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Alfred Dyts Information Sheet
Facts Below from information gathered by 
 A and E 0sborn
John Witts from Collarenebri NSW

        Native of England, County of  Diocese of Rochester, Born
        29/11/1808.

        Boarded  Orontes  from  London 23rd Nov 1837 to Sydney
        18th May 1838        

Ref.  occupation. (Ships records )
        Five Years service from15/6/1830 – 22/6/1835 in Metropolitan
        Police Reg. 4432.  
        Reference  Mr Bickwill, (Superintendent of Police ) London

        Silk hatter- Reference signed by H. Barr, Blackman St. London

        Religion—Protestant Episcopalian (C of E)

        Education—Reads and writes

Information after landing in Australia

Queenbeyan--  1839 Policeman,
                        1840 Lockup Keeper
                         27/2/1841 Chief Constable to 13/11/1851

                                    NSW Gazette

                         28/10/1842 appointed Inspector of Slaughterhouses 
                                           at Queenbeyan
                         27/4/1844   appointed Bailiff of the courts of petty 
                                             session Queenbeyan

                                   SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 1845

                          14/2/1845 Chief Constable   at Queenbeyan  
                                            Reprimanded for being inside 
                                            an INN after hours  Discovered there by
                                           HEWITT, a member of the mounted  police-
                                           innkeeper fined

                                             GOULBURN HERALD
                      15/7/1845 article on Queenbeyan Court House and Justice 
                                           Alfred Witts, Chief Constable—
                                           Acting as Attorney- General, and by virtue of office,
                                           law adviser

                       3/3/1849    Chief Constable at Queenbeyan Licensed as 
                                         auctioneer.                       

                                         Went to goldfields—Through 1852                       

Bombala                            1853 Chief Constable at Bombala to 1859 
                                          Dismissed illegally over wrongful arrest of daughter

                                          ( Click to see Graphic copy of Petition to legislative assembly of NSW )

                                          ( Click to see Graphic copy of Judgment legislative assembly of NSW )

                                          1861 Sheriffs Bailiff at Bombala

Port Macquarie                  1863 Prison Warder to 1878

                                          1869 Married Minnie Bell. ( Pt Macq. reg No. 3307 )

                                         Children-1870 Adolphus Clarke Witts-
                                                                 m. Hilder M Nowland in 1903                                        

                                                       1872 Minna Frances Witts- 
                                                                 m. Leslie John Dawson  13/7/1892

Young                                1878 Prison Warder to 1883

                                                   Retired- and lived in Dundas St. Young

                                                  Died 16/2/1895 in his own home at Capel St. 

Photographic Information

                                               Alfred Dyts WITTS_Immigrant Crt.
                                               Alfred Dyts WITTS Info.
                                               Bombala block land-1842
                                               Letter ref. to land-A. D. WITTS-1847

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