I have just been contacted by a convict researcher about Michael Allan, convict no.4585. I googled him and came across this forum so hopefully I have posted a reply correctly. I am sure they will get back to me with more info. I already had this
From Freemantle Prison Australia
ALLEN, Michael
4585
1 Jan 1858
Nile
Date of Birth: 1833
Marital Status: Unmarried
Occupation: Horse dealer
Literacy: Illiterate
Sentence Place: Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Crime: Robbery with violence
Sentence Period: Life
Ticket Leave Date: 14 Oct 1861
Conditional Pardon Date: 11 Oct 1866
Greetings from Australia. I am a direct descendant of Michael Allen, of the Matfen Murder saga. I have had a very quick look at the first page of this thread and will look at the rest soon, but very excited to find it. Sadly, Michael never made it back to the UK. He was granted Ticket of Leave in 1861 and Conditional Pardon in 1866. He married Mary Ann McLochlin (nee Wellington) in 1866 and the only child of this union was my great grandmother, Isabella Louisa Allen, born in 1868. Michael died in 1873 aged 39 in Geraldton, Western Australia. Mary Ann married again the same year Michael died and went on to have another 7 children to George Robinson. Isabella, a midwife, died aged 60 in 1928. Until she married she continued to use the surname of Allen and did not take on the Robinson name despite being only 5 when Michael died.
