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136422
Surname: McGrady
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Hercules 1830
Date: 1830 October
Place: Port Jackson
Source: AO NSW Convict Indents Fiche No. 677
Details: Age 13. Errant boy from Co. Antrim. Tried 26th April 1830 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing silk. Tattoo - woman on right arm and T on left. Assigned to Carter's Barracks on arrival in the colony


5613
Surname: McGrath
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 15 December 1832
Place: Newcastle
Source: R v Ryan, Steel, McGrath, Daley
Details: Indicted for the murder of John McIntyre


5631
Surname: McGrath
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1830
Place: Newcastle
Source: R v Ryan, Steel, McGrath, Daley
Details: Employed as a cook at J. McIntyres estate


5662
Surname: McGrath
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1832
Place: Sydney
Source: R v Ryan, Steel, McGrath, Daley
Details: Found guilty of murder of J. McIntyre. To be executed then dissected & anatomized


5663
Surname: McGrath
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1832
Place: Sydney
Source: R v Ryan, Steel, McGrath, Daley
Details: Gov. Burke recommended mercy. McGrath sentenced to Norfolk Island for life.


50986
Surname: McGrath
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1849 31 January
Place: Scone
Source: MM
Details: Agent for Australian Mutual Provident Society


104914
Surname: McGrath
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1843 15 December
Place: near Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Committed for trial for the murder of John McIntyre. Others on trial - Samuel Ryan, William Steel, Patrick Daley. Edward Doolan approver


208399
Surname: McGrath
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Fitz James 1857
Date: April 1857
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Thomas McGrath, age 22, labourer and ploughman from Co. Tipperary, son of Rhody and Winifred, both deceased. Assisted immigrant on the ship Fitz James. Note - a sister Mary McGrath already in the colony, residing at Newcastle


202463
Surname: McGrath
First Name: Thomas and Mary Ann
Ship: -
Date: 8 October 1870
Place: Newcastle Police Office
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Thomas McGrath was charged with deserting his wife Mary Ann McGrath and leaving her without support. The information was withdrawn on defendant promising to keep sober and support his wife


63258
Surname: McGrath (McGraw)
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Midas 1827
Date: 1828
Place: Patterson's Plains
Source: 1828 Census
Details: Stockkeeper aged 19. Assignedto John McIntyre


91018
Surname: McGrath (McGraw)
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Midas 1827
Date: 1831 5 February
Place: Maitland bench
Source: NGE
Details: Leghorn hat and straw presser from London; For trial in Supreme Court. Charged with murder of John McIntyre. Forwarded to Sydney


169469
Surname: McGraw (McGrath)
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Midas 1827
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4012]; Microfiche: 664
Details: Age 20. Leghorn hat and straw presser and cow keeper, native of Enfield. Tried 16 February 1826 at Hicks Hall and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing hams. Assigned to John McIntyre settler at Newcastle on arrival. Sent to Norfolk Island


196610
Surname: McGreal
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1828
Date: 1828
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 668
Details: Thomas McGreal aged 40. Farm servant and shepherd from Co. Sligo. Married with six children. Tried at Sligo 17 March 1825. Sentenced to transportation for life for burglary and uttering unlawful oaths. Assigned to the Government Domain at Parramatta on arrival. Brother of James McGreal who arrived on the same ship


73787
Surname: McGreal (McGriall)
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1828
Date: 1837
Place: Port Stephens
Source: GRC
Details: Assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company


4735
Surname: McGuire
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1842 16 April
Place: -
Source: HRG
Details: T of L holder employed by Dr. Harrington. Guilty of assaulting D. Kennedy. To work in irons 12 mths.


4856
Surname: McGuire
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1842 21 May
Place: Maitland
Source: HRG
Details: T of L cancelled for assault


12620
Surname: McGuire
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1844 24 August
Place: Morpeth
Source: MM
Details: Charged with stealing a turkey from William Burgess and tin can from James McCoy


27484
Surname: McGuire
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1831 26 May
Place: Carrington
Source: Early Days of Port Stephens
Details: Suspected of stealing a horse from Mr. Stubbs


178518
Surname: McGuire
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 10 March 1832
Place: Sydney
Source: Sydney Monitor
Details: Convict Thomas McGuire was punished for perjury in 1832.......On Thursday week Thomas McGuire, convicted of perjury underwent a portion of his sentence. The pillory was erected on the centre stocks at the South end of the Market place and at eleven oclock the prisoners, escorted by the hangman, ascended to endure his penance. A placard was suspended from his breast whereon was written in legible characters - for perjury - . The constables were stationed around to prevent the mob which assembled in great numbers ) offering any violence to the culprit. After remaining for two hours in this state , he was taken to the jail to be forwarded to Newcastle, where he is to undergo a second exposure in the pillory, and then to be confined in Newcastle gaol for one year. (NB. This man was tried and convicted before the Supreme Court, for having falsely sworn in a case Fagan v. Dencen, tried in the Court of Requests, before Commissioner Therry. that he had not witnessed the signature of the defendant in that case, to a note of hand payable to the plaintiff. It was proved on the clearest testimony, that he had witnessed the note. The learned Judge Stephens in passing sentence expatiated largely on the infamy of his offence, too frequent in the Colony and hoped that his punishment and disgrace would be a warning to others


209461
Surname: McGuire
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Annie Wilson 1859
Date: 21 June 1861
Place: Maitland gaol
Source: State Archives NSW; Kingswood, New South Wales; Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930; Roll: 2370
Details: Thomas McGuire, labourer from Co. Cavan. Admitted to Maitland gaol from East Maitland. To be sent for trial at the Quarter Sessions