Robert Calvin
"Official form on blue paper - evidence - Robert Calvin, sergeant of police, 21 October 1854, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 80
Be it remembered, that on 21st day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four Robert Calvin of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Sergeant of Police personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Town of Geelong in the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said Robert Calvin shall fail in the condition indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me
William Morrissy
Be it remembered, that on 21st day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four Robert Calvin of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Sergeant of Police personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Town of Geelong in the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said Robert Calvin shall fail in the condition indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me
William Morrissy
"Official form on blue paper - evidence - Robert Calvin, sergeant of police, 17 October 1854, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 80
The condition of the within written Recognance is such, That Whereas Thomas Fletcher was thisis day charged before me the Justice of the Peace within mentioned for that the said Thomas Fletcher was the seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, together with certain other persons did feloniously and unlawfully burn and destroy the dwelling house of one James Bentley at Ballarat it therefore be said Robert Calvin shall appear at the Criminal Sessions to he holden at Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria, on the fifteenth day of November next, and there give such evidence as be knoweth upon as information to be then and there proferred against the said Thomas Fletcher for the offence aforesaid, as the jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Thomas Fletcher then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.
The condition of the within written Recognance is such, That Whereas Thomas Fletcher was thisis day charged before me the Justice of the Peace within mentioned for that the said Thomas Fletcher was the seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, together with certain other persons did feloniously and unlawfully burn and destroy the dwelling house of one James Bentley at Ballarat it therefore be said Robert Calvin shall appear at the Criminal Sessions to he holden at Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria, on the fifteenth day of November next, and there give such evidence as be knoweth upon as information to be then and there proferred against the said Thomas Fletcher for the offence aforesaid, as the jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Thomas Fletcher then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Robert Calvin was Sergeant of Police in 1854.
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
References
