Patrick Brady

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Maureen Withey on 16th April 2023

Police-Office. —Committed by W. H. Ferrar, Esq. to Carrickfergus Gaol, Patrick Brady, charged with stealing two cows at Greencastle on Monday night last. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 12 March 1825. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Brady, for stealing a cow and heifer from John Bell, Greencastle, near Belfast, on the 17th inst.— Guilty. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 28 Mar 1825. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The under-named convicts passed through this town yesterday, from the county Antrim gaol, on their route to the hulk Essex, at Dunleary: John Bell, Michael Clarke, James Dogherty, Bernard Curley, or Dowdall, John Selby, Paul George Gibson, James Quinn, Patrick Brady, James Cassidy, Wm. Henny, James Gribbon, Thomas Boyle, William Begley, William McCafferty, Andrew McAllister. Eight of those convicts received sentence of death Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 23 April 1825.

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 5th August 2020

New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Name: Patrick Brady. Age: 26 Date of conviction: 26 Mar 1825 Place of Conviction: Carrickfergus Estimated birth year: abt 1799 Vessel: Henry Porcher Port of Arrival: Sydney Cove Date of Arrival: 3 Dec 1825 No; 91 Native Place: Calling; Soldier 64 Reg't Offence; Cow stealing Date of Trial: 26 March 1825 Height; 5 ft. 5 inches Complexion: Sallow Hair: Brown Eyes;Grey Date of Certificate; General Remarks; Well. Mr Danger Noted against his name; Executed at Sydney 1833 (Two men by the same name on the ship) ---------------------------------------------- Patrick Brady - 11 February 1833 - Hanged at Sydney for the murder of Daniel Stewart at Webb's Creek, Windsor. ---------------------------------------------- The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838) View title info Wed 13 Feb 1833. Page 2. Domestic Intelligence. FRIDAY, FEB. 8.---Patrick Brady was indicted for the willful murder of Daniel Stewart, by striking him on the head with an axe, at Webb's Creek, Windsor, on the 24th of December last, under which blow the said Daniel Stewart lingered and then died, to wit, on the 30th of the same month. It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner and the deceased were both assigned servants to Captain Grono, of Webb's Creek, Windsor. On the evening of the 24th of December, being Christmas Eve, Captain Grono gave some spirits to his men, to regale themselves with, according to annual custom. About nine or ten o'clock, the men amused themselves by singing songs, when a dispute arose between the prisoner and the deceased relative to the deceased having refused to sing, and words at last came to blows. A scuffle ensued, when both fell on the floor, the deceased having the advantage, and persisting in his resolution of fighting the prisoner; in a short time they let each other go, and the prisoner went out of the hut but returned shortly with an axe in his hand, which he flourished over his head, crying out, " who will fight Brady now ?" The prisoner was remonstrated with by the other men for arming himself with an axe, and he then went out of the but. The deceased, contrary to the advice of his fellow-servants, went after the prisoner, and when at the hut door, he rested his hand on the jamb of the door, and stretched his body forward, to look where the prisoner had gone to; the prisoner, who was standing just outside the door, raised the axe, and struck the deceased on the head. He fell, apparently, lifeless, outside the door. The deceased was taken up and carried into the hut, and the prisoner went in of his own accord, when one of the men, named John Smith, said, " Brady, you have killed Stewart," to which the prisoner answered, " that if his b-y old father had aggravated him in such a manner, he would have killed him." The deceased was carried in a boat to the hospital, and upon being put into the boat said, "I don't know the meaning of that man striking me with the axe." He said nothing more until delivered into the hospital. In the course of the examination, it came out in reply to questions put by the Court and by the Jury, that the prisoner was very drunk, and could hardly be supposed to know what he was about; he had always been upon the most friendly terms with the deceased, and had the character of being a good tempered man; the evidence of the constable who took the prisoner into custody and lodged him in jail, testified as to his penitence whilst in his custody. Dr. Richardson deposed, that the deceased died of a wound inflicted by an axe, and that the deceased was not of sane mind during his stay in the hospital, sometimes charging one person with the deed, and sometimes another. The learned Judge summed up, and the Jury retired a few minutes, and then found the prisoner Guilty. Previously to sentence of death being passed on him, the prisoner handed a written defence to the registrar, who read it. After it had been read, the learned Judge charged the Jury to consider the nature of the defence, and re-consider their verdict. The Jury intimated, that nothing in the defence appeared to warrant them in disturbing the verdict, which was then recorded, and sentence of death was passed on the prisoner, who was ordered for execution on Monday morning, and his body to be given over to the surgeons for dissection. ---------------------------------------------------------- New South Wales, Australia, Convict Death Register, 1826-1879 Name: Patrick Brady Date of Death: 11 Feb 1833 District: Sydney - EXECUTED -------------------------------------