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In 1828, Michael Fogarty of Burgess, near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland was transported to Australia aboard H.M.S "Governor Ready". We are some Michael's descendants in Australia. This is his story and those of various other of our ancestors.
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Our ancestors include Fogarty, Ryan, Spencer, Breen, Kinnelly, Turner, O'Leary, Phillips, Bow(e)ring, Smith, Sheehan, Burt, Gormly, Docray, Cox, Maloney, Power, Bryne, Best, Chamberlain, Pike, Farolly, Howard, O'Brien, O'Keefe, Riddell, Murphy, Smith.
(The number in brackets represents the number of generations we have knowledge about):
FOGARTY (8): Unknown Fogarty,born Co. Tipperary (?), Ireland, circa early 1700s.
James born Co. Tipperary (?), Ireland, mid 1770s. Married to Judith Ryan. At least one child Michael, born Burgess, near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, IRELAND, 1770.
Michael (the convict), born Burgessbeg, near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, IRELAND, 1770. Married with four children in Ireland. Transported to Australia aboard H.M.S "Governor Ready". In Australia Michael was assigned to John Dickson, Sydney. Assigned to John O'Sullivan, Goulburn. Pardoned 1845. Married 2nd wife, Margaret Spencer at 'Snugs", Borrowa, 13th August 1845. 9 Children. Lived Burgess, IRE, Sydney, Goulburn, Phils Creek. Died. Phils Creek 4th October, 1866. Buried Boorawa 6th October 1866.
Michael, born Phils Creek, NSW on 9th June, 1854. Moved to Frogmore. Married Eliza Jane O'Leary of Hovell's Creek on 20th April, 1897. Fifteen children. Moved to Koorawatha. Died
RYAN (8): Judith born Ireland circa early 1700s. Married James Fogarty in Ireland.
SPENCER (9): Thomas. Married Johanna Breen. At least one child - Phillip.
Phillip, a farmer. Married Mary Kinnelly. At least one child - Margaret.
Margaret, born Clenalty Co. Tipperary, IRELAND 1825. Arrived in Australia in 1841 (probably as an assisted or free migrant). Married Michael Fogarty. Lived Clenalty and Phils Creek. Died Phils Creek, 24th December, 1886.
BREEN (9): Johanna, married Thomas Spencer. At least one child - Phillip Spencer.
KINNELLY (9): John, married Mary Turner. At least one child - Mary.
Mary, married Phillip Spencer. At least one child - Margaret.
TURNER (9): Mary, married John Kinnelly. At least one child - Mary.
O'LEARY (6): Father of Eliza Jane Phillips.
PHILLIPS (7): John, married Eliza Bow(e)ring aka "Granny Smith". At least one child - Sarah.
Sarah, born 1840, had at least one child by O'Leary - Eliza Jane Phillips. Married Michael Sheehan in 1863. Died 8th July 1924. Interred at Boorowa.
Eliza Jane, born Hovell's Creek, 1861. Married Michael Fogarty at Frogmore, 20th April, 1897. 15 children. Died 16th September, 1941 at Koorawatha. Interred Koorwatha.
SHEEHAN ( ): Michael, married Sarah Phillips.
BOW(E)RING (9): John, married Sarah Burt. At least one child - Eliza.
Eliza, born 1826. aka "Granny Smith" Married John Phillips. Married John Smith. Died 10th October, 1929. Aged 103.
BURT (9): Sarah. Married John Bow(e)ring. At least one child - Eliza
SMITH ( ): John, married Eliza Bow(e)ring.
GORMLY (9): Thomas. Lived Elphin, Co. Roscommon, IRELAND. At least one child - Patrick.
"Thomas took an active part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. When the insurrection was suppressed, a squad of soldiers was observed at a distance approaching the family home. Two guns were hastily dragged along the bottom a ditch by one of the children and cast into a pond that contained deep water. When the soldiers searched the house and found no implements of warfare they refrained from burning the premises or molesting the residents who were women and children."
Patrick, married Mary Docray.
"Soon after the rebellion of 1798, Patrick was sent to France where he received a liberal education. After he returned to Ireland he completed his studies in Dublin.
Patrick decided to start for Australia because of heavy losses sustained by a tremendous storm on the night of February 6th, 1839".
Emigrated to Australia aboard the "Crusader" from Dublin on 20th September, 1839. Within ten days of landing in Australia set off in the local steamer "Sophia Jane" to settle at "Hell Hole" near Wollongong. Moved to Bellambi in 1843 and then to Nangus in October, 1834. Moved to Gundagai in . Drowned in the Gundagia Flood of 1852 along with his wife and three children. Buried Gundagai Cemetery.
Hon. James, born "Foxborough" near Elphin, Co. Roscommon, IRELAND, c. 1836. Emigrated to Australia with the Gormly family aboard the Crusader, 1839. After moving with the Gormly family to Nangus in 1834 he went with two elder brother to the Victorian goldfield in 1851. During this time he was involved with activities which eventually led to the miners actions at the Eureka Stockade . In 1852 he re-joined his family who had moved to Gundagai and fortunately survived the flood of 1852 which claimed five (5) Gormlys. In 1854 he married Margaret Cox at Germantown (now Holbrook). He worked a number of pastoral holdings on the western plains. Worked as a stockman and ran the mail and coach service between Wagga Wagga and Balranald between 1858 and 1878. Settled in Wagga Wagga in the 1870s.
Nearly 40 years of Public Service
1883 - 1886: Municipal Alderman, Wagga Wagga Council
1884 - 1885: Mayor, Wagga Wagga Council
1885 - 1894: Member for Murrumbidgee in the Legislative Assembly of NSW
1894 - 1904: Member for Wagga Wagga in the Legislative Assembly of NSW
1904 - 1922: Member of the Legislative Council of NSW
Died Wagga Wagga . Buried Wagga Wagga Cemetery.
DOCRAY (9): Darby. A yarn merchant. At least one child - Mary, mother of the Hon. James Gormly.
"Darby usually visited the fairs in the western part of Ireland to buy yarn from merchants. In his prime he was an active man and popular with those he bought yarn from. He usually rode a large black horse, and when passing through the crowds at the fairs, the words were passed on before him, 'Clear the way for Darby Docray'. When he retired from business he was a wealthy man."
Mary. Married Patrick Gormly.
COX (8): Joseph his wife, his eldest son John and his five daughters left Ireland for Australia from Cork Harbour on the 5th August 1836 aboard the "Lady McNaughton".
Margaret. Born November 28th, 1828 at Gobarralong, near the junction of the Tumut and Murray Rivers. Married Hon. James Gormly at Germantown (Holbrook) on December 28th, 1858. 5 sons & 3 daughters (Louis - NZ; David James - Shire Engineer, Mudgee; J.E - Wallendbeen; Walter & Herbert - Wagga Wagga, Mrs Herrenan - Wagga Wagga, Mrs Patrick Kinsell - Randwick; Maggie Gormly - Woodend, Victoria. Died.
MALONEY (8): Laurence. Born in Ireland. Traveled to Australia on the "Lady MacNaughton" in 1836.
Mary. Born in Ireland. Traveled to Australia on the "Lady MacNaughton" in 1836. Married Joseph Cox in 1837.
"The Maloney girls (Mary and her sister Margaret) were friends of the Cox's in Ireland. Mary attended the younger Cox children during the voyage to Australia"
POWER (10): Timothy Poor (Power) a "Yoeman" of Dirrelossary, a village near Roundwood, Co. Wicklow, IRELAND, circa early/mid 1700s.
"The only known branches of the (Poor) family that may have been in Wicklow at the time...were the descendants of Major Roger Power, cousin of the baron of Donoyle. Roger was granted lands in the county, (c.) 1660, during the reign of Charles II, when a limited number of disinherited loyalists to the Stuart regime, both Catholic and Protestant, were restored to their ancestral estates". William A. Power 1996.
Morgan (the convict). Born Dirrelossary around 1760. Probably christened Mawgan in honour of Saint Mawgan or Macin. Trained as a Cattle Doctor. Transported on the Hell Ship HMS "Brittania" on December 10th, 1796. Arrived NSW 0n 17th May, 1797. Married (?) Bridget Byrne around 1804. Two children (Timothy b.1805 and Morgan b.1808). Lived Toongabbie. Died December 1825.
Timothy, born . Married Elizabeth Best of Seven Hills in 1823.
BYRNE (9): Bridgit. Born 1773. Convicted in County Meath in August 1801.
"It is rumored she killed a policeman by putting a rock in a sock and hitting him over the head with it, after she witnessed the policeman kill her brother.
Departed Cork on 4th November, 1802. Arrived NSW on May 12th 1803 aboard the convict ship HMS "Rolla". She was one of only five of the thirty-eight women convicts on the Rolla transported for life. Apparently sent to the Female Factory at Parramatta. Married (?) Morgan Power around 1804. Two children (Timothy b.1805 and Morgan b.1808). Lived Toongabbie. Died 25th November, 1820 aged 47 years. Interred St. John's Cemetery, Parramatta
BEST (9): George. Born (c.) 1758. Worked as a labourer in the parish of East Peckham in County Kent (England). Convicted in the Kent Assizes Court on 30th November, 1790 for stealing:
"with force of arms, one watch with an inside case and outside case of silver, one steel watch chain, one brass watch key and one steel seal from the dwelling house of William Cheesman."
He was sentenced to death by hanging, but was reprieved on condition he be transported for life. Transported on HMS "William & Ann" 1791. Settled in Seven Hills. Listed in the 1828 Census of NSW.
Elizabeth Best. Born (c.) 1806. Married Timothy Power on 29th July, 1823 in the new St Mary's Church in Sydney. The Reverend John Joseph Therry, first official Catholic priest in the colony officiated. The witnesses were John and Ann Good and Michael O'Brien. Lived Parramatta. 13 children (Morgan H. b.1824; George b.1826; Bridget b.1828; Ellen S.(Doll) b.1829; Samuel b.1830; Timothy b.1831; Robert b.1833; Sarah b.1836; Elizabeth b.1840; Timothy b.1842; Ann b.1844; Eliza b.1844; Thomas b.1848.). Died 23rd November, 1875 at Toongabbie, aged 70 years, odf diseases of the lungs. Buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Parramatta on 26th November, 1875.
CHAMBERLAIN (9): Martha (Chamberg). Born (c.) 1764. Labourer of Middlesex. On the 23rd May, 1785 convicted of stealing goods to the value of 39 shillings:
"one man's cloth coat, a pair of velvet breeches, one man's waistcoat, one man's hat, one woman's cotton gown, one black silk bonnet and one stuff-quilted petticoat, total valued at 39 shillings from the dwelling house of John Cox."
Arrived NSW, 30 April 1796 aboard HMS "Indispensible". Married George Best. Nine children. Listed in the NSW Census of 1828 as being 53 years old and being "Free by Servitude".
FAROLLY (9): Jane. Married John Pike. At least one child, John
PIKE (9): John. Married Jane Farrolly.
John. Married Ellen Howard. At least one child, Elizabeth
Elizabeth, married Robert Power in 1855.
HOWARD (8): Ellen. Married John Pike. At least one child, Elizabeth.
The following section is under construction.
O'KEEFE (6): Mary. Married Patrick O'Brien.
O'BRIEN (6): Patrick. Married Mary O'Keefe
Patrick (Patsy) Francis, born .Married Gladys Riddell
Gladys Sophia, born 30th January 1920. Married Greg Fogarty 20th November, 1940. Two children.
UNKNOWN: Violet Eulalie, married Joseph Riddell.
RIDDELL (6): Joseph. Married Voliet Eulalie
Gladys Sophia b. Married Patsy O'Brien.
MURPHY (4):
Jack B. Married Sheila Smith.
SMITH (4)
Sheila b. Married Jack Murphy