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'h: Drowning Jan 1829'"h: Drowning Jan 1829"
  • CREIGHTON John Wilford 
    Gender Male 
    Death 02 Jan 1829  Drowned at sea off Sydney Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1020  NewcastleLinks
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2025 

    Family TOOLE Ann,  
    b. Abt 1812, UK Find all individuals with events at this location
    d. 14 Jun 1896, Ultimo, Sydney, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 84 years) 
    Marriage 06 Jun 1826  Hexham, Newcastle, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F47  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2025 

John and TOOLE Ann's children :
F47



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    • BDM NSW REG #3795/1826 V18263795 3B (marriage) Details: CREIGHTON JOHN W /TOOL ANN district-CH[ COE Hexam, Newcastle, Christ Church]
      Also Registered as BDM NSW REG #223/1826 V1826223 10 (marriage)
      and registered as BDM NSW REG #541/1826 V1826541 44B (marriage)
      both with the same details as above.

      John was born in Ireland, and sailed on the "Bencoolen" in 1819 after a brush with the law
      that gave him a 7 year one way ticket to NSW.
      John found it hard to settle, and at least 3 times was sentenced as a runaway, doing time at
      Newcastle, Port Macquarie (NSW) and Macquarie Harbour (Tas).
      In 1826, John was "free by servitude" and married my gg- aunt Anne Toole. He was 26 and
      she was 14.
      In 1828 census, they were living in Kent Street. However between the recording of the
      census, and its publication in Jan 1829 much changed !
      John had been part of the first Australian bank robbery and had drowned in Sydney harbour,
      Anne was a widow, and about to marry another of the banks robbers - James Dingle.
      The Bank of Australia robbery was the first bank robbery in Australia and apparently the
      largest. On 14 September 1828 a gang of five robbers - William Blackstone , George Farrell ,
      James Dingle, John Wilford alias Creighton and Valentine Rourke - tunnelled through a
      sewage drain into the vault of the Bank of Australia and stole some £14,000 in promissory
      notes and coins. The crime was discovered the following day. Although suspicions
      immediately fell on Blackstone, Farrell and Dingle, they escaped an indictment until
      Blackstone turned informer two years later. By then Creighton was dead and Rourke had left
      the country. Only Dingle and Farrell faced the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 10
      June 1831. Both were found guilty but escaped the gallows because of convict attaint: that is,
      legal concerns as to whether Blackstone's evidence was admissible because of a previous
      death sentence.
      Oh what a tangled web!



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