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Daniel Bradley was transported on the Hougoumont, departing 10th Oct 1867 and arriving 9th Jan 1868 with 281 passengers.
875 ton ship was built at Moulmein in 1852. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/on-this-day-in-history-australias-last-convict-ship-docks.htm ---------------------------- Incorrect Image ....This is a four masted steel hulled Barque in the drawing , im surprised Australian Geo didn't do a bit more research on this .......The Hougoumont was a works ship on the Forth Bridge Project in 1885 ....the one potrayed as a drawing in Aust Geo is the later version of this ship.....the photograph i have attached is the correct and original convict vessel. --00-- 1867 "The hired convict ship Hougoumont, which has been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of a numerous party of convicts to Freemantle, Western Australia, left the Nore on October 1, and proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board 150 convicts from the establishments at Chatham and Millbank. The convicts from the Chatham establishment, at St. Mary's, embarked from the dockyard on board the paddle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakely, and were in charge of a numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all heavily armed. Among the convicts shipped were a party of fifteen Fenians, who were engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, together with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the ship Severn, and some others who have achieved notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian convicts, like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained together in gangs, but it was observed that they were kept apart from the other convicts in a portion of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel also took down a number of convicts from the establishment at Millbank for shipment on board the Hougoumont, in charge of a strong escort and convict guard. On Tuesday, October 8th, the Hougoumont arrived in Portland roads. Shortly before midday ninety convicts were marched down to the Government pier at Portland under a strong escort of the 12th Light Infantry. The party included twenty-three Fenian convicts, among whom it was said, was Moriarty. The Government steamer employed in the breakwater service was used for conveying the convicts on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The convicts were chained together on embarking, and on board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the convicts safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The Governor of the penal settlement at Freemantle, Captain Young, is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native land." Source: Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 19 Dec 1867, p4, English Shipping, available on Trove at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28608271?searchTerm=hougoumont.
HougoumontReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/19, Page Number 261 (133) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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DANIEL BRADLEY is named in this republished letter, written by one of the Fenians who was given a free pardon and who went to America per the Baringa in 1869 (see the Freeman’s Journal, Sydney, Sat 2 Jul 1870, p13): NEWS OF THE RELEASED IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS. The Boston Pilot — per favour of Mr. John Boyle O’Reilly, the military political prisoner who escaped from Western Australia — publishes the following letter received by that gentleman. We regret the want of success which met those [15 men who went there aboard the Baringa] who expected to find happy homes in California: “34, Minna street, between 1st and 2nd streets, San Francisco, Cal., March 9, 1870. MY DEAR O’REILLY,— It was more by chance than good luck I happened to hear of your being in New York, and so I write to be one of the first to congratulate you on your escape from Western Australia. Of course we were aware of your escape, but did not know in what quarter of the world you were. The majority of us thought you were soldiering down in South America, but I am very glad to find you are better off. Before we left Western Australia we visited the boys in prison; they all seemed to be in pretty good health — that is as far as health in a prison goes — and spirits. I give you, on the other side, the names of those here with me, those in prison in Fremantle, those gone home, those free in Western Australia, and of our soldier friends still prisoners in bush parties, and out on a ticket- of -leave. I am afraid there is but very little chance of their getting out. On the road up from Perth to King George’s Sound we met a few of our military friends, stationed in different bush parties on the road; they all seemed to be in good health and spirits, except [James] Wilson. He looked like a man that had to put up with a great deal of annoyance, as I believe he has, from his warder, who is continually reporting him for the slightest cause. Martin Hogan is up in the Champion Bay district. I did not see [Patrick] Keating, neither do I know where he is; but I heard that he and [Patrick] Killeen were working in different parties on the York road. [Michael] Harrington is somewhere about Northam; Keeley [James Keily/Kiely] is in some other quarter. With the exception of those, I have seen all the others. Although we had a police escort, we managed to speak to the boys ‘for a’ that.’ We had rather hard times after getting out of prison; some of us had to go miles away into the infernal bush, where I suppose we would be now, only for the noble-hearted Irishmen and women in the Australian colonies. You would not believe how kind they were to us. I could not find words enough in the dictionary to express their goodness; where-ever we went we found them the same… Had we stayed in Sydney we would have all got first-class situations from the wealthy Irishmen there; but like fools, as we were, nothing would do us only to come out to this place, where we are loafing about for the last six or seven weeks, and can’t get employment. Were it not for the money we got in Australia we would be ‘hard up’ indeed; some of us would be off soldiering for Uncle Sam — perhaps down in Arizona, or some other place — by this time. There are only five or six out of the fifteen of us at work. Since I made out the list, I have learned from a letter received by Denis Hennessy from Western Australia, that Hugh F. Brophy was to start for home the following mail, and that James Flood was about going to New Zealand. That is all the news from that benighted land. Send all the news from home, as I have not had a letter from any one since last August. We do not know how the wind blows in that quarter. Letter from M. Cody yesterday. Father Lynch gone home to Ireland for twelve months. Father McCabe, of Bunbury, in his place. Hoping soon to hear from you, I am yours, very sincerely, JOHN B. WALSH.” LIST… In San Francisco, California: John Keneally, Patrick Doran, Denis B. Cashman, Patrick Dunne, Denis Hennessy, Thomas Fogarty, Eugene Geary, David Cummins, Michael Moore, David Joyce, Patrick Leahy, John Sheehan, Maurice Fitzgibbon, John B. Walsh, Patrick Wall. In Prison in Fremantle, West Australia: John Flood, 15 years, Corn. D Keane, 10 years, J. Edward Kelly, life imprisonment, DANIEL J. BRADLEY, 10 years, Michael Cody [alias James Dunn], 20 years, Thos. Baines, 10 years, Thos. Fennell, 10 years, James Kearney, 7 years, Geo. Connelly, 15 years. Gone Back to Ireland: Thomas Daly, Morgan McSwiney, Jeremiah O’Donovan, Michael Noonan, John S. Casey, Thomas Cullinane (alias Bowler) Eugene Lombard, Patrick Riordon, Simon Downey, Robert May. Free in Western Australia: Hugh F. Brophy, Cornelius O’Mahony, Joseph Noonan, Jeremiah Aher, James O’Reilly, John Goulding, Thomas Duggan, Laurence Fulham, James Flood, Luke Fulham. Our Military Friends Prisoners in different Bush Parties, and on Ticket of Leave in Western Australia: Sergeant Major [Thomas] Darragh, life, 11th Regiment. James Wilson, life, 5th Dragoon Guards. Martin Hogan, life, 6th Dragoon Guards. James Mecoy, 15 years, 61st Regiment. Patrick Keating, life, 5th Dragoon Guards. Thomas Delaney, 15 years, 5th Dragoon Guards John Foley, 7 years, Royal Horse Artillery. Thos. Hassett, life, 24th Regiment. J. [John] Shine, 20 years, 60th Rifles. Patrick Killeen, 7 years, Royal Horse Artillery. Michael Harrington, life, 61st Regiment. Robert Cranston, life, 61st Regiment. — Keely [James M. Kiely], life, 53rd Regiment. On Ticket-of Leave: William Foley, 5th Dragoon Guards. John Lynch, 5th Dragoon Guards. John Donoughue, 24th Regiment. --00-- 1871, 14 March: DANIEL BRADLEY received a Conditional Pardon (vide #12020/21). Eleven months later, on 8 February, 1872, he is believed to have left WA, from Albany for Sydney, aboard the ASN Co Mail Steamer. A notation on this record says "Supposed to have left as entered not certain" (see Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930; Convict Department, Registers; General Register for Nos 9599 - 10128 cont. (R16); and Western Australia, Australia, Crew and Passenger Lists, 1852-1930; Albany 1876).
1869, 5 February: Thirty four Fenians who had been transported to Western Australia (as well as others imprisoned in Great Britain) were given Free Pardons / “unconditionally discharged” by the House of Commons. DANIEL BRADLEY was not one of them. For a full list, see the Melbourne Advocate, 22 May 1869, p4, at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169267360?. 1869, 19 June: From the Freeman’s Journal, p6: “THE POLITICAL PRISONERS. The correspondent of the ‘Evening Post’, writing from London on Monday evening, says: — A return has been issued to-day of the names of the Fenian convicts NOT [my emphasis] proposed to be released, stating what portion of their sentences is unexpired… Those confined in Australia are: — Edward John Kelly [sic], for the remainder of his life; James Dunne, alias Cody, for the remainder of twenty years, from 8th April, 1867; John Flood, fifteen years, from 8th April, 1867; Cornelius Dwyer Kane, ten years, from 17th February, 1866; Thomas Baines, ten years, from 17th February, 1867; David Bradley [DANIEL BRADLEY], ten years, from llth June, 1867; Thomas Fennell, ten years, from 15th July, 1867; George Francis Connolly, seven years from 8th April, 1867; and James Kearney, five years, from 2nd May, 1867…”
1868, 10 January: On arrival in WA, DANIEL BRADLEY was listed as #9672, 20 years old, and a draper; single, with no children (see Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930; Convict Department Registers (128/40 - 43)). This record also contains his physical description. Next of kin - father, Daniel Bradley Snr, at Kilmallock, Co Cork (see Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930; Convict Department, Registers; General Register for Nos 9059 - 9598 cont., 9599 - 10128 (R15 - R16)). --0-- From his Fremantle jail record: BRADLEY, Daniel; prisoner #9672; arrived 10 Jan 1868 per Hougoumont Date of Birth: 1847 Place of Birth: Killmallock, Limerick Marital Status: Unmarried Occupation: Draper Literacy: Literate Sentence Place: Limerick Crime: Treason Sentence Period: 10 years Conditional Pardon Date: 13 Mar 1871 Comments: One of 62 Fenians transported on the Hougoumont, the last convict ship sent to Australia. Its arrival at Fremantle on 9 Jan 1868 signalled the end of transportation to this country. To New South Wales, 8 Feb 1872 (see https://fremantleprison.com.au/)
—0— 1867, 4 July: DANIEL BRADLEY was admitted to Millbank Prison, at Westminster in London, which served as a holding facility for convicted prisoners before they were transported to Australia. At Millbank, he was listed as 19, single, able to read and write imperfectly, a Roman Catholic and a draper's assistant (see UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Millbank Prison; Register of Prisoners 1867-1868). —00— 1867, 30 September: DANIEL BRADLEY, Patrick Riordan and 12 other “Government prisoners” (Fenians) in Millbank were removed for transportation aboard the Hougoumont (see UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Millbank Prison Register of Prisoners, 1867-1868).
1867, 6 May: At the Special Commission set up to try the Kilmallock Fenians, the County Grand Jury handed down bills for High Treason against 25 prisoners, including DANIEL BRADLEY, Patrick Riordan and Michael Noonan. The charge of High Treason was later reduced to one of Treason Felony (see Mainchin Seoighe, p165). 1867, 12 June: DANIEL BRADLEY appeared before the Special Commission, at Limerick, and was found guilty of treason felony; that is, guilty of one charge of “levying war against the Queen and attacking the Kilmallock Barracks" and a second charge of "aiding in the shooting and wounding of Charles Bourne". He was sentenced to 10 years’ penal servitude. Patrick Riordan was sentenced to 7 years and Michael Noonan 5 years. Note: Daniel Bradley, Patrick Riordan and Michael Noonan "evidently availed themselves of an offer made while in prison to certain sentenced men to permit them to go to Australia" (see Mainchin Seoighe, p165). —0— 1867, 13 or 14 June: DANIEL BRADLEY was sent from Limerick to Mountjoy Prison, in Dublin, where he was kept for almost 3 weeks.
1867, 6 March: DANIEL BRADLEY's Limerick jail record lists him as a draper's assistant from Cork City. Born in 1848, he was 19, 5’5” tall with brown hair, grey eyes and a fresh complexion. A Roman Catholic, he could read and write. He had previously been arrested, in March 1866, "on suspicion of being engaged in treasonable practices", and was sent to Mountjoy prison but there are no details of his conviction (see Ireland, Prison Registers, 1790-1924; Limerick; Limerick 1855-1874). —0—
DANIEL BRADLEY and the Fenian attack on Kilmallock Police barracks: “…at about 6 o’clock on the morning of Ash Wednesday, 6th March… the going out of the lights [in the Kilmallock Police barracks] was the signal for the Fenians to advance. Falling in four deep, they marched towards the barracks which was about a quarter of a mile distant. At their head were Captain Dunne, Patrick Walsh, Daniel Bradley, Patrick Riordan (the driver) and William O’Sullivan… Some had firearms but the majority were armed with pikes. The barracks, a strong stone building, stood on its own, a few yards back from the side of the street now known as Lord Edward Street. Before it there was a wall about 3 ft. high. Some of the Fenians took up their position on the street side of this wall; others took up positions in the rear of the barracks. Patrick Walsh advanced to the barrack door, poured some paraffin oil on it and then attempted to set it alight. Returning to his comrades he fired the signal shot which set off the Kilmallock barracks attack, an attack that would later be described by the Attorney General as ‘this outbreak, which was the most obstinately conducted of all these engagements, the most wickedly persevered in and the most seriously planned’… Volley after volley was exchanged between the police and their attackers. Before long it became apparent to the latter that if they were to take the barracks they would have to blow a hole in the wall of the building or burn it down… Meantime raids for arms were being carried out in the town. Mr. Bourne, a bank manager, was approached by Dunne, Bradley and Patrick Riordan (the driver), and asked to hand up his revolver. According to P.N. Kennedy’s account, Mr. Bourne drew his revolver to fire at Dunne, whereupon Dunne drew his gun and fired at Bourne, wounding him severely in the neck, after which he picked up the wounded man’s gun and departed. Daylight came, bringing with it for the Fenians the added danger of recognition by the police. But still the fight continued, the desultory fire of the Fenians being answered by the regular military-style volleys of the police. The turning point, however, was soon to come. At 6.30 that morning Mr. Milling, Sub-Inspector of Police at Kilfinane, had set out by public car for Kilmallock in the company of three policemen. They had almost reached Kilmallock when they heard the sound of gunfire and, learning what was afoot, they returned to Kilfinane for reinforcements. When Milling started out again for Kilmallock he had ten policemen with him...” Thirty Fenians whose job was to control the road coming from Kilfinane had deserted their post “leaving their comrades exposed to the deadly cross-fire which Milling and his men suddenly opened on them some time between 9 and 10 o’clock in the morning… [T]he men who had guns still held their positions and were still fighting. Now, however, under pressure of the cross-fire, those firing from the front of the barracks had to evacuate their position, crawling in single file on hands and knees to a place of comparative safety. They held their new position for a short while, then retreated slowly, the final phase of the battle being fought down the length of Lord Edward Street between some dozen determined Fenian riflemen and 25 well-trained policemen. At the ‘cross’ in the centre of town where the Kilfinane-Limerick and Rathluirc-Tipperary roads intersect, and where the buildings to some extent gave them shelter, the Fenians made their last stand.” When news reached them of the arrest of their district commander, on Captain Dunne’s advice they “agreed that further resistance would be worse than useless. The Fenians decided to scatter in various directions.” Dunne escaped and, eventually, made it to the United States. “By the afternoon of 6th March, almost 100 armed police were busy searching and making arrests in Kilmallock. They made 20 arrests that first day and among those taken were Patrick Walsh, Daniel Bradley, Patrick Riordan (the driver) and William O’Sullivan, jnr. By nightfall all were lodged in the County Jail in Limerick.” (see “The Fenian Attack on Kilmallock Police Barracks”, by Mainchin Seoighe, in The North Munster Antiquarian Journal, x (1966-7), pp161-164) --00--