I am Mary Hand's great great granddaughter. My records show she was born in Ireland in about 1806-1807; she was tried on 18/08/1829 in Mullingar for stabbing Michael Galvin and sentenced to death on the first Saturday in January 1830. This was commuted to transportation and she was sent to Kingstown. A record of a Mary Hand from Westmeath is found in Kilmainheim gaol. She was then transported for life to Australia and left on the ship, Forth 2 in 1830 for Sydney. Here in Sydney she married a free settler and had at least 2 daughters, 17 grandchildren including my grandfather. I would love details of the Hand family remaining, any birth details and information on Peter Hand who was sentenced for the same crime.
leoniekevlea
Tuesday 5th Feb 2013, 08:30AMMessage Board Replies
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Hi,
Thank you for your message.
Do you have any information on the family that remained in Ireland that you can share? Do you know what Mary?s parents? names were? What was her relationship to Peter Hand?
You could try searching for any Hands that were in the area during Griffith?s Valuation. This was a property valuation survey carried out between 1848 and 1864. You can search this here:
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/
You may also be able to find some records at Family Search. This has a huge database of records including a collection of Irish births, baptisms, marriages. You can search this here:
You could also try searching the indexes to civil registration records, which begin in 1864. You can do so here:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347
Some other websites that you may find useful are:
The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm
Genealogy Links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/westmeath/index.html
Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/index.htm
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Kind regards,
Genealogy Support
Wednesday 10th Apr 2013, 03:05PM -
Thank you. I will spend some time going through this information. All I know about Mary was that she was 22 and a dairymaid. Peter, her brother was a lad of 15. He met a violent death in the colony of NSW.
leoniekevlea
Sunday 6th Mar 2016, 09:43AM