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Love Family Reunion
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- Extract form Grace Karskens’ book about The Rocks, page 44.
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- Love and Hoare land at Parish of Manangle
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- Adjoining land owned by John Love and his son-in-law, John Hoare.
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- With thanks to Lyle Cooper, here is a photograph of a Love Family reunion held in Bundaberg, Queensland commemorating 200 years since their arrival in Australia.
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- From the book, Debt, seduction and other disasters by Bruce Kercher. p.83
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- Sydney Gazette Saturday 23 June 1810
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- Sydney Gazette Saturday 11 March 1815
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- WEDNESDAY. – John Love, Joseph Jones, Charles Pickering, and Patrick McGinnity were arraigned on the charge of stealing a bull n the district of the Cow Pastures, the property of the Crown, on or about the 12th of October last; and the three first named prisoners were found guilty – Death; Patrick McGinnity acquitted.It appeared in evidence that the prisoner Love was a settler, living in the Cow-pasture District, to whom the prisoners Jones and McGinnity had been allowed as servants, and that Pickering was a trader; that many of the cattle composing what are denominated the wild herds, known to be the property of the Crown had been at different times slaughtered, and conveyed away by horses and carts to various parts of the settlement ; and\from the defence set up on behalf of the prisoners, disputing the possibility of identifying in these cattle the property of the Crown, it would appearthat the depredators upon these herds, had generally presumed upon this difficulty, and hence con-sidered that they might in security. This suggestion afforded to His Honor the JUDGE ADVOCATE an ample occasion of explaining away the criminal and erroneous conception, and of clearly demonstrating that the cattle in those pastures were to be identified with much greater facility and certainty than those of any private individual, whose herds might casually intermingle with others, and frequently occasion doubt in their identity : Whereas, that in the present case there could be no doubt, because it was to all well known that ALL the cattle in thosepastures belonged to the Crown, and that it was even a severely punishable trespass for any man to go where they were, without an especial Permission from His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR; which measure had been long since adopted for the prevention of such practices as those for which the prisoners at the bar were to answer. -That the very acts of trespassing upon those pastures being known to be criminal, it must be necessarily inferred that no man would there trespass without a criminal intention. In the present melancholy instance the criminal intention had been carried into full effect, and an actual crime perpetrated.This fact being proved, the question of identity was far less difficult, because it was generally known that all the cattle in the place where the offence was committed belonged to the Crown ;& that none could be withdrawn from thence that were not clearly known to be so. The practice of cattle stealing was in general too prevalent ; and the depredations committed upon these herds, particularly, required to be restrained ; which the event of this trial His HONOR had no doubt would lend considerably to effect.
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- John Love who had treated the Summoning Officer with Insolance when he served a summons upon him from this Court, and had refused to obey such summons, alledging that he was soldier appeared to answer to the matter in question, and n consequence of his continuancy and his general bad character (as imparted by Major Foveaux and others) was sentenced to receive 50 lashes, to be imprisoned one month, to find functions for his future good behaviour and to pay Baker the balance of his wheat
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- On Monday last a party of three persons, consisting of Mr. Scott, settler and district constable at the Cow Pastures ; another constable ; and Mr. Love, a settler formerly of the Field of Mars, went out in search of Scott’s horse, which had beep three days missing from its tether; and about 5 miles west of the Cow Pasture river found the horse safely tethered near a clef rock, on entering which they found a man with two muskets in his possession; and as they shewed a determination to apprehend him, he yielded, and informed his captors that a little further west there were some others to whom he would conduct them. This information induced them to proceed thitherward, and having advanced about two miles, saw at a distance a number of men, supposed frtom eight to ten, all armed, and not deeming it prudent to approach near, they retired, taking with them their prisoner, and a mare of Mr Uther’s, together with a horse that had been stolen from Mr Loughlin, a settler, both of which they found tethered close to each other, and licence led them to conclude, that the armed men had removed from the sport where the horses were on their approach. Mr Uther’s horse, and Loughlin’s mare were tethered the same night close to Scott’s horse at the Cowpasture River; but we are sorry to add the next morning both were gone from their fastenings. The apprehended person who was delivered up as a prisoner to the Magistrate of Liverpool, proves to be a deserted from the 73rd, named Harrison, and by whose account the banditi consists of 17 men.
James O’Brien gave me a contact email address for Margaret Cooper, as she was trying to contact me. I answered but as far as I can gather, I haven’t had a reply. Maybe it was missed as we were away for a month in July-August. (Or maybe I had a wrong email address ?? Not sure)
So I saw this & would be interested in emailing someone who is after the LOVE info etc. I can put what I have onto CD BUT as there are many alive in my program, I wouldn’t like it ONLINE.
I am not sure YET if we could get up to Rockhampton, but still would like to.
Look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Pauline Rice, Bowral, NSW.
Hello and congratulations on the forth coming Love Family Reunion, I am in the process of trying to find my family, and his name is John Love as well, but he married a Sarah Milner. I dont know how he came to New Zealand, but Sarah arrived aboard the ship Martha Ridgway. John’s father was Mr Love and his mother a Mrs Love from England, I have been able to trace Sarah’s family way back but unfortunatly nothing on my John Love.
I have a brother and all his family living in Australia
Regards John