Denis Molloy

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Maureen Withey on 5th September 2021

Anne-Maree Whitaker, in her book “Unfinished Revolution: United Irishmen in New South Wales, 1800-1810” wrote: Hugh Hayes, Dennis Molloy, George Russell and Grimes Tierney are identified in Irish records as part of a group which conducted armed raids in east Limerick in March 1800. -------------------------------------------------- Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Denis Molloy, alias Mulloy, Atlas II 1802, Tried at Limerick, 1801, Life. Irish Rebel. Spouse: m Jane Black. Remarks: Executed for bushranging along with three others, James Halfpenny, Stephen Halfpenny. Died 1820, NSW. Present in 1811 muster. -------------------------------------------------- The above remark is incorrect, as Stephen and James Halfpenny were both executed in 1806. Denis Molly was executed for cattle stealing. ------------------------------------------------- Convict Index. Denis Molloy, Atlas 1802, Conditional Pardon, 29 Feb 1812. -------------------------------------------------- CRIMINAL COURT —Wednesday, July 26.—Francis McGowran, Ennesley McGrath, David Bell and George Crawford, were indicted on a charge of cattle stealing, and being found guilty thereof were remanded for sentence. The prisoner, George Crawford, was found guilty as an accessary after the fact. Thursday, July 27.—The prisoners that were tried and convicted yesterday, were this day again arraigned for the same crime, and were all found Guilty of having feloniously stolen cattle. Remanded for sentence. Dennis Maloy was also found guilty of cattle-stealing. Saturday, August 5.—This day, at half past 11 o'clock, the Court opened; when the following prisoners, capitally convicted of various offences, were placed at the bar and received sentence viz. Francis McGowran, Ennesley McGrath, David Bell, George Crawford, and Dennis Maloy, for cattle stealing; and William Rouse, George Rouse and Thomas Ford, for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house, were all condemned to die! Sydney Gazette, 5 Aug 1820. -------------------------------------------------- Yesterday morning George Rouse, Thomas Ford, alias Ward, and Dennis Maloy, were executed pursuant to their sentence. Malloy (convicted of cattle stealing) made no confession of guilt. Rouse and Ford acknowledged that from their youth they had lived in abandoned habits, and they left this world in the hope of meeting with mercy in a better. Sydney Gazette, 26 Aug 1820. -------------------------------------------------- TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. LORD, at the Market place in Sydney, precisely at 12 o'clock, on Friday next, the 1st Day of September, for the Benefit of the Crown, TEN HEAD of HORNED CATTLE, belonging to the late Dennis Molloy and Francis M'Gowran, capitally convicted of Felony before the late Court of Criminal Jurisdiction.—Terms, Prompt Payment. Sydney Gazette, 26 Aug 1820.