James Connolly

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iain Frazier on 30th March 2025

Amendment-sorry James (Connolly) was recorded in 1828 with his wife & child Sarah. & Edmu/ond/Edward (Moore) was at Wilberforce when he married in 1820.

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iain Frazier on 17th February 2025

Family details for James (Connolly) are: Some amendments added Aug 2025. CONNOLLY James (Connolly aka Séamus Ó Conghaile) was born about 1771/4/8. He was tried for breaking entering & stealing w/3others a gun etc from Isaac (Johnston) of Ballagh Monaghan at Monaghan Ireland in April 1795, sentenced to be hanged reprieved to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 11 2 1796 after a voyage of 6months on MARQUIS CORNWALLIS. He married Sarah (Malony her first marriage) on 27 7 1800 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He was Free by Servitude by 1801. He is recorded in 1828 farmer at Wilberforce perhaps with his family. He died on 29 6 1852 age78.] [Some details taken from this Website. Another entry for James (Connolly) shows similarities suggesting the two may be the same person.] Sarah (Malony) was born in 1774. She was tried at Dublin Ireland, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 11 1 1800 after a voyage of 5months on MINERVA. She married secondly Joseph (Hansell his third marriage) in 1824. She was recorded in 1828 with her family. She died on 19 8 1830 age about56 mother of 6children & was buried at St Marys RC Sydney- not shown in Smees records but this Website shows she died on 22.9.1835 at Freemans Reach & was buried at RC Windsor. [Some details taken from this Website] James (Connolly) Sarah (Maloney) produced maybe 6children: mostly girls 1.Sarah (Connolly) was born in 1801. In 1825 she is recorded with her father. She is recorded in 1828 with her parents. She died on 8 11 1898 age97.] 2.Elizabeth (Connolly) was born in 1802. She died on 18 2 1802 age<2m & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney.] 3.Mary (Connolly) was born in 1803. [A Mary Ann (Connolly born 1804) is recorded as marrying Edmund (Moore) of Wilberforce on 10 9 1820 at St Marys RC Sydney]; they produced at least 4children She died on 1 9 1835 age about31 at Windsor Hawkesbury.] ..Edmu/ond/Edward (Moore) was born, possibly in Kerry county Ireland, in 1791 & became a labourer. He was tried for breaking a curfew in 1814 at Kerry Ireland, sentenced to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 5 8 1815 after a voyage of 8months on CANADA: he was Catholic. He was issued Ticket of Leave no.947 & Conditional Pardon no.1119 on 25/9 1 1819. He was at Wilberforce in 1820. He was granted 50acres at Wilberforce on 3 9 1825. In 1828 he is recorded as a landholder of 34acres at Wilberforce. He died on 29 5 1847 age56 at Windsor Hawkesbury.] ..[Some details taken from this Website] .. 4.James (Connolly) was born in 1804. He married Ann/Agnes (McGinnis) on 7 7 1828 with consent of her parents at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. He was recorded in 1828 & 1830 as a farmer. He died on 31 10 1863 age about59. ..Ann/Agnes (McGinnis) was born on 31 5 1808 & baptised on 7 4 1811 age2 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She died in 1872. ..Details of Ann/Agnes (McGinnis)s family are given in entry for George (McGinnis BRITANNIA 1797) on this Website. ..James (Connolly) & Ann/Agnes (McGinnis) produced at least 2children: ..1.James (Connolly) was born on 19 6 1829 at Lower Branch & baptised on 20 7 1829 at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. ..2.Ann (Connolly) was born on 23 10 1830 at Wilberforce & baptised on 5 12 1830 at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. .. 5.Jane (Connolly) was born in 1805. She had a relationship with John (Day) & produced perhaps 7children. In 1839, with her husband & son Joseph, she was charged with stealing oats, but was exonerated. She died on 30 9 1852 age about47. ..John (Day) was born in 1788 & became a labourer. He was tried for larceny at Stafford Quarter Sessions, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 7 9 1815 after a voyage of 8months on BARING: he was 5'4.5" fair pale complexion brown hair hazel eyes. He was Free by Servitude by 1822. In 1828 he is recorded as a farmer at Portland Head. In 1839, with his wife & son Joseph, he was charged with stealing oats from William T (Baylis)-no record yet of trial found. He died on 5 7 1875 age87 accidentally drowned at Thurgoona Albury & was buried at Albury cemetery. ..2brothers of John (Day) served at Trafalgar & Santa Cruz with Nelson. ..[Some details taken from this Website] .. 6.Sarah (Connolly) is said to have been born in 1814 on evidence from the 1828 Census; perhaps the Sarah in the Census is the elder daughter. Reference: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony.

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Robin Sharkey on 19th March 2019

Indent LIst The indent for Marquis Cornwallis records James Conolly as being aged 21. This is the age he states, and would mean he was born in 1774. This is more likely his birth year than the one recorded at his death, which is given by someone else.

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Robin Sharkey on 19th March 2019

IRISH CRIME James Conolly was in company with at least three other men in breaking into a house owned by Isaac Johnston at Ballagh. (Belfast Newsletter, Monday 13 April 1795 p. 2) Ballagh is a townland in the civil parish of Drumsnat. (See www.townlands.ie/monaghan/drumsnat2). The victim, "Isaac Johnston" of Drumsnat, Monaghan is listed In the Flax Growers of Ireland List of 1796 published on https://www.failteromhat.com. Belfast Newsletter, Monday 13 April 1795 p. 2 “Monaghan Assizes “James Conolly, James Hand, Peter Boylan, and Pat. Meath alias McNamee, found guilty of burglariously breaking, and feloniously taking out of the dwelling-house of Isaac Johnston, at Ballagh, 1 gun, plate, and other goods his property, ordered to be hanged 11th May." Since a gun was stolen, and it was a group of men, it is likely they were all acting as part of an association such as the Defenders, though this is not stated in the newspaper report. However, charges were often made as burglary and break and enter even though the crime was motivated by political Defender issues. The men were originally to be hanged within a few weeks. While Conolly was obviously reprieved, it is unclear what happened to the others, who did not appear in NSW, but may have been reprieved into the army, — or may have been hanged, as sentenced.

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Denis Pember on 14th September 2015

James married Sarah Maloney (Convict, Minerva, 1800) at Sydney on 27 July 1800. They had 6 children. Sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales: [Ref C2050] Connolly, James, 50, FS, Marquis Cornwallis, 1796, 7 yrs, Farmer at Wilberforce. Also Connolly, Sarah 51, FS, Minerva, 1800 and Sarah (jnr) BC no age given. Sarah was the youngest of their children and would have been about 14 at the time of the census.