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JAMES EWEN - 17 September 1835 has set up business at 1 Globe Street, opposite the Kings wharf - as a turner and wool press maker. Probably not related to FS Ewen??? (Sydney Herald). He lost a promissory note worth 7 pounds in 1836!! But, by 9 July 1837 he is advertising as a shipwright
Ensign Charles J Ewen of the 65th Regiment who sailed on various ships in and around 1846/7 including the Thomas Lowry and the Java.
From the Downs, yesterday, whence she sailed the 26th of August, the ship Lloyds,, 401 tons, Captain Garratt, with 188 male prisoners. Surgeon Supeiintitulent, Dr Inches, R.N.. The guard consists of Lieutenant Ewen, 45th Regt., Lieutenant M 'Knight, 21st Regt ; 29 rank and
file of the 21st, 29th, 45th, and 50th Regis. ; also 5 women, and 10 children.
11 January 1834 an Edward Ewen named in the Sydney Gazette and NSW Advertiser as having wearing apparel stolen.
17 May 1834 T.W. Ewen grant of land
22 August 1834 Mr S Ewen - advertised in the Sydney Gazette a bull bitch found near King St wharf. His address was George St.
1832 Samuel R Ewen was listed as Clerk to the van Diemens Land Company.
May 1836 Sydney Gazette Charles Ewen stood charged with stealing
17 September 1836 arrivals aboard the Francis Freeling included John Ewen
20 September 1836 Colonial Times Hobart John Ewen ordered to 5 shillings for drunkeness.
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K. DEAS THOMSON.Principal Superintendent of Convict's Office,
Sydney, 26th April, 1837,
THE Conditional Pardons granted to the undermentioned Persons are now lying at this Office, and will be delivered to the respective
Parties on payment of the Fees due thereon to the Public.
Lots of names and then ....
Ewen Richard, Mary (2)
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14 March 1848 The Sydney Monitor reports that a Mrs Ewen who resides in Globe Street opposite the Ship Inn made a deposition.
23 July 1838 The Sydney Herald a cheque for 91 pounds was picked in the streets by a person named Ewen who handed it to the Chief Constable.
On Saturday, a labouring man, named Ewen, who resides in Windmill-street, picked up what he considered a rich booty, a cheque drawn on
the Bank of New South Wales, signed by one John Lucky. Honest enough, the poor fellow carried what he considered his rich booty, to Mr. Chief Constable Mitchell, who immediately saw it was a hoax, as it proved to be upon being shown at the bank. The man's honesty however is not to be the less recommended.
15 April 1839. The Sydney Monitor Convict Discipline and Jobbery.
------ Beans, convict, belonging to or returned in the street gangs, was given into custody on Wednesday 10th April, by Mr. M'Gee a cabinet maker, on a charge of being illegally at large, Beans at the time was at work at.Mr. Ewen's a mast maker or shipwright, Globe-street:.
Constable M'Grath took him into custody, but ,on the representation of Mr. Ewen that he, Beans, was; working in their 'yard on account' of and by order 'of a Government officer, he.was released, Mr. M'Gee complained to the Sydney bench, and Beans was, ;again apprehended and examined before.the bench at Hyde Park Barracks. -It~ was :there proved, that by the order 'of the Principal Superintendent of Convicts Beans had been permitted to carve a figure head for a boat belonging to Mr, Jeffrie?; 'Tide surveyor of`the Customs. ('There~is a report 'that the boat belongs not to Mr. Jeffries but to the collector of Customs.)
Accordingly, Beans. was dismissed without punishment.
16 April 1839 The Australian Ann Cook, of diminutive person, but
high spirit, was charged by her mistress, Mrs
Ewen, of Globe-street, with refractory conduct,
which consisted simply of throwing a broom at,
and afterwards striking, her mistress, who, how
ever, stated that at the time the prisoner was in
a paroxysm of fury, to which she was subject by
fits which caused a temporary madness. She
was sent two months to the factory. These are
samples of the every day business of the pri
soner's court, and most of the women declare
that they would much rather be in the factory
than in private service, unless they can have full
controul of their own actions. Surely the punish
ment in the factory must be considerably soothing
to make such an impression on the women.
27 April 1839 The Cornwall Chronicle Launceston Departures for Port Philip. Henry, brig S. Ewen passenger
18 April 1839 Commercial Journal and Advertiser. James Watt, an indented apprentice to Mr.
I Ewen, cabinetmaker, Globe-street, appeared
|: on warrant, .charged by .his master with ab-
r scondiugfrom .his indented service. His master
I statesd that Wat-t had been absent three weeks,
I and on the eyening previous, lie found him on I
the premises of a man named Martyn Cooper,
who married his step-mother, his father having I
died at the Quarantine Ground. As the boy I
promised to return to his master, and it being 1
I lully believed by .the Bench that he had been
induced to abscond by Cooper, who -fancied
himself a relation of the boy's, he was dis
charged with an admonition.
20 May 1839 Sydney Herald. PPRENTICES.—On Friday James Bardwell. ap
prentice to Mr. Ewen, cabinetmaker, appeared
upon warrant to answer a charge of absconding
fiom his indentures. The fact ol t« ^
having absconded was not diñad, »>
put in the indentures by which Bardwell was
to sirve as an appicnt.ic Un m
24 May 1839 The Sydney Monitor. Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser.
SYDNEY,22sN MYr. 1839.
SIR,-Observing in your paper of the 2'lth inst.
a pstragraph under the head Police News, of
date the 1Gth instant, stating that one James
Watt, an indented apprentice to Mr James Ewen
of Globe.street, had absconded fiom his apprentice.
ship. His father, (a bmuty emigrant) having died
at the Quarantine Ground, leaving his children to
a step-mother, who had deserted them, I have to
inform you that the latter part of this statement is
false; the step.mother (now my wife) was taken
to the Hospital or the Quarantiae Ground among
the sick, where she remained three months, there
fore the charge of desertion on ler part is entirely
unfounded. The boy was taken by a stranger (a
shipmate certainly of his deceaed father's) who
witnessed his indenture, and by his interference he
was apprenticed to Mr Ewen without the consent
of his step-mother or any other. relative; at that
time the boy had an uncle in the colony. With
respect to myself my conduct is in the hands of legal
advisers: and I herely make this statement to
show that the charge exhibited against my wife is
entirely without loundation. She is a good mother
to all the children and has always proved herself to
be so. Words are also put into the mouth of Col.
Wilson, threatening me with the loss of my situa
tion-that gentleman never used such language to
me. This case will .shortly he baought forward in
another shape. Mean time, I renuain your ob't ser.
vant, A. D. COOPER.
June 1839 Cause List Ewen-v-Egan action to recover value of certain work on the barque Hope. Left to the arbitration of Harbour Master Mr Nicholson
and Grant-v-Ewen IMPORTANT TO MASTERS OF APPRENTICes -A case was decided in the Court
of Requests lately, of importance to mas
ters of apprentices; inasmuch as it pro
vides a remedy for one ot the evils to
which they are eon'tantly exposed by the
interference of relatives. The case was
one of damages for loss of services of a
boy named Watt, an apprentice of Mr
James Ewen, of Globe street, cabinet
maker, against his stepfather, one Cooper,
a tidewaiter at the Custom house, who
harboured him; the damages claimed for the
loss of three weeks and two days' services
were £2 17s Gd. Mr Therry said, in
giving a verdict for the amount claimed, he
considered Mr Ewen's conduct commend
able in bringing this case forward; a
crying evil throughout the colony, being
the interference of friends with apprentices
when they had been taught sufficiently by
the masters to undertake common jobs;
and hence it was that the colony was
troubled with so many bad workmen: Mr
Ewen' said, he had brought forward the
case, not with a view to pecuniary advan
tage, but to open a channel of redress to
persons similarly situated with himself;
therefore he requested the defend nt to pay
the amount of the verdict into Court for
the benefit of some charitable fund.
28 September 1839 Cornwall Chronicle Launceston Passengers per Brazil Packet, for Port Philip, I
S. Ewen
4 May 1840 The Sydney Monitor Marmion, barque, 375 tons, Dyet Master. Passengers Ewen and Gould.
23 May 1840 Sydney Gazette. Supreme Court.
WEDNESDAY-May 20.
(Before His Honor the Chief Justice.)
Henry Herbert was arraigned at the bar on a
charge of forgery, and with passing a bill for £115
on John Harrison, publican, South Creek, the en-
dorsement of the bill being forged.
Oliver Ewen upon being called to the witness
box, stated he lives at Parramatta, and knows the
prisoner; he recollected the prisoner calling at his
house a day or so after St Patrick's day, and hand-
ing two pieces of paper folded, to him to put the
name of "James Byrnes" on ; witness asked whe-
ther he should put —"To Mr. James Byrnes,"—or
" To James Byrnes, Esq." He wrote in his own
hand, and knew Mr. Byrnes to be a merchant of
Parramatta ; he did not know what was in the body
of the two pieces of paper; they were not like letters,
but he did not suspect what they were; on Monday,
the 23rd of March he saw Harrison talking in
Church street, near the old Court House; Harrison
showed him a note with the direction he the witness
had written on it ; he also saw the inside of the
note ; on the same day he saw Herbert near the New
Court House, with Harrison and Hicks, the two
latter were riding. Herbert was walking by their side ;
he ran over to Herbert, took him by the arm, and
said, you internal, scoundrel, to try to take an old
man's life away —where are the notes! Herbert told
him one was destroyed, and that it be would go down
to Watsford's, he would destroy the other ; when
they arrived at Watsford's yard, in the presence of
Harrison and Hicks, Herbert pulled out a piece of
paper and tore it in pieces ; when he first took hold
of Herbert's arm, he told him he had seen a note in
Harrison's hand, which note Herbert said was de-
stroyed; witness informed Mr. Byrnes, when he saw
the note in Harrison's hand, Herbert did not tell
how the note was destroyed.
John Green examined ; —stated he knew the pri-
soner Herbert, by being once his tenant; the witness
stated he wrote a promissory note on a piece of paper;
the words were as follows: —"three months after
date, I promise to pay to Mr. James Byrnes, or
order;" the witness finished the notes; he knows a
person named Byrnes ; and at the time he drew the
promissory note out, the prisoner told him Mr B. was
going to accommodate him with his name, for which
he said he gave 10 per cent. Another bill was then
written by him for the same amount as the first, £115.
The witness said he had some conversation with the
prisoner about the bills ; the next day, when the
prisoner told him he had the endorsement of
Mr. Byrnes, and that he was going to buy some
horses; about time days after that time, he saw
the prisoner with three horses, riding one ; he did
not read the notes after he had writen them.
John Proctor, chief constable of Penrith, stated,
that he knows the prisoner, and saw him in the mid-
dle of March; he stated, the prisoner was at his
place at Penrith, and picked out four horses from
his yard, there being a dray and harness there at the
time; he also thought they would suit him
and wanted the whole. On Proctor telling him the
whole amounted to £230, he proposed to pay with
2 notes endorsed by Mr. James Byrnes; Proctor
told him he would be in Parramatta in the course of
a few days, and would go with him to Byrnes's
house ; be could not, however go to Parramatta,
and the prisoner was again at Penrith about a week
after ; two notes were in his hand, and he said he
was come for the horses ; witness said he had altered
his mind, and would not take notes for them ; he saw
the notes, but none of Mr. Byrnes's band writing was
on them ; he did not like the appearance of the
notes.
Thomas Hickey stated he knew the prisoner, and
saw him in March at the South Creek, coming to
the direction of Penrith ; he said the prisoner came
up to Harrison's public-house, and asked for a mare
which was brought to him at the time which the
prisoner wanted to buy, and asked the price; on
being told it was £30, he offered £32 for the colt,
saddle, and bridle, which offer Hickey took;
the prisoner then pulled out a note, and wit-
ness asked Harrison what it was, was, when
Harrison told him it was a note for £115; on
the witness saying he would only have money,
Harrison said he would pay him if he went to the
house for it; Harrison gave the prisoner two notes,
for £5 each, and took the note for £115 ; the wit-
ness did not see a note destroyed at Watsford's yard;
prisoner said the note was —I promise to pay James
Byrnes £115, but witness did not know who I re-
ferred to.
James Dangel, publican, at Parramatta, stated,
he recollected Herbert Harrison and Hicks going
into his house, and sit down together in a room by
themselves; he heard one of them say something
about a note for £115, but did not remember what
they said about it ; he saw Harrison tear up a piece
of paper into small pieces, in the passage leading
from the room they were in ; witness further stated,
they had some paper writing about some horses.
Oliver Ewen re-called. —Both Harrison and Her-
bert said, the note he had seen in Harrison's hand
was destroyed.
Mr. Byrnes called. —Said he knew the prisoner,
and had transactions with him some time ago.
Hugh Taylor stated he knew the prisoner and
had a claim to a certain bald-faced horse, that was
in the possession of the prisoner.
John Harrison stated that the prisoner was at his
house at the South Creek, and bought a mare and
colt from a man named Hickey; for both he paid
a note for £115, Harrison hearing the note was
bad, went to Parramatta, and endeavoured to get
back his mare , heard prisoner had property, or he
would not have taken the bill.
Through the number of informalities in the in-
dictment, the case was quashed.
2 July 1840 Australasian Chronicle
LIST of ADDITIONAL SUB
SCRIPTIONS for the ERECTION of ST.
PATRICK'S CHURCH, Sydney :
£ s. d
Brought forward ........ £1564 s.10 .8¼
Mr. James Ewen, Globe-street .. 2 10 0
Mrs. James Ewen ... .... 2 10 0
Master James Ewen.. ... .. 2 10 0
Master George Ewen.. .. .. 1 0 0
Master Henry Ewen .. .. .. 1 0 0
Miss Agnes Ewen .. .. .. 1 0 0
Miss Elizabeth Ewen .. .. 1 0 0
Miss Mary Louisa Ewen .. .. 1 0 0
Master William Ewen .. .. 1 0 0
(Subscriptions at New Zealand, per
Mr. Poynton, lHokianga.)
Mr. Thomas Poynton, second sub
14 July 1840 Sydney Monitor ACCIDENT.- An accident from the incautious
use of fire arms, but which fortunately was not
attended with loss of life, occurred a few days
back, at. Mr. Ewen's station the westward of
Geelong, on the Portland Bay road. Mr. Ewen
was in the act of striking a kangaroo on the head
with the butt end of a pistol loaded with buck
shot, when it went off, and after passing through
his hand, lodged in his leg above the knee joint.
Fortunately no bones were broken, and medical
assistance having been obtained from Geelong,
the shot was extracted and the sufferer is doing
well.
22 October 1840 Sydney Monitor Passengers cleared out for Adelaide New Holland, brig. Russell Master Passenger Mr. Ewen.
25 December 1840 Sydney Monitor Drunkards. W. Ewen by Keating paid 11 shillings.
30 March 1841 Australasian Chronicle TO CONSTABLES & OTHERS.
.. -Four Pounds Reward for the apprehension
of Thomas MINNOX, free; for whose apprehension
a warrant has been issued from the Bathurst Bench.
The reward will be paid by E. Armstrong, store
keeper to J. G. Ewen, Esq., at Bathurst.
March 22nd, 1841. 4426
21 June 1841 Sydney Monitor. Cleared from Sydney DORSET, brig, Sproule, master, for Adelaide.
Passengers—Mr. F ench, Mr. Kinchela, Mr.
Phillips, Mr. Ewen, Mr. Pierce, Steerage—J.
Yates, J. Williams, G. Rankins, J. Lapthorne.
13 July 1841 Southern Australian Shipping Report The True Love may be shortly expected from
King George's Sound with Captain Symon and
Mr Ewen.
23 Nov 1841 Southern Australian Nov. 22, 1841.
Ten Shillings Reward.
LOST, on Saturday afternoon, between the
shops of Mr Ewen, coach-maker, Rundle-
street, and the residence of H. Jones, Esq.,
the brass cap of a carriage wheel. Whoever
will bring the same to Mr Ewen, will receive the
above reward.
29 Nov 1841 Sydney Herald Launch.-On Saturday last, a large sub-
stantially built punt of 30 tons burthen, was
launched from the building yard of Mr. Ewen.
Lower George-street. She is so constructed
as to carry either goods or cattle.
24 August 1861 Armidale Express At Armidale, on 20th instant, the wife of Mr,
James Ewen, of a daughter.
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