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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Leitrim => Topic started by: cattao on Thursday 30 June 16 08:29 BST (UK)
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Looking for some facts/stories of the 1794? rebellion papers, have a convict Patrick Keighran sent to Australia 1796 per Marquis Cornwallis and need some background if possible as to trial, what was happening at the time, any help would be great to build a picture of those times.
Cheers
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My first reaction to your post was 'that's the wrong year, the rebellion was 1798' but I did a bit of searching and found this http://www.iol.com/~fagann/1798/dfender3.htm its not an easy read but gives an idea of the build up to 1798 through 1793 to 95.
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also this may help you as well www.thetreeofus.net/66569.htm it has mention of Patrick .
regards
trevor
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peter mayberry irish convicts
http://members.pcug.org.au
Patrick Keighran then when you click on his name this comes up,
says Alias Keoghan age 27.
born 1769 Tried 1793 leitrim, married 1810 did 1819 sydney
this site has lots of information on it might be able to help you, what does the Australian paper work say about him.
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Thanks folks, I have the treeofus information, talked to the owner, downloaded the 'heavy reading' of the rebellion and will take it in. pcug. link not working correctly today and have seen Peter Maybery's work which is great. Sadly when people put their stuff on the net very few sources are given and I'e been trained to find those sources. As yet have to check out if any of our early newspapers are on Trove but I'm getting there. Many thanks again.
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The NSW State Records Office has the Early Convict Index :) with digitised images from original records.
http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexesold/searchform.aspx?id=77
http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?Page=NRS12188/4_4003/Kappin-Knowles/12188_4_4003_0259-260.jpg&LinkedImg=12188_4_4003_0261-262.jpg
and
http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?Page=NRS1150/SZ115/1796%20Marquis%20Cornwallis/1150_SZ115_0409.jpg&LinkedImg=1150_SZ115_0410.jpg
and
http://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/colsec/default.htm
Trove's earliest newspapers date from 1803. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/search?adv=y
For a nominal subscription there's a newish website, Biographical Database of Australia ...
http://www.bda-online.org.au/
Cheers, JM
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if you go through google of one of the search enginees and type in the box, Peter Mayberry irish convicts
the page will come up.
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Thanks again everyone, I do have the convict index and quite a bit about the family it was the early times in Ireland I needed to get my head around. So have printed out the papers and will sit and digest!