Hi Wendy and David The book "Organised Banditti" is available at the Lake Macquarie & District Historical Society, P.O. Box 239, TORONTO, NSW, 2283. Telephone 0249 598063 Sunday or Wednesday Afternoons. Alternatively, I have some of the information on disk, if you tell me who you are interested in I may be able to find it for you. If I get permission from the list owner and the Author I will post a list of the names mentioned in the book. MargaretB Lake Macquarie NSW Australia A snippet from the book. The trial of the six bushrangers took place on the 24th February 1841 at the Supreme Court in Sydney. The following article appeared in the SYDNEY HERALD ON 23rd February 1841; The Hunter's River Bushrangers. - These desperadoes will be tried to-morrow. It is expected that this trial will be one of considerable interest, as Davis the leader of the gang is said to have given information as to the parties who harboured him and the rest of his gang. Several persons have already been apprehended on the information thus given. The greatest scoundrel of a gang generally manages to slip his neck out of the halter.[1] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Sydney Herald, 23/2/1841

Hello Margaret, thanks. I am interested in Soloman Reuben, who associated with the gang in Sydney and committed robberies at Parramatta and possibly the Windsor area. He died in 1845 and may never have 'worked' with the gang in the Hunter. I don't know if the Flashmen and the Jew Boy Gang shared membership, but from readings they appear to have some connections. I am not well-informes about these people at all, so may be making some wrong assumptions. On the State records site 'Registry of Flashmen' 1842 the following is mentioned: "Parish Joe, was a Prize fighter in England & was transported. On the 27 Sept [1842] there was a meeting of the fancy at G. Green's, George Street. Davis Parish Jno Jacobs Nat Jacobs Mic Farrell Jas. Tallent Barnett Sol. Reubens Francis Cohen Dearing Groves Abraham Davis. '' Regards Wendy ----- Original Message ----- From: "MargaretB" <mbergies@kooee.com.au> To: "ian" <iandwmckenzie@optusnet.com.au>; <AUS-NSW-CENTRAL-COAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [ANCC] Who was your earliest Central Coast ancestor ? > Hi Wendy and David > > The book "Organised Banditti" is available at the Lake Macquarie & > District Historical Society, P.O. Box 239, TORONTO, NSW, 2283. > Telephone 0249 598063 Sunday or Wednesday Afternoons. > > Alternatively, I have some of the information on disk, if you tell me who > you are interested in I may be able to find it for you. > > If I get permission from the list owner and the Author I will post a list > of the names mentioned in the book. > > MargaretB > Lake Macquarie > NSW Australia > > A snippet from the book. > The trial of the six bushrangers took place on the 24th February 1841 at > the Supreme Court in Sydney. > > The following article appeared in the SYDNEY HERALD ON 23rd February 1841; > > The Hunter's River Bushrangers. - These desperadoes will be tried > to-morrow. It is expected that this trial will be one of considerable > interest, as Davis the leader of the gang is said to have given > information as to the parties who harboured him and the rest of his gang. > Several persons have already been apprehended on the information thus > given. The greatest scoundrel of a gang generally manages to slip his neck > out of the halter.[1] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [1] Sydney Herald, 23/2/1841 > >