Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
John Nolan was transported on the Andromeda, departing 28th Aug 1830 and arriving 18th Dec 1830 with 71 passengers.
Also, same day, from Cork, whence she sailed May 25th, the ship Andromeda, 401 tons, Benjamin Gales master, with 173 female prisoners; Henry Kelsawl, Esq., Surgeon-superintendant. Passengers — Fourteen free females, viz. Mary Manning, Martha Morron, Margaret Mahon, Margaret Sheedy, Mary Ann Nixon alias Welsh, Catherine Kiernan, Mary Cassock, Catherine Stanton, Johanna Neville, Mary Lyons alias Hynes, Maria Moran, Catherine O'Donnel, Margaret Kennedy, and Mary Sullivan, and twenty-six children; also twenty-three children belonging to the prisoners. Sydney Monitor, 20 Sept 1834.
Andromeda (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. |
Claims
No one has claimed John Nolan yet.
Photos
No photos have been added for John Nolan.
Convict Notes
Convict Index. William H Knowles, alias John Nolan, per Andromeda, 1830, Recommended Absolute Pardon, 1 Feb 1841. John Nolan, per Andromeda, Absolute Pardon, 14 Jan 1841. NB entry in back of volume. John Nolan, alias William Healy Knowles, per Andromeda, 1830, Absolute Pardon, 8 Mar 1842, No 42/009. The Account of the capture of the Bushrangers, for which John Nolan received an Absolute Pardon, is reported in the Sydney Herald, 31 Dec 1840. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28652749?searchTerm=Martin%20Kelly%20jew%20boy An extract: On Monday, the 21st instant, Mr. Day was joined by Mr. Edward White, Mr. R.C. Dangar, also by the Chief Constable John Nolan, Peter Daw, Martin Kelly, William Evans, William Walker, the five latter are ticket-of-leave holders, Martin Donohoe, who is an assigned servant, and a black boy. The party proceeded in a direction likely to fall in with the tracks of the bushrangers, in which they succeeded not quite a mile from Muswell Brook, and continued on that track for about five miles, when they were informed the bushrangers had crossed the Hunter at Aberdeen the previous night ; on receiving the intelligence the party in pursuit pushed on in the direction of Scone, when after crossing the Hunter, the party met a man who had been despatched from Scone, for the purpose of reporting at Muswell Brook the robbery at Mr. William Dangar's, at Turanville, that of the Inn at Scone, from which they took £70, as well as Mr. Thomas Dangar's store, where the bushrangers, in addition to their other atrocities added that of murder—having taken what they wanted from Mr. Dangar's, they were on the point of quitting when a young man named Graham, clerk to Mr. Thomas Dangar, imprudently fired a pistol at one of them, who deliberately shot him on the spot—he survived but twenty minutes. On hearing these particulars Mr. Day's party proceeded as quickly as possible to Scone; on reaching which Mr. Day proceeded to the Court House, where the Police and two other Magistrates were then sitting, and a number of settlers at the time, both in and about the Court House, who, it were only reasonable, to suppose, were equally interested in the capture of the bushrangers with Mr. Day and those then in pursuit, but strange to say no exertion was made, no notice of the occurrences above-stated forwarded to the surrounding settlers, nor could Mr. Day obtain a horse, although applying for one to the settlers then at Court! …. The gang of Bushrangers were known as the Jew Boy Gang.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John Nolan, alias Nolan Williams Healy Knowles, age on arrival, 30, per Andromeda II (1) 1830. Tried 1830 at Limerick, for Manslaughter, Life. DOB, 1800, native place, Bristol, England. Married, 1 child. Protestant. Cutler surgical instrument maker.