Luke Moran

Level 347

Maureen Withey on 12th November 2022

NSW Convict Index. Luke Moran, per Recovery, 1823, Ticket of Leave, 25/604. District, Sydney; Born, Dublin Co, 1805; Trade, Groom; Tried, Dublin City nd. Luke Moran, per Recovery, 1823, Certificate of freedom, 26 Oct 1829, No 29/0971. Renewed CF 40/1108. -------------------------------------------------- Permission to Marry. Luke Moran, Recovery 3, age 24, 7 years, Ticket of Leave; and Anne Burne, per Lord Melville, age 20, Came free; Free. Date of permission, 7 Dec 1826. Roman Catholic Clergyman. ------------------------------------------------- Luke Moran holding a ticket-of-leave for the district of Sydney, appeared before the Bench on a charge of beating and assaulting his wife. It happened that the Principal Superintendent of Police was passing at the time the circumstance happened, and having witnessed the conduct of the prisoner, ordered him into custody. Upon enquiry, the prisoner was found to bear a very good character, but cases of this sort being greatly on the increase, the Bench considered it prudent to take the prisoner's ticket-of-leave from him, and return him to Government employ. Shortly after the sentence was passed, his wife made her appearance with two small children. She begged their Worships not to leave her unprotected; that she was the aggressor in this case, and deserved the wholesome discipline she had received! Colonel Morrisett, in consideration of the children, desired her to make application for the assignment of her husband to herself, and he would recommend the same. This seems to be a capital mode of accommodation. The Monitor, 28 Jan 1828. -------------------------------------------------- The Tickets of Leave, granted to the following Persons, have been cancelled : Recovery (2), Luke Moran, for brutally beating and ill using his Wife in the public street. Sydney Gazette, 4 Feb 1828. -------------------------------------------------- 1828 Census Luke Moran, per Recovery, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney. -------------------------------------------------- In 1831, Luke Moran and his wife both gave evidence at an inquest into a case of murder. They had separated from each other by this time. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32076487?searchTerm=Luke Moran For the full report of the inquest, as it appeared in The Sydney Monitor, 14 December 1831. His wife’s evidence: Ann Moran alias Welsh------I am a married woman, and my husband is now here; I formerly lived in the same house with Mrs. Thompson, who then lived in Mrs Egan's house, near Charlton's gate; I never heard any noise in the neighbourhood, except Mrs Briant quarrelling next door; I have quarrelled with my husband myself at times, and he occasionally turns me out of doors; I was away from him about two months; I have been in the Colony about 13 years; my mother brought me out from England; when I was away from my husband, I lived with a man named Owen Welsh, a shoemaker, who lived at Mrs. Thompson's alias Shannon; I never said that I would be revenged on Welsh when I quarrelled with him; Mrs. Thompson did not live with her husband; I know that the last witness was married to a man named Thompson, but she was still called Shannon; Shannon used to come and get his meals at the house, but he did not sleep there, as he was in Barracks; I lived at Mrs. Murray's one of the times when I was from my husband, but I did not then threaten Welsh at all; I lived with a Mrs. Black for a fortnight, and with other persons; I have quarrelled with Welsh, but never threatened him; I know what I am about, and what l am liable to; I know nothing about the murder. Ann Moran alias Welsh re-called-----I am married to Moran, and my husband is a shoemaker; it is about five weeks since I left the house in Prince-street; the house-is one door off the gate of Mr. Charlton's yard where the well is situated in which the body was found; I lived a fortnight in the house; Mrs. Thompson, alias Shannon, and Welsh, with whom I cohabited, lived in the house about nine weeks back; I called Mrs. Thompson, Shannon, because she lived with Shannon, and was generally called by that name; she was the landlady of the house, as Welsh paid her for his and my board and lodging; I never heard or saw any person ill-treated in the house; house; I and Welsh slept in the front kitchen for some time, and then Mrs. Thompson; alias Shannon made up a bed for us in the back kitchen; I quarrelled with Welsh, but never threatened him that I would hang him; I do not know whether I have seen the door now produced before; but I cannot swear that I have not seen it. Luke Moran’s evidence: Luke Moran------I am a free man, and by trade a shoemaker; I have been married about six years; my wife's maiden name was Ann Burn a we have lived together ever since we have been married until the last three months, when she left me; the cause of her leaving me was a quarrel which we had; I suspected that she cohabited with another man named Welsh, but I never saw it, and could not swear to it; I never went in search of her, but I did go in search of my child, which I saw near the place where the murder was done; I sent a man for the child, but he did not get it; she afterwards sent it home to me; I have had no conversation with her about Welsh, any further than my upbraiding her with her conduct, and she then acknowledged, that she had lived with Owen Welsh; she never liked to hear his name mentioned; before all this, Welsh came to me, and I allowed him to remain to get his eyes cured, as they were bad; I had no suspicion at the time he lived at my house, of any illicit connexion between him and my wife, unless it could have taken place one night when I was put into the watch-house, when she and Welsh were left together in the house; I never sent for my wife to come home; in fact, I did not care about her, as I wished to get out of the country, and I have applied to several persons for that purpose.

Level 41

Stephen Stuart on 27th December 2019

Ticket of Leave canceled 1828. Certificate of Freedom 1829.