Daniel Mc Callis

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Maureen Withey on 12th September 2021

In her book “Unfinished Revolution: United Irishmen in New South Wales, 1800-1810”, Anne-Maree Whitaker mentions: Daniel McCallas (McAlice) several times. p 135. Daniel McCallas, the constable who had arrested John Griffin the day before the Castle Hill Rebellion, was living with Mary Turley of the Hercules. Her former de facto husband, the French loyalist, Colonel de Clambe, had died suddenly on 4th June 1804. A few days later Turley and McCallas were charged with looting his effects. ------------------------------------------------------- Sydney Gazette, 10 June & 24 June 1804. EXAMINATIONS BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. On Tuesday Mary Tirley and Daniel Macaleese were brought before the Bench, charged on the oath of Daniel Brady, with having contrived a robbery of the effects of the late Colonel De CLAMB, deceased. The deponent stated that he was servant to the Chevalier De CLAMB, shortly prior to and at the time of his demise, and remained in the house after the event of his master's death, with Mary Tirley his house keeper ; that she Mary Tirley, had put a bag into his possession which she requested him to conceal in the garden, and to be careful that the constable in charge of the premises did not observe where he might conceal it; and that when Macaleese should come, to take him into the garden under a pretence of giving him some pepper pods, and make him acquainted with the spot where the said bag should be deposited ; that agreeable to such instructions he upon the day following, did make Macaleese acquainted with the whole circumstance, and that when he pointed out the spot where he had interred the bag, he appeared satisfied and went away ; that afterwards becoming apprehensive lest what he had done might terminate disadvantageously to himself, he was desirous of making Mr. Knowland, Superintendant at Castle Hill, acquainted with the above particulars, but as he was absent from home had communicated the affair to one Riley, whom he supposed to have the charge of Mr. Knowland's house, and that in consequence of such information the property was found, and upon examination the contents of the bag were found to consist in soap, nails, and sundry other articles. Mary Tirley answered the charge by recriminating the accuser, and by declaring the complaint to be instituted from malicious motives, as did Macaleese also. The deposition being duly taken, both the prisoners were admitted to bail. Sydney Gazette, 24 June 1804. (The Death of Colonel de Clamb was reported 10 Jun 1804 in the Sydney Gazette.) ----------------------------------------------------- Anne- Maree Whitaker states on Page 86. "The identification of Turley as Daniel McCallas’s de facto wife after the death of de Clambe is from the 1806 muster." ---------------------------------------------------- Page 208. McCallas, Daniel (Minerva) Born in 1769, McCallas (or Mcaleese, McAlice, McAlesce, McAllis, McLEase) , was a non-political prisoner who was described by Holt as a hangman from Trim, County Meath, although the indent gives his trade as gardener. --------------------------------------------------- Page 112. At the same time two of the informers, Louis Bulger and Patrick Sloane, and Constable Daniel McCallas (McAlice) were also pardoned. -------------------------------------------------- NSW Convict Index. Daniel McLease, Absolute Pardon, 4 Jun 1806. --------------------------------------------------