Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Peter Kenny was transported on the James Pattison, departing 2nd Oct 1829 and arriving 20th Jan 1830 with 201 passengers.
James Pattison (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Peter Henry Kelly, age on arrival, 17, per James Pattison (1) 1830, Tried 1829, at Leitrim, 7 years, for Stealing cloth from a shop. DOB, 1813, Native place, Mayo Co, Single, Catholic, Errand boy. Colonial sentence.
On the 28th of September 1831, Peter Kenny and George Clarke stole, with force and under arms, three muskets, two bayonets, two blankets, three rugs, one axe, one frying pan, one kettle, five tin pots, five pounds of flour, five pounds of bread, five pounds of beef, one pound of gun powder, and six leaden bullets from William Cox’s dwelling house at Nombi (Numbi) Station. Peter was sentenced to work on the roads in irons for three years. George Clarke was sentenced to death, commuted to transportation to Norfolk Island for three years.
Peter was an escaped convict and roamed the Liverpool Plains with George 'The Barber' Clarke. The Sydney Gazette reported that: "George Clarke and Peter Kenny were marched into Sydney town on Saturday 10th December, under the military escort. The former of these is the man who gave himself up at Bathurst representing that while in the bush he discovered a river and other important matters. His breast, arms, and shoulders, have been tattooed by the blacks, among whom he says he lived in great familiarity; round his neck he wears a string of beads made of grass that grows in the direction where he lived; his hair is long and parted in the middle, and he had not washed the stains from his skin; such is his tout ensemble, that few could have distinguished him from an aborigine. He reports himself to have been in the bush over three years and says the blacks treated him very well." "They were taken before the Bench on Monday 12 December heavily chained, and were charged with stealing a horse and two head of cattle belonging to Mr. Doyle." "On Thursday 2nd February 1832 George Clarke and Peter Kenny were indicted for a larceny on the goods of Mr. Cox Esq., at Bathurst and for stealing a gelding belonging to Cyrus Matthew Doyle at Liverpool Plains in the previous May (1831). There were several other charges pending which the Solicitor General declined to proceed with. A sentence of Death was then pass on Clarke who was found guilty on both parts and Kenny who was found not guilty of stealing the gelding was remanded."