John Lennon

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Kate on 11th November 2025

From the New South Wales GovernmentGazette 23rd February 1841 Principal Superintendent of Convicts Office, Sydney 19th February, 1841. TICKETS OF LEAVE CANCELLED. THE Tickets of Leave, granted to the under-mentioned Prisoners of the Crown, have been Cancelled, for the several reasons stated against their respective names :- Lennon John, Hercules, having been present at Robberies committed in the district of Dungog, and having made no effort to resist or capture the bushrangers ; district of Dungog. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230106220?searchTerm=ticket%20of%20leave%20cancelled

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Maureen Withey on 17th November 2024

MURDER AT CLARENCE TOWN. An inquest was held on Thursday, the 13th inst., and adjourned until Monday, the 17th, at the house of Mr. James Williams, Clarence Town, before J. S. Parker, Esq., coroner, on the body of a man named John Lennon or Lennard, a ticket of leave holder. A great number of witnesses were examined, and from the evidence which was given by them it appeared that on Saturday, the 1st July, a person named Hogue opened a new public house at Clarence Town ; the deceased, his wife, and from forty to fifty other persons, were drinking there, and a great part of them became most beastly drunk. The deceased and his wife were both drunk ; they continued there drinking for two or three days, and on Monday night, nearly all of them being drunk, there was a disturbance, which arose, as it appears from the evidence, about the deceased's wife, who was in a most helpless state of drunkenness. A battle took place, and there was some fighting with sticks outside the house. The deceased was severely beaten about the head, and on the following morning his wife, who had been in a loft all night with two or three men, heard of the circumstance. On seeing her husband she found that his face and head had been very much beaten, and were covered with blood ; she washed him at a brick maker's house, and with some difficulty got him home that day, and put him to bed. When asked how he received the wound, his reply was, " Never mind, it is an old grudge ; I will see to it by and bye." Finding him getting worse, the woman sent for medical assistance to Raymond Terrace, but not obtaining it there, she sent to Dungog for Dr. M'Kinlay, but before he arrived the man was dead. He died on the 12th instant. No evidence whatever appeared as to whom the blows were given by, or when they were received ; nearly the whole of the party having been quite drunk at the time. A post mortem examination was made by Dr. M'Kinlay, from which it appeared that the skull was fractured in several places, and the bone actually forced in upon the brain; the wounds were very extensive, and appeared to have been inflicted by the forcible throwing of some blunt angular stone or heavy body from a height, or whilst the deceased was stooping. The whole of the evidence having been taken, the jury, after a very patient and anxious investigation, returned a verdict of wilful mur- der against some person or persons unknown. Hannah Lennon, the wife of the deceased, was committed by the coroner to the house of correction, Sydney, to be kept to hard labour for two calendar months, as a common prostitute and vagabond, not having any lawful means of subsistence. Such a disgusting scene of drunkenness; riot, and obscenity as was unfolded by the evidence given on the above inquisition, never before came under our notice; and it is to be hoped for the credit of human nature that even amongst the most depraved such scenes are of rare occurrence. We certainly think that the authorities of Clarence Town ought to keep a very strict eye upon all the parties who have been proved to have been in the slightest degree implicated in the occurrences which have led to the death of the man Lennon, and very strict enquiry ought to be made, as to who were the parties with whom he was last seen, as no account whatever could be given of this by the witnesses who were examined, all of whom, except two, appeared to have been amongst the party who were drinking during the course of the day on which the man was killed Maitland Mercury, 22 July 1843.

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Maureen Withey on 13th November 2024

County of Antrim Assizes. John Lennon for stealing a mare the property of Wm. McIlroy.  Belfast News-Letter, 26 March 1830. SENTENCES AT THESE ASSIZES. Death Jane Graham.  Sentence of Death Recorded.—John Lennon, Wm. Ball, Daniel Gartley, Sarah Tolan, Bridget Gallagher, Robert Aiken, Henry Carter, John Molloy, Mary Hamill, Mary Dunn. Transportation.—For life—Thomas Moore. For 14 years, James Robinson. For 7 years—Francis Howard, Mary Gilhoolly, Catherine Burns, William Marshall, Margaret Smith, Arthur O'Brien, William M‘Sourley, Mary Foy, Wm. Logan, Thomas Ford, Patrick Byrne, Robert Platt, Mary Whiteside, Michael Latton, Thomas Healy, Eliza Martin, Wm. Smith  and Maryann Devlin.    Newry Telegraph, 2 April 1830.

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Maureen Withey on 9th January 2020

Ella on 9th January, 2020 wrote of Hannah Mountford: Her husband John Lennon was murdered. He died on the 12 July 1843. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article661320

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D Wong on 12th August 2018

John Lennon was listed a 22 years old on arrival in NSW. He was born in Tyrone. 1837: Dungog: Age 28. Assigned to Charles Windeyer. 1838: TOL Dungog. No Date: Permission to marry - Anna Mumford, (Numa) age 26 to John Lennon alias McIlroy, age 31 (Hercules). 1839: Married Hannah/Anna Mountford in the Hunter/Maitland district. Listed as Anna. No children found. 1/2/1841: Scone - John and Hannah Lennon convicted in the lockup at Scone for drunkenness. 1842: TOL Raymond Terrace. 1842: TOL Passport, on the application by letter of R. Windeyer Esq.