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196313
Surname: McGeary
First Name: William
Ship: Surry 1814
Date: 1814
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 634
Details: William McGeary age 25. Occupation gunner and engineer. Native place Limerick. Court-martial at Lisbon 13 January 1813. Sentenced to transportation for life


73296
Surname: McGeary (?McGee)
First Name: William
Ship: Heroine 1833
Date: 1837
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: GRC
Details: Assigned to James Bowman. Aged 17.


42282
Surname: McGeary (Geary)
First Name: William
Ship: Surry 1814
Date: 1817 8 August
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: Prisoner at Newcastle. Stabbed two men; thought to be insane


42283
Surname: McGeary (Geary)
First Name: William
Ship: Surry 1814
Date: 1819 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On monthly returns of prisoners punished at Newcastle


42284
Surname: McGeary (Geary)
First Name: William
Ship: Surry 1814
Date: 1819 19 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: Runaway from Newcastle; Captured


42285
Surname: McGeary (Geary)
First Name: William
Ship: Surry 1814
Date: 1819 21 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: Colonial Secretary Papers. Main series of letters received, 1788-1825. Series 897
Details: 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


42286
Surname: McGeary (Geary)
First Name: William
Ship: Surry 1814
Date: 1821 15 February
Place: -
Source: CSI
Details: Leader of bushrangers. Captured


42287
Surname: McGeary (Geary)
First Name: William
Ship: Surry 1814
Date: 1821 7 July
Place: Sydney
Source: CSI
Details: Escaped from Sydney gaol


42288
Surname: McGeary (Geary)
First Name: William
Ship: Surry 1814
Date: 1821 24 August
Place: Sydney
Source: CSI
Details: Executed


68573
Surname: McGeary (Geary)
First Name: William
Ship: Surry 1814
Date: 1819 25 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: Convict Settlement
Details: Punished for running away, plundering and threatening the lives of the settlers and resisting a party sent after him