Michael Connolly

[Vabre]

Michael Connolly was transported to N.S.W.from Ireland in 1829 for highway robbery.He was trialed in Dublin City on the 5th. November 1828 with his brother in-law Patrick Dodd. Michael was sent to Norfolk Island, what I am trying to find out is why was he sent there.

Many thanks,
Pam....Sydney

[giblet]

This might make interesting reading if you havent seen it already

http://www.pitcairners.org/settlements2.html

[giblet]

Connelly    Michael    
Guildford  (1829)    1828
Dublin City    Life    
Birth year 1804
Wicklow Co    
Death 1844 Macleay River District    
Remarks Ploughman shearer Norfolk Island

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausnorfo/depot/irishconvicts1791-1831.htm

[giblet]

Sometimes the Norfolk Island Museum can be helpful with little snippets of some convicts. Could be worth dropping them a email and seeing if they have anything on your fella.

http://norfolkislandmuseum.com.au/

[Dundee]

Michael's ticket of leave dated 27 Jan 1847 states that he was tried at the Supreme Court, Sydney on 18 Feb 1832 and sentenced to 21 years at Norfolk Island.

Debra 

[giblet]

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842)
Saturday 31 May 1834

 BATHURST.

Thomas Finnerty, free, holding a Ticket of Leave, to be Constable, from the 11th instant, in the room of Michael Connolly, per Guildford, holding a Ticket of Leave, dismissed for neglect of duty.

[giblet]

NSW death index
V1844490 140/1844    CONNELL    MICHAEL    AGE 52

Debra would that be the right ticket of leave if Michael died in 1844 

[majm]

NSW death index
V1844490 140/1844    CONNELL    MICHAEL    AGE 52

Debra would that be the right ticket of leave if Michael died in 1844 

There was a Michael CONNELL arriving on the 1827 voyage of the Guildford  as per NSW SRO
http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/searchform.aspx?id=65

Re the burial index for a Michael CONNELL, aged 52....  perhaps that would be for the chap mentioned in the following two cuttings from Trove ?  The reference is not for a death certificate, as civil registrations for deaths did not commence in NSW until 1856.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/37123171  The Australian 28 June 1844.  Coroner’s Inquest on a labourer named Michael CONNELL. 
(verdict apoplexy)

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/28650475 SMH 28 June 1844
Inquest on Michael Connell …. Witness statements  (Verdict apoplexy /natural causes)

Cheers,  JM
 

[Vabre]

To giblet, Debra (Dundee), JM (marjm), many thanks for your help, greatly appreciated.

Pam...Sydney