Details:
Aged 20. Tried in Dublin. Assigned to T.P. Macqueen?
Source:
Convict Indent. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4016]; Microfiche: 678
Details:
Groom and indoor servant age 26 from Dublin. Tried 16 April 1829 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing money. Assigned to Captain John Pike at Pickering, Hunter River on arrival
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 655
Details:
William McDonnell age 20. Ropemaker from Belfast. Tried at Carrickfergus 11 August 1824. Sentenced to transportation for life. Behaved very well on the voyage out. Assigned to Appin district on arrival
Source:
State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2016; Roll: 759 Gaol Description Book Ancestry
Details:
Born 1816. 5ft 5in, stout build, fresh complexion.Scar over right eyebrow...Admitted to Newcastle gaol..
Surname:
McDonnell (McDonald)
Details:
Ticket of leave holder
Surname:
McDonnell (McDonald)
Ship:
James Moran 1839 (came free)
Source:
State Archives NSW; Gaol Entrance Book, Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757
Details:
Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Muswellbrook. States himself to be free. Sent to Hyde Park Barracks for identification
Source:
State Archives NSW. Convict Indents. microfiche 672
Details:
Owen Rape per Eliza 1829 assigned to William O Donnell on arrival
Place:
Newcastle district
Source:
Newcastle (Hunter River) Population Book, 1824 - Ancestry
Details:
Patrick Beattie per Minerva assigned servant
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details:
Thomas Caffery, per ship Regalia, in government service, charged with absenting himself without leave. Nicholas Heally, overseer of the prisoners barracks, states - The prisoner absented himself from the barracks on Sunday evening and on Thursday he was back having been found at Wallis Plains. The prisoner states in his defence that he has not been long in the colony. That he was assigned to Mr. (William) O Donnell at Wallis Plains who lately returned him to government. That he was put into barracks where he was robbed by his fellow prisoners of everything he had and therefore he went back to his old master at Wallis Plains hoping he would keep him. Thomas Caffery sentenced to one month in the gaol gang
Source:
The Maitland Daily Mercury
Details:
Mr. Alex. Wilkinson, who was a lad going to school at the time, remembers the old place distinctly. The signboard of the house, he says, was painted by Dicky Gossip, an artist of the old school. It represented a decrepid old man with a stick walking into a mill on one side, and on the other passing out as a smart young fellow, who had been ground young in the mill. The boys of the period used to call the figure of the old man Old O Donnell,(William O Donnell) the oldest resident of the time, who died at something over a hundred years of age. He had a grant of land from the Crown which embraced the whole of High-street from the railway station to the Queens Arms on both sides, the date of the grant being 1823
Source:
Maitland Burial Register p. 105
Details:
William O Donnell, free settler, died aged 102 years of age. Buried 1 May 1838
Source:
Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4013]; Microfiche: 669
Details:
Thomas Shells per ship Asia 1828 assigned to William O Donnell at Wallis Plains on arrival
Details:
Luke Murphy per convict ship Dorothy assigned servant
Details:
On return of land cleared and other improvements made by settlers on Hunter River and Patterson River
Place:
County of Northumberland, Parish of Morpeth
Source:
Index to map of the country bordering upon the River Hunter... by Henry Dangar (London : Joseph Cross, 1828). p3
Details:
Granted 33 acres of land. Annual quit rent 4 2s 6d; Granted 5 1/2 acres of land. Annual quit rent 13s 9d
Details:
Assigned to B. Hudson. Charged with stealing saddle and bridle. Discharged.
Details:
John Jones assigned servant
Details:
Offering 5/- reward for return of lost Mastiff dog
Details:
Thomas Burke assigned servant
Details:
Granted 100 acres at Maitland commencing at SW cnr of J.F. Wickman's grant