Patrick Kiley the Irish convict
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Patrick Kiley : the Irish convict
Patrick Kiley was a relative of mine. I think his story is interesting as he was a convict transported to Australia. I would like to share it with you.
In this lens you will find information I have gathered in the search for getting to know my family history. I have used sources from the National Library of Australia and State Archives.
I have included some books from google on convicts in Australia and you will find links to some resources if you wish to find out more about a convict in your family.
The image of the Chain gang : convicts going to work nr. Sydney is from the State Library of Tasmania
Patrick Kiley
Patrick Kiley was born in Ireland in approx 1799. His father was William? or Simon? and his mother was Catherine.
Patrick was tried for larceny in the county of Tipperary in 1819 and received the sentence of 7 years transportation to Australia.
On the shipping list, Patrick is described as a labourer, 5 foot 6 inches tall with a pale complexion, black hair and blue eyes.
Irish convicts
Irish Convicts
at the Book depository
- Free Passage: The Reunion of Irish Convicts and Their Families in Australia 1788-1852
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The Minerva
Patrick was transported on the ship Minerva, which sailed from Cork on the 26th August 1819. The Minerva arrived in Sydney on the 17th December 1819. Around 170 male convicts were on board and one convict died on the voyage. This was the second voyage for the Minerva to Australia as a convict ship, she sailed by direct route which took 113 days.
The master of the ship was Captain John Bell. The surgeon was Superintendant Charles Queade. Lieutenant Harrison of the 45th Regiment was in charge of the soldiers on board the ship.
The Minerva was built in Lancaster in the year 1804 and weighed 530 tonnes.
Convict ships
Life in Australia
Captain Bunker of Argyle is given as Patrick's employer in the 1822 muster records. Captain Eber Bunker, a mariner, was an important man in the colony. He owned property at Collingwood Dale, Liverpool. Many convicts ended up workiing on his house and land. The house, having served many purposes since its construction. including a golf clubhouse, is now a heritage listed site.
On the 6th April 1826 Patrick received his certificate of freedom. A Certificate of Freedom was a document stating that a convict's sentence had been served and was usually given to convicts with a 7, 10 or 14 year sentence
In 1828 Patrick was living at Bongarry, Goulburn Plains and according to the census he owned 75 head of cattle.
In 1833 Patrick married Judith Moriarty (of the ship Woodman) at Carryyone (Kuriong station) 200 miles from Sydney, in the parish of Sydney, St Mary's. This information comes from the priest's journal.
Patrick and Judith settled at Coolac, NSW. In 1839, Patrick's younger brother William and his wife Margaret came out to Australia and joined the Kiley's at Coolac. Patrick and Judith were godparents to William's second son named Patrick.
In 1848 Patrick claimed a lease to Benangaroo Run (near Junee). It is described in the Sydney Morning Herald of Tuesday 3 October 1848 as:
"Twelve thousand eight hundred acres [estimated area]. Estimated grazing capabilities, five hundred cattle. Bounded on the west by a range of mountains running from tho Murrumbidgee River towards the Port Phillip road, which divides it from Mr. O'Brien's run; east by the main range running into the river, about two miles east of Kiley's hut, which divides it from Mr. Flood's run; south, the Murrumbidgee River; north by the ranges between the river and Port Phillip road."
Convict life in Australia
Convict Links
- Transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia
- The National Archives of Ireland holds a wide range of records relating to the transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia covering the period 1788 to 1868
- Index to certificates of freedom
- A Certificate of Freedom was a document stating that a convict's term had been served and was usually given to convicts with a 7, 10 or 14 year sentence.
- Guide to convicts
- Tne NSW State Archive's 'The Convict Guide' provides an entry into records created by both the British Government and the Colonial administration, covering the period 1788-1842
- Irish convicts to NSW
- A database containing details of Irish convicts transported to New South Wales during the period 1791 - 1835.
- 1828 census of Australia
- Details of the 1828 census in Australia available on CD
- Convict ships to australia
- conditions on board, ship naming patterns
- Image search of convict ships
- from google
- Convict central
- A guide to researching your convict ancestors
- Convict Sydney
- Info on the early days of Sydney with photos of famous convicts
- Free settler or felon?
- A database containing approximately 110,000 references to Convicts, Settlers, Townsfolk, Bushrangers, Innkeepers, Soldiers and Land owners. Areas covered include Newcastle, Maitland, Paterson, Muswellbrook, Singleton, Raymond Terrace, Dungog, Morpeth, Wollombi, Central Coast, Murrurundi and Scone and more.
- Convict ships arriving in NSW
- An index of all convict ships arriving in NSW
- Convicts
- Most of the information in the Convict database of History Services NSW is not available from any other Internet source. Your research is not complete until you have consulted History Services NSW.
- Image of only known surviving convict uniform held at the National Library of Australia
- The first two-coloured uniforms in Australia were black and white (yellow was added later) and introduced by Governor Macquarie into New South Wales in 1814, and then into Van Diemen's Land. The uniform was marked with arrows, or pheons, a symbol dating back to the 17th century, marking all government property to prevent theft.
- Australian convict resources
- Links to relevant web resources on tracing Australian Convicts
- Convict cap c 1852
- Black leather Convict Cap pre 1849. Government arrow stencilled inside each cap. The cap is dated 1852, the year convict transportation ended on the east coast of Australia. Held by Michell Library, State Library of NSW.
- Guide to Australian Convict Records
- Between 1788 and 1868 about 600 000 British convicts were sent to Australia. This guide will assist you to locate worldwide resources for researching your convict ancestors.
- Convict life in NSW
- The convict trail project. Extending north from Sydney to the Hunter Valley, the Convict Trail follows the route of the 240 km Great North Road. Most of this road continues to be used today, offering an alternative, slower paced scenic route between Sydney and the Hunter, where one can explore the brilliant engineering works created by hundreds of convicts.
Trace you convict ancestor
Who was Captain Eber Bunker?
- Australian Dictionary of Biography
- BUNKER, EBER (1761-1836), sea captain and farmer, was born on 7 March 1761 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States of America ...
Captain Bunker
Convict behaviour once transported
Patrick served his 7 year sentence with no record of misbehaviour in Australia. Convicts who did misbehave were often sent to Port Arthur in Tasmania.
Port Arthur, Tasmania
photo taken in 2001
Port Arthur is now a heritage site. The settlement was established in 1830 as a timber station. The peninsula was chosen by Governor Arthur as a penal colony. Port Arthur was planned to be a place to severly punish offenders.
The prison quickly gained a reputation. Isolation cells were frequently used, along with regular floggings and use of the public stocks. Harsh treatment was dealt out, both physically and psychologically.
Norfolk Island
Fifteen hundred miles off the coast of New South Wales lies an island with a mixed history. At one time it was the most brutal convict prison of Australia.The name of the island was Norfolk Island. The Colonial administration wanted to set up an Institution to act as a deterrant to unlawful behaviour.It was said that whoever went there had no hope of return to the mainland. The horrific conditions led to many suicides amongst the prisoners. The cells were small, the prison overcrowded. The convict's had nothing to look forward to but a poor diet, hard labour and brutal punishment.
Reports of conditions on Norfolk Island got back to the English, resulting in the island being abandoned in 1855.
Convict Poll
Under the shadow of Kiley's hill by Banjo Paterson
In the family it is said that this poem was written with Patrick Kiley in mind
This is the place where they all were bred;
Some of the rafters are standing still;
Now they are scattered and lost and dead,
Every one from the old nest fled,
Out of the shadow of Kiley's Hill.
Better it is that they ne'er came back --
Changes and chances are quickly rung;
Now the old homestead is gone to rack,
Green is the grass on the well-worn track
Down by the gate where the roses clung.
Gone is the garden they kept with care;
Left to decay at its own sweet will,
Fruit trees and flower-beds eaten bare,
Cattle and sheep where the roses were,
Under the shadow of Kiley's Hill.
Where are the children that strove and grew
In the old homestead in days gone by?
One is away on the far Barcoo
Watching his cattle the long year through,
Watching them starve in the droughts and die.
One, in the town where all cares are rife,
Weary with troubles that cramp and kill,
Fain would be done with the restless strife,
Fain would go back to the old bush life,
Back to the shadow of Kiley's Hill.
One is away on the roving quest,
Seeking his share of the golden spoil;
Out in the wastes of the trackless west,
Wandering ever he gives the best
Of his years and strength to the hopeless toil.
What of the parents? That unkempt mound
Shows where they slumber united still;
Rough is their grave, but they sleep as sound
Out on the range as in holy ground,
Under the shadow of Kiley's Hill.
A B Banjo Paterson
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