David Punchard

The online Convict Exiles Index show that David Punchard was on board the "Bangalore" on 1 January 1850 which arrived in New South Wales on 30 April 1850. He was an exile who had been sentenced in 1847.

While transportation of convicts to New South Wales officially ceased in 1842, exiles were transported between 1846 and 1850. 

David Punchard was granted a ticket of leave in September 1850, just five months after arriving in the colony. Tickets of leave or conditional pardons were granted to exiles upon arrival in NSW. Exiles were prisoners that had already served part of their sentence in Britain.

The New South Wales Government Gazette of 22 August 1851, reported on ticket of leave holders who were absent illegally, resulting in the cancellation of their tickets of leave, including:

David Punchard, Bangalore, 41, Ipswich, indoor servant, 5 feet 6 inches, ruddy comp., brown hair, brown eyes, upper teeth right jaw broken, small round scar on nose, another on centre of forehead, small scar centre of lower lip, round scars back of right and left wrist, breast, arms, and legs hairy; from ticket of leave, Moreton Bay, since May, 1851.

David Punchard was a bush carpenter in partnership with Francis Henry Farrington in the Fassifern in 1861.