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Owen Mckeon was transported on the Countess Of Harcourt, departing 3rd Sep 1822 and arriving 21st Dec 1822 with 173 passengers.
Ship of 517 tons, built in India 1811. Voyages to NSW and VDL 1821, 1822, 1824, 1827 & 1828. Researchers please note that sailings direct from Ireland to Australia are not recorded under British data, and therefore not all details of people are on this web site (they are being added in, by volunteers, so please check thoroughly or send a message on community fb if you have queries).
Countess Of Harcourt (generic)References
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Petition of his wife, Elizabeth. To the Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane, and the Honorable members comprising the Council. The most humble Petition of Elizth. McOwen respectfully showeth: That your Petitioner arrived in the Colony per Ship Mariner, free for the purpose of joining in company with her husband and bringing with her a daughter aged 5 years. That to her great sorrow, and to her utmost disappointment her husband Owen McOwen is now employed in a clearing party on Mr McArthurs Estate at the Cow pastures. That your Petitioner under such circumstances labors greatly from poverty, having not wherewithall to support herself and Infant on, and as her husband by dint of labour and Industry is enabled to provide a sufficient aliment for himself and family, Your Petitioner humbly hopes by and with your Excellency’s concurrence with the advice of the Honorable Council will be pleased to restore him to his disconsolate wife and child, when your Petitioners unerring labour will be to restore him to good ways. And for such Indulgence she will ever pray as in duty bound, Elizabeth McOwen. Sydney 22 August 1825. The statement of memorialist, who is a very well conducted woman, is correct, and I have every reason to hope that thro her influence her husband, if assigned to her, will redeem his character. John Joseph Therry. R.C.C. 22 Aug 1825.
Convict Index 1791-1873 Owen McKeon, per Countess of Harcourt, 1822. Ticket of Exemption from Govt. Labor, with his wife Elizabeth, free per Mariner in 1825; torn up on his receiving a ticket of leave (no 32/609 dated 10 Sept 1833) Owen McKeon, per Countess of Harcourt, 1822. Ticket of Exemption from Govt. Labor, to reside with his wife Elizabeth, came free per Mariner in 1825. Entry No 31/58. Owen McKeon, per Countess of Harcourt, 1822. Ticket of Leave; District, Windsor; Born Meath Co. Trade, Labourer; Tried Kildare Co. Entry No, 33/609. Owen McKeon, per Countess of Harcourt, 1822. Recommended Conditional Pardon, 1844, Recommended by W H Suttor JP. Owen McKeon, per Countess of Harcourt, 1822. Second Class Conditional Pardon, 2 Mar 1846. Entry 46/229.
NAAS ASSIZES- March 28. Owen M‘Keon, T. Dunne, Andrew Connell, alias Carter, and Christopher McDonnell, were put upon their trial for burglary and robbery in entering the dwelling-house of Mrs Daly. The case having occupied the attention of the court for considerable time, length terminated in the conviction of the four prisoners, who received sentence of Death accordingly. The day fixed for their execution the 13th April. Saunders’s News-Letter, 3 April 1822. -------------------------------------------------- Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Owen McKeon, age 30, per Countess of Harcourt (2) (1822), Tried at Kildare Co., 1822, Life, DOB 1792, native place, Meath Co., Labourer. -------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary Index. MCOWEN, Owen. Per "Countess of Harcourt", 1822. 1823 Jan 31; 1824 Jan 30 - On list of prisoners assigned; listed as McKeon (Fiche 3290; 4/4570D pp.81, 86) 1824 Jan 30 - On list of prisoners assigned (Fiche 3290; 4/4570D p.86) 1825 - On list of convicts mustered in the employ of Revd J J Therry; in 1823-24 (Reel 6062; 4/1782 p.118b) 1825 Jul 20 - Servant of MacArthur at Cowpastures. Re whereabouts (Reel 6064; 4/1787 p.37) 1825 Aug 22 - Employed by Mr MacArthur at Cowpastures; petition by his wife Elizabeth for mitigation of his sentence (Fiche 3250; 4/1874 p.150) -------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary’s Office, 28th August, 1827. HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR has been pleased to approve of the following Alterations in the Police of the Colony: Parramatta — Owen McKeon, per Countess of Harcourt, to be Constable, in the Room of James Tompson, came free, dismissed for Neglect of Duty; to bear Date the 27th Instant. Sydney Gazette, 29 Aug 1827. ------------------------------------------------------ 1828 Census Index. Owen McKeon, age 50, G.S. Css. Harcourt, 1823, Life catholic, Labourer, Clarence Street, Sydney. Eliza McKeon, age 32, C.F. Mariner, 1823, catholic. Eliza Jun. Age 2, Born in colony. -------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 14th March, 1835. TICKETS OF LEAVE CANCELLED. THE Tickets of Leave granted to the following prisoners have been cancelled for the reasons set against their respective names, viz. : Owen McKeon, Countess Harcourt 2, drunkenness. Sydney Gazette, 21 Mar 1835.