Michael Lenehan

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Maureen Withey on 19th April 2025

CORK ASSIZES, AUGUST, 19. John Crowley, Henry Dennehy, John M'Carthy, Michael Linehan, and John Ambrose, were put to the bar, charged  with a burglary in the house of Mrs. Minton. William Carroll, an informer. The evidence …. Cumberland Pacquet, 14 Sept 1819.

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Maureen Withey on 25th March 2022

Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Michael Lenehan, age on arrival, 25, per Hadlow (2) 1820, Tried 1819 at Cork Co., 7 years, DOB, 1795, native place, Cork Co., Trade, Labourer. --------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary Index. LINEHAN, Michael. Per "Hadlow", 1820. 1822 Jun 12 Application for rations; appears as Linegan (Reel 6055; 4/1760 p.115) 1823 Mar 21 Approver in a Criminal case. On list of convicts embarked on the "Elizabeth Henrietta" for Hobart on 31 Jul 1822; appears as Lenihan (Reel 6010; 4/3508 p.12) -------------------------------------------------- Tasmanian Record. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-2$init=CON13-1-2P238 List of 11 convicts transported to Macquarie Harbour in Van Diemens Land in H M C Brig Elizabeth Henrietta on the 31 July last with their original places, times of trial and sentences extracted from the Indents of their respective ships by which they arrived in this colony. Dated: 21 March 1823. Michl Linehan, per Hadlow (2), Approver in a Criminal Case, to be kept at Macquarie Harbour for the remainder of the original sentence. Trade, Labourer. Tried Cork Co, Summer 1819, 7 years. -------------------------------------------------- Michael Lenahan was an approver in a criminal case, of a particularly violent robbery. Wednesday.— Yesterday Thomas Roach, William Varley, John Malony, and John Carroll, were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James M'Kenzie, settler of Caddi, in the district of Pitt Town, on the night of the 19th of March last ; but, owing to the sudden indisposition of one of Members of the Honorable Court, the prisoners were necessarily remanded to this day, when they were again placed at the bar, at twelve o'clock. Thomas Faulkner, crown servant to the prosecutor, deposed, that about midnight on the day of the month named, his master's house was suddenly broken into, by the door being forced by a gang of ruffians, who immediately proceeded to acts of extreme violence. ... Michael Lenaghan, crown servant to the prisoner Maloney, and approver in this case, deposed, that the prisoners at the bar, with himself, were the men that committed the robbery. He said, that the prisoner Varley was the first that disclosed the plan of plundering M'Kenzie to him, and that occurred about two months before it took place. Several conferences had been held upon the occasion ; and the principal reason that it had been so long deferred was, that Carroll and Varley were near becoming free again, and they intended to make the best of their way home after the robbery, as great expectations were formed upon a successful issue. The prisoner Varley was government servant to the prisoner Roach, and the approver Lenaghan was also servant, as has been stated, to the prisoner Maloney ; the prisoner Carroll lived near to the other prisoners; and the whole five were in the neighbourhood of James M'Kenzie. Varley and Carroll actually became free about the time of the robbery. ... The Court retired, and after an absence of about ten minutes, returned with a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners. Sentence of Death was then passed upon Thomas Roach, William Varley, John Maloney, John Carroll, George King, and James Riley—the two latter prisoners had been convicted on Monday of a burglary. They are to be executed on such day as His Excellency the Governor may think proper to direct. The trial lasted eight hours. Sydney Gazette, 3 May 1822. For a full account of the trial: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2180964?searchTerm=approver Michael