George Cook Cramp [7518] ²

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  Birth Notes:

Myrtle Creek ,Stonequarry , (Picton )

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: fettler, 1861, Bigga, Georgiana County, New South Wales. ⁶

• Newspaper: TUESDAY?MARCH 28, 1865 Mar 29, Goulburn District, New South Wales. ⁷ TUESDAY'97MARCH 28. (1865, March 29). The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle (NSW : 1864 - 1881), p. 2. Retrieved April 2, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100827102>

Tuesday '97 March 28.
Before W. E. Dignam, Esq.
AIDING AND ASISTING BUSHRANGERS. George
Cramp was brought up charged with this offence.
Detective Pye deposed that he was present when
prisoner was apprehended by Senior-constable
Hughes; Hughes could not attend to-day ; he prayed
a remand to the 30th.
Remanded accordingly.
BUSHRANGING-Billy, an aboriginal, was brought
up charged as above.
Senior-constable O'Brien deposed: From informa-
tion received I apprehended the prisoner at Vardy's,
Cook's Vale Creek, on a charge of stealing a mare,
saddle, and bridle from Robert Dugdule at Diamond
Creek on the 22nd instant; he said that if, he had
had firearms he would not have been taken so easily,
that he would have shot me before he would have
allowed himself to be taken; and that if I had not
taken him then he was going off to join Gilbert's
mob; he said he could stand a good lagging, and
they could not hang him; had seen him once before
in Binda; I told him the charge, and also another
charge of stealing a gun from John Brownlow ;
the saddle and bridle I got at Vardy's public-house,
and the mare afterwards in the bush, at Diamond
Creek, and which prisoner acknowledged having had
possession of.
Robert Dugdalo deposed; I teach children to read
and write, and live at Diamond Creek, near Binda ;
on last Wednesday I was at Mr. Brownlow's, and
saw prisoner there; he came up and demanded the
spurs off my feet; I asked him how he was to get
them; he put his hand across my breast and his
hat fell off; I struck him; he called me some
names, and left; I was afterwards going homo; he
had a gun, which he presented at me, and asked if I
was going to give him that horse; I stuck to the
mare; the barrel of the gun went across my face; I
got hold of it, but it was too slippery, and I could
not hold it; prisoner got the reins out of my hand,
and got possession of the mare; she had bridle and
saddle on; I again got hold of the reins; prisoner
presented the gun at me and threatened to shoot me
and to knock my brains out; I then let the mare
go; prisoner rode off; I saw no more of him till I
saw him in the Binda lock-up; two other men were
about the place, and saw part of what was going on;
one was Mr. Brownlow; the mare is now outside
the court; the saddle and bridle produced are those
taken front me by prisoner; the mare had a foal,
and I met her next morning coming home, and
caught her.
John Brownlow deposed: On the 22nd prisoner
was at my house; he took up a gun belonging to
me; he asked if it were any good; I said that the
hammer was off, and that it was no good; prisoner
walked away with it; I then saw him in the paddock
presenting the gun at Dugdale; he took the mare
away from Dugdale; I went and asked prisoner
where he was going; he said that he was going to
have a ride; I asked him to shake hands with me,
but when he saw me coming towards him he gal-
loped away; I afterwards gave information to the
police, and wont with them to Vardy's, where pri-
soner was arrested ; the gun produced is mine; it
was not broken as it is now when prisoner took it,
but it had no hammer nor ramrod.
William Pollard deposed. I am a laborer, and
live at Phil's River ; last Wednesday, when at work
at a shed, I saw prisoner holding a horse by the bri-
dle and beating it about the head with what I took'
to be the but end of a gun; he got on the horse and
rode towards me, and picked up the barrel of a gun;
he came to me and asked where I lived; we had
some conversation; he said that he was one of Gil-
bert's mob, and had a camp on the hill, and that he
had come down for some rations ; I told him I had
none; he threw down the barrel and stock of the
gun produced, and said he would give it to me; he
offered to sell it; I refused; he went to my hut; he
afterwards rode off, and left the gun at the shed; I
gave the gun to Constable O'Brien; prisoner appeared
quite stupified.
John Brownlow, recalled, deposed: Prisoner ap-
peared quite sober at my place.
Committed for trial at the assizes.

• Newspaper: TUESDAY?APRIL 25, 1865 Apr 26, Goulburn District, New South Wales. ⁸ TUESDAY'97APRIL 25. (1865, April 26). The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle (NSW : 1864 - 1881), p. 2. Retrieved April 2, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100826799>

RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.
In the case of George Cramp (on bail) charged
with this offence, the crown prosecutor declined to
prosecute and the prisoner was discharged.

• Occupation: Farmer at "Briars", 1872, Binda, Georgiana County, New South Wales. ⁹

• Registration: Death, 1915, Crookwell District, New South Wales, Australia. ¹⁰ 15806/1915
CRAMP, GEORGE
JURY
MARY A
CROOKWELL

George married Mary Ann Pearce [7519] [LX9H-4MF] [MRIN: 5400], daughter of Richard Pearce [9516] [LX9H-4R2] and Elizabeth Maginnis [9517] [LX9H-HDW], on 1861 Mar 6 in Goulburn, Argyle County, New South Wales.¹ (Mary Ann Pearce [7519] [LX9H-4MF] was born on 1836 Apr 9 in New South Wales,¹¹ died on 1914 Jul 11 in Chain of Ponds, Crookwell Shire, New South Wales, Australia ¹ and was buried in Binda Cemetery, Georgiana County, New South Wales, Australia ¹².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registration: Marriage, 1861, Goulburn District, New South Wales. ¹³ 1780/1861
CRAMP, GEORGE
PEARCE, MARY ANN
GOULBURN

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1861 Mar 9, Goulburn District, New South Wales. ¹⁴ Family Notices. (1861, March 9). Goulburn Herald (NSW : 1860 - 1864), p. 2. Retrieved August 4, 2014, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102587701>

MARRIED,
ON 6th instant, at St. Saviour's Church, Goulburn,
by the Rev. W. Sowerby, Mr. GEORGE CRAMP,
to Miss MARY ANN PIERCE, of Crookwell.

  Marriage Notes:

St Saviour's, Church of England, Goulburn.

Mary Ann Pearce 22 the granddaughter of John Pearce, at the time of her brother Richard's death in Sydney was living in Crookwell not far from her Uncle Thomas McGuiness's Sheep Station at Bigga. On 6th March just over a month after brother Richard's death she married George Cook Cramp 24, at St Savour's Cathedral at Goulburn. Witnesses were: Charles Baker signed the register and hannah Cramp, signed with her mark X. George stated he was a fettler and Mary Ann a Spinster.
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