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Item: 24731

Surname: Gilroy

First Name: James

Ship: Mangles 1822

Date: 1822 16 November

Place: Newcastle

Source: AR

Details: Millwright. Assigned to John Laurio Platt. ( See http://www.jenwilletts.com/john_laurio_platt.htm to find the location of John Laurio Platt's estate)

 

Item: 42320

Surname: Gilroy

First Name: James

Ship: Mangles 1822

Date: 1823 4 October

Place: Hunter River

Source: CSI

Details: On list of convicts employed by John Laurio Platt

 

Item: 163021

Surname: Gilroy

First Name: James

Ship: Mangles 1822

Date: 1822

Place: -

Source: AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 648

Details: Age 27. Tried in Mayo and sentenced to transportation for life. Millwright

 

Item: 181094

Surname: Gilroy

First Name: James

Ship: Mangles 1822

Date: 15 March 1825

Place: Newcastle

Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)

Details: 16. James Gilroy in the service of government, charged with having stolen property in his possession. Thomas Lawson, overseer of the government wind mill, states...about a month ago my house was robbed. The prisoner worked at the mill; amongst various articles stolen was a sheet. The sheet now before the court is my property and was one of the articles stolen....The chief constable states - I was informed by a man named James Butler that I should find part of the articles stolen from Lawson at the residence of the prisoner. I went accordingly and found the sheet now before the court. The prisoner denied any knowledge of the robbery and called Robert Young to prove he was at home during the night the robbery was committed in which he totally failed. Sentence: transported to Port Macquarie for two years

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