Michael Connolly

[Vabre]

Hi Neil,
How interesting for it appears he may have continued his life of crime in NSW for he was tried in Dublin in 1828 with his brother-in-law Patrick Dodd and committed for life for highway robbbery.

I think I will need to go to Kingswood to seek the Norfolk Island connection to see if I can marry it up with what you have found.

Many thanks Neil.

Pam...Sydney

[Dundee]

NSW death index
V1844490 140/1844    CONNELL    MICHAEL    AGE 52

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

The ticket of leave states that this Michael was tried at Dublin 5 November 1828, sentenced to Life, arrived on the Guidford '8' in 1829, and died on 5 July 1847 at Green's (?) Creek Station.

Debra 

[giblet]

Thanks Debra 

[Neil Todd]

I don't think that the Michael Connolly at Bathurst is the correct one.

Neil

[giblet]

None of this on Michael is adding up 

According to this Michael died in 1844 and also according to Pam he died then.

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

According to the info Debra found Michael died .... he ticket of leave states that this Michael was tried at Dublin 5 November 1828, sentenced to Life, arrived on the Guidford '8' in 1829, and died on 5 July 1847 at Green's (?) Creek Station.

THEN we have

he 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.

And then what Neil found dated 1832.

All these state Michael Connolly per Guildford 1829.

[Dundee]

The inquest register gives 'natural causes' as a cause of death, inquest held at MacLeay River on 24 July 1847, and notes he died on 15 July. 

Debra 

[Neil Todd]

Well I think Michael Connolly is a very common name and I think you may find many trips of the Guilford. 2 + 2 more than one Michael on the Guilford sometime prior to 1832. Sentence to Norfolk was just for what the authorities at the time called, "the incorrigible" and it was like a death sentence. I am surprised he returned to die in Macleay Area. Was he still a prisoner when he died?

Obviously this is not going to be an easy one working out just who was who.

Neil

MODIFIED....Gees I always forget something.... A sentence of life on Norfolk really me4ant never to be released and those offenders if not dead already were transferred to Hobart. So very doubtful if the one in Macleay region is right one also

[Vabre]

I am like all of you, totally confused, but thank you all so much for your input.
All I know is Michael Connolly arrived on the Guilford ( in 1829 with his brother in law Patrick Dodd, they were convicted of highway robbery and tried in Dublin in 1828 receiving a life sentence.

Many thanks,

Pam...Sydney

[majm]

Several  lots of bits and pieces, Pam, 


May I please ask how certain are you that your chap sentenced to NI as a direct consequence of the Dublin trial?

Also, have you checked out the following chap?

Michl CONNELLY, ex the Guildford (9), date of burial :  Dec 1848, in the Port Macquarie district.   “remarks” on the NSW SRO convict death register read : “ Vide Letter dated 16 Feb 1849, No. 726”
http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/searchform.aspx?id=65 

Patrick DODD, ex the 1829 arrival of Guildford, received TL in 1838.  No. 709.  This was in the Goulburn district of NSW.   He had been tried in Dublin.

Possibly the same chap BUT that’s JM speculating …. Patrick DODD, ex the 8th voyage of the Guildford was recommended for a Conditional Pardon in 1845 (recommended by WP Faithful and W H House, both JPs).

Patrick DODD, ex Guildford 1829, received a Conditional Pardon (2C) on 1 July 1846.  Ref No. 46/376

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/indexes-online/indexes-online 


Cheers,  JM