John Warn [22640] ¹

   FamilySearch ID: 26L7-YGF.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: As convict per "Surrey", 1823, Sydney Cove, Cumberland County, New South Wales. ¹

• Newspaper: The Sydney Morning Herald, 1865 Jan 27. ³ BUSHRANGING NEAR GOULBURN. (1865, January 27). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954), p. 4. Retrieved March 3, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13108172>

BUSHRANGING NEAR GOULBURN
(From the Goulburn Herald, January 25.)
ON Wednesday last Ben Hall, Gilbert, and Dunn paid a visit to Mr. W. Ford's inn, near Tuena, and took £10 in cash. They also robbed three Chinamen of some £15 or £20, and then left.
On Thursday they visited Mr. James Christie of the Lost River, near Wheoo. Mr. Christie is a far- mer, and keeps a small store. They took a miscel- laneous assortment of goods from him, with which they loaded a pack-horse. Mr. Christie's loss is about £40.
On Saturday the bushrangers visited Mr. John Warne's at the Crookwell. They took a horse that has run on The Goulburn course and which is well known as Young Waverley, and two others, but beyond this they do not appear to have taken any- thing. Young Waverley and one of the other horses were recovered the same day.
It would seem that on leaving Mr. Warne's the bushrangers proceeded to Mr. Willoughby's, distant about ten miles. They here secured the racehorses, Jerrawong and Peacock, that recently ran at Marulan, and were being kept for the anniversary races in Goulburn to-morrow. Their taking these accounts for their release of two of Mr. Warne's horses.
Yesterday, as the mail from Yass to Goulburn was at the Breadalbane Plains, between Lodge's and Hilton's public-houses, Hall, Gilbert, and Dunn rode up from the bush and fired at the coach. There were as passengers, Mr. Castles, a gentleman who keeps a school near Sydney and who occupied the box seat, a youth who seems to have a particular objection to mentioning his name or to giving any information connected with the transaction, two policemen named Cade and McCarthy, and a lunatic in their custody. The bushrangers were about a hundred or a hundred and fifty yards from the coach, and spread at about thirty yards from each other. One of the balls whizzed past the driver and Mr. Castles, and another is said to have made a hole through one of the curtains of the coach, though, from an examination of the orifice, it scarcely appears to have been made in this way. The policemen de- sired the coachman to pull up, and they then dis- mounted. They took aim with their carbines at the bushrangers and fired ; but, though Cade believed that he hit either Gilbert or his horse, it would appear that the injury, if any, was trifling. Gilbert fired a second time, this time from a rifle, and after some apparent telegraphing between themselves the bushrangers rode off, returning in a few minutes to within a nearly similar distance of the coach, when they again wheeled round, and finally went away. The police continued walking alongside the coach until after the horses had been changed, and until they got on the open plain. Haste was then made by the driver to make up for lost time, and the coach arrived at its usual hour. Although there is often abundant reason to condemn the police system and the manner in which it operates to the disad- vantage of the public service, it is seldom that the men themselves show any just grounds of complaint; and on the present occasion, so far as can be gathered, it appears that both Cade and McCarthy behaved very well, and that they de- serve to be favourably mentioned. Had they had the advantage of being armed with the new revolving rifles instead of with carbines, it is very possible they would have succeeded in shooting the bushrangers.
The same day, the bushrangers called at Bean's inn, three miles from Gunning, and ransacked the place; but we have not heard whether they took anything away. A Mr. Richard Fenton, a traveller stopping there, was robbed of £2, and his horse and saddle taken possession of; but, on his earnest en- treaty, was allowed to retain them. Dunn's horse was said to have been knocked up.

John married Eliza Newham [22641] [M5L5-KHW] [MRIN: 9225] on 1826 Aug 8 in St.Johns , Parramatta, NSW, Australia. (Eliza Newham [22641] [M5L5-KHW] was born in 1813 in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia ⁴, christened on 1813 Mar 21 in St Matthews Church, Windsor, New South Wales, Australia,⁴ died on 1866 Nov 12 in Crookwell, New South Wales, Australia ⁴ and was buried on 1866 Dec 12 in Anglican, Cemetery, Crookwell, N.S.W. ⁴.)