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John Donohoe was transported on the Ann And Amelia, departing 8th Sep 1824 and arriving 2nd Jan 1825 with 202 passengers.
The Ann and Amelia was built in India in 1806 553 Tons and owned by J. Somes.
Ann And Amelia (generic)References
| Primary Source | NSW Gov Records. Irish Convicts. |
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Convict Notes
1st MAY, 1828. TWENTY POUNDS REWARD. WHEREAS JOHN DONOHOE, who was convicted of Highway Robbery, and received Sentence of Death on the 1st March last, effected his Escape while on his Return from the Court House to the Gaol : —Notice is hereby given, that a REWARD of TWENTY POUNDS will be paid to any Person or Persons who may apprehend and lodge the said JohnDonohoe in one of His Majesty's Gaols. Donohoe is a Native of Dublin, 22 years of age, 5 feet 4 inches in height, brown freckled complexion, flaxen hair, blue eyes, and has a scar under the left nostril. He arrived in the Colony a Prisoner, per Ann and Amelia, in 1825, and, was at the Time of his Committal for the above Offence, in the Service of Mr. Major West. By Command of His Excellency the Governor, ALEXANDER McLEAY. Sydney Gazette, 7 May 1828.
See a little more information on Jack Donohoe in my book The Campbelltown Convicts
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, (MUP), 1966 John (Bold Jack) Donohoe (1806?-1830), bushranger, was born in Dublin and there convicted on 3 April 1823 of 'intent to commit a felony'. Sentenced to transportation for life, he reached Sydney Cove on 2 January 1825 in the Ann and Amelia. He was assigned to John Pagan of Parramatta and then, after a short period in a road-gang, to Major West, a Parramatta surgeon who owned an estate at Quaker's Hill. On 14 December 1827 with two confederates, Kilroy (Kilray or Gilroy) and Smith, he robbed a number of bullock-drays on the Sydney-Windsor road. Tried on two counts in the Supreme Court in February 1828 before Judge John Stephen, they were found guilty and, with perhaps superabundant justice, on 1 March twice sentenced to death. Kilroy and Smith were duly hanged (once), but Donohoe escaped from custody between the court and the gaol in Sussex Street. During the next two years and a half he became the most celebrated bushranger in Australia, leader of a gang which included at various times, Webber, Walmsley, Underwood and others. They ranged over country from the Bathurst area south to the neighbourhood of Yass, east to the Illawarra, and north through the County of Cumberland to Wollombi on the southern approaches to the Hunter River valley. In the official notices which fruitlessly offered £20 for his apprehension, Donohoe was described as '22 years of age, 5 feet 4 inches (163 cm) in height, brown freckled complexion, flaxen hair, blue eyes, and has a scar under the left nostril'. In the late afternoon of 1 September 1830 a detachment of soldiers and police came up with the gang in the Bringelly scrub near Campbelltown. During the ensuing fight Donohoe urged the police to 'come on, using the most insulting and indecent epithets'. He was killed by a ball fired by Trooper Muggleston. A product of the times, Donohoe was defiant, brutal and sometimes dangerous. In death his deeds were glamorised and perhaps exaggerated; ordinary folk may have envied his apparent charmed life, and with the help of the press of the day the name John (Jack) Donohoe passed into Australian folk lore. The ballad 'Bold Jack Donohoe' once banned in Sydney taverns, came to represent an enduring popular perception of Australian Bushrangers. Many ballads about Donohoe's life and death were composed and some still circulate in oral tradition. The most popular may have been the prototype of the best-known Australian folk-song, 'The Wild Colonial Boy'; One of several versions of 'Bold Jack Donohue' Come all you gallant bushrangers who gallop o'er the plains Refuse to live in slavery, or wear the convict chains. Attention pay to what I say, and value if I do For I will relate the matchless tale of bold Jack Donohue. Come all you sons of liberty and everyone besides I'll sing to you a story that will fill you with surprise Concerning of a bold bushranger, Jack Donohue was his name And he scorned to humble to the crown, bound down with iron chain. Now Donohue was taken all for a notorious crime And sentenced to be hanged upon the gallows tree so high But when they to him to Bathurst Gaol, he left them in a stew For when they came to call the roll, they missed Jack Donohue. Now when Donohue made his escape, to the bush he went straight way. The squatters they were all afraid to travel by night and by day And every day in the newspapers, they brought out something new, Concerning that bold bushranger they called Jack Donohue. Now one day as he was riding the mountainside alone Not thinking that the pains of death would overtake him soon. When all he spied the horse police well on they came up into view And in double quick time they did advance to take Jack Donohue. "Oh Donohue, Donohue, throw down your carbine. Or do you intend to fight us all and will you not resign?" "Surrender to such cowardly dogs is a thing that I never would do, For this day I'll fight with all my might", cried Bold Jack Donohue Now the sergeant and the corporal, their men they did divide Some fired at him from behind and some from every side. The sergeant and the corporal, they both fired at him, too. And a rifle bullet pierced the heart of Bold Jack Donohue. Now nine rounds he fired and nine men down before that fated ball Which pierced his heart and made him smart and caused him for to fall And as he closed his mournful eyes, he bid the world adieu, Saying "Convicts all, pray for the soul of Bold Jack Donohue."
38766 Donahoe (Donahue) John( Jack) - Ann and Amelia 1825. 1825 29 July Newcastle CSI. Convict servant of Leslie Duguid. To be victualled from the Stores at Newcastle for 6mths.
Born - Dublin Ireland. Crime - Intent to commit a felony. Single - Shot by mounted police 1830.