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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 634
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William McGeary age 25. Occupation gunner and engineer. Native place Limerick. Court-martial at Lisbon 13 January 1813. Sentenced to transportation for life
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McGeary (?McGee)
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Assigned to James Bowman. Aged 17.
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Prisoner at Newcastle. Stabbed two men; thought to be insane
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On monthly returns of prisoners punished at Newcastle
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Runaway from Newcastle; Captured
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Colonial Secretary Papers. Main series of letters received, 1788-1825. Series 897
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Correspondence from J.T. Morisset commandant at Newcastle to Governor Macquarie re prisoners who were being sent to Sydney as witnesses in court cases to be returned to Newcastle as their detention in Sydney was having a detrimental effect on other convicts. Two men Geary and Gough had stabbed a fellow prisoner John Bluer in the hopes of being sent to Sydney for trial as a means of escaping from the settlement at Newcastle
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Leader of bushrangers. Captured
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Escaped from Sydney gaol
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Convict Settlement
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Punished for running away, plundering and threatening the lives of the settlers and resisting a party sent after him