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119442
Surname: Brien
First Name: Timothy
Ship: Heber 1837
Date: 1839 21 August
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: GG
Details: Labourer aged 19 from Co. Cork. 5' 9 1/2"; ruddy and freckled complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes, small scar over right eyebrow. Absconded from John Larnach 5th August


119559
Surname: Brien
First Name: Timothy
Ship: Heber 1837
Date: 1839 2 October
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: GG
Details: Apprehended after absconding from service


119685
Surname: Brien
First Name: Timothy
Ship: Heber 1837
Date: 1839 30 October
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: GG
Details: Apprehended after absconding from John Larnach


6877
Surname: Brien
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 1843 11 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Assigned to Australian Agricultural Company. Charged with disorderly conduct. Sentenced to 2 months hard labour.


115698
Surname: Brien
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 1856 20 October
Place: The Swamps near Hexham
Source: SMH
Details: Right arm broken when thrown from a train wagon after a pig wandered onto the track


128012
Surname: Brien
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: 1860 January
Place: Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle
Source: Marriages Register Book of Christchurch Cathedral, Newcastle 1858 - 1868 p19
Details: Mariage of William Brien and Caroline Bailey


209523
Surname: Brien
First Name: William
Ship: -
Date: March 1859
Place: Newcastle
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Catherine Brien, immigrant by the ship Hornet in 1859, a niece of William Brien of Newcastle


31456
Surname: Brien (Brian)
First Name: William
Ship: Guildford 1818
Date: 1828
Place: Ratigan, Luskintyre
Source: 1828 Census
Details: Labourer. Employed by Alexander McLeod


71259
Surname: Brien (Brian) (O Brian)
First Name: Arthur
Ship: Pilot 1817
Date: 1821
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle


90982
Surname: Brien (Bruin) (Brewin)
First Name: Samuel
Ship: America 1829
Date: 1831 11 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: NGE
Details: Stockingmaker born in Leicester. Sentenced to 7 days solitary confinement for insolence and disobedience. Sent to the Prisoner Barracks at Newcastle. Orderly conduct in gaol


176782
Surname: Brien (Bryan)
First Name: John
Ship: Recovery 1823
Date: 12 December 1827
Place: Sydney gaol
Source: Sydney Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 851 Ancestry
Details: John Bryan per Recovery sent to Sydney gaol from Newcastle for receiving stolen property. Sent to a penal settlement for 3 years


131738
Surname: Brien (Bryan)
First Name: Julia
Ship: Francis and Eliza 1815....
Date: 1828 1 February
Place: Windsor
Source: SG
Details: Known at the Hunter River as Spotted Doe. Had been in the colony approx 12 years without a ticket of leave. Charged by her Master with drunkennes and neglect of work. Sentenced to 3rd Class at the Female Factory at Parramatta


78719
Surname: Brien (Campbell)
First Name: Patrick (Duncan)
Ship: Backwell 1835
Date: 1837 11 January
Place: Maitland
Source: GG 1837
Details: Apprehended after absconding from J. Cox


164015
Surname: Brien (or Smith
First Name: John
Ship: Marquis of Huntley 1828
Date: 30 January 1828
Place: -
Source: AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 668
Details: Age 33. Married with 4 children. Indoor servant from Wexford. Tried 15 March 1827 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing clothes. Bald. Ruddy complexion. Assigned to George Wyndham on arrival


211004
Surname: Brien nee Bailey
First Name: Caroline
Ship: -
Date: 9 January 1925
Place: The Junction
Source: The Newcastle Sun
Details: Newcastle will wish one of its earliest daughters Many Happy Returns of the Day, for Mrs. Caroline Brien, of Farquhar street, Junction, will celebrate her 82nd birthday . Mrs. Brien, whose maiden name was Caroline Bailey, was the first white child born at Warners Bay, Lake Macquarie. Her father, Mr. Peter Bailey, worked there, sinking for coal. When she was a baby Mrs. Brien s parents moved to Burra Burra copper mines, in South Australia, where they lived until she was 11 years of age. They then went to the Victorian diggings at Bendigo, returning to Newcastle about 70 years ago, and settling at the Glebe. When Mrs. Brien was 13 her father was killed at the Glebe, where, he was sinking a new shaft. With his mate, Thomas Shaw, he was buried alive. In 1861 Mrs. Brien married William Brien, of the Junction, a miner, who died five years ago. Mrs. Brien is the mother of 15 children, of whom 11 are living. She has 98 grandchildren and 50 great grandchildren. Mrs. Brien is in excellent health and has many interesting reminiscences to tell of early Newcastle. She can remember when the Sand Hills covered to the site of the Great Northern Hotel. The tide then came nearly to the post office. She remembers when there were only five shops in New castle. Mr. Rouse kept an hotel near the present site of Scotts, Ltd. She has watched Newcastle grow from the time when Hunter-street was a bed of sand and Scott-street was merely a beach where fishermen lived. When Mrs. Brien first came to the Junction, 55 years ago. It was a wilderness of bush. When she was married she and her bridesmaids had to walk right up to the old Cathedral, where she was christened, baptised and married. At the time of the Influenza out break in 1919. Mrs. Brien, although approaching the 80s, went to the Waratah Hospital, and worked for some time.


73023
Surname: Brierley (Brierly)
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1850 9 March
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Fined 5s or 24 hrs in the cells for drunkenness


14310
Surname: Brierly
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1845 18 January
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Remanded to next session of Court


204579
Surname: Brierly
First Name: Hannah
Ship: Elizabeth 1844
Date: January 1844
Place: -
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Memorandum of Agreement between James Charles White of Pickering, Merton and Hannah Brierly, immigrant by the ship Elizabeth in 1844


81224
Surname: Brierly
First Name: James
Ship: -
Date: 1851 15 January
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Elderly man. Witness before the bench Chapman v. Pitt


12924
Surname: Brierly
First Name: James
Ship: Bengal Merchant 1838......
Date: 1844 28 September
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Ticket of leave granted