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Thats great thank you very much!!!

There are bits and bobs if you google him, e.g.

http://www.jenwilletts.com/searchaction.php?page=1&surname=knox&ship=&firstname=

Hi Tom, sorry - no photos.

The land granted and taken away tallies with what I posted above. Sounds like he was a wrong 'un which may be why he lost the land.

I think the convict death register is more likely to be right than the auto-bio (see my posting further up).

Wow thank you so much fo all this. The info i do have about his life in OZ was from the autobiography of John Younger, the brother of the woman he had a son with back in Scotland (my ancestor). He said he was granted land but had it taken away, and that he is buried on norfolk island.
was there by any chance a photo of him with any of these?

Tom

Tom, if you go to Trove and put his name in the search box there are 7 newspaper articles about him

http://trove.nla.gov.au

There are 48 separate mentions of Ebenezer in the Colonial Secretary's Papers, ranging from him giving character witnesses for other ex-cons to stealing sheep.

I'll have a skim through and report anything significant.

EDIT: Basically the brief mentions all pertain to the theft of three government owned sheep. Looks like Knox and two others were involved. Seems most likely that led to the gaol in 1823.

It also looks like someone tried to take his land off him in 1825. The letters end in 1825 so don't know the outcome.

There is no mention of a wife, but don't know if that would have been relevant to the documents in question.

This is interesting:

New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825

Name: Ebeneezer Knox
Event Date: 30 Nov 1821
Arrival Year: 1818
Vessel: Lady Castlereagh
Event Description: Memorial
Comments: Per "Lady Castlereagh", 1818
Series: (NRS 899) Memorials to the Governor, 1810-1825
Item: 4/1826
Number: 74

The letter states he should be allowed to be a settler and granted 200 acres of land at Prospect Common. He would also be "victualled from the king's store" for 6 months from taking possession of his farm.

(That 1835 gaol record did say he was a farmer).

Tom, I wonder if someone has seen the prison record which said he was disposed of (meaning released from gaol) on Norfolk Island and mistakenly thought that meant where his body was disposed of?

This convict death record confirms that the 1847 is correct:

New South Wales, Australia, Convict Death Register, 1826-1879 about Ebenezer Knox
Name: Ebenezer Knox
Age: 1817
Date of Death: 3 Apr 1847
District: Port Mie (Macquarie)

The original image confirms that he arrived 1817 on the Castlereagh.

Looks like he'd been in gaol before:

New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930

Name: Ebenezer Knox
Vessel Arrived In: Lady Castlereagh
Date of Admission/Photo: 7 Mar 1823
Gaol: Sydney
Gaol Location: Sydney, New South Wales
Record Type: Entrance Book

The writing is terrible, but it looks like he was in for being an incorrigible character and was at large with a false certificate. He got 50 lashes and something else I can't make out. Appears to have been released 17 December.

New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930

Name: Ebenezer Knox
Birth Place: Palaigh Scotland - Roxburgh
Immigration Date: 1817
Vessel Arrived In: Lady Castlereagh
Date of Admission/Photo: 15 May 1835
Gaol: Sydney
Gaol Location: Sydney, New South Wales
Record Type: Entrance Book

Looks like he was admitted to HM Gaol on the date above. It states he was disposed (I think that means released?) Norfolk Island 23 September 1835.

Hi Tom, I have checked all the burials on Norfolk Island and cannot find an Ebenezer Knox or his Alias ..King.
Where did you read he is buried on Norfolk.???
Also, I could not find an application for a marriage.

kind regards, Lorraine in sunny Cairns Qld.

Thats the man! I know he was buried on Norfolk island so does this mean the above death is not a match?

Tom

this site is driving me potty today

Ebenezer Knox
Australia Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980
birth: 1776
burial: 04 Apr 1847 St. Thomas,? Port Macquarie,? New South Wales,? Australia


name: Ebenezer Knox
gender: Male
burial date: 04 Apr 1847
burial place: St. Thomas, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
age: 71
birth date: 1776
indexing project (batch) number: B00043-9
system origin: Australia-EASy
source film number: 993967

Ebenezer Knox
Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
birth: Lilliesleaf,? Roxburgh,? Scotland
christening: 22 Nov 1769 Lilliesleaf,? Roxburgh,? Scotland
residence: Lilliesleaf,? Roxburgh,? Scotland
parents: William Knox,? Janet Smaill


name: Ebenezer Knox
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 22 Nov 1769
baptism/christening place: Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Scotland
birthplace: Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Scotland
father's name: William Knox
mother's name: Janet Smaill
indexing project (batch) number: C01993-9
system origin: Scotland-EASy
source film number: 102297

Ebenezer Knox
Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
birth: Lilliesleaf,? Roxburgh,? Scotland
christening: 22 Nov 1769 Lilliesleaf,? Roxburgh,? Scotland
residence: Lilliesleaf,? Roxburgh,? Scotland
parents: William Knox,? Janet Smaill


name: Ebenezer Knox
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 22 Nov 1769
baptism/christening place: Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Scotland
birthplace: Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Scotland
father's name: William Knox
mother's name: Janet Smaill
indexing project (batch) number: C01993-9
system origin: Scotland-EASy
source film number: 102297

Ebenezer Knox
Australia Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980
birth: 1776
burial: 04 Apr 1847 St. Thomas,? Port Macquarie,? New South Wales,? Australia


name: Ebenezer Knox
gender: Male
burial date: 04 Apr 1847
burial place: St. Thomas, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
age: 71
birth date: 1776
indexing project (batch) number: B00043-9
system origin: Australia-EASy
source film number: 993967

In all probability he would have been allowed to marry should he have wished. Two of my ancestors, both convicts did.

Would he he have been allowed to marry, being a convict?

1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy)
about Eben Knox
Name: Eben Knox
Arrival Date: 1818
Vessel: Ly Castlereagh
Piece: HO 10/24
Province: New South Wales
Title: Census I-M
Year(s): 1828
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1762

Andy