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122030
Surname: Breen (alias Burn)
First Name: Matthew
Ship: James Laing 1834
Date: 1842 29 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: GG
Details: Apprehended after absconding from the Stockade at Newcastle in irons


180829
Surname: Breen (Briant) (Bryant)
First Name: Martin
Ship: Castle Forbes 1824
Date: 1824
Place: -
Source: Convict Indent. State Archives NSW; Microfiche: 653
Details: Martin Breen age 25. Tried at Tipperary 28 May 1823. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Well behaved on the voyage out. Assigned to Alexander McLeod on arrival. Note - died at Moreton Bay 11 March 1830


34236
Surname: Breen (Bryant)
First Name: Martin
Ship: Castle Forbes 1824
Date: 23 February 1824
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details: Michael Sullivan, William Neale, John Jones, Timothy Coffee, Martin Briant and Dennis Hasset, all arrived on the Castle Forbes in 1824, and assigned servants to Alexander McLeod at Luskintyre, charged with violently assaulting their overseer and beating and ill treating him in a most cruel manner....Thomas Biggers states...I am upwards of sixty years of age. I am Mr. McLeod s overseer at Luskintyre. I desired the prisoners to go to work in the morning. They refused generally and said go to Hell you old bugger. Sullivan then came to me and asked if I had not reported that his father had been hanged. I replied No. Upon which he struck me with a hand spike. Neale struck me with a hand spike. The others stood by laughing and gave me no assistance. I was knocked down and beat repeatedly as I lay on the ground and am severely bruised in different parts of the body. By order of the court this witness was stripped of his upper clothing and his arms and shoulders exhibited the marks of very severe bruises. Michael Sullivan and William Neale were sentenced to 100 lashes each and sent to Port Macquarie for the remainder of their sentence for violently assaulting beating and ill-treating their overseer and for refusing to work. John Jones, Timothy Coffee, Martin Briant, and Dennis Hasset were sentenced to 50 lashes each for refusing to work and encouraging and abetting Sullivan and Neale in their outrageous conduct


194619
Surname: Breen (Bryant)
First Name: Martin
Ship: Castle Forbes 1824
Date: February 1824
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle


121946
Surname: Breen (Burn)
First Name: Matthew
Ship: James Laing 1834
Date: 1842 8 July
Place: Newcastle Stockade
Source: GG
Details: Labourer aged 23 from Dublin. 5' 1"; ruddy complexion, dark brown hair, blue to grey eyes, pugged nose, several scars left side, 2 scars back of right hand, tattoos, Absconded from Newcatle Stockade 29th June


132337
Surname: Breen (Burn)
First Name: Matthew
Ship: James Laing 1834
Date: -
Place: -
Source: AO NSW Convict Indents, Fiche No. 690
Details: Age 15. Servant boy from Dublin. Sentenced to 7 years transportation for picking pockets.


204787
Surname: Breen (Fenton)
First Name: William (Henry)
Ship: William 1847 (came free)
Date: 21 July 1849
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
Details: William Breen alias Henry Fenton, labourer from Kilkenny. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Tamworth and Scone. Sentenced to 3 months hard labour for absconding from hired service


74686
Surname: Breene
First Name: Michael
Ship: Havering 1849
Date: 1850 4 May
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave


19723
Surname: Breese
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1845 13 December
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Won tender for the conveyance of mail Raymond Terrace and Sawyers Pt


43740
Surname: Breese
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1848 22 July
Place: Raymond Terrace
Source: MM
Details: Campaigning for Colonel Snodgrass to be elected to the legislative council


96806
Surname: Breese
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1852 29 December
Place: On horseback from and to Stroud and Port Macquarie once a week
Source: MM
Details: Won contract to provide mail service


110206
Surname: Breese
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1848 2 February
Place: Raymond Terrace and Sawyer's Point
Source: MM
Details: Won tender for conveyance of Mail


153951
Surname: Breese (Breeze)
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1844 19 February
Place: Eldon, Clarencetown, Dungog
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Birth of Robert, son of Thomas and Catherine Breese


153952
Surname: Breese (Breeze)
First Name: Thomas and Catherine
Ship: -
Date: 1844 19 February
Place: Eldon, Clarencetown, Dungog
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Birth of Robert, son of Thomas and Catherine Breese


153961
Surname: Breese (Breeze)
First Name: Thomas and Catherine
Ship: -
Date: 1846 19 May
Place: Eldon, Clarencetown, Dungog
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Birth of Phoebe Augustua, daughter of Thomas and Catherine Breeze


35543
Surname: Breeza
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1847 22 September
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: In 1841 Robert Muir Superintendent. 700 head of cattle + Stockman and hutkeeper


100209
Surname: Breeza
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Wood., W. Allan., 'Dawn in the Valley', the Story of Settlement in the Hunter River Valley., Wentworth books, Sydney, 1972 - p241
Details: Breeza was Thomas Potter Macqueen's cattle station from 1832. It was run by Donal McLauchlin until 1838 and then occupied by Andrew Lang of Dunmore. Breeza was transferred in 1849 from Andrew Lang to Samuel Clift


79115
Surname: Breeza
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1845
Place: Raymond Terrace
Source: RTC
Details: Buried Raymond Terrace Pioneer Cemetery


44142
Surname: Breeza Station
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1848 12 August
Place: Mooki River, Liverpool Plains
Source: MM
Details: Samuel Clift cautioning against purchasing Breeza or cattle running at Breeza as they belonged to him


57187
Surname: Breeze
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1849 8 August
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Fined 10/- or 24 hrs in the cells for drunkenness