Hi List The gang was joined by a fourth man named Robert Chitty,[1] who was one of Mr. Chapman's assigned men.[2] Robert Chitty was a convict who was transported to NSW for fourteen years aboard the ship Sophia (Sofia) in 1823. He was born in Windsor, England in 1804 and was tried for desertion from the army in Dublin, Ireland in 1823. He was described as a soldier and pit sawyer, five feet four and a half inches tall, ruddy and freckled complexion, light brown hair, hazel eyes, red marks GSRC and an anchor on the right arm and several red marks on the left arm. Chitty was a convict constable in the Brisbane Water district in 1835. He was stationed at the property "Cabbage Tree," which was at the site of present day Norah Head, and later he was appointed as scourger (flogger) at East Gosford, but in the latter half of 1835 he was accused of negligence when he was overpowered by the bushranger, Macdonald, who he was taking as a prisoner to the house of the local Police Magistrate,! Jonathon Warner. Towards the end of 1835 Chitty was transferred to the district of Dungog. He was reported to have absconded from his position on the 29th December, 1835, with a female prisoner named Elizabeth Walsh, whom he was escorting to Newcastle Gaol. By 1840 he was an assigned convict working for Matthew Chapman. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] NSW Government Gazette 9/12/1840 p. 1341 [2] Sydney Herald 10/12/1840 MargaretB Lake Macquarie NSW Australia