I have 2 Roman Catholic convicts, brothers transported per Lord Sidmouth 1821. Mathew aka Michael and Timothy CONNELLY. According to Mathew's headstone in McCarthy's Cemetery Cranebrook NSW he was born 8 October 1797. He was transported for life. Timothy was born c1796 and he was transported for 7 years. Their trials were at Wexford and sentence was in July 1820.
Can anyone tell me if the trial was reported in a newspaper which one would be likely and are there surviving copies anywhere?
I have plenty of information to share regarding their lives in Australia.
Their convict documents say they are from Wexford but I don't know if that means county or town but as Timothy was charged with stealing a pig, perhaps they were in a rural area.
Lyn
Thursday 31st Jan 2013, 01:49AM
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Hi Lyn
I am also chasing the same family and have been trying to contact you for some time.
I believe these 2 boys had a brother called Michael who was given a paid passage for his family in 1845 and they settled in the Maitland area and lived and died in those surrounds.
I did get information of this person and they came from Ennis Ireland. So I am now trying to see if both thses boys were of the same family.
I also believe that Timothys son Michael is my Great Grandfather and is one and the same "Goobang Mick Coneley" who was the demise of Ben Hall.
I was born and raised in Cobar, Forbes, Parkes Bathurst area and also have a lot of family information
It would be good to exchange emails with you.
Regards Unita Connelly
Wednesday 6th Feb 2013, 11:54PM -
Hi Unita
I was very interested in your message
I am not sure we have the same family. Mathew used the name Michael if it wasn't official and then he was Mathew. Timothy, I believe died in Carcoar but I could have the wrong one. Mathew/Michael is buried at McCarthy's Cemetery Cranebrook. He married another convict Ellen Dawson alias Doyle and after his death she and most of her boys moved north and eventually settled in Mackay. I have accounted for all his children except the eldest, Michael born 1838.
As far as I can figure Timothy married Mary McNamara nee Egan also a convict. They had a daughter Margaret 1827 and I am in contact with a dscendant and I think they had a son Michael 1830. I think Timothy was a ploughman for Mr Hawkins and later a hutkeeper and died in 1861 in Carcoar. Don't know what happened to Mary but it was a pretty tumultuous relationship from what I have found in the records. Mary had 3 daughters from her previous marriage to a soldier.
There is also another researcher who has a James Connelly that might fit somewhere in Mathew's family but we can't really find the connection except his mother was Ellen Dawson.
Is this fitting with what you know about your family?
regards
Lyn
Thursday 7th Feb 2013, 02:42AM