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Note: Arrived from England on the 'James Pattison' in 1834. He travelled to SA in 1834 on Defiance & Meredith's whaling boat from Sydney. In 1835 James, along with Dorothea, Mary and her husband, Matthew Gill, became shipwrecked at Thistle Cove (40 km east of Esperence) then travelled to Middle Island, the base of the pirate Black Jack Anderson. James Jr. then signed on as a boat hand.
On the 23rd June 1835 James Newell Jr and James Manning were set a shore without provisions on the mainland after being involved in an argument with Anderson. They travelled along the coast for six weeks, arriving in Albany on August 9, 1835. They were assisted by men from the White Cockatoo, Murray and Will-men Aboriginal tribes. It was reported in a letter to the Colonial Secretary dated August 10, 1835, that the aboriginal men were to be given a small portion of flour and a frock coat each for having carried Manning and Newell to the property of Mr John Cheyne. [Ref: See Letter to the Colonial Secretary, dated August 10, 1835].
On the 23 January, 1843, James was a witness at the trial in Albany of Thomas Prescott and George Swift on charges of stealing 250 sovereigns from John William Andrews.
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