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131653
Surname: McGarvie
First Name: Rev. John
Ship: -
Date: 1837 9 August
Place: Doyle Creek
Source: GG
Details: Land Grant 640 acres promised by Sir Ralph Darling on 6th June 1827 and possession given 18th July 1828


143847
Surname: McGarvie
First Name: Rev. John
Ship: 1826
Date: Published in 1905
Place: -
Source: Centenary History of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales. List of Ministers who served in the NSW Presbyterian church before the Union.p 404
Details: Arrived in 1826. Died at Sydney 12 April 1853


161911
Surname: McGarvie
First Name: Rev. John
Ship: Greenock 1826
Date: 28 April 1826
Place: -
Source: Colonial Times
Details: Arrived on Monday, the Australian Company's ship Greenock, Captain Miller, with a cargo from Scotland for that Company. The Greenock left Leith the 22d November, and the Cape of Good Hope the 4th March. Passengers, (for Hobart Town), Mr. Gracie, Mr. W. Crawford Davidson, Mr. Burn, Mrs. Robertson and family, Mr. John Davidson, Mr. John Dalzell, Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mailer, Messrs. William and John Elliot, Mr. John Fitzpatrick and family, Mr. James Dow, Mr. John McRae andfamily.-For Sydney, Mr. Andrew Newton and family, Mr. William Reid, Mr. Shairp, Mr. Gavin Ralston, the Rev. Mr. McGarvie,(Presbyterian Clergyman), Mr. Rankin, Mr. James Sloan, Mr. William Jobson, Mr. Ed-ward Middleton, Mr. Thomas Elliot, and Mr. Robert Smith.


165838
Surname: McGarvin
First Name: Henry
Ship: -
Date: 29 January 1842
Place: Maitland
Source: Registers of Coroners' Inquests and Magisterial Inquiries (Ancestry)
Details: Died by the Visitation of God


150613
Surname: McGeary
First Name: Henry
Ship: -
Date: 1853 22 June
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Edward Excell charged youg lad Henry McGeary with absenting himself from employment. McGeary cautioned and discharged by the Bench


23477
Surname: McGeary
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1846 16 September
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Subscriber for the Irish Relief Fund


125975
Surname: McGeary
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1836 27 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: GG
Details: Assigned 1 convict errand boy


52022
Surname: McGeary
First Name: Mary
Ship: -
Date: 1849 28 March
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Died in hospital after her clothes caught fire in Mrs. Long's kitchen


72924
Surname: McGeary
First Name: Michael
Ship: -
Date: 1850 2 January
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Charged under the Masters & Servants act by Dennis Hayes who he had hired as a labourer


115699
Surname: McGeary
First Name: Peter
Ship: -
Date: 1856 20 October
Place: The Swamps near Hexham
Source: SMH
Details: Received several severe cuts and contusions on the head and hands when thrown from a train wagon after a pig wandered onto the track


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