Date: 1858
Death Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1858
Registration Place: Parramatta, New South Wales
Registration Number: 4844

Oliver Ewings of Parramatta
died Aug 5 and buried Aug 7, age 74 years