Timeline: 1866
This Timeline documents all the information discovered for Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg for the year 1866, with associated source-references. Many of the referenced newspapers are now accessible online (see Newspapers Online).
Copyright Carol Baxter 2011
Jan/Feb 1866: Fred returns to Mary Ann at her residence near Parnell's station (apparently near his Tulcumbah run bordering the Borah Ranges) and takes his family and Mary Ann’s female assistant back to the Gloucester district[1]
22 Feb 1866: Thunderbolt robs hut of John Higgins junior at Berrico near Gloucester; reported by Higgins on 19 March[2]
Early Mar 1866: Four armed men held up Tininboro (Tinnenburra) Station, Cuteabuora (Cuttaburra) Creek, Queensland, and stole four horses and clothing, then reportedly headed towards NSW; Sergeant Cleary and the Bourke police followed three of them down the Bogan River where Charles Donnelly was shot dead and Samuel Taylor and Daniel Clarke apprehended; initial reports incorrectly claimed that Thunderbolt and his gang had been apprehended[3]
22 Mar 1866: Female informant arrived in Stroud and reported that she had been with Thunderbolt for ten months engaged to assist Mary Ann during her confinement and that Thunderbolt had kept her with them since then, tied up, that she had escaped nine days previously (13 Mar) from their camp near the headwaters of the Little Manning River (now Upper Manning – the vicinity of Barrington Tops National Park) and had made her way to Stroud and was willing to guide them back to his camp[4]
23 Mar 1866: Thunderbolt chased by Sub-Inspector Henry Garvin, Senior Constable James Buckland and blacktracker Peter from Port Macquarie police, and Senior Constable John Coady of Manning River police, but escaped when Senior Constable Buckland’s horse fell and when the blacktracker turned back because he thought Thunderbolt was about to shoot him; the police returned and took Mary Ann, the children and the horses with them, leaving Mary Ann and the children at Mr Hooke’s Curricabark station in the care of the constable and tracker, and taking the horses and revolver on to Taree; Mary Ann escaped with the children soon afterwards[5]
Re Augustus Hooke, Curricabark station[6]
23 Mar 1866: Senior Sergeant Richard Underwood of Dungog police along with Senior Constable Henry Finlay and Constable Cleary of Stroud and the disguised female informant set off after Thunderbolt; 28 Mar: discover three horses, saddles and bridles and a revolver near one of Thunderbolt’s camps[7]
27 Mar 1866: Senior Sergeant Thomas Kerrigan and Constable William Scully of Maitland police arrested Mary Ann Ward at Pigna Barney Creek (about 50 miles east of Murrurundi) on a charge of vagrancy (NB. date from Kerrigan’s own statement); then or shortly afterwards they encountered the Dungog/Stroud force; Kerrigan, Scully and Finlay headed towards Stroud with Mary Ann and her infant in one group, while the older girls travelled with Underwood’s group and the female informer; 30 Mar: Kerrigan and men arrived at Stroud with Mary Ann and her infant and lodged her in the lock-up; 31 Mar: ‘Mary Ann Ward’ tried at Stroud Police Office by Thomas Nicholls JP of the Stroud Bench for vagrancy under the Vagrant Act and sentenced to six months imprisonment in Maitland Gaol (includes physical description); her older daughters arrived in Stroud the same day; 4 Apr: received at East Maitland Gaol with her three children[8]
Re: Thomas Nicholls was born c.1804, arrived with his wife Maria and daughter Ann as free passengers per the Waterloo in 1828, was listed as a servant to the Australian Agricultural Company at Port Stephens in 1828, became a magistrate in 1858 and died in 1878[9]
31 Mar 1866: Report from Manning River that Thunderbolt somewhere in the mountains between Gloucester and New England; 7 Apr: Report from Manning River that no further news had been heard of Thunderbolt suggesting that he had left the district; 8 Apr: Report that Thunderbolt breakfasted at Tambar Springs public house, west of Currabubula (some 110 miles west of Pigna Barney Creek (NB. possibly incorrect); 14 Apr: Tamworth Examiner reported that Thunderbolt believed to be somewhere in the Tomullah Ranges at the back of the Denison Diggings (near Gundy), or about the head of the Gloucester River (Barrington Tops); 19 Apr: Brisbane Courier reported that Thunderbolt believed to have crossed into Queensland (NB. probably incorrect)[10]
5 Apr 1866: Member of the Legislative Assembly, David Buchanan, brought Mary Ann’s case before the House alleging that her conviction under the Vagrancy Act was a cruel injustice; 6 Apr: the Attorney General’s office wrote to the Stroud magistrate asking for details of Mary Ann’s conviction; 7 Apr: letter to editor of SMH regarding injustice of Mary Ann’s conviction; 11 Apr: Magistrate Nicholls replied, providing biographical information as well as the requested information; 16 Apr: Attorney General received Nicholls’ report and wrote his own report about Mary Ann’s conviction; 17 Apr: Colonial Secretary’s office receives all the paperwork for the Governor’s consideration; 18 Apr: NSW Governor remits Mary Ann’s sentence; 28 April: Maitland Mercury published letter to editor claiming that the arguments in Parliament were ‘stump oratory’; May: the SMH’s Wandering Reporter, who travelled the countryside during the Parliamentary recess, reported that the facts about Mary Ann’s case had been grossly distorted[11]
Mid-Apr 1866: Williams River nominee, Mr Jacobs, refers to the police’s failure to capture Thunderbolt but success in capturing his wife.[12]
18 Apr 1866: Mary Ann Ward discharged from Maitland Gaol after her sentence was remitted by the Governor[13]
14 Jun 1866: Man (supposedly Thunderbolt) robbed the Tenterfield mail-man, Patrick Wade, about 5 miles from Deepwater (between Tenterfield and Glen Innes – about 200kms north of Tomullah Ranges)
NB. Description sounds like Thunderbolt except that mailman said he was of “repulsive” appearance with bushy eyebrows; unlikely to be member of Jemmy’s gang as it was about 180kms from last robbery on 6 Jun[14]
Jun-Nov 1866: South Australia. 20/21 Jun: Man reported to be Captain Thunderbolt captured by police and committed for trial in Adelaide; 28 Jun: ‘Captain Thunderbolt alias Harry Allen’ committed for trial on another highway robbery charge; 25 Sep: threatening letter sent by fake Captain Thunderbolt to Hon. H.B.T Strangways, M.P.; 29 Oct: South Australian government offer £100 reward for capture of Thunderbolt, the bushranger, who is said to have found his way across the border into this colony; 8 Nov: three men supposed to be part of Thunderbolt’s gang brought up in Police Court and remanded until the 12th[15]
NB. As Fred had been keeping a low profile, some thought that this was the real Captain Thunderbolt.
Aug 1866: Early in the month, Mary Ann passed through Tamworth looking for Fred.
NB. In 1924 the Northern Daily Leader published a letter from a female reader who met Mary Ann (whom she called Rosey) while Mary Ann was trying to find Fred at this time. The letter contained a significant piece of information that was never revealed in the press, indeed that can only be determined by reading between the lines of her son’s birth registration in 1868 (which lists no father and Mary Ann under the surname Baker): that Mary Ann later worked at the Carroll inn. This information was confirmed by another reader the following week. Apart from the incorrect name ‘Rosey’, the information contained in the woman’s report varies only slightly from the known facts, the type of small lapses that occur over time – surprisingly small considering that 60 years had passed. She reported that after leaving gaol in April 1866, Mary Ann stayed with Fred's relations for a time then borrowed money to purchase a horse and headed north to find Fred, a journey confirmed by other sources. [16]
Aug 1866: Report that Thunderbolt had been seen near the Namoi River[17]
11 Aug 1866: Sale at Taree of Thunderbolt’s stolen horses found by Port Macquarie police at his camp on 23 Mar 1866[18]
22 Aug 1866: Thunderbolt robs the Tamworth-Warialda mailman, Thomas Hitchener, at Dead Horse Gully, five miles south of Manilla; early Sep: report that no traces found of Thunderbolt since the mail robbery; late Sep: press concludes that Thunderbolt has again gone into retirement[19]
Oct 1866: Warrant issued for arrest of Joe Freeman, aged about 29 with “repulsive countenance”, suspected of receiving cheques from Thunderbolt[20]
NB. This could perhaps be the Deepwater mail robber
Nov/Dec 1866: Report that Thunderbolt or lookalike seen near Walcha[21]
Late 1866: Report from Curriwillinghi that after robbing the Warialda mail Thunderbolt made his appearance again in the vicinity of the Birree and Narran but his visit was so quiet and secret that it was difficult to get any authentic information respecting his movements or indeed concerning him at all[22]
Late 1866: John McQuade, suspected of supplying Ward alias Thunderbolt with provisions, is arrested by Armidale police, charged with vagrancy and sentenced to three months imprisonment in Port Macquarie Gaol[23]
Sources
[1] Maitland Mercury 29 Mar 1866 p.2
[2] Manning River News 24 Mar 1866 p.2; NSW Police Gazette 1866 No.13 (28 Mar 1866) pp.109 & 112, No.22 (30 May 1866) p.195; Empire 29 Mar 1866 p.5
[3] QLD PG Vol. III No. 5 (2 May 1866) p.40, NSW Police Gazette 1866 No.14 (4 Apr 1866) p.123; Sydney Morning Herald 3 Apr 1866 p.4 (from Dubbo Despatch 30 Mar)
[4] Maitland Mercury 29 Mar 1866 p.2
[5] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No.15 (11 Apr 1866) p.128; Manning River Times 31 Mar 1866 p.2, 7 Apr p.3; Maitland Mercury 3 Apr 1866 pp.2 & 5; Singleton Times 7 Apr 1866 p.3 (from Empire); Sydney Morning Herald 19 Apr 1866 p.2. Names/identities of policemen: Sub-Inspector Henry Garvin, Port Macquarie, in NSWPG 1865 p.395, 1866 p.26, Maitland Mercury 1 Aug 1882 p.6; Senior Constable James Buckland, Port Macquarie, in NSWPG 1862 p.198, 1866 pp.195, 390 & 424, 1867 p.2; Senior Constable John Coady in Police Service Registers [SRNSW 8/3251 No.598; Reel 3043]
[6] Greville’s Official Post Office Directory, 1875-77, p.277; Maitland Mercury 15 Nov 1859 p.1, 15 Mar 1860 p.2, 28 Aug 1860 p.1, 28 Jun 1862 p.3, 11 Sep 1862 p.2
[7] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No.18 (2 May 1866) p.158Names/identities of policemen: Senior Sergeant Richard Underwood, Dungog, in NSWPG 1866 pp.32, 125 & 209; Senior Constable Finlay, Stroud, in NSWPG 1866 p.23 & Police Service Registers [SRNSW 8/3251 No.404; Reel 3043]; Constable Cleary, Stroud, in NSWPG 1867 p.293
[8] NSW PG 1866 No.14 (4 Apr 1866) p.122, No.18 (2 May 1866) p.160; Maitland Mercury 3 Apr 1866 pp.2 & 5, 7 Apr p.5; Singleton Times 7 Apr 1866 p.3 (from Empire); Sydney Morning Herald 19 Apr 1866 p.2; Manning River News 31 Mar 1866 p.2, 7 Apr p.3; Maitland Gaol - Entrance Book: Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 5/747 – 1866 No.115; Reel 2368] & [SRNSW 5/790 – 1866 No.115; Reel 2370] & Description Book [SRNSW 5/759 – 1866 No.115; Reel 2371 & Record of Prisoner convictions and sentences, 1866 [SRNSW 2/2120 p.488]; CSIL: Re Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 4/573 File 66/1844]. Names/identities of policemen: Senior Sergeant Thomas Kerrigan & Constable William Scully, both Maitland, also in Police Service Registers [SRNSW 8/3251 Nos.414 & 439; Reel 3043]
[9] Sainty & Johnson, Census of NSW Nov 1828 Nos.N0301-4; Maitland Mercury 20 Apr 1858 p.2, 26 Jun 1873 p.1, 25 Jul 1878 p.1
[10] Brisbane Courier 20 Apr 1866 p.2, 24 Apr p.3 (from Maitland Ensign 23 Apr); Maitland Mercury 14 Apr 1866 p.2, 19 Apr p.2 (from Tamworth Examiner 14 Apr)
[11] Sydney Morning Herald 6 Apr 1866 pp. 3 & 4, 7 Apr p.8, 11 May p.5, also 5 Apr 1890 p.9 (Obit of David Buchanan); Maitland Mercury 28 Apr 1866 p.3; CSIL: Re Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 4/573 File 66/1844]; Attorney General – Register of Letters received: Re Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 5/4663 Nos.66/667 & 66/743]
[12] Maitland Mercury 21 Apr 1866 p.3
[13] Maitland Gaol - Entrance Book: Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 5/790 – 1866 No.115; Reel 2370]; Maitland Gaol – Discharge Book: Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 7/789 – 1866 Apr 18]; NSW PG 1866 No.18 (2 May 1866) p.160
[14] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No. 25 (20 Jun 1866), p.224; Maitland Mercury 19 Jun 1866 p.2, 23 Jun p.3; Armidale Express 16 Jun 1866 p.3 (x2), 23 Jun p.3 (x2)
[15] Argus 22 Jun 1866 p.5, 29 Jun p.5, 23 Jul p.6, 1 Oct p.6, 30 Oct p.5; 9 Nov p.5; Maitland Mercury 1 Nov 1866 p.2, 13 Nov p.5
[16] Armidale Express 1 Sep 1866 p.3 & Maitland Mercury 28 Aug 1866 p.2 (from Tamworth Examiner 25 Aug); Northern Daily Leader 23 Dec 1924 p.1
[17] Manning River News 28 Aug 1866 p.2
[18] Manning River News 18 Aug 1866 p.2; Maitland Mercury 23 Aug 1866 p.3
[19] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No. 35 (29 Aug 1866), p.315; Armidale Express 25 Aug 1866 p.3; Maitland Mercury 25 Aug 1866 p.5, 28 Aug p.2 (from Tamworth Examiner 25 Aug), 4 Sep p.6 (from Tamworth Examiner 1 Sep), 13 Sep p.4 (from Tamworth Examiner 8 Sep); The Empire 1 Sep 1866 p.3; Singleton Times 5 Sep 1866; Sydney Morning Herald 22 Sep 1866 p.8
[20] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No. 44 (31 Oct 1866), p.389
[21] Maitland Mercury 11 Dec 1866 p.5 (from Armidale Express 8 Dec)
[22] Brisbane Courier 28 Mar 1867 p.3
[23] NSW Police Gazette 1867 No. 1 (2 Jan 1867), p.7
22 Feb 1866: Thunderbolt robs hut of John Higgins junior at Berrico near Gloucester; reported by Higgins on 19 March[2]
Early Mar 1866: Four armed men held up Tininboro (Tinnenburra) Station, Cuteabuora (Cuttaburra) Creek, Queensland, and stole four horses and clothing, then reportedly headed towards NSW; Sergeant Cleary and the Bourke police followed three of them down the Bogan River where Charles Donnelly was shot dead and Samuel Taylor and Daniel Clarke apprehended; initial reports incorrectly claimed that Thunderbolt and his gang had been apprehended[3]
22 Mar 1866: Female informant arrived in Stroud and reported that she had been with Thunderbolt for ten months engaged to assist Mary Ann during her confinement and that Thunderbolt had kept her with them since then, tied up, that she had escaped nine days previously (13 Mar) from their camp near the headwaters of the Little Manning River (now Upper Manning – the vicinity of Barrington Tops National Park) and had made her way to Stroud and was willing to guide them back to his camp[4]
23 Mar 1866: Thunderbolt chased by Sub-Inspector Henry Garvin, Senior Constable James Buckland and blacktracker Peter from Port Macquarie police, and Senior Constable John Coady of Manning River police, but escaped when Senior Constable Buckland’s horse fell and when the blacktracker turned back because he thought Thunderbolt was about to shoot him; the police returned and took Mary Ann, the children and the horses with them, leaving Mary Ann and the children at Mr Hooke’s Curricabark station in the care of the constable and tracker, and taking the horses and revolver on to Taree; Mary Ann escaped with the children soon afterwards[5]
Re Augustus Hooke, Curricabark station[6]
23 Mar 1866: Senior Sergeant Richard Underwood of Dungog police along with Senior Constable Henry Finlay and Constable Cleary of Stroud and the disguised female informant set off after Thunderbolt; 28 Mar: discover three horses, saddles and bridles and a revolver near one of Thunderbolt’s camps[7]
27 Mar 1866: Senior Sergeant Thomas Kerrigan and Constable William Scully of Maitland police arrested Mary Ann Ward at Pigna Barney Creek (about 50 miles east of Murrurundi) on a charge of vagrancy (NB. date from Kerrigan’s own statement); then or shortly afterwards they encountered the Dungog/Stroud force; Kerrigan, Scully and Finlay headed towards Stroud with Mary Ann and her infant in one group, while the older girls travelled with Underwood’s group and the female informer; 30 Mar: Kerrigan and men arrived at Stroud with Mary Ann and her infant and lodged her in the lock-up; 31 Mar: ‘Mary Ann Ward’ tried at Stroud Police Office by Thomas Nicholls JP of the Stroud Bench for vagrancy under the Vagrant Act and sentenced to six months imprisonment in Maitland Gaol (includes physical description); her older daughters arrived in Stroud the same day; 4 Apr: received at East Maitland Gaol with her three children[8]
Re: Thomas Nicholls was born c.1804, arrived with his wife Maria and daughter Ann as free passengers per the Waterloo in 1828, was listed as a servant to the Australian Agricultural Company at Port Stephens in 1828, became a magistrate in 1858 and died in 1878[9]
31 Mar 1866: Report from Manning River that Thunderbolt somewhere in the mountains between Gloucester and New England; 7 Apr: Report from Manning River that no further news had been heard of Thunderbolt suggesting that he had left the district; 8 Apr: Report that Thunderbolt breakfasted at Tambar Springs public house, west of Currabubula (some 110 miles west of Pigna Barney Creek (NB. possibly incorrect); 14 Apr: Tamworth Examiner reported that Thunderbolt believed to be somewhere in the Tomullah Ranges at the back of the Denison Diggings (near Gundy), or about the head of the Gloucester River (Barrington Tops); 19 Apr: Brisbane Courier reported that Thunderbolt believed to have crossed into Queensland (NB. probably incorrect)[10]
5 Apr 1866: Member of the Legislative Assembly, David Buchanan, brought Mary Ann’s case before the House alleging that her conviction under the Vagrancy Act was a cruel injustice; 6 Apr: the Attorney General’s office wrote to the Stroud magistrate asking for details of Mary Ann’s conviction; 7 Apr: letter to editor of SMH regarding injustice of Mary Ann’s conviction; 11 Apr: Magistrate Nicholls replied, providing biographical information as well as the requested information; 16 Apr: Attorney General received Nicholls’ report and wrote his own report about Mary Ann’s conviction; 17 Apr: Colonial Secretary’s office receives all the paperwork for the Governor’s consideration; 18 Apr: NSW Governor remits Mary Ann’s sentence; 28 April: Maitland Mercury published letter to editor claiming that the arguments in Parliament were ‘stump oratory’; May: the SMH’s Wandering Reporter, who travelled the countryside during the Parliamentary recess, reported that the facts about Mary Ann’s case had been grossly distorted[11]
Mid-Apr 1866: Williams River nominee, Mr Jacobs, refers to the police’s failure to capture Thunderbolt but success in capturing his wife.[12]
18 Apr 1866: Mary Ann Ward discharged from Maitland Gaol after her sentence was remitted by the Governor[13]
14 Jun 1866: Man (supposedly Thunderbolt) robbed the Tenterfield mail-man, Patrick Wade, about 5 miles from Deepwater (between Tenterfield and Glen Innes – about 200kms north of Tomullah Ranges)
NB. Description sounds like Thunderbolt except that mailman said he was of “repulsive” appearance with bushy eyebrows; unlikely to be member of Jemmy’s gang as it was about 180kms from last robbery on 6 Jun[14]
Jun-Nov 1866: South Australia. 20/21 Jun: Man reported to be Captain Thunderbolt captured by police and committed for trial in Adelaide; 28 Jun: ‘Captain Thunderbolt alias Harry Allen’ committed for trial on another highway robbery charge; 25 Sep: threatening letter sent by fake Captain Thunderbolt to Hon. H.B.T Strangways, M.P.; 29 Oct: South Australian government offer £100 reward for capture of Thunderbolt, the bushranger, who is said to have found his way across the border into this colony; 8 Nov: three men supposed to be part of Thunderbolt’s gang brought up in Police Court and remanded until the 12th[15]
NB. As Fred had been keeping a low profile, some thought that this was the real Captain Thunderbolt.
Aug 1866: Early in the month, Mary Ann passed through Tamworth looking for Fred.
NB. In 1924 the Northern Daily Leader published a letter from a female reader who met Mary Ann (whom she called Rosey) while Mary Ann was trying to find Fred at this time. The letter contained a significant piece of information that was never revealed in the press, indeed that can only be determined by reading between the lines of her son’s birth registration in 1868 (which lists no father and Mary Ann under the surname Baker): that Mary Ann later worked at the Carroll inn. This information was confirmed by another reader the following week. Apart from the incorrect name ‘Rosey’, the information contained in the woman’s report varies only slightly from the known facts, the type of small lapses that occur over time – surprisingly small considering that 60 years had passed. She reported that after leaving gaol in April 1866, Mary Ann stayed with Fred's relations for a time then borrowed money to purchase a horse and headed north to find Fred, a journey confirmed by other sources. [16]
Aug 1866: Report that Thunderbolt had been seen near the Namoi River[17]
11 Aug 1866: Sale at Taree of Thunderbolt’s stolen horses found by Port Macquarie police at his camp on 23 Mar 1866[18]
22 Aug 1866: Thunderbolt robs the Tamworth-Warialda mailman, Thomas Hitchener, at Dead Horse Gully, five miles south of Manilla; early Sep: report that no traces found of Thunderbolt since the mail robbery; late Sep: press concludes that Thunderbolt has again gone into retirement[19]
Oct 1866: Warrant issued for arrest of Joe Freeman, aged about 29 with “repulsive countenance”, suspected of receiving cheques from Thunderbolt[20]
NB. This could perhaps be the Deepwater mail robber
Nov/Dec 1866: Report that Thunderbolt or lookalike seen near Walcha[21]
Late 1866: Report from Curriwillinghi that after robbing the Warialda mail Thunderbolt made his appearance again in the vicinity of the Birree and Narran but his visit was so quiet and secret that it was difficult to get any authentic information respecting his movements or indeed concerning him at all[22]
Late 1866: John McQuade, suspected of supplying Ward alias Thunderbolt with provisions, is arrested by Armidale police, charged with vagrancy and sentenced to three months imprisonment in Port Macquarie Gaol[23]
Sources
[1] Maitland Mercury 29 Mar 1866 p.2
[2] Manning River News 24 Mar 1866 p.2; NSW Police Gazette 1866 No.13 (28 Mar 1866) pp.109 & 112, No.22 (30 May 1866) p.195; Empire 29 Mar 1866 p.5
[3] QLD PG Vol. III No. 5 (2 May 1866) p.40, NSW Police Gazette 1866 No.14 (4 Apr 1866) p.123; Sydney Morning Herald 3 Apr 1866 p.4 (from Dubbo Despatch 30 Mar)
[4] Maitland Mercury 29 Mar 1866 p.2
[5] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No.15 (11 Apr 1866) p.128; Manning River Times 31 Mar 1866 p.2, 7 Apr p.3; Maitland Mercury 3 Apr 1866 pp.2 & 5; Singleton Times 7 Apr 1866 p.3 (from Empire); Sydney Morning Herald 19 Apr 1866 p.2. Names/identities of policemen: Sub-Inspector Henry Garvin, Port Macquarie, in NSWPG 1865 p.395, 1866 p.26, Maitland Mercury 1 Aug 1882 p.6; Senior Constable James Buckland, Port Macquarie, in NSWPG 1862 p.198, 1866 pp.195, 390 & 424, 1867 p.2; Senior Constable John Coady in Police Service Registers [SRNSW 8/3251 No.598; Reel 3043]
[6] Greville’s Official Post Office Directory, 1875-77, p.277; Maitland Mercury 15 Nov 1859 p.1, 15 Mar 1860 p.2, 28 Aug 1860 p.1, 28 Jun 1862 p.3, 11 Sep 1862 p.2
[7] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No.18 (2 May 1866) p.158Names/identities of policemen: Senior Sergeant Richard Underwood, Dungog, in NSWPG 1866 pp.32, 125 & 209; Senior Constable Finlay, Stroud, in NSWPG 1866 p.23 & Police Service Registers [SRNSW 8/3251 No.404; Reel 3043]; Constable Cleary, Stroud, in NSWPG 1867 p.293
[8] NSW PG 1866 No.14 (4 Apr 1866) p.122, No.18 (2 May 1866) p.160; Maitland Mercury 3 Apr 1866 pp.2 & 5, 7 Apr p.5; Singleton Times 7 Apr 1866 p.3 (from Empire); Sydney Morning Herald 19 Apr 1866 p.2; Manning River News 31 Mar 1866 p.2, 7 Apr p.3; Maitland Gaol - Entrance Book: Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 5/747 – 1866 No.115; Reel 2368] & [SRNSW 5/790 – 1866 No.115; Reel 2370] & Description Book [SRNSW 5/759 – 1866 No.115; Reel 2371 & Record of Prisoner convictions and sentences, 1866 [SRNSW 2/2120 p.488]; CSIL: Re Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 4/573 File 66/1844]. Names/identities of policemen: Senior Sergeant Thomas Kerrigan & Constable William Scully, both Maitland, also in Police Service Registers [SRNSW 8/3251 Nos.414 & 439; Reel 3043]
[9] Sainty & Johnson, Census of NSW Nov 1828 Nos.N0301-4; Maitland Mercury 20 Apr 1858 p.2, 26 Jun 1873 p.1, 25 Jul 1878 p.1
[10] Brisbane Courier 20 Apr 1866 p.2, 24 Apr p.3 (from Maitland Ensign 23 Apr); Maitland Mercury 14 Apr 1866 p.2, 19 Apr p.2 (from Tamworth Examiner 14 Apr)
[11] Sydney Morning Herald 6 Apr 1866 pp. 3 & 4, 7 Apr p.8, 11 May p.5, also 5 Apr 1890 p.9 (Obit of David Buchanan); Maitland Mercury 28 Apr 1866 p.3; CSIL: Re Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 4/573 File 66/1844]; Attorney General – Register of Letters received: Re Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 5/4663 Nos.66/667 & 66/743]
[12] Maitland Mercury 21 Apr 1866 p.3
[13] Maitland Gaol - Entrance Book: Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 5/790 – 1866 No.115; Reel 2370]; Maitland Gaol – Discharge Book: Mary Ann Ward, 1866 [SRNSW 7/789 – 1866 Apr 18]; NSW PG 1866 No.18 (2 May 1866) p.160
[14] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No. 25 (20 Jun 1866), p.224; Maitland Mercury 19 Jun 1866 p.2, 23 Jun p.3; Armidale Express 16 Jun 1866 p.3 (x2), 23 Jun p.3 (x2)
[15] Argus 22 Jun 1866 p.5, 29 Jun p.5, 23 Jul p.6, 1 Oct p.6, 30 Oct p.5; 9 Nov p.5; Maitland Mercury 1 Nov 1866 p.2, 13 Nov p.5
[16] Armidale Express 1 Sep 1866 p.3 & Maitland Mercury 28 Aug 1866 p.2 (from Tamworth Examiner 25 Aug); Northern Daily Leader 23 Dec 1924 p.1
[17] Manning River News 28 Aug 1866 p.2
[18] Manning River News 18 Aug 1866 p.2; Maitland Mercury 23 Aug 1866 p.3
[19] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No. 35 (29 Aug 1866), p.315; Armidale Express 25 Aug 1866 p.3; Maitland Mercury 25 Aug 1866 p.5, 28 Aug p.2 (from Tamworth Examiner 25 Aug), 4 Sep p.6 (from Tamworth Examiner 1 Sep), 13 Sep p.4 (from Tamworth Examiner 8 Sep); The Empire 1 Sep 1866 p.3; Singleton Times 5 Sep 1866; Sydney Morning Herald 22 Sep 1866 p.8
[20] NSW Police Gazette 1866 No. 44 (31 Oct 1866), p.389
[21] Maitland Mercury 11 Dec 1866 p.5 (from Armidale Express 8 Dec)
[22] Brisbane Courier 28 Mar 1867 p.3
[23] NSW Police Gazette 1867 No. 1 (2 Jan 1867), p.7