John Foreham

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Maureen Withey on 24th March 2025

Absconded Foreham John Ford, Java, 33-3013, 30, Kerry, soldier, 5 feet 8 inches, brown comp., brown hair, hazel grey eyes, lost three front upper teeth, scar left eyebrow, scar right thumb, scar left forefinger, breast hairy, from G. Tribe, Penrith, since October 21, second time of absconding. NSW Govt Gazette, 26 Oct 1836.

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Maureen Withey on 24th June 2023

Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John Foreham, alias Forde, age 27, Per Java, 1833, Tried Kerry, 1833, 7 years for stealing sheep. DOB, 1806 native place, Kerry. Single. Catholic. Trade: Soldier. Remarks: Iron gang. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Assize Intelligence - Kerry Assizes - The following are the convictions which have taken place at the Kerry assizes: Michael Meenehan, manslaughter, to be transported for life - Garret Lynch, pig stealing, seven years transportation - Michael Berkely, larceny, seven years’ transportation - Patt and Darby Foley, sheep and goat stealing seven years transportation; John Foreham sheep stealing, seven years transportation....The prisoners Meenehan was a schoolmaster; a child of nine years old, a son of the deceased, was one of his scholars - The first day the child went to school the prisoner beat him most unmercifully, so that the child on his return home was found beaten black and blue and shockingly welted. Cornelius Neill, the deceased, called the next morning on the prisoner and told him he would carry him before the parish priest for his cruelty to his son, and while laying his hand on the prisoners' shoulder for that purpose, the prisoner stabbed him in the side with a penknife, of which wound Neill died in a few days after. Mayo Constitution, 21 March 1833.