Allen Airey

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Nell Murphy on 22nd July 2016

Son Richard AIREY: Marriage - AIREY - QUIRK.-On 7th May 1883 by special license, at the Church of the Apostles, by the Rev. P. Gleeson, Richard Ernest Airey, to Mary B. Quirk, native of Ballinasloe, Ireland. (Ref. Launceston Examiner 12 June 1883) Child of son Thomas Airey: AIREY. —On the 18th August, at her residence, Launceston, the wife of Thomas A. Airey of a son. Both doing well. (Ref. Daily Telegraph, Launceston 21 Aug 1883) Airey— Death - At his parent's residence, West street, on the 5th March, Walter Allen, infant son of Thomas Allen and Sarah Elizabeth Airey, aged seven months. (Ref. Daily Telegraph 7 Mar 1884)

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Nell Murphy on 22nd July 2016

Son Thomas Allen AIREY: Marriage - AIREY-CAREY.-On the 9th May 1881, at the residence of the bride's parents, Victoria-street,by the Rev. C. Anthony, Thomas Allen,second son of Mr A. Airey, to Sarah Elizabeth,eldest daughter of Mr J. Carey. (Ref. Launceston Examiner 10 May 1881)

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Nell Murphy on 22nd July 2016

Daughter Rebecca Airey: Marriage - 25 June 1877 COCKER-AIREY. — On the 25th June, at Evandale, by the Rev. Robert S. Duff, M.A., John Cocker, of Cowley Hill, near Evandale, to Rebecca, eldest daughter of Mr Allen Airey, of Mount Pleasant, near Launceston. (Ref. Cornwall Chronicle 6 Jul 1877).

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Tony Cocks on 21st July 2016

AIREY, Allen Convicted: Lancaster (Preston) General Sessions Date: 04/12/1846 Age: 13 Occupation: Factory Boy Offence: Stealing knves Sentence: Transportation 7 years Classification: Success (absorbed into colonial society) Allen Airey was born c1833 in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Robert and Rebecca Airey and brother to Richard, William, Emanuel, Rebecca and Susannah.(i) Nothing is known of his early life history until he was committed to appear at the Lancaster (Preston) General Sessions on 04/12/1846 accused of “Stealing knives”, found guilty and sentenced to 7 years transportation. Then aged 13 he had been employed as a Factory Boy. He was initially received at Millbank Prison as part of the standard interim holding arrangements and later, on 13/02/1847, transferred to Parkhurst Prison, where his Gaoler’s Report commented that he had been before convicted “Once theft”, was single and could read and write imperfectly. He was discharged from Parkhurst Prison on 01/04/1850 in readiness for transportation to Van Diemen’s Land.(ii) He sailed from Plymouth to Van Diemen’s Land aboard the “Blenheim” as a Ticket of Leave on 10/04/1850, eventually disembarking at Hobart on 24/07/1850.(iii) His standard Conduct Record diarises his subsequent behaviour over the next 3 years: 30/07/1850: Prisoners’ Barracks Hobart. 11/09/1850: Transferred to the Depot Launceston. 07/11/1850: Officially granted his Ticket of Leave. 13/01/1851: Morven: Neglect of duty: Reprimanded. 12/04/1851: Morven: Misconduct in not attending at the Police Office when ordered: Three months imprisonment and hard labour at Launceston. 29/12/1853: Longford: Certificate of Freedom.(iv) Just over six months later on 13/07/1854 it appears Allen Airey sailed to Melbourne from Launceston as a passenger aboard the “Black Swan”.(v) He married 22 year old Bridget Nowlem according to the “Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of Scotland” at Berry Bank in the Wardy Yallock District of Victoria on 24/01/1855.(vi) The continuing records are then slightly confusing in that the Archives Office of Tasmania indicate that he married Amelia Nolan in Westbury, Tasmania, in 1857.(vii) This, however, must in part be a clerical error, Nolan for Nowlem, although both Bridget and Amelia are possibly correct as the registration in Westbury, Tasmania, of the birth of their first child, Rebecca, on 29/12/1855, shows Rebecca’s mother to be “Nolan Bridget Amelia”.(viii) Unfortunately there are no records of how and when Allen and Bridget returned to Tasmania. The family grew over the years with the addition of another 6 children: An unnamed son born 28/12/1856; Thomas Allan 08/12/1860; Amelia 10/12/1862; Emanuel 20/01/1865; Richard 07/06/1867: and Hollie 07/09/1869.(ix) Little else has been retrieved for Allen Airey, except to learn that in 1870 he was continuing to live in Westbury, renting a house with 2 acres of land at William Street, a property administered by the Executors of the late Thomas Gillam (x) By 1887 he had moved to Garfield Street in Launceston.(xi) Allen Airey died aged 89 Notes: (i): Indent, Archives Office of Tasmania, CON14-1-33, Image Nos.156, 157 (On-line 21/12/2008). (ii): Parkhurst Prison Register, The National Archives, HO24/15, p.64 (iii): QSearch – Tasmanian Convict Records [CD-ROM]. NB: The website Convicts to Australia details the voyage of the Convict Ship “Blenheim” at the following link: http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/park18.html (iv): Conduct Record, Archives Office of Tasmania, CON33-1-95, Image No: 4, (On-line 21/12/2008). (v): Departures, Archives Office of Tasmania, (On-line 22/12/2008) (vi): Marriage Certificate No. 694, Public Record Office of Victoria. See also Digger – Victoria Pioneer Index 1836-1888, [CD-ROM]. (vii): Colonial Tasmanian Family Links, Archives Office of Tasmania, (On-line 22/12/2008). (viii): Digger – Tasmanian Pioneer Index 1803-1899, [CD-ROM]. (ix): Ibid. (x): http://www.worldvitalrecords.com (xi): Ibid