James Corcoran

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D Wong on 6th October 2017

28/8/1834 Clonmell Advertiser The Morning Post: Murder of Constable Feely and Arrest of his Murderers. We regret to say that Constable Feely, who, as we stated in our last, had been brutally and inhumanly beaten by a ferocious and reckless mob, opposite the Petit Sessions House of Ballinonty, on last week, has since died from the effects of the wounds he received on that day. This ill-fated man bore a most respectable character, and was ever found most punctual in the discharge of his several duties. He was a married man, and has left a wife in an advanced state of pregnancy, and four children totally unprovided for, to deplore his loss. An Inquest has been held on his body by Mr Cormack, Coroner, and a verdict of ‘Wilful murder” returned against Denis Carew, and four men named Corcoran, Delay, Cantwelll and Stapleten, all of whom have been arrested and transmitted under a warrant from Fergus Langley and John Lane Esqrs., to our county gaol to abide the result of their trial at our next Assizes. **Later reports say "Police Sergeant Feeny - not Constable Feely** James Boney (Booney), Denis Carey, James Corcoran, Pierce Cantwell, James Heffernan, Patrick Heffernan, William Delaney, Richard Stapleton and James Cantwell. All but Delaney and Stapleton arrived on the same ship". James Corcoran was 28 years old on arrival, he was single, native place: Tipperary County. Permission to marry: James Corcoran, (Blackwell), aged 32 to Mary Gilhooly, (Southworth 1832), aged 45 (free), a widow - Disallowed. 2nd Application: also Disallowed. 16/6/1840: Married at St Thomas's, Port Stephens, 2nd entry on NSW BDM states Maitland district. 1844: TOL Patterson 1/11/1848: CP