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Tag Archives: Murder
Nicholas’s murder – the editor, the judge and the doctor (Trove Tuesday post, part 3)
In my last post about Nicholas Delaney’s murder on September 3, 1834, I asked a few questions. Why would the editor of the Sydney Monitor add a note to the end of the report of John Kennedy’s trial in which … Continue reading
So was Nicholas Delaney murdered? Did John Kennedy hang? (Trove Tuesday post, part 2)
Last Trove Tuesday I started to tell the story of how Nicholas Delaney was attacked and robbed on September 2, 1834, and died the next day. It’s a story about my own ancestor I came across using the National Library … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Nicholas Delaney
Tagged criminal court, Delany, John Kennedy, Murder, Nicholas Delaney, Penrith, Sydney Monitor, trial, Trove Tuesday
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The cook, the thieves, the prostitute and the postillion – convicts transported to Australia
My convict ancestors were an unusual lot – but three of them were also really common. That’s the conclusion I came to after looking at a clever take on transportation statistics on one Australian website. Three out of four of … Continue reading
Posted in Convicts, Transportation
Tagged Convicts in Australia, crime, history, irish rebels, Murder, occupation, tailor, theft, United Irishman, waterman
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Was Sarah murdered? Is she a famous ghost?
For a change from thinking about Nicholas, I typed Sarah Marshall into Google. She’s my g-g-g grandmother, a convict who arrived in New South Wales on the Friendship in 1818. She married John Simpson (Ocean II, arr 1818) and later … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Convicts
Tagged A Rebel Hand, family, genealogy, Heritage, history, Murder, New South Wales, Sarah Marshall, Sarah Simpson, Sarah's grave, Transportation
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Sentenced to death
On December 5, 1798, Nicholas Delaney and his friend Edward Neil were on trial for their lives. They were charged with ‘taking’ two members of the Yeomanry, John Hope and John Brady and with the murder of Richard Twamley and … Continue reading
Posted in Nicholas Delaney, Trial
Tagged 1798, Biddy Dolan, Bridget Dolan, Heppenstall, history, Murder, Nicholas Delaney, trial, Twamley
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