A MCLEOD ON THE SURREY I

FROM THE VERY IMPRESSIVE HUNTER RIVER SITE. FREE SETTLER OR FELON.

68584
McLeod
Daniel
Surry 1814
1819 8 April
Newcastle
Convict Settlement
Punished for assisting runaways from Limeburners

70258
McLeod
Daniel
Surry 1814
1816
Newcastle
CSI
On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle

MARY AND WILLIAM MCNALLY AND THEIR LAND GRANTS

According to Mrs Hamilton-Grey,or,as Izzy calls her Fotherington-Smythe , William and Mary received land grants at Bellambi. She claims that these are in some way associated with their being born in England. They are the eldest two children and as yet we haven’t found evidence of the grants nor of what they were associated with. Mrs HG speculates on the possibility of their being connected with the Military Service of their father Patrick. Other possibilities which have so far arisen are:

• THEY MIGHT BE THE CHILDREN OF A FORMER MARRIAGE OF JUDITH. E.G AS MCDERMOTT
• THEY COULD BE FAMILY GRANTS
• THIS MIGHT BE A COMMON OCCURRENCE. EG. IN THE CASE OF THE BELLS OF TWEED WHERE 2 SONS AND ONE SISTER RECEIVED GRANTS WHILE VERY YOUNG.

Below is an extract from BACK TO BELLAMBI AND CORRIMAL. 1980.  by SYD LONG. ( This is from a photocopy whose origins I do not know. Apologies right now if used without permission and appreciation to whoever passed it on to us )

In this article , it says that JAMES MARTIN was granted the 50 acres in 1830. James was the husband of Mary. If Mrs HGs facts are correct then James claims the land which was his wife’s, sells it and leaves her never to be seen again.  I shall add some of her writing which includes information gathered locally and from Elders of the Area.

IS THIS THE TIME AND PLACE MELINDA WRITES OF IN HER POEM: BELLAMBI’S LAKE?  The time when the McNallys have at least 100 acres of land in what is reputed to be a beautiful place. After servitude and criminal investigations - does the McNally family come here and stand before a future they cannot yet envision ?

 

BELLAMBI LINKS

• THE BELLAMBI LIGHT
• PLACE NAMES OF WOLLONGONG
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollongong,_New_South_Wales

• Colina. Schooner, 54 tons.Timber carrier, operating out of Sealer’s Cove, Wilsons Promontory, 1840s, 1850s. Lost at the mouth of the Wagonga River, NSW, 1865. [LWP]
  In June 1853, capsized in a squall at Geelong, drowning a young lad of eleven (or perhaps fourteen). [WPP],[LC]
  In 1860, almost wrecked at Bellambi, NSW: SHIPWRECKS.

• http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Illawarra:Line.htm: RAILWAY STATIONS

CASTLEREAGH

LAND GRANTS

http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/print.asp?id=235

ON THE PENRITH CITY SITE

http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/index.asp?id=458

Thanks to TM - we now have letters from Rev Fulton at Castlereagh House in 1822 and 1824 - in which he gives details of the transactions between himself and Patrick McNally. Seems Major Druitt who was chief engineer for the Colony, had contracted Patrick to build a fence around Rev Fulton’s Glebe. Fulton had a school called CASTLEREAGH HOUSE.

This fence building contract led to trouble with Patrick and others being accused of stealing 5 pigs. Patrick was to be acquitted of this crime but on reading further into it - it appears that he spent a least some time in County Gaol as a result , that financial difficulties were experienced by Judith and the children and that it resulted in their leaving the Hawkesbury and moving into Sydney Town. The illustration below from the Western Sydney Libraries is not what  I expected. I expected a two storey grand residence but there it is. Now Patrick was to build the fence but somewhere in that happening came the ” pig stealing” from Mr John Harris , a settler.

LAND GRANT 30 Jun 1803
King
John Harris
90 ACRES
Castlereagh

http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/print.asp?id=1474

Who knows what happened ? Who knows what it led to ?

In the interest of the Poet who is Melinda, this does in all probability place her near the ACADEMY which housed Charles Tompson Jnr. The Native Minstrel, a boy born in the colony as was Melinda and of a similar age to her brother and sister William and Mary.

 

CHARLES TOMPSON JNRS DEDICATION TO REV FULTON IN WILD NOTES (FROM THE LYRE OF A NATIVE MINSTREL )

FULTON LINKS

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010388b.htm

www.granvillehistorical.org.au/Newsletters/June%20Guardian%202005.pdf

http://www.westernsydneylibraries.nsw.gov.au/westernsydney/fulton.html

Rev John Fulton’s Classical Academy

http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/lists/index.html

EXTENSIVE RESOURCES FOR HAWKESBURY

 

MAJOR DRUITT LINKS

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~garter1/georgedr.htm

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010308b.htm

 

 

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LYNNE SANDERS-BRAITHWAITE

PATRICK AND MILITARY OFFENCES

QUEENSTON CANADA

 

DATA FROM “THE CONVICT SETTLERS OF AUSTRALIA ” BY L.L. ROBSON

Patrick McNally was transported for life to NSW and in fact did not receive a pardon till 1843. Robson provides statistics profiling the CONVICT SETTLERS of Australia as he calls them. As regards Patrick whom we now know documentally to have been convicted of DESERTION at Court Martial in Quebec ( at Fort Chambly)  - here are some relevant figures. Patrick and his family were in a minority group even amongst convicts and families as these statistics verify. The implications of this on a young woman of poetic disposition - well - who can tell ? Robson works on a sample of 6,131 men and women from the app 150,000 transported individuals from 1787 - 1852.

Robson states that app 60,900 men were sent to NSW . On a very loose statistical basis for the purposes of this blog and romance - multiply  by 10 -for approximate numbers.

From Robson’s sample of 6.131 individuals : ( With 60,000 being the app number of transported men to NSW )

140 were tried overseas .	2% then were tried overseas.	He doesn’t indicate as to whether or not court martials are included but it seems to be likely because military offences are amongst his sample.
155 were convicted of MILITARY OFFENCES.	2.5 %
194 were defence personnel.	3 %
1085 were between 25-30 years of age	18 %
1072 were married	17 %
2847 were Roman Catholic	19 %
1389 were Irish	23 %
15 men were tried overseas in the years 1810-1819 and from 1787-1852 only 140 were tried overseas.	2 %
1360 of the men had no previous convictions
37 of the 140 men tried overseas received life
106 of the 194 defence personnel were tried overseas
30 of the 140 men tried overseas were between the ages of 25-30
11 of the 140 men tried overseas were married
30 of the 140 men tried overseas were roman catholic
27 of the 140 men tried overseas were born in Ireland
No men were transported for military offences before 1800.  4 were transported between 1800-09.
28 OF THE 155 MEN TRANSPORTED FOR military offences  were sentence to LIFE
91 of the 155 men transported for military offences were tried overseas
154 of the 155 military offences were connected with defence		the other being a transport matter
33 of the 155 military men were between 25-30
12 of the 155 military men were married
3399 of the 6131 sample were sent to NSW		the others being sent to Van Diemens Land
between 1810-19 , 545 out of 662 male convicts were sent to NSW		“

 

 

 

 

 

MELINDA KENDALL

MUSTERS AND CENSUSES AND ARCHIVES ! AAH !

NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL ARCHIVES - ARMIDALE.

THIS IS THE HERITAGE CENTRE. UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND. C.B. NEWLING CAMPUS. ARMIDALE NSW. 2351. TEL. 02 67736555

FROM THE FILES AT THE CLARENCE  HISTORY SOCIETY AND UNE REGIONAL ARCHIVES WE HAVE SOME MUSTER AND CENSUS DETAILS. Mr William Oates in Armidale brought us in from the cold of Armidale in Winter and introduced us to the Archives held there as well as explaining what he could and accessing files for us. William told us that Armidale and Grafton had a strange relationship. Finding a way from the New England down to the Clarence created an interesting dynamic then as it does today.  William took us upstairs to the Stack. It included a 15th century document found in a shearing shed on the New England. He wished us well on the Clarence and we had hoped to find ledgers or station books for Gordon Brook or Bushy Park which didn’t happen - YET. We were however able to access , in both towns , various papers , books and documents. Includijng the Musters and Census. McNally turned out to have even more spelling variants than we had so far considered. 

• 1814 MUSTER - JUDITH MCANNALLY, BROXBORNEBURY, 3 CHILDREN , WIFE OF P MCNALLY.

 

• 1822 MUSTER

 

MCINNALTY,PATRICK	TL	SURRY I	LIFE	COUNTY GAOL SYDNEY
MCNALTY, JUDITH	CF	BROXBORNEBURY	WIFE OF P MCNALTY	WINDSOR
MCNALTY, MARY  15	CF	BROX		WINDSOR
MCNALTY, WILLIAM  12	CF	BROX		WINDSOR
MCNALTY, ELIZA  10	CF	BROX		WINDSOR
MCNALTY, MATILDA 6	CF	BROX		WINDSOR
MCNALTY, SARAH 3	CF	BROX		WINDSOR

 

• 1823 MUSTER

MCNALTY, PATRICK ,	TL	SURRY I 1814	LIFE	GOVT SERVANT TO WIFE
MCNALTY, JUDITH	CF	BROXBORNEBURY 1814	HOUSEHOLDER	KENT ST SYDNEY
MCNALTY, MARY  17	BC		CHILD OF JUDITH	KENT STREET SYDNEY
MCNALTY, WILLIAM  15	BC		“	“
MCNALTY, ELIZA  12	BC		“	“
MCNALTY, MATILDA  9	BC		CHILD OF JUDITH SERVANT	WITH REV MR HILL
MCNALTY, SARAH  5	BC		“	KENT STREET SYDNEY
MCNALTY, JOHN  2	BC		“	KENT ST SYDNEY

 

• 1825 MUSTER ? MCANNALTY PATRICK EMPLYED BY UNDERWOOD SYDNEY ?

 

• 1828 CENSUS

MCKNALLY, PATRICK F45	GS	SURRY I 1814 L	C.	LABOURER	KENT ST SYDNEY
MCNALLY MARY 19	CF	BROX 1814	C	HOUSEKEEPER JAS MARTIN	KENT ST SYDNEY
MCNALLY MATILDA 11	BC		P	WITH REV HILL	CASTLEREAGH ST SYDNEY
MCNALLY WILLIAM 18	BC		C	AT PATRICK KEIGHRAN	AIRDS
MCNALTY 40	GS	SURRY I 1814 L	C	CARTER THOS BARKER	KENT ST SYDNEY

PATRICK MCNALLY AND HIS COURT MARTIAL

We have been waiting for several excited months for a package from Canada. Two, in fact. Almost daily, Izzy has been down at the local Village Store Post Office, politely enquiring as to the whereabouts. Canada assured us they had been sent  and that it takes a long time for a parcel to get from Canada to Australia. Took almost as  long as the 19th century ships but today they arrived. One is a fine book - SELECT BRITISH DOCUMENTS OF THE CANADIAN WAR OF 1812. VOLUME I.  Edited with an introduction by William Wood. A nice thick red hardback to add to the tomes we are already ploughing through.  The second parcel contained details of the COURT MARTIAL OF PATRICK MCNALLY IN 1812.

From the CANADIAN LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES.

BRITISH MILITARY AND NAVAL RECORDS.

At a General Court Martial held at Chambly the 21st day of October 1812, John Moore Private Soldier in the 103 Regiment was arraigned upon the following charge. Viz:

       ” Desertion from the Camp at Blanifindy ? on or about the 28th of September last. “

        Upon which charge the Court came to the following decision.

        The Court having heard and examined the information exhibited against the Prisoner together with his defence is of the opinion the John Moore Private Soldier in the 103rd Regiment of Foot is Guilty of the Desertion laid to his Charge and doth therefore for the same adjudge the said John Moore to receive Eight hundred lashes to be inflicted in the usual manner.

        The Commander of the Forces approves of the above Sentence and directs that it may be carried into execution at such time and place as Major General Rothenbury ? may appoint. G.C

        At the same General Court Martial Joseph Montgomery and Patrick McNally Privates in the 100th Regiment were arraigned upon the following charge - Viz. 5

        ” Desertion from the said Regiment , said Joseph Montgomery on or about the Month of September 1809 and the said Patrick McNally on or about the month of February 1810 , upon which Charge the Court came to the following decision -

        ” The Court having heard and examined the information exhibited against the Prisoners Joseph Montgomery and Patrick McNally Private Soldiers in the 100th Regiment of Foot together with their defence, is of the opinion that they are Guilty of the Crime laid to their Charge and therefore for the same adjudge the said Joseph Montgomery and Patrick McNally to be transported as Felons for Life “

        The Commander of the Forces approves of the above sentence and directs that the Prisoners Joseph Montgomery and Patrick McNally be sent to Quebec to be there kept in Confinement until an opportunity offers to send them to England in order that their Sentence may be brought into effect. ( Signed ) G. Baynes ? 

 

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